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# Balcony Workshop
## A Woodworking (& other crafting) self-learning Jounery at one of the crowdest country in the world. Starting with a workshop smaller than a WORKBENCH!
### Balcony Workshop#1: I Make a mallet to make a mallet to build bench....
#### Description:
Inspired By many great maker & woodworker on Youtube, I got enough motivation to overcome some difficulties which are quite different from those western youtube mentor, and would like to share my jounery with youguys. 

Originally I try to make a traditional mallet introduced by **Rex Krueger**, but later found out that I can't make it without a mallet.... 

So in this first episode, I will first make tow rough log mallet (Mallet MK1 & MK1.5), then make Rex' mallet (Mallet MK2). 

If you have any advice from grammar, typo(English isn't my first language) to woodworking, please leave a comment. 

Thank you for watching!

## Cut1
### Scene: 廣角拍攝陽台全景，長度視字幕長度決定。視情況後製模糊對面的復興商工。
### Subtitle:
This is my workshop. Right now it is fulled by lots of scrapwoods and logs. Hope to get some decent woodworking tools & skills from them.

## Cut2
### Scene: 插入一張Rex木槌影片的螢幕截圖。
### Subtitle: 
I thought Rex' mallet will be a great to be my first woodworking project. But later found out that,

If I would like to use those scrapwood as material, I really need a mallet to process raw materials.

## Cut3
### Scene: 拍劈開四邊的30cm圓木，切換成圓木與斧頭、楔子、柴刀合影，切換成美國環境運動wiki的螢幕scroll節錄，再切換成文青木工課程的網站截圖
### Subtitle:
thie is the log I prepared for hammerhead. It's a 30cm diameter by 30cm long camphor tree log. I bought for $28 per log. you can see I already split four corners using axe head, wedge, hammer and janpanese nata axe. there are damages metal hitting metal. I quickly regrated doing that.

**切**

Maybe some of you guys living in Europe or North America will confused about spending too much to get this small unprocessed wood. there are sereval Historical factors related to it. like US modern envirment movement in 1960s significently influenced Taiwan, which shrinking Taiwan's forestry to nearly nothing 

**切** 

Traditional woodworking nearly disapeared. or turning into some kind of hipster hobby nowadays, we could said. 

theredore everyone consider wood is a fancy material, lumberyard like to sell fancy hardwood, normal wood like SPF also quite pricey than US or Japan.

Back to mallet, camphor tree is native species and popular street tree in Taiwan, So I could got some from street tree gardening company for affordable price.

## Cut4
### Scene: 拍連麻布袋的直徑20公分圓木，2-3個不同定點鏡位，或是1-2個運鏡
### Subtitle: 
 I plan to use this 20cm diameter 60cm long camphor tree green log to make two round mallets, one 25cm long with small head for easy single-hand use, one 35cm long with larger head to get heavy smash.

## Cut5
### Scene: 側拍 1. 橫斷圓木 2. 粗切柄部
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