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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 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: 10,834
    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: 18,097
    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: 38,778
    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: 18,300
    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: 31,467
    12th April 2007, 05:39 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 20,648
    16th May 2009, 08:46 AM Go to last post
  6. 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: 35,496
    23rd August 2020, 03:55 PM Go to last post
  1. Question Japanese Chisels

    Started by Rebus, 7th July 2004 10:47 AM
    and/or, appeals, australian, brand, butt, cheap, chisels, conclusion, depresses, eagerly, experience, handles, hooped, japanese, laminated, o/s, overseas, pointers, qualifications, quality, research, set, sought, source, sources, stand, steel, surprisingly, views, white
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,314
    7th July 2004, 10:47 AM Go to last post
  2. Thumbs up A Visit to a Japanese Knife/Chisel Shop

    Started by Ruffy, 11th July 2004 11:25 PM
    6mm, additionally, attend, boss, cheapest, chisels, comprises, couple, days, difference, explained, extra, finished, folds, grades, japanese, knife or chisel, late, maintain, primarily, product, quality, sale, set, sharpen, shop, staying, steel, time, visit
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 4,291
    13th July 2004, 12:17 AM Go to last post
  3. Japanese style saw

    Started by Toggy, 5th August 2004 10:16 PM
    $20, 16tpi, beaut, box, bunnies, clean, convert, country, cut, devil, home, japanese, ken, makes, manufacture, pullsaws, sharp, shepparton, stated, style
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,320
    6th August 2004, 09:02 AM Go to last post
  4. Japanese saws - are they cheaper in Japan?

    Started by jshaw, 10th September 2004 04:05 PM
    buying, carbatec, cheap, cheaper, cheers, couple, effort, experience, hand, japan, japanese, john, lot, missus, narita, nip, pick, plane, question, questions, saws, scozzies, shops, speaking, stupid, tool, tools, understand, whilst, worth
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,990
    11th September 2004, 03:13 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 5,115
    26th September 2004, 11:15 PM Go to last post
  5. Can anyone read Japanese?

    Started by Dan, 16th January 2005 07:41 PM
    8000grit, bought, box, brand, card, curious, hoping, images, inside, japanese, king, read, recently, saved, scanned, text, translate, waterstone, written
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,394
    16th January 2005, 09:46 PM Go to last post
  6. Japanese Tools !!!!!

    Started by goodwoody, 13th February 2005 11:31 PM
    12mm, 30mm, 370mm, 90mm, blade, chisel, depth, dimensionals, dozuki, favourite, found, groover, impulse, japanese, length, nokogiri, nomi, porn, shinogi, shop, tool, tools, visited, width
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 3,239
    13th February 2005, 11:31 PM Go to last post
  7. 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: 29,555
    12th March 2005, 08:35 PM Go to last post
  8. 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
    16th March 2005, 05:06 PM Go to last post
  9. An amazing Japanese joint

    Started by zenwood, 3rd June 2005 11:54 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    amazing, aspire, click, clip, complicated, double, drool, fascinating, hard, history, internal, japanese, joint, keyboard, level, material, mitre, picture, production, rest, site, skill, stage, tabled, techniques, tenon, video, wedge, woodwork, woodworking
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 5,895
    8th June 2005, 03:45 PM Go to last post
  10. Japanese tooth saw doctor?

    Started by Glue and Screw, 30th November 2005 04:31 PM
    advance, cheers, doctor, fellas, giday, japanese, marty, melbourne, sharpen, style, teeth.confused, tooth
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,833
    3rd December 2005, 06:28 PM Go to last post
  11. Laminated Japanese Plane Blades?

    Started by MajorPanic, 5th February 2006 08:47 PM
    ago, aus, aust, blades, bought, buy, buying, couple, idea, japanese, laminated, locally, plane, planes, remember, stanley
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,364
    5th February 2006, 09:17 PM Go to last post
  12. Japanese Chisels

    Started by sinjin1111, 21st February 2006 11:45 AM
    bringing, carba, chisels, guys, japanese, mik, sinjin, tec
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 3,185
    24th February 2006, 02:18 AM Go to last post
  13. Sourcing steel hoops for Japanese chisels

    Started by Green Woodchips, 22nd March 2006 04:00 PM
    brass, cheers, chisels, copper, ferrules, forged, hoops, japanese, shaped, source, sourcing, spare, steel
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 4,587
    23rd March 2006, 05:09 PM Go to last post
  14. Japanese !!!!!

    Started by goodwoody, 28th March 2006 01:59 AM
    19mm, 21mm, 24mm, additions, arsenal, bottomed, chisel, cranked, damien, enjoy, flat, groovers, japanese, planes, porn, tool, width
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 5,881
    28th March 2006, 10:02 PM Go to last post
  15. Japanese tools sold on eBay, and Web Shop coming soon.

    Started by soatoz, 13th February 2007 05:18 PM
    basically, business, coming, contacted, ebay, expensive, forgive, forum, japan, japanese, knowledge, low, person, popular, price, quality, reasonable, sell, selling, shop, sold, steel, strategy, suppose, time, tools, trust, users, wait, web
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 6,038
    13th February 2007, 09:05 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 6,137
    17th February 2007, 11:04 AM Go to last post
  16. On Japanese sharpening stones, saws, and some ads(?)

    Started by soatoz, 17th February 2007 11:44 AM
    ads, basically, blah, cheaper, chisels, colour, cost, easier, ebay, expensive, fine, grit, handmade, handsaws, information, japan, japanese, medium, natural, planes, price, quality, saws, selling, shape, sharpening, steel, stones, synthetic, tools
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 4,625
    17th February 2007, 01:15 PM Go to last post
  17. Many thanks for opening this new thread!

    Started by soatoz, 17th February 2007 10:58 PM
    article, articles, couple, finish, guy, opening, peace, post, ready, thread, worth
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,477
    18th February 2007, 04:22 PM Go to last post
  18. Dovetails with my Japanese saw

    Started by Poppa, 20th February 2007 03:21 PM
    ages, anger, artificial, carbatec, cheapie, comparison, cut, dovetails, english, experience, honing, japanese, love, plane, pleasurable, sawing, stones, suspect, tenon, versatile, yesterday
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 3,222
    21st February 2007, 12:53 AM Go to last post
  19. Sharpening

    Started by sinjin, 21st February 2007 07:37 AM
    65mm, angle, blade, blades, bother, change, chisel, chisels, hand, hard, japanese, jig, jigs, job, partner, path, pretty, probs, putting, rate, reason, sharpen, sharpening, steepen, telling, tiny, tools, travel, understand, western
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 3,464
    24th February 2007, 04:35 PM Go to last post
  20. 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: 2,018
    24th February 2007, 06:05 PM Go to last post
  21. Uniqueness of Japanese Plane

    Started by soatoz, 24th February 2007 03:49 PM
    benefits, blade, block, called, day, easier, flat, hollow, japanese, lighter, major, muscle, people, plane, planes, produce, set, shape, sharpening, shaved, sole, steel, stone, style, surface, timbre, touching, uniqueness, users, western
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 5,083
    25th February 2007, 04:45 AM Go to last post
  22. Mitsukawa Dozuki Issues

    Started by greensabbath, 4th March 2007 06:37 PM
    240mm, advice, angled, blame, created, cross-cut, curved, cut, cutting, dozuki, firstly, forum, greatly, guys, hard, hey, issues, japanese, life, loose, love, maple, mitsukawa, noticed, offer, save, technique, tool, tools, wondering
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,252
    6th March 2007, 12:38 PM Go to last post
  23. 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: 1,912
    6th March 2007, 02:09 PM Go to last post
  24. Japanese finishing

    Started by underused, 9th March 2007 12:38 PM
    ウレタン、, appreciated, danish, finish, finishes, finishing, foreveroo, furniture, gary, hand, itrolleyes, japan, japanese, luck, maker, oil, oil-, recipewink, related, road, schtoo, secret, shellac, similar, slightly, soatoz, stuck, tools, topic, uletan
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 3,283
    12th March 2007, 01:11 PM Go to last post
  25. 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: 9,050
    17th March 2007, 12:13 AM Go to last post
  26. 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: 6,067
    24th March 2007, 12:44 PM Go to last post
  27. grind a oiire nomi to a usu nomi?

    Started by lignator, 10th April 2007 07:46 AM
    bench, chisels, dovetail, ebay, grind, guess, handles, hard, hardwoods, heard, lignators, loose, majority, makers, mark, mod, modification, native, nomi, oiire, original, paring, people, post, ringed, shot, softer, suggesting, thickness, usu
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,856
    12th April 2007, 12:34 AM Go to last post
  28. 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: 2,906
    30th April 2007, 07:18 PM Go to last post

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