How to Make a Japanese Planing Beam: With an Axe!

I should have made a planing beam ages ago. It makes the process of planning so so much easier. In the tradition of a Japanese craftsman or Shokunin the planing beam is a piece wood working equipment without any fancy joints or finish. It's made to do a job and its made in the quickest easiest most effective way possible. Fancy furniture may be begun on a planing beam but it is itself just an elevated flat beam. Nothing more.

Sorry for the stuff up in publishing this video. When it rendered it included a whole stack of extra stuff at the end.

On this channel I'm going to show off my Japanese tools and do project videos where I predominantly use Japanese tools to make stuff. I like starting woodworking projects with a log so you will get to see my axes and ripping saws at work before we move on to nomi and ryoba.

"Chestnut_nag" is my handle on Ebay. Every month I bring in several boxes of tools from Japan. Some I add to my tool kit others I sell on Ebay, Facebook or directly to people who have asked me to track down something special.

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