Japanese Tool Afficianados, you may wish to avert your eyes, for I have sinned.
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Basically, I was intrigued by replaceable blades for those little hobby planes which are sold everywhere here. Two blades cost like 230 yen or something... so, like $2 and some change.
And I thought, geez, that's cheap for some nice tool steel. I wonder if it's sharpenable?
Apparently the steel is SK-5 which is supposed to be not so easy to sharpen, but it sharpened just fine on my Washita.
So, 15 minutes later, and a very crude spokeshave was quickly whipped up.
I was really just goofing around. No, it's not layed out correctly. And I made plenty of mistakes, just for lack of care and proper layout. But hey, I had fifteen minutes free and wanted to see if I could make a functional tool!
Well, somehow, it works surprisingly well...
I'll make a more serious nankin kanna with a real plane iron, and a body that I actually took care to make, but I had fun goofing around.
I may try cutting up more of these blades to make other tools such as marking knives, cutting gauges, etc... if not making more abomination planes!