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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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