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[@MrChickadee]

Awesome job man, really great woodwork, great filming!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Happy to hear that 😊 Thank you!

[@shonshon247]

@@dylaniwakuni Wow, Dylan, Dorian and Mr. Chickadee on the same page. Hall of fame. It doesn't get better than that! Thank you all!!!

[@mitchwoodwork]

Great build Dylan! Impressive hand skills and a well thought out design.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you Mitch! It definitely ended up being more complicated than what I had initially planned!

[@xgamingpoorly92]

Simply incrdible; a joy to watch. Please don't apologize for the length of this video, unless it is to apologize that it is ONLY 21 min. I learned more about fine wood crafting in that 21 min than in the whole of my life till now. I believe many people would gladly invest the hour if you ever decide to release a more detailed video; in this one you skipped over processes you felt we wouldn't appreciate or maybe just weren't entertaining, such as the crafting of the little drawer handle. Truly it was a privilege to see you create a simple kitchen implement that could last generations! Particularly in a world so obsessed with disposable items. Thank you for this

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you for your kind words! 😊 I’m happy to hear you enjoyed the video and would be interested in a longer, more detailed video. It’s definitely something I’ll consider. Thanks! 🙌

[@troystaten5633]

Very cool. Thanks for showing us.

[@Vendemiair]

As usual, Dylan's masterful woodworking skills never fails to entertain and amaze me!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you for your kind words 😊🙌

[@TheDrumminjay]

Wow, just wow..those dovetails are phenomenal!

[@kdawg3484]

Obviously, your woodworking is impeccable, Dylan, but, man, do you know how to make a video as well. A work of art encompassing itself encompassing a work of art. P.S. Tell Dorian we miss his videos, and we're looking forward to his entry into the challenge.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Ohh, that’s great to hear! 😄 Thank you for your kind words! 🙌

[@douglasadrian138]

Absolutely AMAZING! The patience, care, precision and craftsmanship is awe inspiring. Great job. Love watching you work.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Happy to hear that! Thank you! 😊🙌

[@mitchwoodwork]

Loving the squeaky twisted dovetails - good fit

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks, they were fun but challenging to make!

[@emrazum]

my brain hurts trying to conceptualize how you made those dovetails even though I saw you do it. Excellent craftsmanship

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊

[@Ts-T]

Now that is just pure skill, this just shows that you don’t need fancy tools. A real craftsman at work. Thanks for sharing

[@michelebusato2814]

High quality! Congrats! Pleasure to see you on work!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊 🙌

[@grenphelps7455]

My mind has been blown away, those joints 😳😳 awesome work 👌👌

[@YoureNowOnTV]

Amazing craftsmanship! Thanks so much for sharing 🙏😁👍

[@dylaniwakuni]

Happy to hear that! 😊🙌

[@ahikernamedgq]

Dylan, that looks so good, it looks like a product made with machines. Thanks for the inspiration! Great work!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Happy to hear that! Cheers Jesse! 🙌

[@kuruma10]

Wow, absolutely amazing on so many levels! Stunning woodwork, beatiful filming.

[@dylaniwakuni]

That’s great to hear. Thank you 😊

[@pareshpatel6024]

Man the joints are soo tight and properly planned great work !!!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊

[@agusdrummer]

Really outstanding work, craftsmanship, and aesthetics.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊

[@chindakeodouangsy_ck241]

What an impressive ability! Great job as usual. A real masterpiece. Thank you for sharing...

[@dylaniwakuni]

Happy to hear that 😊

[@userxtf6313]

I'm always loving the wood craft, and now i can have a quick look of the cooking craft! :)

[@rollsroyce7325]

Really Great Job, Awesome 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼 very accurate 👌🏼King of wood🏆🥇👌🏼

[@babixillo]

those joints are pure sorcery! awesome job!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks! 🙌

[@hebierob]

absolutely top notch all the way around!! Very inspirational for beginner in hand tools like me! Thank you! Also the soup looks amazing!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks Henry, that’s great to hear! 😊🙌

[@iaenmor]

Impressive work. Love the use of sap and heart wood for the sides.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks! 🙌

[@borisfurlan9792]

Beautiful job from green wood! Amazing to see you play small as good as you play big!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Happy to hear that! 😊🙌

[@montepr803]

That's incredible and very pleasing to watch.

[@jimw544]

Thanks for the videos Dylan! If I had 1/4 to 1/2 of your skill I would be totally trilled. I'm still working on Kumiko. But I want to read a book or two on Japanese Joinery.

[@Atticus113]

I can't even comprehend how you make those interlocking bits without some kind of precision machinery guide. It's baffling and mesmerizing.

[@TheMaestroso]

Right there with you! It reminds me of when I first saw how floor tilers figure out complicated shapes. Measuring things in relation to one another seems to work out way more better than you would expect, for some reason.

[@dylaniwakuni]

I had to make a few practice pieces just to comprehend how it worked and how best to make it! 😅

[@ahikernamedgq]

@Atticus113 - I'm totally with you! So inspiring.

[@didndido3638]

Incredible work! It would be a nice long term study to see how the wood-mix behaves in a moisture changing environment.

[@RDJ0506]

😯 Wow such fine craftmanship 👍👍👍👍 wow

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers! 😄🙌

[@brandtAU]

Amazing work Dylan.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊

[@Hutch5321]

Thank you Dylan. Amazing!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers! 😊🙌

[@adobeone6138]

Awesome and inspiring precision. Could you make a video about your kanna's? What are the differences? When do you use which one? Thank you.

[@khoatran-pc6tb]

Now I have a nagging feeling that the Japanese plane I picked up at a flea market, which I’m using as my jack plane, spent it’s past life shaving dried fish like this one! 🤣🤣🤣

[@michelfagnoul903]

Impressive and masterful work ... a piece of ART.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers!

[@ednolan9509]

Stunning workmanship.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers! 🙌

[@gedog77]

Well that's a new high-bar. Well done Dorian for laying down such a good challenge. But Dylan, that is some next-level stuff.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Haha, thank you 😊🙌

[@gerardorivera9111]

Amazing woodwork !!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers! 😊🙌

[@ohasis8331]

A very challenging and sweet job.

[@Oisin2]

Beautiful work

[@TheSMEAC]

Wonderful work Dylan!

[@bartoszjankowiak3157]

Could you make a video about the use-cases of specific joineries, please? I.e. this type of joint is being use for this, and the other one for that That would be very interesting! 🙂👍🏼

[@Ashe_Fenrir]

I look back on the projects like this from last year when I didn't have the tools I necessarily would have chosen at first and now bigger projects seem seem more within reach -hope you're having the same feeling of confidence going into your current projects. Thanks for the video! edit: I say projects like this but this is way more impressive than even the large projects I'm doing now so I don't mean to compare them :P

[@dylaniwakuni]

I definitely gained the same feeling of confidence, having to do the best with what you have and most importantly, realizing many things are possible to achieve (though it may take a little more time) without all the fancy tools as well. Cheers Adam!

[@luigicicatiello3991]

I've no words... Maybe just one.. AMAZING!!!!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Haha, thank you for your kind words 😊

[@richardmifsud2462]

Another great video Dylan !

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊🙌

[@jefffromhawaii7024]

Fantastic!

[@jim_jim1674]

Absolutely work of Art 👏👏👏

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊🙏

[@chrissilverhand1]

Awesome skills, wonderful.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you! 😊🙌

[@HCarpenter]

great woodwork

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊 I enjoy your work too 🙌

[@rollingstone3017]

I think you won the challenge! Beautiful work. Hopefully that was ginger you were making shavings of for the soup? Thought it was wood shavings at first ;-)

[@RaduB.]

I love the background sounds! But not more than the skillful joinery. 🙂 Pretty incredible! (One can hear that you were in Europe.)

[@dylaniwakuni]

That’s great to hear! 😊

[@mikewright5094]

Fantastic work beautiful job 👍

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks! 😊🙌

[@Tonrralbo]

Super bueno, Gran maestro

[@gfodale]

Well done. Impressive.

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks 😊

[@VyacheslavAzarov]

That's a lot of effort to make a bowl of soup.

[@davidiglesiaspedemonte1971]

true artistry

[@jemo_hack]

A true shujin !🙏

[@roevskagg]

It was basically pure bliss watching this. Thank you for sharing your skills, knowledge and culture. =) I love how you can use the plane (is it a kanna?) for work but also lunch. :D (alternate title: "How to make the world's most elaborate soup")

[@davidpan2405]

If I would do this I would be distracted and start working on fixing that rocking workbench. Good video though.

[@catmeme7945]

This is amazing!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers! 😊🙌

[@paulbadger6336]

Well done 👍

[@Jorriecruiser]

You are a master well done

[@samuelallen8945]

Absolute Legend

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks Sam! 😊🙌

[@supermick83]

This guy would do some laughing at the butchers here in Ireland that call themselves carpenters. There's only one joint most of them know and you have to roll it up🤣 This is such phenomenal skill well done👍

[@matthewstevenson6207]

wow. such a masterpiece. I know this was for a fun challenge, but for my education, would you have any concerns about the wood you milled from the log drying over time affecting those exquisite dovetails?

[@dylaniwakuni]

The wood had been left in the forest for a while and I did let it dry for a few weeks so it wasn’t too green. I used these joineries to hopefully reduce the warps and twists but it may become slightly looser as the wood dries. I’ll keep an eye out and see how it changes with time.

[@rolandgdean]

I do "sashimono" level work myself and I think you did an AMAZING job. /deep bow. I'm curious though, what wood shaving is used to make stock for soup?

[@D4NC3Rable]

Sorry sorry sorry sorry - I just discovered your channel & it's marvelous, exquisite, life changing etc - but did you just put a bunch of wood chips in as the base for a STEW?!

[@didndido3638]

No, it was dried fish.

[@maartenbakker4276]

Keep the tradition alive.

[@somika87]

Great work man, sawing boards by hand is a true test of patience. What wood were you using, on my phone screen it looks like elm

[@Cristiangamer9-r5n]

Wonderfull, great video 🇧🇷

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers! 😊🙌

[@elainelam3949]

I wish I have awesome friends like that...🥰

[@dylaniwakuni]

Haha, thank you Elaine😊

[@totobill22]

Magnifique tout simplement !

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😊🙌

[@staxlhax1849]

Beautiful

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks! 😊🙌

[@alisdairmccabe7497]

Can i be Japanese please? Absolute joy to watch. Dorian and yourself are my two go-to-woodworkers if i need a joinery style hug

[@tomekkrawcu]

Awesome

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers! 🙌

[@r1273m]

Aside from the wonderful woodwork, what the recipe at the end?

[@JohnColgan.]

Fabulous work, think you surpassed yourself with skills & limited tools. What was the triangular saw? Nice tool!

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks! The saw is a diagonal cut Kataba saw

[@kroohu]

Is the kataba you're using to rip the board an universal or rip pattern? Great video:)

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thanks, this was an universal pattern

[@UniQueBuLLeTz]

What tools are used? And what basic tools would you recommend for a travelling carpenter/joiner? Btw I love the work 😊

[@TheAvlis24]

this dude amazing

[@nurudinmaruf4693]

Impressive 😆

[@dylaniwakuni]

Thank you 😃🙌

[@laetitiaybert5291]

Magnifique travail manuel 😳

[@cameronboucher7805]

Such a delight to see your work. 👍👍 What is that soup you made at the end? And what was it that you used for shavings into the box?

[@jim_jim1674]

It is called Misoshiru, soup made of miso (some kind of marinated soy bean) paste. It is the "spirit" of Japan, every true Japanese drinks it in their meals everyday.

[@jim_jim1674]

The shavings are as in the title "Katsuobushi", google it and you will understand.

[@chuntguntley8771]

for some reason I thought you would be using wood tools as well

[@joeblow7489]

Yum!

[@goglebert]

what is the name of the wood you are cooking finally???

[@HUNTERYOUGAF]

I thought this was for collecting wood shavings... Then he made wood shaving soup at the end... Then I looked it up... I guess it's for shaving dried tuna. Also, the title has a misspelling: it's kaTSuobushi according to google. You've got kaSTuobushi.

[@Myrkskog]

Is there no tradition of using a fret or coping type saw in japanese woodworking?

[@paulturk6727]

Amazons👍👍👍

[@TheCorporateMonk]

How can a species be so evolved.... Like what do you eat bro

[@splittag4804]

Are you in germany now?

[@LimitedGunnerGM]

What was that Recipe at the end?!?

[@annaferrari302]

Pura Meraviglia❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@pinkiebrain7597]

😍

[@janbernad4729]

What wood is it?

[@a5ad0r]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@epicurius6510]

👍

[@user-takubon]

削りカスも鰹節に見えてしまうのは日本人のサガだろうか…

[@TigerCarpenter]

if only I could understand the Japanese language [just kidding] I have to say WOW

[@dylaniwakuni]

Cheers! 😊