Trinidad Rivera
11-26-2018, 12:34 PM
Hello woodworkers! My name is Trinidad and I love this Sawmill Creek forum. Back in October I decided to try my hand at a little woodworking.
Being lucky enough to live in Los Angeles, there happens to be a japanese hardware store here in the downtown area. I headed there and quickly broke the $200-$250 budget I had initially set for myself.
Among the things I bought was a 65mm kanna plane. It cost $135.00
Included with it was a blade and chip breaker. Here it is in it's newly-purchased state.
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I was very much aware that the kanna plane, blade & chip breaker were going to need some tuning. I bought Toshio Odate's Japanese Woodworking Tools, and I watched a ton of youtube videos on how to tune a kanna plane. Probably not the best idea for my very first woodworking project to be the tuning of a precision instrument. But hey, you don't know what you don't know you don't know, right?
Well, I went to work on the kanna plane, very much unskilled in the art of working with wood.
It's now been about a month, and I finally took a wood shaving for the very first time. It was nothing respectable, but at least it actually shaved some wood. I had not been able to do this at all up until now. However, I am having some trouble that I am hoping I might be able to get some advice on.
I believe I have pared away too much on the bed where the blade sits, as well as most likely pared away too much in the blade grooves that guide the blade through to the mouth. I tried adding a thin piece of paper, but maybe it is the fact that I have pared away too much in the grooves that is really giving me this problem.
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(current state of the kanna)
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When the blade protrudes through the mouth, it always comes out uneven. One side of the blade protrudes further, and also one side of the blade seems to be coming out higher than the other side.
It is also very loose from side to side when pushed in as far as I can with pressure from my hand and no hammer or mallet tapping.
I tapped out the blade, I've grinded it flat, ground the meme ears sections, sharpened the blade, the chip breaker sits flat on the blade. There is something I am obviously missing.
I am including a link here to an album I have uploaded with higher resolution photos of the kanna, as I was only allowed 8 images on this post.
https://imgur.com/a/LjoXPK9
Any help or suggestions would be greately appreciated.
I have enjoyed this adventure into amateur woodworking, this forum and it's community have been awesome to read.
Being lucky enough to live in Los Angeles, there happens to be a japanese hardware store here in the downtown area. I headed there and quickly broke the $200-$250 budget I had initially set for myself.
Among the things I bought was a 65mm kanna plane. It cost $135.00
Included with it was a blade and chip breaker. Here it is in it's newly-purchased state.
397503397502
I was very much aware that the kanna plane, blade & chip breaker were going to need some tuning. I bought Toshio Odate's Japanese Woodworking Tools, and I watched a ton of youtube videos on how to tune a kanna plane. Probably not the best idea for my very first woodworking project to be the tuning of a precision instrument. But hey, you don't know what you don't know you don't know, right?
Well, I went to work on the kanna plane, very much unskilled in the art of working with wood.
It's now been about a month, and I finally took a wood shaving for the very first time. It was nothing respectable, but at least it actually shaved some wood. I had not been able to do this at all up until now. However, I am having some trouble that I am hoping I might be able to get some advice on.
I believe I have pared away too much on the bed where the blade sits, as well as most likely pared away too much in the blade grooves that guide the blade through to the mouth. I tried adding a thin piece of paper, but maybe it is the fact that I have pared away too much in the grooves that is really giving me this problem.
397506397507397508
(current state of the kanna)
397504397505397509
When the blade protrudes through the mouth, it always comes out uneven. One side of the blade protrudes further, and also one side of the blade seems to be coming out higher than the other side.
It is also very loose from side to side when pushed in as far as I can with pressure from my hand and no hammer or mallet tapping.
I tapped out the blade, I've grinded it flat, ground the meme ears sections, sharpened the blade, the chip breaker sits flat on the blade. There is something I am obviously missing.
I am including a link here to an album I have uploaded with higher resolution photos of the kanna, as I was only allowed 8 images on this post.
https://imgur.com/a/LjoXPK9
Any help or suggestions would be greately appreciated.
I have enjoyed this adventure into amateur woodworking, this forum and it's community have been awesome to read.