Japanese Stainless Steel Sickle - Flat Blade, the Kubinagagama by Nisaku a traditional Japanese weeding and cultivating tool. Perfect for reaching into raised beds and creating seed rows. The angled cutting blade design slices through soil, removing weeds below the ...

The legendary blacksmith Mr. Shigeyoshi Iwasak was born in 1933 and was trained by among others his father Dr. Iwasaki Kousuke that designed Iwasaki Kamisori also a metallurgist famous for classifying Japanese steels i.e. "yellow paper", "white paper", "blue paper" ...

Nagatsu-san's Ryoba saws are the epitome of this distinctly Japanese saw style. Hand peened, set and filed, the teeth are a high quality high carbon steel. Nagatsu-san's high gullets on the row of cross-cut teeth are each followed by a ...

This is the story of the author's apprenticeships with Japanese masters to build five unique and endangered traditional boats. It is part ethnography, part instruction, and part the personal story of a wooden boatbuilder fueled by a passion to preserve ...

To document and preserve an ancient craft tradition in danger of disappearing, Douglas Brooks apprenticed with five master boatbuilders in Japan between 1996 and 2010, building a different traditional wooden boat with each. His research and experiences were presented in ...

The STAR-M bit depth stops have integral ball bearings, so that when the coloured stop contacts your work surface, it immediately stops rotating. Typical depth stops continue to turn with the bit and leave a mark on the work surface ...

We think this is it - the most versatile, easy-to-use square we have yet come across. The Hiropita square by Shinwa takes our favourite things about the traditional Japanese sashigane and adapts them to a slightly larger form factor. These ...

Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese technique for repairing cracks and chips in pottery with lacquer and decorating with gold or silver. This kit from URUJYU is made with natural traditional ingredients such as tokusa plant which has been used since ...