JTA History and Reviews

Handle design difficult to use.
Disappointed with the product

It is a very useful tool, fantastic quality.

I bought this smoothing plane with the other 48mm one, used them straight away, so far so good, the quality is excellent, highly recommended to anyone who needs the smoothing plane.
And the customer service is super helpful and professional.
The best customer service I ever had!

Its the best compact square and now it has a belt attachment loop which makes it super portable. This now lives permanently in my tool belt. A must have for all trades.

My Japanese gardening sickle is my constant companion in the garden. Have given many to friends, who all exclaim at the ease of use and effectiveness of this tool.

Super sharp and perfect for my job. Will be buying more

Great service. Lovely gift wrapping

Very well made compact steel toolbox. Opens out into 3 storage areas to display tools so that they can be quite easily seen to be taken out and used. Previously, for 35 years I used a tool box with 1 storage area often necessitating taking many tools out to locate a tool at the bottom of the box. The cantilever mechanism is as good as they can be.

The saw cuts quickly and true, allowing for easy final sizing via a shooting board,

Amazing quality!

Excellent tape measure. The compact size and the light weight make it a joy to use. And measure everything I did!

Good balance and perfect for cooper forming, handle fits the hand perfectly and shape gives good control.

Incredibly useful tool.

Using a pencil works, but cutting gets you truly clean mortices. This one is sharp, durable and pretty great value. I haven't tried sharpening it yet as I haven't needed to. I'm left-handed and really appreciated that it comes in left/right versions.

The quality is not there. And the handles are not ergonomic.

Best book on the subject

great storage containers

Would like a longer handle in order to chop out weeds .less bending required
Other wise excellent

Would definitely buy again and highly recommend. Excellent quality and prompt delivery.

I was having trouble finding a tool box to fit in my sports car. This size wound up being a perfect fit.
So far seems well made and solidly built. Looks pretty nice too.
There's a lot to like with it, I just feel a little bad when I mistakenly scratch it.

This vernier end stop fits a variety of my rules and sashigane. Whilst the direct measurement of the vernier lines allow for 0.1mm measurement you can actually use the space in between the lines to halve the measurement to 0.05mm. This is an old machinists truck to get more out of verniers. With a bit of practice you can actually get finer measurements.

I work to these types of tolerances in guitar making to keep accuracy.

This is the first of this style of toyo boxes that I have purchased.. I use it for my carving tools compact and stores away easily

While this item is small, it certainly makes up for that when in use. Rather than having many mini cutting edges like western Rasps, this has a layer of half moon cutting edges each covering the full width of the tool. This allows the Rasp to literally shave the wood from where you want it removed. This allows a greater degree of control and less of an area which needs to be sanded. Great little addition to any Woodworkers kit.

I absolutely love this. I have trouble kneeling, & this tool allows me to remove really tough weeds from a standing position. So strong yet light and manoeverable.

Absolutely wonderful cutters, especially for my small arthritic hands. Very easy to use for small work