Thread: Nomi Ura Aesthetics, Sharpening and a Veritas Honing Guide

Originally Posted by thumbsucker

I won an auction today on ebay for a old new stock for a 41 mm Oire-nomi the smiths name is山内 Yamauchi, I could not find anything about Yamauchi, however as far as I can tell its a well made nomi. Once it comes from Japan it will need to be setup and sharpened, I will try to apply the pointers from this thread into this new tool.

I have been thinking about a kanna, and have been keeping an eye out on ebay for one based on my readings and having watched Sumokun youtube vids for the signs of a good kanna. I got snipped on two kannas that I had researched and showed good pedigree. The search continues.

This was a kanna I was looking at but missed out by $3.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Smoothing...p2047675.l2557

Their is a Japanese gentleman who lives here in Victoria, he goes on ebay as austets, he as far as I can tell is a retired Japanese furniture maker who now imports and sell Japanese woodworking tools in OZ, but he is much more low profile, then Soatoz. Anyway I am planing to go and visit him soon with a wad of cash, shortly.

My good fellow,

I just happen to have one of those kanna (Dogyu by Imoto Masao) if you're interested. Although I've cleaned up the edge, the dai could use some tuning and its just collecting dust (that's dust, not rust). I posted in another thread (https://www.woodworkforums.com/f111/family-131198) some ideas about Imoto Masao kanna, so there are pics in that thread of the kanna I have. Happy to provide more, of course. PM me if interested.

Steve

Steve its was your linked post that primarily made me bid on the kanna, as it confirmed it was a worthwhile item with verifiable pedigree. I will send you a PM.