Build King: Tucker Report
Added 2021-09-20 21:11:41 +0000 UTCTucker's episode notes (including name pronunciation/meaning) for our Build King episode
NOTES
Characters
- Tonkachi: main character
- Means “hammer”
- Renga: Tonkachi’s brother
- N and g are pronounced separately (so ren-ga, not reng-a)
- Means “brick”
- Shovel: Master carpenter
- Nana Schneider
- Probably was going for a name from the German verb “schneiden,” which means to cut/to carve (“schnitzel” comes from the same verb). However, the word “Schneider” almost always refers to a tailor or dressmaker rather than someone who builds buildings.
- Nana means seven, but it’s also just a name. Not sure its significance here, if any.
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General notes:
- That roving armadillo-looking armor thing might very well be a reference to the cover art of the album Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (which is what the knight from Jojo Part 1 was a reference to)
- About Japanese carpentry tools:
- https://hidatool.com/basics/hammer/
- “Carpenters in Japan use several different hammers, each designed for a specific purpose, such as hammering nails, adjusting planes, and striking chisels. Unlike framing hammers, a traditional Japanese hammer does not have a nail puller, but is flat on one face and slightly curved (convex) on the other. To pull out nails, carpenters use a separate nail puller.”
“The flat face of a hammer is used for most of the hammering and the curved side called a kigoroshi-men is used for the last blow. The kigoroshi-men is designed to drive a nail into the wood without damaging the surrounding surface.”......“Also, furniture makers use the kigoroshi-men to temporarily compress a tenon to fit it into its mortise. After assembly, the wood gradually expands to its original size for a tight fit. In this process the kigoroshi-men can dent the wood without tearing its fibers, but the edges of the flat face of the hammer will tear the fiber and the wood will not expand even if water is applied.”
