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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: 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: 38,779
    15th March 2007, 06:58 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: 35,497
    23rd August 2020, 03:55 PM Go to last post
  3. 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: 31,467
    12th April 2007, 05:39 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 20,648
    16th May 2009, 08:46 AM Go to last post
  4. 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: 18,300
    24th March 2007, 01:01 PM Go to last post
  5. 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: 18,097
    11th March 2007, 03:19 PM Go to last post
  6. 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: 10,835
    3rd March 2007, 05:32 PM Go to last post
  1. My kit of Japanese knives ... WIP

    Started by rsser, 3rd October 2011 04:46 PM
    20 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 20
    • Replies: 286
    • Views: 108,659
    9th September 2021, 12:35 PM Go to last post
  2. Japanese joinery

    Started by sinjin, 6th March 2007 12:36 PM
    japanese, joinery, links, pics, share
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 33,003
    21st April 2016, 11:35 AM Go to last post
  3. Japanese waterstones

    Started by Driver, 18th March 2004 11:44 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    1200, 4000, 6000, blades, brand, buying, chisels, col, couple, gratefully, grit, incidentally, japanese, king, mind, opinions, paper, plane, price, reasonable, received, reduced, results, scary, sharp, sharpening, switch, timbecon, w&d, waterstones
    • Replies: 65
    • Views: 29,555
    12th March 2005, 08:35 PM Go to last post
  4. Axe identification

    Started by weaver, 4th January 2012 02:01 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    ago, augmented, axe, axes, bit, blade, claw, couple, days, diagonal, felling, handle, identification, identify, length, makers, marks, modern, photos, realatively, sale, short, shorter, solid, standard, stripes, thick, thiner, western, wondering
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 25,666
    17th April 2012, 03:07 PM Go to last post
  5. Japanese Planes Vs Western Planes????

    Started by JapanDave, 20th April 2012 02:07 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    access, dialed, japan, japanese, job, life, live, nielsen, planes, require, standard, stanley/lie, tinkering, type, western, wrong
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 24,230
    16th September 2012, 12:06 AM Go to last post
  6. Natural Japanese waterstones

    Started by wilburpan, 19th September 2008 09:36 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    #12000, #16000, #30000, #8000, chisel, cons, discussion, easier, edge, elementary, expensive, figured, fourth, giving, hope, japanese, naniwa, natural, neil, noticed, option, page, people, pick, pros, shapton, start, thread, waterstones, wink
    • Replies: 69
    • Views: 23,668
    27th March 2010, 12:42 PM Go to last post
  7. Angry Japanese knives.

    Started by rsser, 27th November 2009 02:11 PM
    8 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
    • Replies: 107
    • Views: 21,739
    15th September 2010, 11:56 PM Go to last post
  8. Definition of Hardness in Water stones & Sigma Power Stones

    Started by thumbsucker, 26th March 2010 10:20 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    abrasives, blades, borrowed, ceramic, chinese, chisels, cut, cutting, definition, fast, guys, hard, harder, hardness, heard, honing, kings, minutes, natural, power, revealing, sharpening, sigma, slow, soft, stone, stones, ten, water, wear
    • Replies: 60
    • Views: 17,690
    1st March 2011, 07:17 PM Go to last post
  9. need help... for mortise ...

    Started by cassca, 28th July 2008 06:36 AM
    6 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6
    • Replies: 75
    • Views: 17,006
    22nd September 2008, 12:39 AM Go to last post
  10. How to Use a Japanese Plane 1: How to Set the Blade

    Started by soatoz, 25th February 2007 03:53 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 16,871
    9th April 2013, 07:50 PM Go to last post
  11. Japanese Kitchen Knives

    Started by Bushmiller, 2nd October 2013 08:45 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    • Replies: 48
    • Views: 14,646
    9th April 2016, 04:10 PM Go to last post
  12. Pull Saws - Genetic differences

    Started by Clinton1, 16th May 2010 12:34 AM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 44
    • Views: 14,580
    23rd November 2012, 04:20 AM Go to last post
  13. 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: 14,390
    31st May 2011, 12:17 AM Go to last post
  14. Kiridashi - please explain.

    Started by willie, 9th May 2007 01:34 PM
    carpenters, carry, change, comfortable, explain, ideas, impressions, kiridashi, knife, knives, marking, purpose, reading, remember, schoolkids, time, tool, tools, vaguely
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 13,681
    10th May 2007, 12:05 AM Go to last post
  15. Honoki wood

    Started by hybridfiat, 5th April 2008 05:40 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    bit, buy, field, forum, here;, honoki, japanese, left, luck, realise, saya, seasoned, section, sword, timber, timber;, tsuka, wakizashi, wood
    • Replies: 31
    • Views: 13,294
    6th May 2008, 10:06 AM Go to last post
  16. Specialist shoji/kumiko planes - ha-ganna

    Started by Des.K., 6th January 2011 08:47 PM
    45°, angle, angles, arrow, bent, blade, blue, correct, critical, cut, cutting, edges, error, ha-ganna, haganna, hand, japanese, patterns, photos, pieces, plane, planes, process, proper, red, sharpened, sharpening, shoji or kumiko, specialist, trial
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 13,271
    9th January 2011, 03:36 PM Go to last post
  17. Natural Japanese waterstones update

    Started by NeilS, 18th May 2013 11:28 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    • Replies: 66
    • Views: 12,720
    10th February 2014, 03:57 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 12,569
    28th May 2011, 04:08 AM Go to last post
  18. Kanna - Adventures in dai making

    Started by fissionchips, 2nd April 2012 06:01 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    adventures, blade, blog, chose, dai, grit, hard, inomoto, japan, kanna, landings, making, maple, material, oak, odate, planing, process, profile, sandpaper, seminar, sole, surface, tile, tips, toshio, tuning, video, wave, web
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 12,484
    11th June 2012, 12:48 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 12,380
    12th June 2019, 07:47 AM Go to last post
  19. bamboo (or hinoki?) pegs

    Started by yojimbo, 22nd March 2008 12:10 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    advise, bamboo, bright, collective, counting, flame-tempering, genius, hinoki, hold, illuminate, improvised, information, job, learn, light, offer, paying, pegs, piece, pieces, pride, proper, repair, repairs, replace, tansu, told, topic, wisdom, yojimbo
    • Replies: 57
    • Views: 12,342
    31st May 2009, 08:55 AM Go to last post
  20. 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
  21. Flush Cut Saw problem: Nakaya Kugihiki

    Started by Groggy, 12th August 2010 08:55 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    bin, blade, caused, cut, cutting, dings, domino, dominos, effort, finished, flush, found, jarrah, job, judging, kugihiki, letting, minutes, move, nagaya, nakaya, noticed, problem, pulling, recommend, retrieved, saws, surprised, task, teeth
    • Replies: 46
    • Views: 12,092
    19th February 2011, 07:47 PM Go to last post
  22. Question Addresses to buy japanese tools in japan?

    Started by fjuhec, 29th June 2007 05:15 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    addresses, blacksmiths, buy, chisels, forum, found, japan, japanese, knife, knifes, month, shape, sites, started, takes, tools, web, woodcarving
    • Replies: 41
    • Views: 11,851
    3rd January 2008, 10:13 AM Go to last post
  23. should new chisel edges be square?

    Started by Paul D, 13th September 2008 06:22 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    advice, appreciated, chisel, chisels, crack, day, deadline, degree, edges, honed, japanese, kumagoro, lancaster, nomi, normal, oire, paul, perpendicular, polished, promptly, quality, question, received, returning, set, skew, square, suppliers, unable, unacceptable
    • Replies: 70
    • Views: 11,780
    22nd September 2008, 12:47 PM Go to last post
  24. Build Thread

    Started by Sheets, 25th February 2010 04:48 AM
    6 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6
    blog-style, blogs, build, days, forums, hand, involves, japanese, majority, pinball, posting, quiet, read, steve, thread, tools, visitors, woodwork, woodworking
    • Replies: 80
    • Views: 11,675
    30th July 2010, 08:05 AM Go to last post
  25. Grinding the Kanna Blade

    Started by crackerkorean, 22nd December 2016 03:25 AM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 34
    • Views: 11,226
    17th March 2018, 10:04 AM Go to last post
  26. Chris Hall's Carpentry Study Group - Fifth Project

    Started by Yxoc, 1st October 2012 04:12 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    • Replies: 64
    • Views: 10,760
    11th July 2014, 11:08 PM Go to last post
  27. Yari Ganna/Kanna in Australia

    Started by Kate84TS, 29th June 2017 12:41 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 10,720
    29th June 2017, 07:22 PM Go to last post
  28. Kanna Identification

    Started by thumbsucker, 24th May 2014 12:45 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 39
    • Views: 10,545
    18th November 2014, 07:47 AM Go to last post

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