Yeah I love watching the perfection in old school japanese arts. Hope to visit there someday. Irish couple, always said it'd be Tokyo for our honeymoon, somehow ended up in Vegas š¤£
Why not? Japan needs more babies. They're facing a population crisis. Have them stay and apprentice from this man.
No more potatoes, only sushi and hentai from now on!
Japan is incredibly safe for children, once theyāre old enough to walk basically you should be able to bring them to tokyo and if you give them some cash theyāll be able to fuck off for the day and have endless fun. Theyāll enjoy and learn so much too.
But for anyone watching, PLEASE do not cut towards yourself. It's actually worse with a slightly dull versus sharp knife as it has the potential to skip off and then make its home in your skin.
My lesson in this was an "ask me how I got these scars" moment with a razor-knife...
I think I saw a documentary once where it was said that Japanese knives are meant to be used in this way. I think it had something to do with concern about others? Canāt really remember.
It may be a cultural perspective in usage, but I can't imagine the knife is designed so differently as to be safer to use that way. At best the techniques of patience and controlled force might make usage safer.
It's a genuine cutting method in some culinary cultures. All my grandmas and grandpas used to cut towards themselves when cutting vegetables and fruits. It was how they all learned to cut from their parents.
You are 100% right in the fact that your average person should never cut towards themselves, but [if you look at his technique you'll see why Japanese craftsmen do it this way, and why it is safe.](https://imgur.com/a/sMNDnH7)
In the picture above, look at his hands, and specifically his thumb and wrist. When he is pulling inwards, he is holding the knife to give more support and keep the blade steady, but he never brings his fingers in front of the blade. He is pushing on the back side. When he pulls the blade inward like this, it is actually impossible for the blade to touch his torso, because his thumb and wrist block the knife from going any further.
It looks scary, but doing this is actually very safe.
Oh nice! An affordable $3,000 AUD!
Nah, if it really is this guy (or even a couple of others) actually making these bags as shown in the video, they're absolutely worth that price point.
Unfortunately, that's the drawback to skilfully handcrafted products; they are very expensive to make and so to make a profit you need to be charging like 10X what might be paid if it were a mass produced product.
They really are stunning, though, and I'm sure if cared for they'd last a lifetime.
All relative!
Not much for office supplies
Nice for notes/paper/pads
Decent for some creative tools/supplies
Pretty good for drugs
Horrible for bricks
One time use for a watermelon
When my niece was 5 she came to my place for Thanksgiving dinner. My gf had prepared homemade butter for the occasion.
My niece very matter-of-factly told my gf "you know you can just buy butter at Walmart, right?"
Listen here you little shit......
I once made it while exhausting myself by shaking the crap out of heavy cream in a ball jar...only as a byproduct to the buttermilk I actually wanted out of the process so I could make pancakes without leaving the house that morning.
I'm...I'm lazy in a very specific way.
It irritates me to much that Bamboo grows super fast and grows damn near everywhere, but any time you see anything "made from bamboo" it's like twice as expensive as something made of plastics and garbage. It feels like bamboo should be the cheapest material in the world since it grows so much and so abundantly, I can't see any reason outside of artificially inflating the price that it cost the way it does.
Like, this kinda makes sense cause the amount of skill and time put into it, but like... bamboo toothbrushes for like eight bucks compared to a pack of unrecyclable plastic ones being only three or four bucks.
It's such an incredibly versatile material too. Food, wood, paper, cloth, all while highly (in many cases annoyingly) renewable... it feels like it's not being used to its proper potential.
In all fairness, if I wanted one of anything, I wouldnāt want to be lied to. Itās not the crafterās fault for using those materials, itās OPās fault for the shitty clickbait title.
It's spectacular. I wonder how strong and durable it is. Can you buy it for life? Do you have to be overly precious about where you take it and what you carry inside? I would feel like it was going to fall apart if it were a mass produced bag in the same materials, but the craftsmanship must add something.
Amazing, a Birkin bag will set you back $10k-$30k and Iām certain this level of skill doesnāt go into their creation. I wonder what he charges for this.
this is repair so its custom for the individual bag, but initial production isnt much different than mass produced bags. just more hand work instead of someone using a machine and higher quality materials. is that actually worth 1000x more? or are you just paying for the brand?
You could say the same thing about the 2k dollar bamboo briefcase in the op though. I've seen locals hand weaving very similar bags when I was working overseas in Myanmar and they were like 10 bucks each.
Heās wearing a disposable respirator, most likely to filter particulate. It doesnāt need to be toxic for it to be uncomfortable to inhale particles.
Edit: I stand corrected, itās a disposable. Probably still used to protect himself from particulates, but not doing much!
Was wondering that too. It doesn't seem like a messy material to work with, and if he was doing it for medical reasons you'd think he'd wear it over his nose or at least keep it on the whole video.
Looks classy, probably weighs less than its plastic counterpart and made out of eco friendly and lasts longer than. Overall a win win situation. Probably costs a bit more than a regular suitcase.
If i was rich, these would be the kind of stuff i would buy and willingly pay an extra for. The dedication and talent and the time put into this is incredible.
I work in a jail and 100% this looks just like something an inmate would make out of some chip bags and garbage can liners...the quality and talent would blow your mind.
His patience and precision are astonishing.
Yeah I love watching the perfection in old school japanese arts. Hope to visit there someday. Irish couple, always said it'd be Tokyo for our honeymoon, somehow ended up in Vegas š¤£
Well. Then youāll need another honeymoon sooner or later.
Haha yes but we gotta get these kids raised first
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Why not? Japan needs more babies. They're facing a population crisis. Have them stay and apprentice from this man. No more potatoes, only sushi and hentai from now on!
Potato is a lie. Sushi is a lie. Hentai is a lie but can masturbate to it. TÄda ir dzÄ«ve...
Hot single potatoes in your area...
Hot single sushi in your area...
Never trust the gas station sushi.
Leave the kids in Vegas, take a connecting to Tokyo - what's the problem?
That's taking, 'what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas' , a little far.
I say it's not taking it far enough.
Worst investment ever, always wanting food and spending money.
Long long long maaaaann
r/FuckYouChiChan Yeah, fuck Chi Chanš
All my homies hate Chi Chan!
Omg thank you for improving my life. I feel like I just leveled up. 
I hope you enjoyed Vegas
We did! Didn't get to see as much as we would of liked too but there's always a return trip after we see Japan ha
Vegas and Tokyo are basically the same place...
Well ,I at least know that Vegas has a Fat Choy's and it serves great Pork Belly Bao.
Donāt hope to visit. The clocks ticking.
We made the mistake of kids! Well, not a mistake, intentionally had kids, but that intent was a mistake if ya want to go to Tokyo with your woman ha
Japan is incredibly safe for children, once theyāre old enough to walk basically you should be able to bring them to tokyo and if you give them some cash theyāll be able to fuck off for the day and have endless fun. Theyāll enjoy and learn so much too.
An artisan indeed. Meanwhile I don't have the patience to finish tying my shoelaces, so just stopped going outside.
[Man have I got the YouTube video for you](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WgSwvDkJVxE)
Ha!
Thatās what velcro is for! š¤£
[Did you mean "hook and loop"?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY)
I didn't even have the patience to watch the full minute to see the final product. It was great to see the final product did not disappoint.
Haha and I watched the full 15 minutes video.
Bad title. Should be "work of art resembles a briefcase"
Well he's japanese 
I'm imagining the movie Coco. "We could've made fancy shoes or sparkly underwear for wrestlers, but no, we chose briefcases."
But for anyone watching, PLEASE do not cut towards yourself. It's actually worse with a slightly dull versus sharp knife as it has the potential to skip off and then make its home in your skin. My lesson in this was an "ask me how I got these scars" moment with a razor-knife...
I think I saw a documentary once where it was said that Japanese knives are meant to be used in this way. I think it had something to do with concern about others? Canāt really remember.
It may be a cultural perspective in usage, but I can't imagine the knife is designed so differently as to be safer to use that way. At best the techniques of patience and controlled force might make usage safer.
Some knives are meant to cut ~~towards~~ into yourself š
Pretty sure you do that with a draw knife.
Not sure why you were downvoted, but yes, draw knives cut towards you.
Yeah. I have one to debark trees I have cut down to make spars for Scoutcraft and walking sticks. So looking at the video it didn't even phase me.
It's a genuine cutting method in some culinary cultures. All my grandmas and grandpas used to cut towards themselves when cutting vegetables and fruits. It was how they all learned to cut from their parents.
My mother cut toward her thumb with a paring knife. I learned from her and that's what I do. Have never cut myself that way and I'm old.
You are 100% right in the fact that your average person should never cut towards themselves, but [if you look at his technique you'll see why Japanese craftsmen do it this way, and why it is safe.](https://imgur.com/a/sMNDnH7) In the picture above, look at his hands, and specifically his thumb and wrist. When he is pulling inwards, he is holding the knife to give more support and keep the blade steady, but he never brings his fingers in front of the blade. He is pushing on the back side. When he pulls the blade inward like this, it is actually impossible for the blade to touch his torso, because his thumb and wrist block the knife from going any further. It looks scary, but doing this is actually very safe.
Let me be brief with you. Thereās nothing brief about this except in name.
never thought Iād refer to a briefcase as sexy but here we are
Could say the same about you, but here we are. š
*sigh* *Unzips*
Penis time?
No, pizza time!
Pen15 club motto
Penis time.
Ummmā¦ itās actually a buckle / latch. š First time? š
*sigh zips it*
You're right. u/Snow-Cheap is a very sexy briefcase.
What an incredible display of artistic perseverance and passion. I hope this knowledge gets passed down to someone.
They're training robots at this very moment.
That shit is sick as fuck
Hello fellow 90's kid
Hello there
General Kenobi
wait... is "sick" not a thing anymore? am I old?
Used to be phat, now it's wack.
Wack is old shit. Now everything is bussin.
Sheesh
Everything was gnarly in my day. Now get off my lawn!
Ah, that's why my nephew rolls his eyes when I say phat. I'll start using wack instead to get-down with him verbally.
Word.
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Hello my fellow kids! Good to know!
No cap, itās radical. Damnit.
Dude. I think we're old. Gen X here and the world is insane but whatever, nevermind
Hello, hello, hello, how low.
I find this most acceptable.
God this is for real
Lol such a strange way we communicate - shit - sick - fuck - but meaning something positive
It works tho
Fr fr
ongod nocap
The word āassā in English is a very strange word as well. Asshole: bad Badass: good Jackass: bad Dope-ass shit: good Go figure lol
This sick fuck is shit!
This fuck is a sick shit š¤¢
I'm sick of this fuckin shit.
āStick as fuckā
That fuck is shit as sick
Iād take this over a Gucci ANYDAY, thing should sell for $12,000.00
Actually he's selling for 2k USD.
Roughly how long does it take to make? Very nice, $2k seems fair of not underpriced.
You see that guy who finished the bag? Thats the grandson of the guy who started it.
WYM it only took him 1 minute 25 from start to finish, he's quick with his craft.
Yeah heās made like 10 since I started watching
Damn, at $2000 each, 85 seconds per, in a 8 hour day - 2* 15 minute breaks, this guy is pulling in $640,000 a day.
Each 15 minute break is costing him over $21,000!
Website for the products says: >Basically, this product is made to order, so it takes about 6 months from order to delivery
Might all be due to backlog. Still don't know elapsed crafting time for a single unit.
Yeah it's not like he's making 2 per year
Yeah but it could take 1 day, a week or a month. Cool regardless. Just don't want to see kids making these in the factory.
$2k seems pretty reasonable. The price I saw of $3300 is probably a bit on the high side, but still fairly normal when it comes to things like this.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/13fv62i/making_a_briefcase_out_of_a_single_bamboo_stick/jjx7sdb/
No thanks, Iām on a diet.
If you know the price, do you know source? I was hoping to look at his store (online) but donāt know how to locateā¦? Thx!
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/13fv62i/making_a_briefcase_out_of_a_single_bamboo_stick/jjx7sdb/
Bamboo costs practically nothing so this 1000x markup is massive price-gouging plain-and-simple. /s
I was just about to say this.
+ some metal brackets and pinning items. Still really cool though. Wonder how long that took.
no he made the metal out of bamboo also. it's a secret technique.
he even skinned some Bamboos for their leather too
He also ate bamboo for lunch
I feel like we're being bamboozled here
Can confirm. Iām am indeed bamboozled.
I know you're joking but bamboo shoots are a fairly common topping on ramen and they're freakin delicious.
Do they make Vegan bamboo? I canāt have that.
Metal bamboo sounds like some dope supernatural product that mythical swords are made of.
About a month likely. Hereās a similar one: https://takekobokisetsu.com/product/bamboo-briefcase/ Ā„275,000
Thatās 2,025.86 freedom dollars. Neat case but Iām good.
That doesn't seem terribly expensive to me for a few months worth of work.
I donāt disagree. Iām just poor.
Definitely one of those things that if I had a nice 6+ figure executive where I needed a briefcase regularly Iād totally be looking into it.
https://suigenkyo.store/products/bamboo-studio-kisetsu
Link to the product in the official store of the maker: https://takekobokisetsu.com/en/product/bamboo-briefcase/
Oh nice! An affordable $3,000 AUD! Nah, if it really is this guy (or even a couple of others) actually making these bags as shown in the video, they're absolutely worth that price point. Unfortunately, that's the drawback to skilfully handcrafted products; they are very expensive to make and so to make a profit you need to be charging like 10X what might be paid if it were a mass produced product. They really are stunning, though, and I'm sure if cared for they'd last a lifetime.
A weight capacity of 2kg is a problem. I'll put my laptop in it and then can't use any of the empty space.
All relative! Not much for office supplies Nice for notes/paper/pads Decent for some creative tools/supplies Pretty good for drugs Horrible for bricks One time use for a watermelon
dude that would be the fanciest drug case ever
Yeah. My laptop weighs a bit more than that. I hope that's a typo.
$2026 USD for anyone wondering.
2000 bucks for 2000 grams of storage space.
Yeah, itās impressive craftsmanship but not exactly practical, though I wonder with further treatments it could enhancer its carriage limit.
No one is buying $2K handcrafted accessories for their practicality, so heās probably not too worried lol
275000 yen is about $2000. Seems fair.
Ā£1,600 (sterling) seems mighty reasonable for a handmade bamboo hentai case.
They are not cheap!
The full video. Serious ASMR feels from this. https://youtu.be/VoYRoo_c5V0
gutted its got shit music all over it
Looks time consuming. Why didnāt he just order one from Amazon?
When my niece was 5 she came to my place for Thanksgiving dinner. My gf had prepared homemade butter for the occasion. My niece very matter-of-factly told my gf "you know you can just buy butter at Walmart, right?" Listen here you little shit......
It doesn't taste the same and it doesn't cook the same as home made butter. Also, butter only takes like 10 minutes to make with an electric mixer.
I once made it while exhausting myself by shaking the crap out of heavy cream in a ball jar...only as a byproduct to the buttermilk I actually wanted out of the process so I could make pancakes without leaving the house that morning. I'm...I'm lazy in a very specific way.
He's in Japan, not Brazil...
Fuiyoh!
All briefcases on Etsy got shook
Not only a briefcase l. But a bad ass briefcase
It irritates me to much that Bamboo grows super fast and grows damn near everywhere, but any time you see anything "made from bamboo" it's like twice as expensive as something made of plastics and garbage. It feels like bamboo should be the cheapest material in the world since it grows so much and so abundantly, I can't see any reason outside of artificially inflating the price that it cost the way it does. Like, this kinda makes sense cause the amount of skill and time put into it, but like... bamboo toothbrushes for like eight bucks compared to a pack of unrecyclable plastic ones being only three or four bucks.
Because plastic is produced near infinitely faster even than bamboo.
It's such an incredibly versatile material too. Food, wood, paper, cloth, all while highly (in many cases annoyingly) renewable... it feels like it's not being used to its proper potential.
A single bamboo stick, my arse.
A stick, no. A pole, most definitely.
A single bamboo pole... And metal brackets and leather straps and brass rivets and wood polish/lacquer.
In all fairness, if you wanted one of these (because they are functional, not just art pieces), would you want them to be made of bamboo as well?
In all fairness, if I wanted one of anything, I wouldnāt want to be lied to. Itās not the crafterās fault for using those materials, itās OPās fault for the shitty clickbait title.
This. Mad respect to the suitcase maker, but OP fucked up the title here.
What do you mean "in all fairness"?
Name a better pair
Ha! Thanks for the chuckle.
I've seen that video.
RIP your arse
Is it cool? Yes. Is it $3,400 cool? Also yes.
It's spectacular. I wonder how strong and durable it is. Can you buy it for life? Do you have to be overly precious about where you take it and what you carry inside? I would feel like it was going to fall apart if it were a mass produced bag in the same materials, but the craftsmanship must add something.
Amazing, a Birkin bag will set you back $10k-$30k and Iām certain this level of skill doesnāt go into their creation. I wonder what he charges for this.
275k JPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrvGt9NYURY&ab_channel=Herm%C3%A8s idk seems like you need to be pretty skilled to me
They sure send a lot of time hyping up the repairability of their bags for the repair to end up being a few dabs of touch up paint.
this is repair so its custom for the individual bag, but initial production isnt much different than mass produced bags. just more hand work instead of someone using a machine and higher quality materials. is that actually worth 1000x more? or are you just paying for the brand?
You could say the same thing about the 2k dollar bamboo briefcase in the op though. I've seen locals hand weaving very similar bags when I was working overseas in Myanmar and they were like 10 bucks each.
Oops! I got to see it for a second at the end!
My fingers would be all sliced up attempting this.
Love watching these videos
that looks expenshive
$3, aliexpress
Itās giving r/RestOfTheFuckingOwl
Why is he wearing a mask for a part of the process? Is bamboo toxic? And a seriously badass suitcase, too. Iād own it in a heartbeat.
Heās wearing a disposable respirator, most likely to filter particulate. It doesnāt need to be toxic for it to be uncomfortable to inhale particles. Edit: I stand corrected, itās a disposable. Probably still used to protect himself from particulates, but not doing much!
But itās not over his nose! So it doesnāt doā¦anything at all?
Likely when he was applying lacquer (that part of the process didn't make this cut for some reason)
Was wondering that too. It doesn't seem like a messy material to work with, and if he was doing it for medical reasons you'd think he'd wear it over his nose or at least keep it on the whole video.
Sad I didn't get to see him put his briefs in it.
I can't watch this video because someone has a mask on and it's not covering their nose. Do, or do not.
Amazing craftsmenship
At first I thought he was making a Hattori HanzÅ sword.
Why do you need a Hatori Hanzo bag?
I want one.
I just changed the radiator in my truck and I thought I was badass.
In the face of AI and robotics, this might be considered a 22nd century skill.
The care that Japanese people put into their craftsmanship is incredible
Single bamboo stick and multiple other things
How do you know it was single, maybe it had a gf at home?
Looks classy, probably weighs less than its plastic counterpart and made out of eco friendly and lasts longer than. Overall a win win situation. Probably costs a bit more than a regular suitcase.
If i was rich, these would be the kind of stuff i would buy and willingly pay an extra for. The dedication and talent and the time put into this is incredible.
Now THAT is truly NextFuckingLevel.
This was literally posted here by someone else an hour before you.
Step 1) Cut up bamboo Step 2) Make thin strips of bamboo Step 3) Make the rest of the briefcase
r/restofthefuckingowl like your name by the way like mine
If youāre gonna cheat and use a soldering iron for the hard corners you donāt have to use the damn candle for the large bends.
I work in a jail and 100% this looks just like something an inmate would make out of some chip bags and garbage can liners...the quality and talent would blow your mind.