Japanese chisels purchase…
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:43 am
Hi woody folks… new to this forum here… from Adelaide
I have been using Japanese saws (disposable blade versions) and planes (eBay finds of various grades) for a few years now with YouTube and Web search being my friend as I have no connection to others with a love of Japanese tools.
My chisels at the moment are a OK set of 4 Marples I bought at Bunnings many years ago on special and a 42mm oire nomi and a Japanese mortise chisel bought to belt out the huge through mortise and sliding through dovetail mortise legs on my Chris Schwarz Roubo bench.
I have finally after MUCH procrastination (something I am exceedingly good at… or at least my better half says so) I have decided to drop the $$$ onto a decent set of Japanese chisels.
The 2 sets I am looking at are…
Set of 10 KOSHIMITSU Chisels from Dieter Schmid's Fine Tools in Berlin… http://www.fine-tools.com/matsumura.html
Set of 11 Rentetsu chisels from Japanese Tools Australia in Sydney… http://www.japanesetools.com.au/collect ... chor-chain
The Matsumura chisels from Dieter Schmid's Fine Tools are white paper steel as for the set of 10, shipped, work out to about AU$630
The Rentetsu chisels from Japanese Tools Australia are blue paper steel with 100 year anchor chain, and come to about AU$900
Both options are going to be a hit to my pocket but with the Rentetsu chisels from Japanese Tools Australia the more so and generally more than I wanted to spend, but Japanese Tools Australia will allow me to buy them in 3 groups spread over several months (with a deposit of course) to ensure the availability while I get all of them.
So… now I am in a quandary as to which set to buy, what with one being white paper and the other blue paper steels… and both being considered to be of very high quality hand forged chisels… although the Rentetsu chisels from Japanese Tools Australia I do not know the name of, only that the blacksmith is in Miki.
So… any suggestions… comments… whatever would be most welcome indeed!
cheers
Trevor
[EDITED: as I said the Rentetsu were from Japan Tools but hey are in fact from Japanese Tools Australia]
I have been using Japanese saws (disposable blade versions) and planes (eBay finds of various grades) for a few years now with YouTube and Web search being my friend as I have no connection to others with a love of Japanese tools.
My chisels at the moment are a OK set of 4 Marples I bought at Bunnings many years ago on special and a 42mm oire nomi and a Japanese mortise chisel bought to belt out the huge through mortise and sliding through dovetail mortise legs on my Chris Schwarz Roubo bench.
I have finally after MUCH procrastination (something I am exceedingly good at… or at least my better half says so) I have decided to drop the $$$ onto a decent set of Japanese chisels.
The 2 sets I am looking at are…
Set of 10 KOSHIMITSU Chisels from Dieter Schmid's Fine Tools in Berlin… http://www.fine-tools.com/matsumura.html
Set of 11 Rentetsu chisels from Japanese Tools Australia in Sydney… http://www.japanesetools.com.au/collect ... chor-chain
The Matsumura chisels from Dieter Schmid's Fine Tools are white paper steel as for the set of 10, shipped, work out to about AU$630
The Rentetsu chisels from Japanese Tools Australia are blue paper steel with 100 year anchor chain, and come to about AU$900
Both options are going to be a hit to my pocket but with the Rentetsu chisels from Japanese Tools Australia the more so and generally more than I wanted to spend, but Japanese Tools Australia will allow me to buy them in 3 groups spread over several months (with a deposit of course) to ensure the availability while I get all of them.
So… now I am in a quandary as to which set to buy, what with one being white paper and the other blue paper steels… and both being considered to be of very high quality hand forged chisels… although the Rentetsu chisels from Japanese Tools Australia I do not know the name of, only that the blacksmith is in Miki.
So… any suggestions… comments… whatever would be most welcome indeed!
cheers
Trevor
[EDITED: as I said the Rentetsu were from Japan Tools but hey are in fact from Japanese Tools Australia]