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Authentic Japanese Craftsmanship Brand
KAKURI Corporation was founded in 1946 in Sanjo City.
Sanjo City is the leading production area of cutlery in Japan.
We manufacture the products with superior quality and functions, such as gardening tool, saws, chisels, professional carpenter tools.
Taking advantage of more than 70 years of experience and results from our founding in 1946, we design hand-made products individually.
From a professional standpoint, we select and sell only high-quality products.
Please feel and enjoy the authentic Japanese products of the KAKURI brand.
Product Features
Razor Sharp Japanese Steel
The blade is made of Japanese steel with excellent sharpness. You can finish woods beautifully with light force. The blade is sharpened by Japanese craftsmen. Sharp right out of the box.
- Blade Width: 1.6" (42 mm)
- Cutting Width: 1.5"
Mini Hand Size
This mini plane is easy to grip and ideal for precision work. It is easy to use even for beginners.
- Body Length: 6.2"
Professional Tool for Finishing Curves
You can smooth the curved wood. Japanese planes are used with a pulling force, not a pushing force like Western planes. It is easy to apply force evenly and is ideal for a beautiful finishing.
Japanese planes require blade adjustment before use. Please refer below.
How to push out the blade
What you need
Use a Genno hammer or a wood mallet to adjust the blade of the plane. Using a hammer under 16.2 oz for fine tuning.
1. Hit the head of the plane blade
The cutting edge comes out by hitting the head of the blade with a hammer.
2. Check the blade edge
Turn the plane upside down, level the line of sight and check at the blade edge. It looks better when viewed on a white background.
3. A strand of hair's width is ideal
Adjust the amount of the blade edge as your purpose.
- 0.08mm: Rough cutting
- 0.05mm: Medium cutting
- 0.02mm: Finish smoothing
How to retract or remove the blade
When the blade is pushed out too much
When the blade comes out too much, hit the corner of the body and the blade will return.
When the blade comes out diagonally
If the blade comes out too far to the left, hit the left side of the blade to adjust (return) until it is horizontal. In the case of the right, adjust by tapping the right side of the blade.
When removing the blade
Hitting the corner of the plane while pushing down the blade with your finger. You can remove the blade. * If you can't get out by tapping lightly, try hitting harder. The blade must be removable.
CAUTION!
When adjusting the blade, be sure to hit the CORNER of the body. If you hit the center instead of the corner, the plane may crack.
Chip breaker (Ura-gane, Osae-gane) adjustment & Tips
Why you need a chip breaker
If you shave wood against the grain, it will not cut well. By adjusting a chip breaker, a beautiful finish is possible regardless of the grain.
KAKURI Japanese Plane is double-blade style and has a chip breaker.
If the shavings are being straightened and came out towards the blade, then the adjustment is OK.
1. Hit chip breaker to adjust the position
Tap only the chip breaker and adjust it to near the tip of the main blade.
2. Adjust the edge of the chip breaker closer
Adjust until the distance between the chip breaker's edge and the main blade's edge is about a line of a single hair (about 0.002 inch).
*When you tap the chip breaker too much, remove the main blade once and adjust it again.
How to sharpen a blade accurately and easily
Since it is quality Japanese steel, excellent sharpness revives over and over by sharpening the blade appropriately. KAKURI's plane honing guide is convenient for sharpening a Japanese plane blade.
Gosoxgo
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2024
I have another kakuri plane and several hammers and have generally had excellent experiences with Kakuri tools. This one, however required about an hour of work with a planemaker's float working on the ramp before the iron would actually travel all the way through the body of the plane to where it does the cutting. After that I needed to spend another half hour creating a mouth for the shaving to go through. After all of that it works wonderfully and I'll enjoy using it probably for the rest of my life, but should I have to do all of that? It'd be as easy for Kakuri to have made the plane so it fit its own iron and had a basic mouth as it was to produce the unfinished tool I received, so I would like to see much better quality control. I have built wooden planes before, so I have tools the beginner probably won't have. Please, Kakuri, improve your quality control.
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