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Shinkiba means "New lumber yard", I don't know where the old one was so don't ask. There's many of those "mei-boku ten" (high-end/rare wood dealer) here, however I know very few of them. I always go to "Iseto-meibokuten", which is Brian Newell's favorite. Sorry I forgot to take picture of the place yet you can go check Google street view. (tap "view larger map".)
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In their barn (it's a barn rather than warehouse) wood scraps are scattered all around. I guess they can't throw away any off-cuts or even badly checked piece. Anyway it's like Inside Passage School in November, in larger scale. (i.e. rare piece of wood is everywhere.) Even Indian Rosewood sits like as usual. Though their specialty is rare Japanese wood, like Japanese Raisin tree, for instance. (Mr. google will tell you what it is.)
Then I went to a mutual warehouse where lumber auction takes place every month with one Iseto guy. (I think you can't go there without those "escort".)
Lot's of Keyaki (zelcova).
These are the second grade. Good enough for me!
Now I entered the danger zone.
Huge Kihada(Amur Corktree). Similar to Mulberry.
Ebony and Narra. 6"x6", 9-10 feet high max. You should buy them all before too late.
Well, I hope you enjoyed the tour. I'll show you what I got in the next post.
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WHY cant i get any of these woods here WHY
It's simple: nobody exports them and nobody imports them.
What's the unit of measure used in Japan to buy lumber? I imagine that they don't use the board-foot?
Dan
hello Dan, they use cubic-meter in Japan. It's a rather big scale to use but there's no good intermediate like foot in metric.
are there any north american woods over there? like...cherry or whatever?
what are some of the more common japanese woods? i have NEVER seen any here, id be interested to see if i can possibly hunt something down
Nick, I don't know, maybe Tamo or Keyaki, but it's really hard to export lumber to north america from japan due to bug protection.
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