It s best if you research japanese names for the tools you want before showing up here but you can find quality tools.
Japanese woodworking tools forum. What makes them good how to tell the good tools from the bad and how to use and look after them. I am a beginner in woodworking and slowly building my tool collection. For more than 30 years japan woodworker has imported professional quality woodworking tools fine cutlery and gardening tools from japan. Japanese hand tools a forum for the discussion of japanese hand tools.
Currently i am in japan for work and will be here for a short time. Share your questions tips and strategies for the use and maintenance of hand tools. This forum is for discussions about choosing lumber wood species cuts of lumber and anything else about wood. I would like to get a set that i can use but also have to display.
How we treat members. Wood lumber forum. 1 year 3 months ago. If you had a chance to get woodworking tools in japan what if any would you get.
Don t bother with the few easily found around asakusa in tokyo. Wood your hand tools you and a little know how. I cant say that you do better than shopping for these on the internet but there are few places in tokyo to find tools in contrast to knives which are ubiquitous. This forum is dedicated to discussions photos and videos about japanese woodworking tools and techniques.
This forum is dedicated to discussions photos and videos about japanese woodworking tools and techniques. Your woodworking skills are displayed for several lifetimes. I am also looking for info on japanese water stones. This forum is dedicated to traditional.
It s mostly every day stuff not high priced rare hand tools but good none the less. Please feel free to browse through our selection of fine japanese hand tools from japanese woodworking tools planes chisels saws etc to japanese kitchen knives japanese gardening tools and japanese grooming scissors. Tourist traps for japanese and foreigners alike although possibly not so bad for kitchen knives. Not worth it for woodworking tools though.