The link below is to a YouTube video about a young 27 year old temple carpenter (Miya Daiku) named Fujiwara who works for Kongo Gumi, a construction company that was in constant business for 1429 years until it failed in 2008 during the economic downturn (and real estate investment debt) in Japan. The company still continues, however as the subsidiary of a newer and larger construction company.
The film shows Fujiwara and his crew working on the restoration of an old temple. Restoration in this case included full demo and reconstruction with structural code-mandated upgrades. The film shows how they make full-size drawings of the roof structure on the floor, do ink layout, hand carving on large timbers, the dovetail and mortise-and-tenon joints, the splices, chiselwork, planing, adzework, and assembly work. It is interesting to see even if it is all in Japanese.
The film shows a couple of Fujiwara's goofs, and his boss and the erection team foreman show him where he went wrong, and how to fix the problems.
It is a brand spanking new high-quality professional video I think you will find interesting.
Stan
Here is the URl to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qyYv3mBpxU
Here is a link in English about Kongo Gumi:
http://www.ancient-origins.net/histo...s-crash-003765
Here is a link to Kongo Gumi's webpage about the video:
http://www.athome-tobira.jp/story/04...ra-hiroki.html