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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: 18,246
    Groggy
    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: 35,750
    NeilS
    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: 10,966
    ozwinner
    3rd March 2007, 05:32 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: 20,805
    Sheets
    16th May 2009, 08:46 AM Go to last post

  5. 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: 39,022
    soatoz
    15th March 2007, 06:58 PM Go to last post

  6. 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: 18,485
    soatoz
    24th March 2007, 01:01 PM Go to last post

  7. 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: 31,626
    Clinton1
    12th April 2007, 05:39 PM Go to last post

  1. Koyamaichi

    Started by derekcohen, 24th March 2007 03:39 AM
    ago, buy, cheaply, chisels, chopping, comments, curious, decided, derek, difficult, edge, forum, handles, holding, info, involved, knowledgable, koyamaichi, maker, noted, opportunity, paring, past, perth, pleased, projects, rate, share, soatoz, web
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 6,084
    soatoz
    24th March 2007, 12:44 PM Go to last post

  2. Shooting for Perfection

    Started by derekcohen, 20th October 2008 03:02 AM
    article, board, build, couple, derek, features, happy, home, link, months, perfection, perth, post-construction, projects, provide, shooting, testing
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 3,162
    Shedhand
    27th October 2008, 08:23 PM Go to last post

  3. Wood for nomi handles

    Started by derekcohen, 25th May 2007 11:33 AM
    bachi, chisels, chosen, convert, dark, derek, ebony, element, existing, expect, frowned, handles, jarrah, light, mix, nomi, oak, perth, push/paring, red, shorter, striking, thicker, thin, tools, touch, traditionalists, white, wonderfully, wood
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,082
    Scribbly Gum
    30th May 2007, 09:35 PM Go to last post

  4. Ito-ura and problems, or … Do you have a nice backside?

    Started by Des.K., 12th January 2012 02:42 PM
    adequately, ashi, atama, avoid, backside, beta-ura, blade, chisel, coarser, continue, create, hone, honing, hourglass, ito-ura, itoura, kanna, nice, problems, properly, single, stone, tap, tapping, ura, ura-dashi, ura-oshi, uraba, wide, you’re
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 4,225
    fissionchips
    20th January 2012, 02:39 PM Go to last post

  5. Joy of a tuned kanna

    Started by Des.K., 29th April 2007 07:31 PM
    187, absolute, completed, current, daughter, des, doofus, door, feel, frames, garret, gluing, hacks, iron, joy, kanna, life, maple, messed, midway, panels, photo, qld, sharp, sideboard, stage, top, trimming, tuned, well-tuned
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,912
    Des.K.
    30th April 2007, 07:18 PM Go to last post

  6. Kanna part names … or, it's called a what?!!

    Started by Des.K., 14th April 2012 01:51 PM
    argument, attached, call, called, centring, definitive, des, easier, files, hope, intention, japanese, jpeg, kanna, kansai, kanto, list, means, names, omote, osaka, plane, region, senaka, shokunin, term, terms, tokyo, western, wink
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,887
    Pops
    17th April 2012, 09:54 AM Go to last post

  7. Tuning a Japanese hand-plane

    Started by Des.K., 20th April 2011 01:49 PM
    blade, check, chisel, concave, dai, dai-naoshi, daigashira, finished, finishing, front, grit, handplane, i’ve, japanese, kanna, mouth, plane, process, sand, sandpaper, sharpen, sharpening, slightly, sole, surface, touch, touch-point, tuning, wood
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 6,256
    enak
    22nd April 2011, 02:12 AM Go to last post

  8. 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: 13,317
    NeilS
    9th January 2011, 03:36 PM Go to last post

  9. 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: 9,127
    enak
    2nd May 2011, 10:30 PM Go to last post

  10. Japanese saw blade

    Started by DIY DAN, 18th June 2009 11:40 PM
    appreciated, arrow, blade, change, dan, direction, diy, driver, japanese, rivet, slot, support
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 3,021
    Claw Hama
    19th June 2009, 06:51 AM Go to last post

  11. Chisel ID

    Started by dmccurtis, 13th July 2014 08:48 AM
    cheap, fujikawa, curious, decent, deal, buy, uncertainty, leaning, ioroi, opinions, cheers, cool, valley, lee, maruya, question, nomi, mannen, chisels, finish, rough, bit, ebay, identify, lamination, chisel, hold, tags, excellent, shirogashi 2 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 3,231
    dmccurtis
    14th July 2014, 07:55 PM Go to last post

  12. Moderator: help?

    Started by dmccurtis, 13th July 2014 09:03 AM
    moderator, restore, repost, screwed, bad, empty, happened, chisel, started, thread
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,105
    dmccurtis
    13th July 2014, 09:13 AM Go to last post

  13. Kanna kanji ID

    Started by dmccurtis, 8th August 2014 01:08 AM
    kanna, gorgeous, ura, wonky, slightly, blade, cheers, 321599, origins, dai, makes, plane, dainaoshi, ago, kanji, picked, wondering, cut, cool, maker, standard 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,419
    q9
    24th August 2014, 11:32 PM Go to last post

  14. New Yamamoto kanna advice

    Started by dmccurtis, 31st August 2014 05:46 AM
    advice, kanna, yamamoto
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 5,156
    NeilS
    25th January 2015, 02:57 PM Go to last post

  15. Has something happened to Japan-Tool?

    Started by dmikulec, 12th January 2020 05:00 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    6 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 5,922
    Sheets
    20th July 2020, 02:47 AM Go to last post

  16. Japanese chisel identification

    Started by Don Kondra, 7th July 2019 07:40 AM
    2 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,950
    derekcohen
    7th July 2019, 11:10 PM Go to last post

  17. 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: 29,558
    sinjin1111
    12th March 2005, 08:35 PM Go to last post

  18. Protecting blades from rust

    Started by elanjacobs, 3rd August 2008 08:37 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    advance, blade, blades, chisel, corrosion, japanese, noticed, oiling, poor, preferably, protecting, quicker, rust, scene, steel, stop, storage, tool, western, wondering
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 4,965
    yojimbo
    6th August 2008, 12:31 AM Go to last post

  19. japanese wetstone: what is the equivalent grit?

    Started by EMistral, 16th March 2005 02:09 PM
    1000, 300, assuming, belt, blue, brought, compare, equivalent, friend, grit, grits, instance, japan, japanese, lower, mentionned, orange, paper, ratio, sander, sanding, stone, wetstone
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,698
    derekcohen
    16th March 2005, 05:06 PM Go to last post

  20. Torn Ryoba - is repair possible?

    Started by Evanism, 26th July 2013 07:10 PM
    blade, box, braze, buckled, bummer, buy, carefully, caught, cutting, damage, extensive, fine, gum, hard, japanese, love, piece, red, repair, ryoba, sand, saws, sharp, smooth, solder, tear, tore, torn, valuable, wisdom
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,661
    Evanism
    29th July 2013, 03:13 AM Go to last post

  21. 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: 12,509
    Pam
    11th June 2012, 12:48 PM Go to last post

  22. Maebiki oga saws

    Started by fissionchips, 24th June 2013 07:31 AM
    bits, blog, cobbling, collected, community, details, elaborate, encounters, english, finally, fissionchips, glad, hear, history, information, language, lumberjocks.com, mae-biki, maebiki, oga, past, pieces, relegated-to-history, saws, scraped, searching, surface, timber, web, woodworking 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 4,804
    fissionchips
    28th June 2013, 04:00 PM Go to last post

  23. 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: 7,517
    snikolaev28
    29th July 2012, 08:11 PM Go to last post

  24. Kanna chipbreaker question

    Started by fissionchips, 28th April 2013 08:12 AM
    accumulate, challenges, chipbreaker, correctly, diagram, edge, forum, height, hoping, insert, installed, kanna, koppa-gaeshi, leading, modifications, mouth, narrows, passing, plunge, prevented, question, regular, set, ships, taking, tool, trouble, viewing, visitors, ~0.5mm 5 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 2,435
    Gadge
    13th May 2013, 12:12 PM Go to last post

  25. Work Experience in Japan

    Started by fizix, 29th August 2008 06:59 PM
    appreciated, apprenticeship, basic, break, building, cheers, civil, engineer, experience, fascinated, fit, greatly, guys, hand, hands, idea, ideas, issue, japan, japanese, moving, qualifications, researching, start, tie, tips, trade, view, wood, work
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 5,646
    markbergman
    15th September 2008, 08:05 AM Go to last post

  26. 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: 11,900
    hybridfiat
    3rd January 2008, 10:13 AM Go to last post

  27. 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: 8,820
    Pat
    16th July 2018, 08:00 PM Go to last post

  28. Best saws for extremely hard woods?

    Started by fudo133, 20th May 2014 04:34 AM
    2cm, 5cm, board, cheapo, corner, custom, cutting, dozuki, easily, ebonies, extremely, hard, hey, japanese, katalox, process, rosewoods, saws, slice, snapping, succeeded, suited, teeth, thick, time, wondering, woods
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,815
    NeilS
    21st May 2014, 11:49 AM Go to last post

  29. Japanese irons for Western planes?

    Started by fudo133, 11th October 2019 11:29 PM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,432
    thumbsucker
    23rd October 2019, 04:10 PM Go to last post

  30. Does anyone know anything about japanese metalworking cold chisels?

    Started by fudo133, 27th June 2013 05:36 AM
    albeit, alright, amounts, called, chests, chisels, cold, decided, drilling, filing, hard, hell, holes, huge, incredibly, information, japanese, lot, metalworking, moment, painfully, project, punching, sheet, slowly, sources, steel, thick, waste, yard
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,253
    yojimbo
    28th June 2013, 11:17 AM Go to last post
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