What a wonderful and eloquent craftsperson. I especially resonate with his ideas about the " essence" of a tool and the fact that it may have been loved historically.
Hello, I enjoy watching you every time. This time as well, I heard the craftsmen's stories about humor that I couldn't find anywhere else. Thank you very much.🔨
What a profound man this blacksmith is. Philosopher and kind of a rebel but just being himself… great video good job just capturing the spirit of the maker
Pretty cool, I have been interested in adding Japanese tools to my wood shop and doing some Japanese woodworking/carpentry. I have looked online for tools and there are so many cheap one out there. Where would I purchase good reliable Japanese tools in the USA or online?
I would have loved to have seen him make a blade to show off his skills. The different blades he showed looked great a bit more attention to them would make all the difference. But overall a very nice and informative video. Happy Christmas to you all. 🎄🎄👍
Thank you for the video. I've always been curious. What about the keisaburo plan. I really want to buy it, may I know the email address of this blacksmith?
I don't think he will respond to emails. However, I think if you were to order a blade you can do that through Kurashige Tools. I do believe Kurashige has some Keizaburo blades available. People do wait a long time to get one of his blades. However, if you do want one you can buy one from him in person at one of the festivals in Miki city. There is a festival happening November 2-3, 2024. This festival usually happens the weekend before the National Kezuroukai. I would recommend coming to Japan in November and visiting both Miki City and Hadano, Kanagawa for the 2024 events.
Is there any interest in organizing a group-buy of one-off 'fun' planes from him? I very much appreciate his perspective and would like to support him and help him have more fun. Please let me know if this is of interest to you! I'd love to have a unique, playful, witty or risque plane blade (or however he saw fit to decorate it). In fact, I'd be happy to purchase two from him between 55-70mm. Thanks for these videos, it's wonderful getting to know some of my favorite blacksmiths.
Throughout your series of visiting various blacksmiths making plane blades and chisels I always wonder, are there blacksmiths in Japan using high-tech, modern steels? Something like the fairly new and absolutely impressive CPM MagnaCut (see th-cam.com/video/kKn5_WNv4DI/w-d-xo.html), for instance? In western products I see PM-V11, Cryo-Steels, CPM MagnaCut, etc. but the blacksmiths shown here mostly seem to stick to white & blue paper steel for the blades and value old steel / its origin and history more than the objective performance. Obviously their products do perform well, one only needs to watch a Kezuroukai and see their tools used on job sites / by professionals. Still, it doesn't feel like they play around with the new, fancy, cutting-edge stuff or go for a scientific approach for (potentially) even better tools.
I'm trying to answer your question, although I'm probably just scratching the surface of the topic. Not every "new" steel can be used as cutting steel. Especially many stainless steel don't have an internal structure that creates a good blade. However there are a lot of new steels, look at Tsunesaburo, they use hss, pmv and others; Kensuke Yamamoto uses for example Böhler K990. Additionally, there are Shirogami super, Aogami super, Aogami hyper and other modifications of the traditional steels. Nonetheless, smiths are also limited to the possibilities of their machines/ workshops. Every steel has different temperatures for heat treatment, experimenting with new steels can cause a lot of failure. That causes higher prices. And often steels can not be purchased in small amounts. If you have to buy a ton of an unknown steel, the risk of financial damage is high. To my understanding these are some of the reasons many smiths stick to the same steels. And maybe one last thing, many smith have to fulfill orders, there's simply no time for too many experiments.
@@ark1200 Thank you for the insightful answer. I had not considered that small workshops would face a significant challenge and risks spending weeks or months experimenting with new steels to make solid products worthy of their reputation without knowing whether it will work out or not. Also thank you for pointing out the modified alloys as well as Tsunesaburo and Kensuke Yamamoto, I'll have a look at them as I was unaware of those.
What a wonderful and eloquent craftsperson. I especially resonate with his ideas about the " essence" of a tool and the fact that it may have been loved historically.
Hello, I enjoy watching you every time. This time as well, I heard the craftsmen's stories about humor that I couldn't find anywhere else. Thank you very much.🔨
Glad you like them!
What a profound man this blacksmith is.
Philosopher and kind of a rebel but just being himself… great video good job just capturing the spirit of the maker
Always wonderful to see your videos! Its great to hear his story.
Thank you!
Wonderful! Thank you! One of the finest plane blades I own is by Keizaburo, he spends lot of time in special details and the performance is great!
Couldn't agree more!
Love these videos. Thank you 🙏🏽
Again a fantastic video, the resources and information of wealth from these highly skilled and experienced craftsman is absolutely gold!
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic interview!❤
Great insight on a blacksmith. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Keep it up.
Thanks, will do!
Great video. Good to see old and new.
This was fantastic!
Pretty cool, I have been interested in adding Japanese tools to my wood shop and doing some Japanese woodworking/carpentry. I have looked online for tools and there are so many cheap one out there. Where would I purchase good reliable Japanese tools in the USA or online?
I would have loved to have seen him make a blade to show off his skills. The different blades he showed looked great a bit more attention to them would make all the difference. But overall a very nice and informative video. Happy Christmas to you all. 🎄🎄👍
Noted!
Thank you for the video.
I've always been curious. What about the keisaburo plan.
I really want to buy it, may I know the email address of this blacksmith?
I don't think he will respond to emails. However, I think if you were to order a blade you can do that through Kurashige Tools. I do believe Kurashige has some Keizaburo blades available. People do wait a long time to get one of his blades. However, if you do want one you can buy one from him in person at one of the festivals in Miki city. There is a festival happening November 2-3, 2024. This festival usually happens the weekend before the National Kezuroukai. I would recommend coming to Japan in November and visiting both Miki City and Hadano, Kanagawa for the 2024 events.
Is there any interest in organizing a group-buy of one-off 'fun' planes from him? I very much appreciate his perspective and would like to support him and help him have more fun. Please let me know if this is of interest to you! I'd love to have a unique, playful, witty or risque plane blade (or however he saw fit to decorate it). In fact, I'd be happy to purchase two from him between 55-70mm. Thanks for these videos, it's wonderful getting to know some of my favorite blacksmiths.
How do you feel, having the opportunity (making the opportunity! ) to see these "national treasures", more properly, "international treasures"!!
And, not taking himself too seriously!
But, you must have had a reason for searching for his "hidden shop"?
@7:30 ❤
Throughout your series of visiting various blacksmiths making plane blades and chisels I always wonder, are there blacksmiths in Japan using high-tech, modern steels?
Something like the fairly new and absolutely impressive CPM MagnaCut (see th-cam.com/video/kKn5_WNv4DI/w-d-xo.html), for instance?
In western products I see PM-V11, Cryo-Steels, CPM MagnaCut, etc. but the blacksmiths shown here mostly seem to stick to white & blue paper steel for the blades and value old steel / its origin and history more than the objective performance. Obviously their products do perform well, one only needs to watch a Kezuroukai and see their tools used on job sites / by professionals. Still, it doesn't feel like they play around with the new, fancy, cutting-edge stuff or go for a scientific approach for (potentially) even better tools.
I'm trying to answer your question, although I'm probably just scratching the surface of the topic.
Not every "new" steel can be used as cutting steel. Especially many stainless steel don't have an internal structure that creates a good blade.
However there are a lot of new steels, look at Tsunesaburo, they use hss, pmv and others; Kensuke Yamamoto uses for example Böhler K990. Additionally, there are Shirogami super, Aogami super, Aogami hyper and other modifications of the traditional steels.
Nonetheless, smiths are also limited to the possibilities of their machines/ workshops. Every steel has different temperatures for heat treatment, experimenting with new steels can cause a lot of failure. That causes higher prices. And often steels can not be purchased in small amounts. If you have to buy a ton of an unknown steel, the risk of financial damage is high. To my understanding these are some of the reasons many smiths stick to the same steels. And maybe one last thing, many smith have to fulfill orders, there's simply no time for too many experiments.
@@ark1200 Thank you for the insightful answer. I had not considered that small workshops would face a significant challenge and risks spending weeks or months experimenting with new steels to make solid products worthy of their reputation without knowing whether it will work out or not.
Also thank you for pointing out the modified alloys as well as Tsunesaburo and Kensuke Yamamoto, I'll have a look at them as I was unaware of those.
The tradional carbon steels are easy to sharpen by hand. I have an HSS-chisel and it's a pain in the ass.
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