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All About Japanese Woodworking Tools Course

The 'All About Japanese Woodworking Tools' course is designed to help you understand the vital role that tools play in quality workmanship. The course emphasizes the importance of properly tuning tools so that they are in their best condition, allowing them to do the work on their own.

In this course, you will receive a comprehensive overview of various tool types, their sizes, how to tune them, basic ways to use them, and how to care for them, with a focus on the three major woodworking tools: saw, chisel, and plane.

The course content is based on the teachings of the instructor's master, who emphasize that 80% of the quality of your work depends on your tools, and that your role as a craftsman is to help your tools achieve their full potential. By properly tuning your tools, you can achieve a noticeable improvement in the quality of your work.

Course lessons

Hand Saws:

1. Benefits of the Pull Stroke

2. How to Improve Your Cross-Cutting Technique

3. How to Improve Your Rip-Cutting Technique

4. Technique of Cutting Diagonally

5. What is Dozuki?

6. Which Blade Size Should I Get?

7. Replaceable Blade System and Others

Chisels:

1. The Characteristics of Japanese Blades

2. Chisel Sizes and the Japanese Imperial Measuring System

3. Chisel’s Most Important Role – Cutting a Mortise

4. Tips for Cutting a Clean Mortise

5. How to Set a Hoop

Planes:

1. Benefits of a Pull Stroke Plane

2. Plane Sizes

3. How to Handle a Japanese Hand Plane

4. How to Identify the Grain Direction of Wood

5. How to Shape a Piece of Timber Into a Perfect Cuboid – 1

6. How to Shape a Piece of Timber Into a Perfect Cuboid – 2

7. How to Shape a Piece of Timber Into a Perfect Cuboid – 3

8. How to Shape a Piece of Timber Into a Perfect Cuboid – 4

9. How to Flatten a Large Surface

10. Special Planes

Plane Tuning:

1. How to Tune a Chip Breaker

2. How to Condition the Plane Body – 1

3. How to Condition the Plane Body – 2

4. How to Condition the Plane Body – 3

5. When the Blade Becomes Loose

6. How to Tune The Sole of a Scraper Plane

7. How to Tune a Japanese Rabbet Plane

8. How to Re-tighten The Mouth Opening – Episode 1

9. How to Re-tighten The Mouth Opening – Episode 2

10. How to Re-tighten The Mouth Opening – Episode 3

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