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Magewappa (曲げわっぱ; literally "bent woodware") is a traditional Japanese steam bending woodcraft found in Odate, Akita Prefecture, Japan.^[1] Magewappa products are known for the brilliant elegance of their straight grain, and the light yet rich color.

History

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Magewappa was first made by woodcutters in the Odate area, using straight-grain Akita cedar. The Lord of Odate Castle, Nishiie Satake, encouraged this craft, which has been passed on from the end of the Edo period to the present.

Process

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For more than four hundred years the people of the area have exploited mountains, planted Japanese cedars, and repeated the process of weeding, pruning, and thinning out the forests.

Trees

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Out of four hundred saplings of Akita cedar planted, fewer than thirty might be found suitable for magewappa. Only Akita cedars over one hundred years old, which have survived the very severe weather conditions of northern Japan, can be bent in the production process. Ones with a knot or even slight discoloration cannot be used.

References

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↑ "Odate bentwood". Kogei Japan. Retrieved 18 February 2025.

Woodworking

Overviews

Styles

Woods

Soft	Cedar (Calocedrus, Cedrus) Cypress Douglas fir Fir Juniper Larch Kauri Pine Rimu Spruce Yew
Hard	Afromosia Alder Andiroba Anigre Ash Apple Aspen Avodire Balsa Beech Bilinga Birch African Blackwood Australian Blackwood Boxwood Bubinga Camphor Cedrela Cherry Chestnut Cocobolo Cumaru Ebony Elm Eucalyptus Hazel Hickory Hornbeam Idigbo Imbuia Ipê Iroko Jarrah Jelutong Lignum vitae Linden (lime, basswood) Lovoa Merbau Mahogany (American, African) Maple Meranti Oak Padauk Pear Plum Poplar Purpleheart Ovankol Ramin Red Quebracho Rosewood Rubberwood Sapele Teak Totara Utile Walnut Wenge Willow Zebrano
Engineered	Cross-laminated Glue laminated Hardboard MDF OSB Particle board Plywood Wood–plastic composite

Tools

Abrasives Axe Adze Burnisher Chisel Drawknife Drill Fence Float Gimlet Gauge Hinge bender Impact driver Janka hardness test Jointer Mallet Milling machine Miter box Rasp Router Sandpaper Shaper Shaving horse Square (Carpenters, Combination, Miter, Speed, Try) Thickness planer Timber-framing Veneer hammer Vise Warrington hammer Winding sticks Wood scribe Workbench
Clamps	Band clamp C-clamp F-clamp Flooring clamp Gripe Holdfast Miter clamp Pipe clamp Sawbuck
Saws	Backsaw Bandsaw Bow Bucksaw Chainsaw Circular Compass Coping Crosscut Frame Fretsaw Hand saw Jigsaw Keyhole Miter Ripsaw Scroll Table Veneer Whipsaw
Planes	Bedrock plane Block plane Chamfer plane Compass plane Finger plane Fore plane Grooving plane Jack plane Japanese plane Jointer plane Moulding plane Razee plane Rebate plane Router plane Scrub plane Shoulder plane Smoothing plane Spokeshave Surform

Geometry

Joints	Birdsmouth Biscuit Box Bridle Butt Butterfly Coping Crown of thorns Dado Dovetail Finger Groove Halved Hammer-headed tenon Knee Lap Mason's miter Miter Mortise and tenon Rabbet/Rebate Scarf Splice Tongue and groove
Profiles	Bead Bevel Chamfer Ogee Ogive Ovolo
Surface piecing	Binding Edge banding Intarsia Marquetry Oystering Parquetry Purfling

Treatments

Organizations

Conversion

Techniques

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History

Process

Trees

See also

References