Mitch, You make it look easy, one thing you did not cover was what to do with the under side of the plane and what parts are scraped/ removed. Grate video.
Cheers James. That's what I found quite interesting, because the kanna as made here worked beautifully once I got the blade set, the last bit in the video. I've always assumed that the very slight scraping I'd read about and carried out on my purchased kanna, was necessary. Now I don't think it is for general work. I'll play around some in the future to see quite what this kanna can do with it's perfectly flat sole, and then maybe scrape the reliefs and see if that's any different.
Do you have to get all the various water stones and such like for sharpening those plane blades, or do they respond to diamond stones? I like the idea of making relatively simple hand planes. Although I'd love to make ones that I wouldn't have an equivalent western plane for. I'm thinking one with a concave bottom or something. Great video.
Its allowed but not recommended because diamond abrasive leaves too deep scratches in hard steel and may cause micro chip-outs on the cutting edge and those diamond marks are not easy to remove with higher grit abrasives. So to try - of course, but further it is definately recommended to use japanese waterstones, most of them are not very expensive and you can find some for 20-30$ (even two-sided ones)
That was interesting. I read that the use of the chipbreaker was a recent design development. Is it really needed for the effective use of the Japanese plane or would a think enough blade serve the purpose ? I noticed that you did not have a chipbreaker affixed to your blade.
Cheers. I would suggest that for thin shavings in all but highly figured woods the chip breaker is mainly redundant. Certainly the native Japanese woods I've tried are very tolerant of the single iron.
Thanks Günter. The 100%Wood challenge kitchen utensil that this will go into definitely doesn't want a chip breaker, but also I don't believe early Japanese planes had them, so that was my reasoning. Certainly the thick and will supported iron doesn't need the stiffening effect. Of course tricky woods might be a challenge, but the early Japanese, and European woodworkers too, must have got around that.
You make something difficult look very easy, the mark of the true craftsman!.
Cheers Tony, on this occasion I feel it really isn't so difficult.
That is awesome
Cheers!
Very nice, Mitch.
Cheers Steve
Amazing Mitch, that you could do that so easily.
Thanks. I hadn't really thought about it before, but it really was simple.
Thanks Mitch, will do. Now to send Dorian bracht a message asking for one of his free plane blades!
Very, very good! :-)
Thanks Andrei
Mitch,
You make it look easy, one thing you did not cover was what to do with the under side of the plane and what parts are scraped/ removed. Grate video.
Cheers James. That's what I found quite interesting, because the kanna as made here worked beautifully once I got the blade set, the last bit in the video. I've always assumed that the very slight scraping I'd read about and carried out on my purchased kanna, was necessary. Now I don't think it is for general work. I'll play around some in the future to see quite what this kanna can do with it's perfectly flat sole, and then maybe scrape the reliefs and see if that's any different.
No cap iron?mmm inspiring...thanks
You bet
Do you have to get all the various water stones and such like for sharpening those plane blades, or do they respond to diamond stones? I like the idea of making relatively simple hand planes. Although I'd love to make ones that I wouldn't have an equivalent western plane for. I'm thinking one with a concave bottom or something. Great video.
Cheers Rico. They can be sharpened on diamonds and stropped just like western irons. Definitely recommend having a go.
Its allowed but not recommended because diamond abrasive leaves too deep scratches in hard steel and may cause micro chip-outs on the cutting edge and those diamond marks are not easy to remove with higher grit abrasives. So to try - of course, but further it is definately recommended to use japanese waterstones, most of them are not very expensive and you can find some for 20-30$ (even two-sided ones)
That was interesting. I read that the use of the chipbreaker was a recent design development. Is it really needed for the effective use of the Japanese plane or would a think enough blade serve the purpose ? I noticed that you did not have a chipbreaker affixed to your blade.
Cheers. I would suggest that for thin shavings in all but highly figured woods the chip breaker is mainly redundant. Certainly the native Japanese woods I've tried are very tolerant of the single iron.
@@mitchwoodwork Thanks for the information, might do some experiments with my planing.
Nice video, Mitsch.
Your Kanna turned out great. 👍🏻
Was it wanted that you built the chipbreaker without a plane? 🤔
Nice rest of the week wished
Thanks Günter. The 100%Wood challenge kitchen utensil that this will go into definitely doesn't want a chip breaker, but also I don't believe early Japanese planes had them, so that was my reasoning. Certainly the thick and will supported iron doesn't need the stiffening effect. Of course tricky woods might be a challenge, but the early Japanese, and European woodworkers too, must have got around that.
Hello Mitch,
Thanks for the answer.
Aha, I didn't know that.
How do ypu do to always have the video that in looking for?
I have some kannas and i thought yesterday. How may i do a new body?
Serendipity. And this wasn't going to be published yet either. It was only my having thumb troubles that meant I had nothing else to put out.
Fantastic work Mitch. You make me want to out and make some sawdust. 🙂
Fantastic, that's what it's all about 😃
Man it just seems wrong using a western plane to make an eastern plane. I sure hope I'll be able to sleep peacefully after seeing this video.
I never though of that, lol. I won't let it spoil my sleep though.
Jeeejeje. al inicio pensé que eso era un lingote de hierro
tal vez un proyecto futuro!