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  1. Leather Craft Technique Encyclopaedia, Vol 1 Japanese Leathercraft book Leather Craft Technique Encyclopaedia, Vol 2 Japanese Leathercraft book Leather Craft Technique Encyclopaedia, Vol 3 Japanese Leathercraft book from http://goodsjapan.com for the original japanese books or the Chinese translated versions of those 3 books which normally costs 1/2 the cost if you can find it but some translations does not carry over well. According to the descriptions it says those 3 books were them basing on the 1960's and 1970's publications but redone with modern pictures and instructions, so it has less of the modernized tools and more older methods. I know some of the contents uses some of the traditional methods mainly the knife based on the pictures, the later series (like 9+) uses modern tools like the adjustable groover, skiver razor blade and the swivel knife but I have no idea which books starts to move over to the newer tools or if it is littered mix of both modern and traditional tools through out the series.
  2. Thanks, I do know that the straight knife/angled knife is preferred over the Round Knife. Don't know what else is traditional, being they don't have a traditional tools section. Ill have to buy the 3 leather books then... unless someone that has it can glance over the book on the tools they use and tell me if they use traditional methods which will help me decide if I want to buy the book or not.
  3. Japanese learned their leather craft from Korea and China, so their tools are very similar to each other hence I am asking about all 3. Just with their added 2 cents. But I am trying to avoid modern type tools, so rotary tools (or those cutters) is off my list and pretty much all the replaceable blades type of tools also. Unless one goes into a leather store in Japan/Korea/China, all we see online is all those modern convince tech tools. All I know the knives are a tad bit different compared to the west, kinda like one tool that can do multiple things once the user is use to the tool unlike modern tools which has one application per tool and one cannot change the usage depending on how uses the tool. Hence I am asking here.
  4. Does anyone know what are the Traditional Chinese/Japanese/Korean leather tools? I am interested in their version of tools over the western styles.
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