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28th June 2005, 11:06 PM #1
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Japanese planing technique
I just watched Foreign Correspondent on the ABC and they had a segment on the Kyodo (I think that's the spelling) drummers who play those enormous drums that you see sometimes on TV and the movies.
The first task of the first year students (it takes 2 years) is to make their own drum sticks.
The interesting thing was to watch their planing method in which they pull the plane towards them rather than push away like I think most westerners do. I might try this myself next time
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28th June 2005, 11:12 PM #2
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A recent samurai movie called "The Blind Swordsman Zatoichi" has a scene where carpenters are building a house: planes are pulled, saws are pulled, all to the beat of foot-tapping music. Recommended viewing.
Japanese planes are designed to be pulled. Western ones are designed to be pushed. But sometimes I still pull my (western) planes. Just takes practice.Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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28th June 2005, 11:31 PM #3
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I will second that, the pull technique works with the mujis extremely well, especially those with the cross handle. It also seems much less effort compared to pushing the plane. I tried it forr the first time last week but I think I will try to adopt it for good.
You can never have enough planes, that is why Mr Stanley invented the 1/2s
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29th June 2005, 01:09 PM #4
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Check out Taunton Press's "the Workbench Book"...has chapters on a couple of Japanese woodies and pictures of planing Japanese style.
Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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29th June 2005, 02:16 PM #5
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The HNT Gordon web site shows photos of how to use their planes backwards too.
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29th June 2005, 02:27 PM #6
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Why would you bother, isn't this take the dark side just that little bit to far! Will you guys plug the bloody cord in and get on with it?
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