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Pros & Cons

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Pros

This little plane is amazing. It cuts smoother and thinner than my $250 dollar plane. This product works like a breeze.

Great value. Do the research. My only complaint is with the shipping.

But once you play with it for a bit and figure it out, it is an awesome hand plane. Watch the samarui carpenter.

It glides smoothly. Adjusting the blade was really easy. It's just that much more intuitive to get one continuous motion.



Cons

The kanna is not square. There is essentially no way for the blade to project an even cutting edge from a dai. The chip breaker had been forced into position and would not come out. The damage done to the plane by forcing the chip breaker into the pla...  Read More

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Highlights

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Quality


This block plane when setup properly flattened and sharpened iron along with a flattened body works amazingly well


The blade is extremely sharp and cuts softwoods wonderfully


It comes with two contact points on the long portion of the sole so my opinion is you should try the sole as is before embarkin...  Read More


Well all i did was tap the blade into place and immediately started getting fluffy symmetric shavings

Price


For the cost this is a really good product with a few fine tunings this has been a great buy


First go find a video called 34setting up an inexpensive japanese plane34


I couldnt believe i paid almost 200 for my western plane when i could have started with this


And this is a beginners plane at an entry level price

Shipping


My plane and another i saw both shipped with the blade upside down


My only complaint is with the shipping


I suspect this is just a shipping safety thing

Packaging/appearance


They threw the package at my front door as usual and as it was packaged with a genno as well it left a few very minor dents and...  Read More

Competitiveness


This block plane works really well a lot better than the stanley one i was using prior to this


Much better than others available on amazon


If youre new to hand woodworking your idea of sharp is probably much different than that of those fellows you see in woodworkin...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    plane, sharp, little, easy and better.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 649.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 2,864 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 20 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Ive used hand planes for maybe 2 years as a hobbyist woodworker and being very intrigued by japanese style woodworking ive always wanted to try one of these types of planes


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I couldnt believe i paid almost 200 for my western plane when i could have started with this


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I dont have a brass hammer which is softer than steel and preferred for adjustments so i used my cheap rubberplastic mallet for adjustments


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    With a few knocks and in less than 2 minutes i had it ready to go


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I couldnt recommend this to woodworkers enough and i think i would even tell beginners to start with one to get an easy and cheap entry into hand tool woodworking


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I suggest to sharp the blade when you get plane good habits


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I find it so obnoxious that you have to sharpen new planes even when youve already paid absurd amounts of money for them


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    After that i ran the plane over my piece and got a single seethrough strip

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