My huge order of Japanese tools arrived :)

My friend in Japan sent over a box of Japanese tools I had been ordering from Amazon and Yahoo Auctions Japan.

I received it today and laid out the tools in the shed.



Japanese woodworking tools loot by raptor_tk, on Flickr



I already has some tools from my trip to Japan about midway through the year, but I decided to get a few more obscure tools that I didn't pick up then.



Some things I bought were:

- Life Saw saw guide for cutting perfect angles

- Life Saw specifically made for saw guide

- Spare blade for Gyokuchou doutsuki nokogiri

- Kakuri kirinuki nokogiri (for cutting from the middle of a piece instead of from the edges)

- Kakuri Hikimawashi nokogiri (for cutting curves)

- Kakuri Kiridashi (small woodworking knife)

- 2 Shinwa measuring tools

- 2 Kakuri 3mm chisels

- 3 Shinwa rulers with stoppers



Japanese woodworking tools loot by raptor_tk, on Flickr



And on the other picture I also bought:

- Belt clamp for my box making

- Marking punches for dowelling

- A lot of Kiri for drilling holes

- Nankyou kanna (spokeshave)

- Kiwawaki kanna (rabbet plane)

- Maru mentori kanna (rounded edge corner plane)

- Mentori kanna (adjustable chamfer plane)

- Kikai jakuri kanna (adjustable groove plane)



Japanese woodworking tools loot by raptor_tk, on Flickr



And the one thing I bought on Yahoo Auctions which was a Nagadai Kanna which is essentially a longer kanna.

Japanese woodworking tools loot by raptor_tk, on Flickr



I won this on the auction for 1000 yen and paid about 1500 yen postage to get it to my friend's place. The auction seller described it as junk. So it was about $28AU~ for the "junk" plane itself not including postage to Australia.



It turned out to be in quite good condition apart from the blade. The kanji on the blade has worn out so I can't make out the name.

All I can read says "registered trademark" followed by a really faded out kanji that is not distinguishable.



The blade was surprisingly worn down quite a lot and not much blade left. Still it was enough to be usable. Also the previous owner put the blade to a grinder and there was quite a few deep grind marks on the face of the blade. I was still able to sharpen it, but I didn't take a photo of the messy side with the grind marks.



At the moment, I am using a bare minimum mix of oil stones, diamond stones and water stones. :)

How do you all sharpen your tools?



Japanese woodworking tools loot by raptor_tk, on Flickr



I also had trouble setting the chip breaker as i accidentally hit it too far past the blade and had a lot of trouble trying to get it out again. Now the back is full of hammer marks. :(



At the moment I've left the chip breaker out and it seems to work nicely even without it.

Does anyone know if chip breakers are necessary?



Below is a comparison of the length of it to a Stanley no 7 jointer that I also recently acquired. I measured the kanna at 39cm long and feels good to use when taking off some shavings.



I couldn't adjust the Stanley as well for the shavings. I am still not used to adjusting them well despite all the easy to use knobs to adjust blade depth. Easier if i could just whack the blade with a hammer to set the depth. :)



Japanese woodworking tools loot by raptor_tk, on Flickr



Thanks for reading. :)