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last month I started card case CH-4 making this year. I designed this card case December 1992. I have been making over 25 years, amazing! How many cases we ( me and my wife ) made ? I don’t know …
I have been making so long time, I have lot of episode about this product, I will write little by little in this blog. This type case we called ” CH-4 ” that means CH-1 ~ 3 cases exist, I will explain about these another time.
First, I try to find woods in my stockyard. One case needs 25mm thickness and 110mm width and 80mm length. But my machine needs 120mm length, so normally I search wood over 160mm length for two card cases.
This time I found these woods. Some wood is very special, but I always feel the difference… I should say ” uniqueness ” of each wood. So I think every wood is so special. They have their own character and language. I always feel very happy to know the uniqueness, color,touch, smell … everything.
first drawing (?) December 1992
old band saw in the stockyard
before cutting
after cutting 25mm × 110mm × 160mm〜
Acacia ( Japan ) Cherry ( japan ) Japanese apricot ( Japan )
Birds eye maple ( Canada ) Maple ( Canada ) Japanese maple ( Japan )
Wenge ( Africa ) Padock ( Africa ) Ebony ( South East Asia )
Oak ( Japan ) Japanese walnut ( Japan ) Japanese buried walnut ( Japan )
Spolted ash ( Canada ) African black wood ( Africa ) Japanese Yew ( Japan )
Sicamoa ( Canada ) American cherry ( North America ) American black walnut ( North America )
Victorian rosewood ( South America ) Inbuia ( South America ) Paorosa ( Africa )
Indian rosewood ( South East Asia ) Rosewood ( South East Asia ) Narra ( South East Asia )
Zelkova ( Japan ) Buried zelkova ( Japan ) Chestnut ( Japan )
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It’s already two weeks past of June. Time is flying very fast.
Last month I started rice cultivating of this year. We had a lot of snow in this area and rice field wouldn’t dry until the end of April. So May is a busy month for farmers.
After some of the tractor work, I finished planting end of May. This year I had a little trouble and couldn’t use my planting machine, so I asked neighborhood farmer for the plant. His machine was very big, it took just only one and half hour. In the old time we planted rice seedling by hand, if we plant my rice filled by hand, it will take 10 people /8 hours.
Two weeks passed, rice seedling grow gradually and also other plants coming up from the ground. I don’t want to use agrochemicals ( herbicide ), so every evening I am walking in my rice field and remove the weeds.
organic fertilizer mixing 1 10/05/2017
organic fertilizer mixing 2 10/05/2017
spreading fertilizer 10/05/2017
tractor working 10/05/2017
tractor working in the water ricefield 14/05/2017
ricefield full of water 26/05/2017
planting rice with a big machine 29/05/2017
the machine can plant 10 lines at once, fantastic!! 29/05/2017
only one and half hour to plant, amazing !! 29/05/2017
put water again and staring ricegrowing this year 29/05/2017
10 days past, rice seedling growing gradually 08/06/2017