If you’ve ever made your own speaker cabinet, you probably didn’t approach the project using long strips of wood veneer and a tea cup. Maybe I’m wrong and maybe you created it using exactly the same wood craft manufacturing technique that BUNACO uses. BUNACO is
Japanese brand and maker of tableware, lamps and other interior items. They have also begun to dabble in hi-fi audio and the process they’ve adapted from their lamp making to created the speaker cabinet you see below, is something to be seen.
Hi-Fi meets Lo-fi
BUNACO began it’s artisan craft in 1956 from the Aomori region of Northern Japan. Since then, they’ve used a unique process to obtain and shape the material for their products. As the video below explains, they start with 2-meter long, 1mm thick strips of Japanese beech rolled into tightly wound discs. The discs are rolled to the same diameter of the dish, lamp or speaker. It then goes into the hands of a veteran craftsman who creates the 3-dimensional form by hand, using nothing but a tea cup.
Such an interesting approach to using a material that is otherwise unusable. Here’s a glimpse of just a few of their other products.
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