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Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools |
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Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 7 A - 10711 Berlin - Germany Tel ++49 (0)30 342 1757 - Fax ++49 (0)30 342 1764 Website: www.fine-tools.com |
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Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools
Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 7 A - 10711 Berlin Tel ++49 30 342 1757 - Fax ++49 30 342 1764 Website: www.fine-tools.com |
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Japanese Planes: Smoothing Planes, Jack Planes, Jointer Planes, Yarri Kanna |
| Japanese planes are not ready for use. They require some tuning before you can start planing. Detailed instructions how to tune up a Japanese plane you find in Toshio Odate’s book: Japanese Woodworking Tools. Click on the images to see a magnified view! |
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Bench plane with chip breaker, white oak body, economy grade. The ideal plane for the beginner. Size of body: 235 x 62 x 34 mm.
Blade width: 50 mm Order nr. 310438 Price € 46.50 Click here to see a translucent chip made with this plane. |
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Bench plane as above, with wider blade. Size of body: 273 x 81 x 36 mm.
Blade width: 65 mm Order nr. 310436 Price € 57.90 |
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Smoothing plane "HARIMAO" with chipbreaker, white oak body and handforged H.S.S.-blade, made in traditional techniques. Size of body: 288 x 81 x 36 mm.
Blade width: 65 mm Order nr. 310429 Price € 219.00 |
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Japanese smoothing plane "TORYO HOMARE" with Red Oak body and Blue Steel blade (Aogami).
"TORYO HOMARE" means: Honor of master carpenter. This plane was produced by master smith Takeo Nakano in Yoita, Niigata Province. The iron is a laminate. The cutting edge is made of the very hard "Aogami" steel, with a softer iron, "Nama-ji", welded to it for strength and to ease sharpening. Nakano used iron from a 19th century bridge for the "Nama-ji". Master Nakano has been a blacksmith all his life. He is not interested in technical tables on proper working temperatures for the various kinds of steel: he works only from experience and feel. For example, he believes that the weather strongly affects the properties of the metal he is working, and he likes to work at night, so as to better judge the forging process by the color of the glowing iron and steel. Comes in nice wooden box Body size 288 x 89 x 35 mm (11-3/8 x 3-1/2 x 1-3/8 in.) Iron thickness at butt end: 9 mm (3/8 in.) Iron thickness near edge: 6 mm (1/4 in.) Width of iron: 70 mm (2-3/4 in.) Order nr. 310800 Price € 329.00 |
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Japanese smoothing plane "TORYO HOMARE" with White Oak body and Blue Steel blade (Aogami) produced by master smith Takeo Nakano. Same as above but with White Oak body.
Comes in nice wooden box Order nr. 310802 Price € 279.00 |
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Naga-Dai-Kanna
with White Oak body and hand forged blade
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The "Yarri Kanna"You may be surprised to find this unusual-looking tool among planes, since it does not at all resemble one. Because it looks more like a sculpturing tool, you might even suspect that it might have been mistakenly included with the planes. In fact, it is a plane, in its earliest, archaic form, used in Japan since about 1000 A.D. You'll be amazed the fine shavings that this tool can produce, in experienced hands and properly sharpened! Just a museum piece and of no practical use today? Wrong! Many woodworkers have discovered the Yarri Kanna and consider it indispensable. The furniture restorer can reduce inlays to the proper thickness without damaging adjacent surfaces. The sculptor can smooth the surfaces of his work without roughening the grain with sandpaper. This tool opens a wealth of possibilities for surface treatments for the artist and the designer, by filling the gap between the scrub plane and smoothing plane. Take a look at the enlarged view of the Yarri Kana, which also shows the tool in use. |
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Large two-handed Yarri Kanna Overall length: 480 mm (19 in.) Blade length: 80 mm (3 1/8 in.) Order No. 313040 Price € 219.00 |
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Large two-handed Yarri Kanna Damascened steel blade Overall length: 480 mm (19 in.) Blade length: 80 mm3 (1/8 in.) Order No. 313041 Price € 284.00 |
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Small Yarri Kanna may be used one- or two-handed Overall length: 220 mm (8 5/8 in.) Blade length: 60 mm (2 3/8 in.) Order No. 313042 Price € 69.60 |
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