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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: 39,111
    soatoz
    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: 35,942
    NeilS
    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, doesnt, dont, 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: 31,711
    Clinton1
    12th April 2007, 05:39 PM Go to last post

  4. Sticky Thread Sticky: How to Sharpen a Plane Blade Part 3: How to sharpen the front side freehanded.

    Started by soatoz, 12th April 2007 06:00 PM
    absolutely, bevel, blade, expensive, finger, flat, freehanded, grinding, hard, mark, move, nagura, photo, photo1, plane, polishing, pressing, pressure, rounded, sharpen, sharpening, shown, slightly, steel, stone, stones, super, tip, touching, width
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 20,885
    Sheets
    16th May 2009, 08:46 AM 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: 18,559
    soatoz
    24th March 2007, 01:01 PM Go to last post

  6. 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: 18,303
    Groggy
    11th March 2007, 03:19 PM Go to last post

  7. 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: 11,033
    ozwinner
    3rd March 2007, 05:32 PM Go to last post

  1. which chisels for general use.

    Started by zilberi, 1st April 2014 08:32 PM
    advertise, basically, bench, blacksmiths, bring, buy, chisels, chu, corners, dovetail, dovetailing, general, hiramachi, hss, ideas, japanese, line, mortising, nomi, oire, paring, read, shank/handle, specialisations, specific, start, tataki, timber, time, tools 5 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 10,602
    NeilS
    3rd April 2014, 12:37 PM Go to last post

  2. Japanese chisels for beginner

    Started by planetjag, 28th January 2008 09:22 AM
    $30-40, appeals, beginner, benefits, butt, buy, carbatec, chisel, chisels, curious, difference, economy, individually, investing, japanese, jonathan, length, lower, market, money, newbie, non-butt, option, past, question, sold, specific, time, waste, woodworking
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 10,306
    STAR
    4th February 2008, 08:17 PM Go to last post

  3. Gennou - Handle

    Started by Bushmiller, 19th January 2013 06:09 PM
    4 Pages •
    1 2 3 4
    called, convert, count, couple, derek, firstly, fitted, flaxseed, fukushima, gennou, gennous, guy, hammer, hammers, handle, japanese, looked, mind, nuked, oil, pein, radioactive, region, site, soaked, swmbo, versions, videos, web, wedge 12 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 57
    • Views: 10,103
    Bushmiller
    13th June 2013, 09:07 PM Go to last post

  4. Woodworking in Japan

    Started by raptor, 30th October 2014 02:39 PM
    japan, woodworking 4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 10,033
    Mashu
    5th November 2016, 12:14 PM Go to last post

  5. Guideline on getting good Japanese tools!

    Started by soatoz, 16th February 2007 11:30 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    additives, and/or, aogami, blacksmith, blacksmiths, blue, brittle, carbon, considered, content, expensive, explain, good, guideline, hard, japanese, material, molecular, quality, raw, shirogami, size, skill, steel, time, tool, tools, type, varietal, white
    • Replies: 25
    • Views: 10,017
    Caliban
    5th May 2007, 01:50 AM Go to last post

  6. Chisel Handle Replacement

    Started by Stu in Tokyo, 2nd September 2008 01:17 AM
    bit, blacksmith, burning, burnt, characters, chisel, eye, ferrel, filed, handle, handles, hole, looked, lot, puff, registered, replacement, sanded, seated, size, smelled, smoke, square, substance, tang, told, tools, transition, wood, wooden
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 10,005
    NeilS
    2nd September 2008, 01:53 PM Go to last post

  7. My Japanese Chisels

    Started by Shedhand, 29th April 2007 01:03 AM
    3 Pages •
    1 2 3
    8.30am, australia, awoken, bought, chime, chisels, divorced, door, doorbell, gday, japanese, land, lucky, mate, mike, nod, persistent, post, rudely, single, time
    • Replies: 30
    • Views: 9,805
    soatoz
    23rd May 2007, 08:18 AM Go to last post

  8. Natural Stones

    Started by Sheets, 26th November 2007 01:59 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    compare, confine, continue/or, discussing, forum, japanese, man-made, natural, non-japanese, people, quick, sharpening, specifically, steve, stones, success, talk, tools, yes/no
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 9,794
    Sheets
    29th November 2007, 01:20 PM Go to last post

  9. Kakuri Kanna, any good?

    Started by TongueTied, 28th August 2015 10:19 PM
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 9,655
    D.W.
    7th October 2015, 04:40 AM Go to last post

  10. How often do you see a delaminating J chisel?

    Started by lignator, 7th May 2007 12:35 PM
    3 Pages •
    1 2 3
    20mm, 45554, 45555, bench, browsing, candidate, chisel, delaminating, fantastic, grade, handled, hooped, low, lowliest, meets, official, push, regrinding, resolved, resolving, safe, sale, site, soatoz, steel, test, thinner, tools, type, worthy
    • Replies: 34
    • Views: 9,422
    Studley 2436
    29th June 2007, 03:23 PM Go to last post

  11. Knife set

    Started by Bushmiller, 7th April 2013 01:02 AM
    5 Pages •
    1 2 3 4 5
    agreed, bevel, blade, block, blue, buy, buying, career, chef, damascus, decided, ebay, finish, gyuto, handles, japanese, knife, knives, leaned, mind, natural, opted, plane, post, seller, set, steel, style, surprise, time 9 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 66
    • Views: 9,293
    Bushmiller
    28th June 2013, 02:07 PM Go to last post

  12. Anyone fancy basket making??

    Started by Old-Biker-UK, 8th December 2017 07:32 AM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 9,258
    Old-Biker-UK
    8th December 2017, 07:32 AM Go to last post

  13. My Ebay Chisels ?

    Started by Graham Skinner, 12th August 2007 12:42 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    boxwood, bright, chisel, chisels, ebay, forum, graham, guy, handles, haveing, information, joined, maker, photo, post, reading, sold, start, top, type, wood, yellow
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 9,189
    "il" Marzio
    8th March 2008, 09:02 AM Go to last post

  14. Question Japanese Dovetail Chisel

    Started by RufflyRustic, 28th June 2007 03:54 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    cheers, chisel, chisels, confused, cutting, dovetail, dovetails, hand, information, japanese, nomi, rolleyes, searched, soatoz, specific, start, time, title, wendy
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 9,154
    soatoz
    6th July 2007, 05:58 PM Go to last post

  15. Ura-dashi Tapping out

    Started by Des.K., 29th April 2011 09:48 PM
    arrows, blade, control, corner, crack, cutting, days, edge, firm, flat, hagane, hammer, hard, hit, left, left-hand, mouth, move, photo, provided, slightly, surface, tap, tapping, tapping out, ura-dashi, ura-oshi, ura-suki, uradashi, uraoshi
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 9,130
    enak
    2nd May 2011, 10:30 PM Go to last post

  16. Chiyozuru Korehide kiridashi knives for sale

    Started by soatoz, 16th March 2007 02:48 PM
    absolute, assumed, automobile, boxes, chiyozuru, condition, detailed, directly, forgot, japan, kiridashi, knives, korehide, master, mei, mention, mint, photos, price, private, purchasing, sale, send, serious, shipped, signed, sold, stamped, wishes, wooden
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 9,059
    willie
    17th March 2007, 12:13 AM Go to last post

  17. someone have a dai - kanna making tutorial

    Started by correntinos, 19th March 2010 05:39 AM
    dai, everyboby, javier, kanna, lot, making, tutorial, world
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 8,927
    correntinos
    25th March 2010, 02:44 PM Go to last post

  18. KOITOYA Japanese plane and chisel course

    Started by fletty, 2nd June 2018 01:29 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    12 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 8,842
    Pat
    16th July 2018, 08:00 PM Go to last post

  19. Guidance and advice sort

    Started by ninpoman, 23rd May 2018 05:39 PM
    6 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 8,333
    Chris Parks
    30th November 2019, 11:43 AM Go to last post

  20. Sharpening Shun Knives

    Started by Too Many Clamps, 11th February 2011 06:18 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    advice, bevel, box, buy, cheek, cheers, flat, hand-forged, hollow-ground, honing, intersection, japanese, knife, knives, meets, one.doh, original, secondary, send, sharpen, sharpening, shun, single-bevel, steel, stupid, tempted, tight, tongue, western, wrap
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 8,014
    NeilS
    14th April 2011, 10:37 AM Go to last post

  21. The Art of Japanese Carpentry Drawing by Chris Hall

    Started by Sheets, 30th January 2010 02:54 AM
    art, aspects, blog, book, buy, carpentry, chris, comprehensive, document, download, drawing, ebay, email, essay, hall, info, item, japanese, jiffy, level, link, operates, pay, pdf, pst, sale, steve, subject, volume, wealth
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 7,951
    NeilS
    1st February 2010, 07:34 PM Go to last post

  22. 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: 7,898
    soatoz
    31st January 2008, 04:29 PM Go to last post

  23. Which Chisels are Worthy?

    Started by sCORCH, 19th August 2009 05:28 PM
    assist, australia, bench, bombard, carbatec, cheerio, chisels, experience, folks, friendly, hesitate, iyoroi, japanese, lee-valley, matsumura, niskiki, overwhelmed, pairing, queries, scorch, sells, soataz, sold, special, steel, stuff, styles, white, worthy, www.japanwoodworker.com
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 7,871
    Sheets
    20th August 2009, 12:46 PM Go to last post

  24. 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
    1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 43
    • Views: 7,834
    D.W.
    11th December 2023, 12:51 AM Go to last post

  25. Genno (japanese Hammers)

    Started by sinjin, 26th September 2008 09:00 AM
    chisels, expensive, explain, genno, hammers, japanese, pay, western, woodwork
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 7,833
    derekcohen
    27th September 2008, 10:08 PM Go to last post

  26. Bench hook ?

    Started by Sam, 23rd February 2009 01:17 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    action, bench, blokes, describe, feet, guess, hand, hold, hook, ideal, japanese, method, pic, provide, pull, read, special, suit, timber, worth
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 7,727
    dynoforce
    15th July 2009, 06:41 AM Go to last post

  27. Dozuki

    Started by Matt Thomas, 12th October 2010 02:25 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    advance2tsup, btw, cheers, cutting, dovetails, dozuki, forward, girls, guys, hearing, hey, japense, lot, matt, pick, price, projects, purpose, questions, read, reasonable, redgum, saws, seperate, spot, started, thick, victoria, week, wodonga
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 7,642
    Halicon
    11th November 2010, 10:59 PM Go to last post

  28. Favourite coarse stones?

    Started by fissionchips, 28th July 2012 09:04 AM
    200, blade, block, coarse, desirable, diamond, dmt, enjoyable, favourite, granite, grinding, grit, king, plate, powder, prefer, process, provide, qualities, quantity, reliability, restoring, sic, size, speed, steel, stone, stones, success, thinking
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 7,526
    snikolaev28
    29th July 2012, 08:11 PM Go to last post

  29. Identifying maker of Japanese Chisels

    Started by tom's shed, 11th November 2017 12:21 AM
    chisels, japanese, maker 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 7,242
    hurcorh
    29th November 2017, 09:36 AM Go to last post

  30. Ura-oshi method. Have a screwed up my new chisel

    Started by yellowtimber, 12th September 2018 03:00 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    12 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 7,053
    hurcorh
    22nd September 2018, 01:29 AM Go to last post
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