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[Event Report] Everyone's Items 1-1 ~Know the Materials~

Finally started, everyone's item vol.1 "Wooden plate to enjoy breakfast time" ( Click here for an explanation of this project)

Sunday morning, July 19th.
Nuu brocante antiques is located in Jiyugaoka
The weather is nice, and the sunlight coming in through the large windows feels good.
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The content of this time, which is the first of the four times, is to "touch and learn various wood materials and processing techniques from material and product samples."

You will know and touch materials and techniques. In this way, we unravel the characteristics of wood materials and the manufacturing of wooden products.

For product planning, it is first necessary to know the materials and techniques. After that, if you don't think about manufacturing, even if it goes well, it will end up as a product with a vaguely good feeling or just an idea product.

In "Everyone's Tools", product planning is not done by designers, manufacturers or buyers, but by people living in general.
Based on a deep knowledge of materials, techniques, and manufacturing, the living professionals, who are living professionals, plan their own products for today's real life.

It is not a project for the market, nor is it a design, but a project that puts 100% effort into making products that people want to use every day. We are trying to update the old folk implements, which are made by ourselves, into modern mingu (everyone's tools). That is why it is necessary to have a deep knowledge of "wood", "turning (one of the woodworking techniques)" and "paint finish" that make up the theme of this time "wooden plate to enjoy breakfast time".

So, if you summarize the purpose of the project and the overall flow, it will be like this.
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● First of all, know the material and technology deeply. (first time)

●Then, participants who are living professionals (hereinafter referred to as product planning members) look at their current lifestyle.
Think about what you want to use in that life by combining it with the first knowledge. (Second time)

● While craftsmen shape what you think in front of you, you decide the shape while making corrections on the spot. (3rd time)

●Finally, everyone will have breakfast with the finished product (wooden plate for enjoying breakfast time)! (4th time)

- After that, this product will be on sale. It is also sold wholesale. (Previous series vol.0; Product made by Kaguko Lab “Everyday wipe lacquerware (everyday use)” )

●Purchased by general customers, it will lead to more people's breakfast scene. We value not only what is purchased, but how it is actually used. ( ⇒My daily use )

From the perspective of living, I want to proceed with manufacturing seriously. know it, think it, make it, sell it, buy it, use it. Let's do this together with the living hands and turn this cycle around to make things that are more in line with their lives!
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I started the story.
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From here, we will guide you along the contents of the day.

Based on what I learned from various craftsmen, the production scenes I visited the studio and photographed, such as tools and lifestyles seen in folklore literature (I often check with the craftsmen after learning). We talked.

The objects you can touch are products by wood processing technology, wood samples, samples of each stage of wood processing, samples of coating, and so on.

From the basics of wood and processing techniques, to fairly maniacal things, including anecdotes from craftsmen. The main content is what I hear directly from the craftsmen, so it should be a deep and interesting content.
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<Wood type>

First of all, from the material wood. There are also characteristics of trees, and there are various types in trees.

Due to the weight, hardness, and characteristics of each tree, they are used for their respective purposes.

Arrange wood samples (more than 20 tree species) that are difficult to compare.
Even with the same size, there is a difference of three times the weight between the lightest and the heaviest.
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<Wood processing technology>

About each processing technology of wood. There are various classification methods, but we will introduce it in an easy-to-understand, folklore classification. We have brought all sample products by processing technology, so we will tell you about each in detail while touching them.
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<Grinding>

Among various processing techniques, the technique to make this plate is "turning". A sample prepared by Mr. Ogura, a craftsman, showing the stages from wood to finished product.
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<Painting>

Even with the same vessel, it varies depending on the coating. Even with the same wooden plate, there are no coating (not a product, but a sample), natural oil finish, wiped lacquer finish, lacquer finish, urethane coating finish, etc.
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<Product planning members>
member notes. Thank you very much for your enthusiastic notes. Even just this time, you should have learned more about wooden products. From now on, when you go to general stores and department stores, you will see products in a different way than before. An hour and a half, finished with plenty of time.

I have two homework for the next two weeks.

◆ The first
The characteristics of wood materials that we learned this time, the technique of woodworking, which is the theme of this time's woodworking technique, and the characteristics of the olive oil finish. Based on these assumptions, we will ask you to come up with a “wooden plate to enjoy breakfast time”. Even if it's homework, there's no need to draw shapes. I imagine things like, "I like this kind of wooden plate." It is only after sharing the image of each member that we make drawings together and talk about specific specifications.

◆ second
Please bring your favorite "breakfast plate" that everyone uses. It doesn't have to be wood. If possible, a plate would be easier to use in planning, but there is no limit to the shape. Share everyone's usual (normal) breakfast scene, look at the current breakfast landscape, and make a plate that suits it.

I'm looking forward to the second time.

Photography & Proceeding Assistants: NORIYUKI FUCHIGAMI, Nuu brocante antiques


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