Stu & Peter's Excellent Tokyo Wood Tour 2012 - Family Woodworking

Peter it was a great day, I really enjoyed myself, I don't often get to spend a whole day with a native English speaker, Canadian to boot, and a woodworker just to add to the whole mix, certainly a great day!

We met up early for breakfast and then headed out to Misato, in Saitama to go the the Super Viva Home I frequent, if traffic is light, it is a quick 45 minute ride, that costs only 900 yen/$11.60 each way! (life in Tokyo!)

I picked up some plywood for the build of the top unit of the Humidor, I usually buy the Shina 18mm Lam-ply that I very much loathe, but it usually all that is up for grabs. That day they had something I'd not seen before, 16mm/5/8" Shina plywood, not Lam-ply that I usually buy, we shall see how that works out, and it was cheap too, the regular sheets of the lam-ply at 18mm are 3280 yen/$42.25 these sheets, while being a bit thinner at 16mm were on sale for 1980 yen/$25.50 a sheet. On the way home I decided to take a detour and show Peter a famous wood shop called Moku-Moku, they are famous for having seriously wonderful wood, at heart stopping prices!

A view inside, 90% of the stuff on the rack is for sale finished on four sides, one reason it is so freaking expensive!

Lots of very nice slabs of wood for sale too.

Here is a monster slab of Karin or Burmese Rosewood burl, they want 480,000 yen or about $6200.... ouch!

A close up

Here is a nice little turning blank, about 12" in diameter, maybe 4" thick, certainly a nice chunk of wood, but they wanted 48,000 yen or $620, can we save coring tool?

Finally here is a shot of all 60 of the lace bobbins I made for Peter's lovely wife Debbie, I hope they go over well.

Peter was kind enough to give me another piece of ebony, that I'll put to good use, and to give me some beer and a Round-to-it as well, all courtesy of our very own Ambassador Larry" One wil be enjoyed, the other treasured!

Thanks Larry!

Peter also gave me a new Lee Valley hat, the one I have is getting a bit dogeared.

Again thanks Peter, it was a great day!

PS anyone want to guess (not peek) at what kind of saw Peter has his hand on in picture #3 of his post?

Cheers!

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