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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 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
  2. 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
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 20,648
    16th May 2009, 08:46 AM Go to last post
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  1. My kit of Japanese knives ... WIP

    Started by rsser, 3rd October 2011 04:46 PM
    20 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 20
    • Replies: 286
    • Views: 108,657
    9th September 2021, 12:35 PM Go to last post
  2. Angry Japanese knives.

    Started by rsser, 27th November 2009 02:11 PM
    8 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
    • Replies: 107
    • Views: 21,739
    15th September 2010, 11:56 PM Go to last post
  3. Build Thread

    Started by Sheets, 25th February 2010 04:48 AM
    6 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6
    blog-style, blogs, build, days, forums, hand, involves, japanese, majority, pinball, posting, quiet, read, steve, thread, tools, visitors, woodwork, woodworking
    • Replies: 80
    • Views: 11,675
    30th July 2010, 08:05 AM Go to last post
  4. need help... for mortise ...

    Started by cassca, 28th July 2008 06:36 AM
    6 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6
    • Replies: 75
    • Views: 17,006
    22nd September 2008, 12:39 AM Go to last post
  5. should new chisel edges be square?

    Started by Paul D, 13th September 2008 06:22 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    advice, appreciated, chisel, chisels, crack, day, deadline, degree, edges, honed, japanese, kumagoro, lancaster, nomi, normal, oire, paul, perpendicular, polished, promptly, quality, question, received, returning, set, skew, square, suppliers, unable, unacceptable
    • Replies: 70
    • Views: 11,780
    22nd September 2008, 12:47 PM Go to last post
  6. Natural Japanese waterstones

    Started by wilburpan, 19th September 2008 09:36 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    #12000, #16000, #30000, #8000, chisel, cons, discussion, easier, edge, elementary, expensive, figured, fourth, giving, hope, japanese, naniwa, natural, neil, noticed, option, page, people, pick, pros, shapton, start, thread, waterstones, wink
    • Replies: 69
    • Views: 23,668
    27th March 2010, 12:42 PM Go to last post
  7. Knife set

    Started by Bushmiller, 7th April 2013 01:02 AM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    • Replies: 66
    • Views: 9,214
    28th June 2013, 02:07 PM Go to last post
  8. Natural Japanese waterstones update

    Started by NeilS, 18th May 2013 11:28 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    • Replies: 66
    • Views: 12,720
    10th February 2014, 03:57 PM Go to last post
  9. 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
  10. Chris Hall's Carpentry Study Group - Fifth Project

    Started by Yxoc, 1st October 2012 04:12 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    • Replies: 64
    • Views: 10,760
    11th July 2014, 11:08 PM Go to last post
  11. Definition of Hardness in Water stones & Sigma Power Stones

    Started by thumbsucker, 26th March 2010 10:20 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    abrasives, blades, borrowed, ceramic, chinese, chisels, cut, cutting, definition, fast, guys, hard, harder, hardness, heard, honing, kings, minutes, natural, power, revealing, sharpening, sigma, slow, soft, stone, stones, ten, water, wear
    • Replies: 60
    • Views: 17,690
    1st March 2011, 07:17 PM Go to last post
  12. 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: 12,342
    31st May 2009, 08:55 AM Go to last post
  13. Gennou - Handle

    Started by Bushmiller, 19th January 2013 06:09 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    • Replies: 57
    • Views: 10,020
    13th June 2013, 09:07 PM Go to last post
  14. Japanese Kitchen Knives

    Started by Bushmiller, 2nd October 2013 08:45 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    • Replies: 48
    • Views: 14,646
    9th April 2016, 04:10 PM Go to last post
  15. Flush Cut Saw problem: Nakaya Kugihiki

    Started by Groggy, 12th August 2010 08:55 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    bin, blade, caused, cut, cutting, dings, domino, dominos, effort, finished, flush, found, jarrah, job, judging, kugihiki, letting, minutes, move, nagaya, nakaya, noticed, problem, pulling, recommend, retrieved, saws, surprised, task, teeth
    • Replies: 46
    • Views: 12,092
    19th February 2011, 07:47 PM Go to last post
  16. Pull Saws - Genetic differences

    Started by Clinton1, 16th May 2010 12:34 AM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 44
    • Views: 14,580
    23rd November 2012, 04:20 AM Go to last post
  17. 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
    • Replies: 43
    • Views: 7,487
    11th December 2023, 12:51 AM Go to last post
  18. help about japanese plane blade

    Started by correntinos, 4th March 2010 11:47 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    anatomy, argentina, blade, explain, japanese, javier, people, picter, plane, someaone
    • Replies: 43
    • Views: 6,753
    22nd March 2010, 02:24 AM Go to last post
  19. 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: 11,851
    3rd January 2008, 10:13 AM Go to last post
  20. Kanna Identification

    Started by thumbsucker, 24th May 2014 12:45 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 39
    • Views: 10,545
    18th November 2014, 07:47 AM Go to last post
  21. Man Made Stone Suggestions

    Started by Gnickrapon, 11th February 2014 10:21 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 38
    • Views: 6,660
    26th April 2014, 08:31 PM Go to last post
  22. 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: 9,390
    29th June 2007, 03:23 PM Go to last post
  23. Grinding the Kanna Blade

    Started by crackerkorean, 22nd December 2016 03:25 AM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 34
    • Views: 11,226
    17th March 2018, 10:04 AM Go to last post
  24. 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: 13,294
    6th May 2008, 10:06 AM Go to last post
  25. 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: 9,786
    23rd May 2007, 08:18 AM Go to last post
  26. Japanese Planes Vs Western Planes????

    Started by JapanDave, 20th April 2012 02:07 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    access, dialed, japan, japanese, job, life, live, nielsen, planes, require, standard, stanley/lie, tinkering, type, western, wrong
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 24,230
    16th September 2012, 12:06 AM Go to last post
  27. Has something happened to Japan-Tool?

    Started by dmikulec, 12th January 2020 05:00 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 5,844
    20th July 2020, 02:47 AM Go to last post
  28. 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: 9,139
    6th July 2007, 05:58 PM Go to last post
  29. 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
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 16,871
    9th April 2013, 07:50 PM Go to last post
  30. 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: 8,003
    14th April 2011, 10:37 AM Go to last post

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