Talk:Carpenter's axe

Western building methods

This article makes the statement "In traditional Japanese architecture, wood is the primary building material, as opposed to the western tradition of using stone and brick." In my experience wood is the primary building material of both Japanese and western structures. Here is an excerpt from the wiki on timber framing "Half-timbered construction in the Northern European vernacular building style is characteristic of medieval and early modern Denmark, England, Germany, and parts of France and Switzerland, where timber was in good supply yet stone and associated skills to dress the stonework were in short supply. In half-timbered construction, timbers that were riven (split) in half provided the complete skeletal framing of the building." 2601:406:4000:3DC0:52C0:1648:FCF4:74EF (talk) 05:25, 25 June 2023 (UTC)