Finishing

Finishing With A Stick, or “When I Grow Up I Want To Be Maki Fushimi”

I am a sorta youtube.com junkie, in that a typical week finds me watching many (mostly instructional) videos.  I’m even thinking of starting my own youtube channel and posting short shop videos on it, but I have not yet pulled the trigger on that.

One of my truly favorite channels over there is that of Japanese Lacquer Master Maki Fushimi, whose inventory includes hundreds of videos, virtually all with only ambient sound, without any speaking.  They are just videos of his hands at work in the lacquerwork studio.  This a 60-part(!) series on making a set of bowls, and his virtuosity with a spatula always leaves my jaw hanging open.  I tried to make the blog link to video 45, titled HONKATAJI-WAN (45) but it keeps posting this video link.  In #45 he uses nothing more than a stick to do amazing finishing.  Give it a look.

Still waiting for my compewder power cord to arrive and for that part of the world getting back to normal.  For now I am stuck with an ancient laptop from at least a dozen years ago.