Sharpening Japanese Hand Tools

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Lemongrasspicker

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@512banana1 10 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ the legend’s back babeyyyyy! 👏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽

@bmillare 8 ай бұрын

Yes would love a video on setting up the plane. This video had a bunch of details, I think those same details on setting up a new Kanna would be great from your perspective.

@mcameron3ify 10 ай бұрын

Yay a lemongrass video again!!! 🎉

@jeremygardner3193 10 ай бұрын

I would love a video on setting up and sharpening Japanese planes

@Lemongrasspicker 10 ай бұрын

Duly noted

@juanavila9965 5 ай бұрын

Welcome back teacher ! Blessings from Texas and glad you are back with your teaching videos ❤

@toshioikeda4956 9 ай бұрын

Been missing your amazing content! ❤ Edit: get a microfiber cloth for cleaning the stones, easy to find in the house cleaning supplies aisle at your favorite grocery store

@mudz678 10 ай бұрын

This video is a definite keeper….it opened my eyes to several things that, in hindsight, ring my “that makes perfect sense” meter. One example being “there’s not much to be gained by sharpening past 1000 grit”…..awhile ago another popular woodworking channel said this same thing, with the reason being that an extremely fine edge (above 1000) while being measurably “sharper”, is also more fragile and does not (or will barely) survive its first contact with a piece of hard wood. Please keep them coming. I’ve never heard the phrase “hammer out an edge”….I’d definitely find a video about that to be of interest.

@aarontravieso7784 4 ай бұрын

I would like a video on how to set up planes, as well as any other videos you would put together on this craft. Much thanks for sharing your knowledge

@costcothug227 8 ай бұрын

Id love to see a video on a set up of a Japanese plane.

@williamw7134 10 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree regarding high levels of finishing stones. If you're doing real work, you rarely have to time to bring it up to 10k. Personally I actually polish my tools depending on their quality. If I find that they are capable of keeping a wicked edge for a very long time, I'll polish them a bit more. I also polish based on role. For rough work like scrub planing and mortising, I generally polish to 1k. For my medium smoother and paring chisels I bring to 2k (though its more like 4-6k). For my very fine finisher I will sharpen on my fine natural stone , around 6-9k. If you have a high grit stone, you don't need to use it for every tool.

@fredthefish6640 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos. Gonna buy some tools soon and get into Japanese joinery, cant wait!

@Lemongrasspicker 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Driver10011 10 ай бұрын

He hath risen.

@costcothug227 8 ай бұрын

What do dull spots on the bevel edge look like? Is that the darkened area?

@Lemongrasspicker 8 ай бұрын

Depending on the grit you're using yes. It's one reason I like the shapton stones. They leave a good polish so it's easy to see where you've sharpened and where you haven't

@samatteb1 10 ай бұрын

Hi, I have sharpened my chisel but it’s keep getting chipped 😢.. have encountered the same problem? it’s about 35degrees bevel, should I increas ?

@Lemongrasspicker 10 ай бұрын

Some tools will have a small amount of brittle metal right near the edge as a result of the heat treat. You may just need to work the edge past that point and then try again

@neroenicola559 3 ай бұрын

Is your chisel shirogami steel? Or aogami?

@Lemongrasspicker 3 ай бұрын

I have no idea lol I used to care about all that stuff but after some years of doing it I've found it really to be kind of a waste of energy. You still have to sharpen chisels just like any other tool

@neroenicola559 3 ай бұрын

@@Lemongrasspicker thanks for sharing tutorials and video

@adamv126 9 ай бұрын

Could you do a more in depth thing about sighting the blade? I couldn't really figure out what you were talking about when you explaining it.

@Lemongrasspicker 8 ай бұрын

The idea is that if you see light reflecting off of the edge in any way it indicates you have a blunt/unshrapened area where the light is reflecting. No light reflecting indicates that the edge tapers into infinity and is either sharp or is approaching being fully sharpened.

@wmcrash 10 ай бұрын

Have you ever considered a bucket of water to clean swarf and such instead of wiping and leaving lint over the stones?

@Lemongrasspicker 10 ай бұрын

Yes. However my toddlers love to grab buckets of things and dump them out randomly all over the place.

@klausschleicher523 8 ай бұрын

You have some very helpful information in your video and your calm voice is awesome. But I have to admit, Nights when can't sleep, I go to my workshop in the basement und I'm polishing my Japanese chisels and plane blades up to 16,000 ;-) They are really shiny, but as you said, this does not have a big influence on their performance. At least not for me.

@robertwhiteley-yv1sy 10 ай бұрын

I don’t know if you have discovered this yet but I see Japanese carpenters put a bevel on the sides of the kanna blade to stone the ‘train track” marks the blade can leave on the work. I’m not confident enough to do it yet. I noticed your blade didn’t have those bevels.

@robertwhiteley-yv1sy 10 ай бұрын

Apologies, I commented before watching the full video.

@Lemongrasspicker 10 ай бұрын

All good

@williamw7134 10 ай бұрын

Some of the tracks left by planes are solved with a slight cambering of the edge, like mentioned in this video. Another important feature are the "mimi", or "ears". You'll see that the corners of kanna blades are ground off, this correlates with the shoulders in the plane body.