To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: That's not a plane *LINK*

Re: To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: That's not a p

paul womack

>Nice site - they even have a Japanese plane with a screwed-on metal sole!

BugBear

only problem

Jack Guzman from Maine

>How could that(the big one)be useable?I can't imagine how anyone could pull that thing through wood successfully.---Jack

Re: very thin shavings?

paul womack

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Re: only problem

Bot Hutchins in central TX

>Perhaps the plane remains stationary and the wood moves a la a cooper's plane.

BobH

Re: did you see *LINK*

Mike McDaniel

>The curly


http://www.tsune36.co.jp/shin_05.html

Re: only problem

Paul M. in San Diego

>I got the chance to pull an 8" wide plane through a 6" wide board. It takes some force, but it is possible to get a full-width very thin shaving with one of these.

Several Japanese carpenters and plane makers came to my college and were demonstrating their tools and craftwork. They had a 12" plane like the one in the photo, but the dai (body) warped due to the change in humidity between Japan and San Diego. They didn't want to retune the dai just for a demo, so I never got to see that one in use.

Re Amazing! But how do they shaprpen it?

Eric Kuehne

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Yowza...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Hook up the sled dogs...

Re: To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: That's not a p

Doug in Leawood KS

>I wish I could read Japanese! They could teach me a lot!

Doug

Re: To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: That's not a p

Dale Stansbery

>You should have posted this on the power side. There has to be a 200-300 HP engine connected to those things somehow.

Looks sorta like a kraut cutter. Wheres the box?

Victor Parisian

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Re: To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: That's not a p

wayne anderson

>I have been told that temple carpenters use them to get a fine surface on prominent beams without overlap. -wayne