Features:

  • All Traceable Shipping
  • ●Surface finishing of boards and square timber etc..
  • ●Blade Width （mm）:42●Total Length （mm）:150
  • ●Blade: Carbon Steel for Cutting Tools●Base: Oak
  • All packages and attached documents are Japanese specifications
Like the other this one arrived in good condition

I purchased 2 planes this one and the Senkichi 65mm plane. Like the other this one arrived in good condition, again the blade needed a bit of sharpening. The quality is very good and once I got it set up it works very well. Unless I have a good reason to use the 65,, plane this one is really my go to plane.

Good tools, good quality with an excellent sharp

Good tools, good quality with an excellent sharp. You can work all kinds of woods, even very hard woods. The product arrived well packed and on time. I recommend them.

Learn and enjoy little shaver.

This plane is far best for this price range. After leaning how to setup, it gives nice shave and finish that I was looking for soft wood surface.

... is my first japanese plane and I am VERY happy that I purchased it

Well this is my first japanese plane and I am VERY happy that I purchased it. Once set up it takes fantastic shavings and I really learned a lot by having to go thru the setup/tuning process by following a few tutorials online. As a few others have noted as well the blade and chipbreaker on mine was really wedged in tight and very difficult to remove after it arrived. I tried freezing, clamping blade in vice, and other methods of removal to no avail. The traditional method of blade removal for japanese planes is what ended up working for me. The key to this being you have to strike the plane MUCH harder than you would at first think to break the blade free while pressing up/back on blade and chipbreaker. Again many tutorials on internet to assist with this. Note how hard some of them strike their planes to removed a tightly wedged blade.

A decent and useful tool

The block of wood was well crafted. This is a decent and useful tool to have. The parcel was carefully packaged, and it was arrived sooner than expected. After placing the order, it took about two weeks to receive my shipment from Japan.

New go to softwood edge grain plane?

My first Japanese handplane, and I found this one easy to setup and start messing around with. It's good enough to convince me I may need another one to experiment with, but make no mistake it's not replacing my western planes. I somehow lucked into an old Stanley 605 and put a Hock blade in it and I've never seen thinner hardwood shavings than that combination can make, including YouTube videos of Japanese competitions. That said this has definite benefits on softwood and is WELL worth $17! A $17 Japanese plane couldn't possibly be worth its weight right? I mean the whole culture and tradition surrounding Japanese planes involves LOTS of man-hours invested hand tooling every piece... and obviously that costs more than $17... so what on earth is this thing? Well basically it appears to be a machine milled block (dai), and a die cut chunk of steel for a blade. That's really it, and there's nothing magic to it, but there are some small details that make this plane nearly ready to go right out of the package! I snapped some quick photos to illistrate what I'm talking about. The body is all just milled, but it's very flat from the front to the mouth and then ever so slightly relieved behind the mouth just like it should be. The mouth is all just milled, but because the blade is also just a stamped out piece the fit is already very close to what it should be and I expect will be exact after I work on the blade just a bit. I'll come back and finish this review after I hone it up and take some shavings, but so far I'm very pleased. I feel like I paid for a build your own plane kit, and got what looks like a truly functional tool! I have a Stanley 60 1/2 and was considering a new blade for it, but for less than the cost of an aftermarket blade I grabbed this and the Moore and Wright 4003 square I'm using as a straight edge in the pics. If this holds an edge and works endgrain well, it's a 5 star product at twice this price. Update: planed some yellow pine 2x4 without even sharpening it, just filed the blade and chip breaker a smidge to get a fit I liked in the dai and went to town. I knew the technique was backwards from a western plane but I didn't think about how much easier it would make it to line it up planing an edge to get a clean entry onto the board face. Normally with a block plane or Stanley 3 or 4 I might get a little sloppy on the first 1" or so of a board edge, but with this the start was perfect and then the very end got sloppy. Even with a factory sharpened blade it has a very cool burnishing effect on pine that I don't see with any western planes. I'm very satisfied with this purchase even if I only mess around with this on my little pine shop shiznit projects. For the price, size, and weight this thing will probably be with me anytime I do something in softwood. Interested to see how the edge holds up.

Great tool!

It took a few YouTube videos and sharpening stone to get it dialed, but I am very satisfied. Right out of the box it wasn’t useable. Once I learned how to set the blade and get it sharp, I was pulling long thin ribbons that were nice and even. If you don’t have a sharpening stone, I’d recommend the 400/1000 whetstone for around $11. Can’t go wrong with this for the price

it works like a charm for that price

It takes some time to break it in and it is quite difficult to adjust at the beginning because the blade is way hard stuck in the wood. That makes quite difficult adjust the blade by tapping the plane. It requires hard tapping to get it loose and eventually at the beginning use of a pliers to pull it out. Once yo do that several times and the blade seats not so tight, it works like a charm for that price. It is a great tool.

Great plane

Do not waste your money on hundred dollar japanese block planes, the blades might be made of better steel but this one does the job just fine and a good sharpening last quite a while, and it's a block plane, you should be sharpening blade often anyway.

Great tool for the price!

Good little plane that required little tinkering to get it ready to use out of the box. Of course, putting a finer edge on the iron via a ceramic water stone improved it's performance, I could make use of it straight away. This is a surprisingly good plane for the price as compared to ones I have spent 3-4 times as much on. I tried two of these less expensive Japanese planes offered by Amazon and was pleased with both.

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