Interesting video on Japanese style planes being manufactured.

[Mark Hennebury]

Interesting to see the process.



https://fb.watch/nrQ1s0p4qL/

[Andrew Hughes]

I would like to see it. Watching it on Facebook is literally going behind enemy lines
Can you post another link

[John Pendery]

Very interesting thanks for sharing

[Reed Gray]

What I am trying to figure out is the final blade appears to have a hardened piece of metal for the cutting edge, but I didn't see any forging of the blade. I would guess A2 would work. Interesting process...

robo hippy

[Mark Hennebury]

I would like to see it. Watching it on Facebook is literally going behind enemy lines
Can you post another link

Sorry Andrew, but I don't know where else to get the video.

[Edward Weber]

What I am trying to figure out is the final blade appears to have a hardened piece of metal for the cutting edge, but I didn't see any forging of the blade. I would guess A2 would work. Interesting process...

robo hippy

Reed, You might like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLfhSrNTJHw

[Rafael Herrera]

The FB video shows the iron being made out of bar steel stock. It doesn't say what kind of steel. The manufacturing seems geared towards mass production, rather than the elaborate processes seen in Japanese factories, like in the YT video above.

[Edward Weber]

In my mind, one of the distinguishing characteristics about Japanese blades, is the lamination of the harder white or blue steel to the softer back.
If they are simply made from bar stock, something is lost.

To the OP
We don't all have FB, didn't see your video.

[Rafael Herrera]

I found the video on YT, https://youtu.be/77UaPlVuwuY.

The company's website is https://chulma.co.kr. It's a South Korean company. If you use Google Chrome, it can translate it into English. They seem to have an impressive catalog of tools.

From a quick look at their website, the iron may be HSS.

Rafael

[Edward Weber]

Thanks Rafeal, I appreciate it.

[Reed Gray]

Ed, thanks for that link. I have watched a couple of that guy's videos. Most drool worthy was where he went into a carpentry store that had EVERYTHING! And I do mean everything any woodworker could want. No one spoke English and they didn't ship.....

There is always the question of 'which steel/metal is best'. I did make a marking knife out of M42 HSS, which some say you can't make as sharp as other metals. As near as I can tell, I got the same refined edge. Only difference I noted was that the grinding burr broke off far more easily.

In another life line, I would have been a black smith...

robo hippy

[steven c newman]

All of this could have been avoided...IF one were to simply watch the video posted by Derek "Making of a Kanna".....including the work on forging the iron...