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Japanese Smoothing Plane - 48mm

$78.00

Description

This Plane is a traditional Japanese style plane which cuts on the pull stroke. The blade and chip breaker are held in place by compression and is adjusted with a Japanese hammer or wooden mallet. The blade is made from white paper steel laminated with soft iron. The plane's body is made of Japanese White Oak.

In general, traditional Japanese planes require maintenance to the sole. This plane has been relieved behind the blade and is ready to use. It does not require tuning to the sole of the plane. Some tuning to the supporting timber around the blade may be require before first use.

Specifications:

Blade Width: 48mm

Plane Body Length: 210mm

Plane Body Width: 60 mm

Blade angle: 42 degree

In regards to Japanese smoothing planes; please note that the sole of the plane has been prepared ready for use as a smoothing plane and so no adjustments are required for this, however timber planes may need some adjustment purely because of the nature of wood moving (expanding and contracting). For more information, please also see: https://japanesetools.com.au/pages/plane-tuning

Delivery and Shipping

Orders over $200 ship FREE (Aus only).
We dispatch every weekday at 2pm.
Regular Postage: $12.50
Express Postage: $19.00
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Pickup Available - Sydney

Select In-Store Pickup at checkout to collect your order at 29 Production Ave, Kogarah 2217.
Store hours 10am-4pm Tues-Fri.

JTA Quality Guarantee

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  • 5 stars: 9 (60%)
  • 4 stars: 5 (33%)
  • 3 stars: 1 (7%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 0 (0%)
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Rachel
First plane

Quite beautiful coming out of the box! Needed a fair bit of tuning prior to first use, didn't have any whetstones to sharpen the blade - could probably do with one. Still managed do get some nice shavings from it anyway. Great for a first time plane

Hi Rachel, glad that your plane is set up and giving you some nice shavings! Your plane will definitely benefit from a sharpen, it probably is about two-thirds as sharp as it can be out of the box and will need maintenance when it's put to use. We recommend our complete sharpening kit for those who don't yet own any sharpening gear, if you'd like to discuss technique or advice please email info@japanesetools.com.au . Happy planing!

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Rod P.
First kanna

The plane was advertised as ready to go out of the box. I could have used it straight away but I pulled the blade and eased the blade bed a little. Touched up the edge and tweaked the chip breaker. A simple job to put it back together and with a couple of taps I was pulling good straight shavings. Really good value for money. A good first Japanese plane.

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David R.
Just giving the timber time

Just giving the timber time to acclimate before i set the blade, will let you know how it goes. Your delivery is very quick, pleased with that as well

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Trevor P.
Kakuri smoothing plane

A very good tool that is well made. My plane will need fine tuning but this is discussed in the JTA plane tuning article. I am amazed by the simple construction of this tool compared with typical Western type planes.

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David S.
Not great

Badly tuned on arrival requiring much work to open the throat so blade could actually get to the wood (it was about 5mm off and no way could it get down there) and this was annoying. Blade edge took damage from wooden mallet and needs to be reground ... so must be pretty soft iron. I would say - buy this if you are prepared to do a lot of work yourself to get it nice. Note that I make wooden planes, I know what I am talking about.

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Lee A.
great

nice steel and well made block, after a little setup this is my favourite plane

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Lee W.
Awesome

Fast delivery great product

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Clay T.
Kakuri plane review

Plane is great love the feel of using this plane plus great finish straight out of the box

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Leanne O.
A Christmas gift for my son

Bought this plane for my son, who has an interest in woodwork, he loved it. I am not a woodworker but absolutely love this from an aesthetic point of view, it is beautifully made.

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Craig H.
Happy

great buy I will get much use from it

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Alexandre m.
Excellent product, the plane is superb ! Great customer service !

Excellent product, the plane is superb ! Great customer service ! Thank you and will shop again soon and recommend to my woodworking friends in Canberra !

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Robert y.
Kakuri smoothing plane 48 mm wide blade.

The plane arrived neatly packed and in good order but there were no instructions as to how to tune the dai to allow the blade to seat correctly for the plane to work .
The bed of the dai needed to be scraped to seat the blade correctly . I believe this is standard forJapanese planes but a little guidance would be helpful. After about 20 mins of adjustment the plane performs very well with a nicely sharpened blade which only needed a little honing.

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Joseph T. (Melbourne, Victoria)
Awesome plane

Did need a bit of setup and after that was awesome to use

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Rachel
First plane

Quite beautiful coming out of the box! Needed a fair bit of tuning prior to first use, didn't have any whetstones to sharpen the blade - could probably do with one. Still managed do get some nice shavings from it anyway. Great for a first time plane

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Rod P.
First kanna

The plane was advertised as ready to go out of the box. I could have used it straight away but I pulled the blade and eased the blade bed a little. Touched up the edge and tweaked the chip breaker. A simple job to put it back together and with a couple of taps I was pulling good straight shavings. Really good value for money. A good first Japanese plane.