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Chris Hall discusses Japanese plane setup, and has a different take on Toshio Odate’s article:

[T]he article is entitled Tuning Japanese Planes. I’m quite sure that Odate is skilled at doing just that. I’m also fairly sure he did not do the illustrations for the article, and it is in those illustrations that I found something curious, something which, if I may speculate, likely escaped Odate’s attention. At least I hope so.

This looks like the first of a series of articles Chris plans to write. I’m looking forward to seeing what he has to say, especially about the set up for a Japanese plane for truing a surface.

And although he is much more skilled at woodworking than I am, as can easily be seen by even a very quick look at his blog, which is well worth the time to read, we seem to have this in common:

Actually, there are a lot of nuances to shaping the sole of the wooden plane and obtaining optimal performance, I can tell you right now that I have not reached anything like mastery with a kanna. Still, I know when I see something that’s wrong and I have managed through various misadventures, wrong turns and blind alleys to pick up the odd bit of useful info along the way, and I’m happy to share that information here.