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Forum: JAPANESE HAND TOOLS

A forum for the discussion of Japanese hand Tools. What makes them good, how to tell the good tools from the bad, and how to use and look after them.

  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Japanese Tool Glossary A-M

    Started by Groggy, 5th March 2007 07:59 PM
    base, blade, block, blue, chisel, chisels, glossary, haisu, hammer, handle, hardening, head, iron, japanese, kamaji, materials, means, nail, oak, plane, popular, rentetsu, set, sharpen, sheath, soft, steel, stone, tool, type
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 18,096
    11th March 2007, 03:19 PM Go to last post
  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Japanese Blacksmiths

    Started by Groggy, 5th March 2007 08:10 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    blacksmith, blacksmiths, blade, blue, chisel, chiyozuru, chiyozurus, city, famous, hammers, ichihiro, ishidoh, japan, japanese, maker, master, niigata, plane, planes, prefecture, quality, renowned, revered, sadahide, sanjyo, son, steel, tokyo, tools, yamazaki
    • Replies: 21
    • Views: 35,490
    23rd August 2020, 03:55 PM Go to last post
  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: Japanese tool names and terms.

    Started by ozwinner, 3rd March 2007 05:32 PM
    chalk, frivolous, genno, hammer, ink, japanese, kanna-plane, line, names, nokogiri-handsaw, nomi-chisel, post, posts, sorted, sumitsubo, terms, thread, tool, tools
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 10,831
    3rd March 2007, 05:32 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 20,647
    16th May 2009, 08:46 AM Go to last post
  4. Sticky Thread Sticky: How to Sharpen a Plane Blade Part1: How to Make a Beautiful Ura (Uraoshi Technique)

    Started by soatoz, 11th March 2007 08:22 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    arrows, beautiful, bent, blade, check, diamond, don’t, flat, grit, image, kana-ban, kongou-sha, make, method, move, part1, plane, polish, red, rule, shape, sharpen, shown, steel, stone, surface, tape, technique, ura, uraoshi
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 38,775
    15th March 2007, 06:58 PM Go to last post
  5. Sticky Thread Sticky: How to Sharpen a Plane Blade Part2: How to sharpen the front side.

    Started by soatoz, 23rd March 2007 06:18 PM
    angle, bevel, blade, blades, check, coarse, edge, feel, fix, flat, grinding, guide, honing, iron, med, part2, plane, rule, sharpen, sharpening, start, steel, stone, stones, straight, super, surface, synthetic, time, tip
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 18,299
    24th March 2007, 01:01 PM Go to last post
  6. Sticky Thread Sticky: How to set up a brand new chisel

    Started by soatoz, 11th April 2007 06:04 PM
    article, bevel, blade, body, brand, chisel, doesn’t, don’t, grind, ground, guide, handle, honing, hoop, lacquer, nail, neck, part2”, plane, polish, rounded, set, setter, sharpen, sharpening, stone, straight, tip, touching, “how
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 31,464
    12th April 2007, 05:39 PM Go to last post
  1. A few hammers

    Started by AB515, 30th July 2014 01:17 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 3,408
    7th August 2014, 12:06 AM Go to last post
  2. Japanese saw in action

    Started by AB515, 30th September 2014 12:34 PM
    action, japanese
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,415
    6th October 2014, 01:15 PM Go to last post
  3. Does Soatoz still sell tools?

    Started by Absinthesis, 23rd January 2009 01:30 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    anytime, appreciated, contact, february, forum, information, japan, sell, selling, site, soatoz, suggests, tools
    • Replies: 23
    • Views: 5,441
    6th February 2009, 12:31 AM Go to last post
  4. High-speed steel chisels?

    Started by Alexander DK, 31st January 2012 09:46 PM
    alexander, bought, buying, chisels, chisles, denmark, dictum, experiance, germany, high-speed, highspeed, hss, japanes, mistake, steel, type
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 4,954
    1st February 2012, 03:38 PM Go to last post
  5. KEZUROUKAI in Los Gatos, California October 8th 2016

    Started by alx, 18th September 2016 04:24 AM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 3,939
    18th September 2016, 04:24 AM Go to last post
  6. KEZUROU-KAI meet up in Japan, May 5-6 2015 in Kobe. Who wants to come?

    Started by alx, 28th November 2014 12:48 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    2014, 2015, japan, kezuroukai, kobe, meet
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 5,397
    22nd March 2015, 07:45 AM Go to last post
  7. Dieter Schmid/fine-tools.com your experience with the tools they sell

    Started by Andreas87, 13th May 2011 07:06 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    allu, blacksmiths, body, buying, canvas, chisels, dieter, experience, hammer, jack, japanese, jointer, koshimitsu, master, niigata, oak, plane, planes, province, reply, schmid or finetoolscom, schmid/fine-tools.com, sell, shop, smith, smoothing, tool, tools, white, yoita
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 14,389
    31st May 2011, 12:17 AM Go to last post
  8. Tapping out kanna blade

    Started by Andreas87, 4th April 2012 09:22 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    appriciated, bend, blade, carful, edge, entire, flattening, front, grinder, ground, hard/crisp, hollow, it’s, kanna, maker, mass, middle, plane, pretty, produced, set, sigma, sign, simply, started, steel, suspect, tapping, thinking, won’t
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 5,047
    10th April 2012, 01:23 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 12,569
    28th May 2011, 04:08 AM Go to last post
  9. Japanese Saws

    Started by andrewr79, 21st June 2011 08:49 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    16tpi, amount, andrew, assuming, bunnings, change, cheers, coffee, coworker, cuts, difference, huge, impressed, japanese, lunchtime, pull, rapidly, saws, smoothly, treating, true, yesterday
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 12,289
    16th July 2011, 10:13 PM Go to last post
  10. Website

    Started by Andy Mac, 1st June 2007 10:16 AM
    beautiful, cheers, excellent, guys, hardware, japanese, links, newbie, post, timberwerks, tools, website
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,934
    8th September 2007, 04:01 PM Go to last post
  11. Dozuki sheath

    Started by Andy Mac, 18th April 2013 11:08 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 3,023
    16th June 2013, 10:06 PM Go to last post
  12. What's the Japanese method of dimensioning lumber?

    Started by applebuilder, 20th September 2009 01:05 PM
    board, design, dimensioned, dimensioning, edges, experts, hand, intact, japanese, leaves, level, lumber, matter, method, pick, plane, referencing, smoothing, specialized, square, started, sticks, straight, subtle, surface, tools, tradition, western, winding, wondering
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 3,224
    22nd September 2009, 01:29 PM Go to last post
  13. Need Technique Tips for Ryoba Saw

    Started by applebuilder, 17th August 2009 03:37 PM
    $20, advice, bear, beautifully, blade, completely, cut, cuts, front, guys, japanese, left, letting, manipulating, properly, ryoba, straight, technique, tips, travels, trouble, true, tune, wrong
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 4,204
    18th August 2009, 04:44 PM Go to last post
  14. buyer beware. iida tool declares bankruptcy. No tool. No refund.

    Started by AR&MJ, 28th December 2022 09:38 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 43
    • Views: 7,486
    11th December 2023, 12:51 AM Go to last post
  15. Old and new Japanese tools, tansu, wood...

    Started by araki0726, 10th April 2008 05:43 PM
    1.5m, 2.75m, 2w+, agent, boots, contact, detail, ground, inquiries, items, japan, japanese, larger, length, limits, max, note, office, package, pieces, post, schmidt_araki@ybb.ne.jp, searching, sell, send, serious, size, tansu, tools, wood
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,096
    10th April 2008, 05:43 PM Go to last post
  16. RIP Usui Kengo

    Started by archihawaii, 2nd April 2012 05:54 PM
    26th, blademaker, japan, kengo, march, news, passed, renowned, rip, sad, usui
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,728
    3rd April 2012, 03:07 PM Go to last post
  17. Japanese Tools in Buy/Sell section

    Started by archihawaii, 26th July 2010 04:55 AM
    18mm, 3/4, 40mm, 80g, blade, buy or sell, buy/sell, chisel, dovetail, eiyo, file, finished, forge, hammer, handle, hasegawa, japanese, kozaburo, plane, section, shinogi, shogo, steel, tanaka, tasai, tools, tsuge, w/subblade, welded, white
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,570
    26th July 2010, 11:47 AM Go to last post
  18. Pull saws

    Started by ausie, 11th July 2012 09:38 PM
    blades, bunnings, buy, cheap, complete, days, ebay, nice, offer, overseas, plenty, pull, replacement, saws, stocking, stopped, suppliers
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,637
    11th July 2012, 10:05 PM Go to last post
  19. Sale on ebay

    Started by Banana Fish, 25th November 2008 11:38 AM
    chisels, ebay, japanese, plane, sale, selling
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,207
    25th November 2008, 11:38 AM Go to last post
  20. removing stuck blades from old planes

    Started by bannock, 21st August 2007 11:29 PM
    blades, bought, box, canada, dry, exist, flea, hong, japan, japanese, kong, location, markets, months, office, past, picked, picking, planes, post, removing, rural, sat, spent, spring, stored, stuck, suggestions, traveling, wet
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 7,855
    31st January 2008, 04:29 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,396
    23rd July 2009, 03:50 AM Go to last post
  21. Who's the Melbourne outlet forSharkSaws now?

    Started by billrule, 6th November 2009 01:20 AM
    bill, blade, cheers, details, forsharksaws, geelong, goalposts, live, melbourne, moved, outlet, quickly, road, time, wear
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,812
    6th November 2009, 01:20 AM Go to last post
  22. suggestions for a beginner?

    Started by BillyBleed, 24th September 2012 10:30 AM
    400, 600, advice, artwork, beginner, build, covers, dovetails, dowels, fiddling, finger, forget, frames, frustrated, grease, hand, joins, joints, lamp, mitre, moment, mortises, package, picture, region, spend, stands, starting, suggestions, tools
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,205
    25th September 2012, 02:18 PM Go to last post
  23. Japanese plane ID

    Started by Bobdemers, 4th December 2008 02:12 PM
    appreciated, blade, bob, curious, fluffy, ideogram, japanese, maker, pics, plane, shavings
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 3,418
    5th December 2008, 03:34 PM Go to last post
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  24. Trying To Get A Handle On Things

    Started by Bushmiller, 26th January 2014 07:40 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 27
    • Views: 4,815
    22nd February 2014, 04:09 PM Go to last post
  25. Gennou - Handle

    Started by Bushmiller, 19th January 2013 06:09 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    • Replies: 57
    • Views: 10,020
    13th June 2013, 09:07 PM Go to last post
  26. Zhen Knives and knife block

    Started by Bushmiller, 19th January 2013 10:13 PM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,591
    20th January 2013, 12:27 PM Go to last post
  27. Knife set

    Started by Bushmiller, 7th April 2013 01:02 AM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    • Replies: 66
    • Views: 9,214
    28th June 2013, 02:07 PM Go to last post

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