Finger joint

[trungdok]

This is the "true" finger joint

http://www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~k-yazawa/finger.html

For a second, I thought that the first finger was flipping the bird.

[Black wallnut]

That is some amazing craftsmanship.

[atgcpaul]

Wow! That is too cool. I saw a middle finger first, too.

[trungdok]

I wonder what 1534 really stands for. Perhaps it has to do with the birth year of the shogun who unified Japan. Or maybe it's just a special number in Japanese culture.

Maybe Hank Lee could chime in on it.

[Pappy]

I wonder what 1534 really stands for. Perhaps it has to do with the birth year of the shogun who unified Japan. Or maybe it's just a special number in Japanese culture.

Maybe Hank Lee could chime in on it.

I wondered that, too...

[LCHIEN]

I wonder what 1534 really stands for. Perhaps it has to do with the birth year of the shogun who unified Japan. Or maybe it's just a special number in Japanese culture.

Maybe Hank Lee could chime in on it.

Historic events in 1534:
Jan 24th - Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
Feb 26th - Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht
Mar 23rd - Aragonese legal code formally recognised
Mar 26th - Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea
Apr 17th - Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower
May 10th - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
May 12th - Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian
Jun 9th - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
Jun 12th - Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
Jun 29th - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
Jul 4th - Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
Jul 7th - European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
Jul 24th - Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
Aug 15th - Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
Aug 20th - Turkish admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
Oct 13th - Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III
Oct 18th - New pursuit of French protestants
Oct 26th - Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
Oct 30th - English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope
Nov 3rd - English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
Nov 6th - Zealand hit by heavy storm
Dec 4th - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
Dec 6th - Quito, Ecuador, founded by Spanish

Nothing Japanese
but then, the Japanese probably weren't using the Gregorian calendar in 1534.