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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 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: 31,722
    Clinton1
    12th April 2007, 05:39 PM Go to last post

  2. 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: 20,896
    Sheets
    16th May 2009, 08:46 AM 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: 39,117
    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: 18,571
    soatoz
    24th March 2007, 01:01 PM Go to last post

  5. 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: 35,956
    NeilS
    23rd August 2020, 03:55 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: 18,312
    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: 11,040
    ozwinner
    3rd March 2007, 05:32 PM Go to last post

  1. Help Identify a Japanese Chisel Maker

    Started by Scribbly Gum, 30th July 2011 08:05 PM
    ago, ancestry, bought, chisel, chisels, department, grateful, identify, japanese, light, maker, markets, provenance, shed, simply, store, time, wondering
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 3,840
    Basilg
    8th August 2011, 04:55 PM Go to last post

  2. 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

  3. Help Identifying Unusual Japanese Plane

    Started by Rex Krueger, 6th August 2015 02:12 PM
    5 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 2,461
    rmihai
    8th August 2015, 03:54 PM Go to last post

  4. Help me out with perfecting the Glossary

    Started by soatoz, 6th March 2007 02:09 PM
    blacksmiths, correct, couple, descriptions, famous, glossary, groggy, hard, introduction, perfecting, understand
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,924
    soatoz
    6th March 2007, 02:09 PM Go to last post

  5. Help with chisel ID

    Started by VATim, 28th December 2011 01:33 PM
    brand, chisel, chisels, info, kawasei
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 4,280
    NeilS
    30th December 2011, 10:09 AM Go to last post

  6. Help with Japanese plane comparison

    Started by siavoshb, 6th February 2014 03:22 PM
    64mm, 65mm, basic, brand, brands, buyer, compare, comparison, difference, experience, hida, information, ishihisa, i’m, japan, japanese, kanna, koyama, plane, planes, price, purchase, qualities, quality, recommend, smoothing, time, tools, wondering, ~$200 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,872
    Sheets
    11th February 2014, 05:29 AM Go to last post

  7. High-speed steel chisels?

    Started by Alexander DK, 31st January 2012 09:46 PM
    alexander, bought, buying, chisels, chisles, denmark, dictum, experiance, germany, high-speed, highspeed, hss, japanes, mistake, steel, type
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 4,971
    NeilS
    1st February 2012, 03:38 PM Go to last post

  8. Hishiboshi karasu #9k synthetic-natural waterstone

    Started by NeilS, 26th April 2014 07:59 PM
    #10k, #8k, #9k, add, appearance, bit, content, dark, finish, finishing, hishiboshi, karasu, metal, mud, natural, particles, pattern, polish, power, purposes, sigma, soft, stone, stones, synthetic, synthetic-natural, syntheticnatural, variation, water, waterstone 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 3,669
    NeilS
    9th May 2014, 03:01 PM Go to last post

  9. 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: 13,319
    yojimbo
    6th May 2008, 10:06 AM Go to last post

  10. how can one recognise a jo-shiko kanna unless you actually use it?

    Started by soatoz, 2nd March 2007 03:12 PM
    aara-shiko, adjusted, alloy, ara-shiko, beginners, bevel, blade, car, chu-shiko, dai, expensive, hard, hollow, intended, japanese, jo-shiko, joshiko, kanna, mouth, people, planes, recognise, sell, sharpened, slightly, steel, tools, user, width, wondering
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 4,254
    Studley 2436
    16th August 2007, 03:07 PM Go to last post

  11. 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: 9,423
    Studley 2436
    29th June 2007, 03:23 PM Go to last post

  12. 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: 6,102
    yojimbo
    21st April 2009, 02:15 AM Go to last post

  13. 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
    1mm, 2mm, blade, blade’s, breaker, centre, check, chip, coming, corner, dai, desired, edge, hammer, head, hit, japanese, lightly, main, mallet, plane, position, protruding, set, setting, skewed, slide, sole, tap, thickness 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 16,910
    NeilS
    9th April 2013, 07:50 PM Go to last post

  14. ID on Chisels

    Started by neilyeag, 22nd March 2011 01:17 PM
    ago, budge, chisels, completely, guess, hammer, hoops, info, looked, maker, metal, move, nail, neil, nervous, nice, posts, purchased, read, set, setting, suggestions, taking, time
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 2,510
    Sheets
    7th April 2011, 10:53 PM Go to last post

  15. Identífication japanese chisels

    Started by Vectorboy, 29th May 2017 09:05 PM
    16 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 4,260
    Vectorboy
    30th May 2017, 06:26 PM Go to last post

  16. 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

  17. Info on Japanese Chisels

    Started by Tools4Me, 9th November 2011 05:55 PM
    actual, average, bevel, bit, break, brittle, chisel, chisels, chopping, concern, decide, edge, edges, ham-fisted, hardened, info, japanese, leads, lever, lot, possibility, rc64, reading, robust, served, set, tip, understand, unskilled, western
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,549
    Schtoo
    10th November 2011, 12:42 AM Go to last post

  18. Information about a kanna I bought.

    Started by Woodforge, 26th September 2021 06:46 PM
    3 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 971
    woodPixel
    1st October 2021, 10:54 PM Go to last post

  19. Inspection before purchase… odd things you see

    Started by Clinton1, 7th March 2022 03:58 PM
    3 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 1,441
    Pat
    6th April 2022, 06:32 PM Go to last post

  20. Ishido Kanna For Sale

    Started by Sheets, 6th December 2010 06:00 AM
    $1100, •, anyones, forums, ishido, japanese, kanna, link, market, mine, planes, quality, sale, shipped, steve, topic, view, woodworking
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,450
    Sheets
    6th December 2010, 06:00 AM Go to last post

  21. 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: 4,226
    fissionchips
    20th January 2012, 02:39 PM Go to last post

  22. J Tool nuts in sydney

    Started by Gadge, 30th March 2010 04:56 PM
    dyed, garry, meet, nut, nuts, people, question, quick, real, sydney, tool, wool
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,023
    Clinton1
    23rd May 2010, 09:12 PM Go to last post

  23. J-Tool Gathering

    Started by thumbsucker, 17th November 2014 08:13 PM
    gathering, jtool
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 2,225
    Pam
    28th November 2014, 01:36 AM Go to last post

  24. Japan trip

    Started by olas, 18th June 2012 10:14 PM
    adrian, apologize, appreciated, blacksmith, cabinetmaker, exists, gday, japan, japanese, p.s, planing, short, thread, traditional, trip, trip/holiday, visit, workshop
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,562
    olas
    18th June 2012, 10:14 PM Go to last post

  25. Japan! The Three Week Craft Adventure

    Started by thumbsucker, 14th October 2018 05:59 PM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 5,440
    thumbsucker
    14th October 2018, 05:59 PM Go to last post

  26. 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: 3,432
    ian
    3rd January 2009, 01:32 AM Go to last post

  27. Moved: Japanese 'workbench'

    Started by Mark Woodward, 18th June 2007 10:28 PM
    japanese, workbench
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  28. Japanese artlicles in Aust. Wood Review

    Started by willie, 24th February 2007 06:05 PM
    #54, article, artlicles, aust, australian, blacksmiths, blades, club, couple, experts, issue, japan, japanese, joined, living, planes, review, seperate, sharpeners, sharpening, style, wood, woodworker, woodworking
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,021
    willie
    24th February 2007, 06:05 PM Go to last post

  29. Japanese blade for sale in Buy & Sell forum

    Started by NeilS, 2nd June 2010 03:53 PM
    blade, buy, buy&sell, forum, item, japanese, laminated, noticed, sale, sell
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,999
    NeilS
    2nd June 2010, 03:53 PM Go to last post

  30. Japanese Cabinetry: traditions, techniques and the passing on of knowledge

    Started by thumbsucker, 8th April 2019 07:04 PM
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,605
    Tolmie
    15th April 2019, 03:35 PM Go to last post
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