HiroC09
Tools and measurement
- Age at landing
- 23
- From
- Japanese, from Sanjo in Niigata, a town of toolmakers
- Before
- Apprentice toolmaker in the family workshop; made knives and planes
- Main skill
- Precision: edges, files, measuring and fitting
- Other skills
- Stone knapping, sharpening, later lathes and gauges
- Personality
- Silent, exact and humble. Nods at good work and winces at bad.
- Strength
- Hands accurate to the width of a hair, and endless patience.
- Flaw
- Cannot say when a thing is good enough. Shy. Overworks. Short-sighted, and squints until the first spectacles are made.
- Wants
- One perfectly flat surface.
- Story arc
- From the boy who knaps flint in week one to the man whose machine shop makes every other machine.
- In year 50
- Alive, aged 73
- First partner
- Mei, from month 6
- Leads phases
- 12 Precision and machine tools
- Helps in phases
- 01 First days: water, fire, shelter
02 Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit
06 Iron and steel
07 Carpentry, the village, measures and writing
13 Steam power
14 Electricity, generators, motors and batteries
Hiro and Mei
Long silent nights feeding the first kiln. Mei makes him a cup that fits his hand exactly; Hiro makes her a shaping tool scraped perfectly true.
Two perfectionists. Neither will say sorry first.
Procedures Hiro leads
Procedures Hiro helps with
Sketches with Hiro
