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The tub has been mounted, around is a wide hinoki duckboard. In the end, when man respects nature and put care and love in his acts, even different cultures touch and become one. I am sure that people entering in this ofuro will understand something more of the real essence of humanity. | |
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These are pictures kindly provided by the client. The heavy tub is being unloaded on site. | |
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Here we are packaging a tub to be shipped by ocean freight. * One layer of polyethylene sheet to prevent dehidratation and dirt. Luckily we did not have any problem or damage claim at all so far. | |
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Preparing the material for a new tub going to NY.
These are asnaro planks. The top kamachi border will be 100x60. |
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We are now working on a large asnaro tub with a 260mm wide border!
Commonly, large top frame borders like in your case are done laminaing 2
planks, anyway we had a beautiful piece of asnaro in the warehouse, so the frame will be done
in one piece!
It was probably ment to be a cut for a beam or daikoku-bashira (main column) but at present there are not many chances to use expensive wood even for temples or shrines...
The lumber was 360x360 straight cut! This means that the 1/3 central segment of the tree was almost half meter square at the base. The tree had probably a diameter of 1200 to 1500mm !!
We could get our kamachi in one piece and also most of the planks for the sides from the same piece. This means the tub is going to be all straight cut!
PS:
Please do not ask us to provide such lumber for your project. This stroke of luck does not happen more than once a year...