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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 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: 10,980
    ozwinner
    3rd March 2007, 05:32 PM Go to last post

  2. 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: 18,258
    Groggy
    11th March 2007, 03:19 PM Go to last post

  3. 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: 39,051
    soatoz
    15th March 2007, 06:58 PM 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: 18,508
    soatoz
    24th March 2007, 01:01 PM Go to last post

  5. 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: 31,650
    Clinton1
    12th April 2007, 05:39 PM Go to last post

  6. 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: 20,826
    Sheets
    16th May 2009, 08:46 AM Go to last post

  7. 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: 35,807
    NeilS
    23rd August 2020, 03:55 PM Go to last post

  1. Sale on ebay

    Started by Banana Fish, 25th November 2008 11:38 AM
    chisels, ebay, japanese, plane, sale, selling
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,214
    Banana Fish
    25th November 2008, 11:38 AM Go to last post

  2. Happy Birthday to me!

    Started by Whit68, 26th November 2008 04:52 PM
    2tsup, beauties, birthday, happy, kids, morning, wife
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 2,666
    budgieman
    27th November 2008, 05:58 PM Go to last post

  3. Japanese Dai Size Question

    Started by thumbsucker, 12th June 2008 01:33 PM
    board, boards, body, constructing, craftsman, dai, edge, edges, flat, giving, hand, hills, insights, japanese, jointing, length, level, matter, plane, planes, planing, question, range, size, surface, valleys, western, wider, width, wooden
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 4,809
    pfelps
    3rd December 2008, 05:18 PM Go to last post

  4. 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: 3,424
    Sheets
    5th December 2008, 03:34 PM Go to last post

  5. My first Dai

    Started by thumbsucker, 31st December 2008 05:11 PM
    australian, bed, blade, blades, cracks, cut, cuts, dai, dust, edge, fine, hand, hardwoods, hnt, japanese, mouth, plane, planes, project, questions, sacriliguis, set, short, sole, supper, taking, throat, trouble, wood, wooden
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 4,978
    thumbsucker
    1st January 2009, 05:47 PM Go to last post

  6. japanese 'slick' chisel

    Started by simon d, 2nd January 2009 09:46 AM
    35mm, 92981, appreciated, ashes, bushfire, chisel, claimed, collection, day, description, education, embarrassed, found, house, ian, info, japanese, knowing, lick, melted, picture, possibilities, re-temper, realized, set, slick, sole, survivor, tools, uncle
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 3,431
    ian
    3rd January 2009, 01:32 AM Go to last post

  7. japanese carpentry school

    Started by yoav, 14th January 2009 03:14 AM
    carpentry, day, institute, japan, japanese, profession, school, studies, study, yoav
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 4,232
    yoav
    14th January 2009, 03:14 AM Go to last post

  8. 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: 5,457
    yojimbo
    6th February 2009, 12:31 AM Go to last post

  9. Questions about the Kitayama whetstone

    Started by Thumbthumper, 18th February 2009 11:39 AM
    8000, anticipation, bit, build, chisels, couple, final, flattening, honing, irons, japanese, kitayama, nagura, plane, prior, purchased, questions, slurry, soak, stone, store, stu, time, water, whetstone, whetstones
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 3,251
    Sheets
    18th February 2009, 10:17 PM Go to last post

  10. how to cross cut

    Started by la Huerta, 11th October 2008 12:14 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    accurate, acurate, anymore, built, busting, chance, cross, crosscuts, crosscutting, cut, disturbing, h2tsup, handsaw, hey, info, japanese, learn, love, machines, neighbors, peacefulness, stuff, traditional, tutorials, web, woodworking, workshop
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 6,090
    yojimbo
    21st April 2009, 02:15 AM Go to last post

  11. Restoring a Plane Blade

    Started by Christian_C, 13th May 2009 06:49 PM
    alternative, amateur, black, blacksmiths, blade, castillo, christian, clothes, cold, comparable, dangerous, finish, finishing, heard, hot, japanese, lead, mediocre, oxide, performed, plane, process, read, respond, restoring, results, rubbing, skin, sounds, technical
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,613
    Christian_C
    14th May 2009, 05:39 PM Go to last post

  12. Plane Sole Conditioning with Sandpaper

    Started by Christian_C, 13th May 2009 07:03 PM
    advocate, answer, bottom, condition, conditioning, dai, dislodges, grit, knight, logical, makers, option, perfectly, piece, plane, read, recommended, reference, sandpaper, scraping, sole, suggest, surface, time, toolworks, transfered, users, viable, western, wooden
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 4,016
    Christian_C
    15th May 2009, 02:09 PM Go to last post

  13. 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: 12,360
    Sheets
    31st May 2009, 08:55 AM Go to last post

  14. Blacksmiths?

    Started by Katanado, 12th May 2009 10:03 AM
    antique, blacksmiths, hoping, kanna, offer, pieces, purchased, recently, translation
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,422
    yojimbo
    31st May 2009, 09:07 AM Go to last post

  15. 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

  16. 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: 7,723
    dynoforce
    15th July 2009, 06:41 AM Go to last post

  17. naive question about sharpening blade for smoothing: camber the edge?

    Started by bannock, 22nd July 2009 12:17 AM
    avoid, bailey, blade, blades, camber, edge, edges, empty, final, handed, inaccurate, information, japanese, leave, lines, naive, plane, planes, question, quick, search, sharpening, smoothing, style, terminology, visible, vocabulary, wrong
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,397
    bannock
    23rd July 2009, 03:50 AM Go to last post

  18. 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: 4,210
    applebuilder
    18th August 2009, 04:44 PM Go to last post

  19. 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: 7,864
    Sheets
    20th August 2009, 12:46 PM Go to last post

  20. Help identifying a finishing stone, please

    Started by Howard Pollack, 20th August 2009 01:36 AM
    closing, couple, dealer, finishing, hi-, howard, identifying, information, japanese, pictures, purchased, shop, stone, taking, time, writing
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,851
    NeilS
    21st August 2009, 10:18 AM Go to last post

  21. Unhappy Dozuki - Depth of cut

    Started by OsaTas, 25th July 2009 05:45 PM
    0.30mm, 70mm+, acquired, approx, backless, craig, cut, depth, dovetail, dozuki, guide, hoping, impressed, jigs, kerf, obtain, rip, set, style, tpi, veritas, where/if
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 2,812
    neoshed
    29th August 2009, 11:43 AM Go to last post

  22. 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: 3,236
    applebuilder
    22nd September 2009, 01:29 PM Go to last post

  23. Height adjustable bench/horses?

    Started by kaharoa, 25th September 2009 09:18 PM
    adjustable, attach, bench, bench or horses, bench/horses, benches/horses, bill, bit, building, design, fits, found, height, ideal, japanese, legs, limited, low, minimalist, mode, over-complicated, sit, space, tend, top, understanding, western, wondering
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 3,847
    NeilS
    29th September 2009, 12:25 PM Go to last post

  24. 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: 1,814
    billrule
    6th November 2009, 01:20 AM Go to last post

  25. Saw for cutting tenons

    Started by Superbunny, 30th October 2009 09:35 PM
    ago, convert, cutting, experiment, hand, hardwood, hearing, japanes, japanese, ready, recommendations, suit, tenons, tools, tools.dd
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 3,634
    Superbunny
    18th November 2009, 10:16 PM Go to last post

  26. Secondhand tools on eBay

    Started by NeilS, 19th November 2009 10:18 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    bought, buy, cheap, conection, current, deal, downside, ebay, expensive, expert, honest, imho, japanese, knowing, listing, ordinary, past, pleasant, practice, quality, replacement, secondhand, seller, sells, sharpening, tool, tools, type, variable, woodworking
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 4,089
    yojimbo
    27th November 2009, 01:38 AM Go to last post

  27. Seasonal Tidings

    Started by Sheets, 23rd December 2009 04:26 AM
    celebration, continues, endeavors, health, hope, prosperous, results, satisfying, seasonal, steve2tsup, tidings
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,542
    Sheets
    24th December 2009, 11:09 AM Go to last post

  28. 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: 7,950
    NeilS
    1st February 2010, 07:34 PM Go to last post

  29. Japanese Silky Hibiki Ryoba Saw?

    Started by rsser, 12th February 2010 10:05 AM
    8-9, blade, brains, guess, hibiki, highland, japanese, medium, projects, ryoba, silky, trust, woodworking
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 4,722
    rsser
    14th February 2010, 03:55 PM Go to last post

  30. Rip vs cross cut

    Started by labr@, 8th March 2010 12:23 AM
    bought, condition, cross, cut, designed, difference, easier, finish, happy, hard, impatience, inside, late, line, list, metre, moment, performance, plank, recycled, rip, ripping, shopping, stick, straight, strip, style, timber, wondering, wrc
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,753
    labr@
    8th March 2010, 10:24 AM Go to last post
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