KAKURIJapanese Block Plane 50mm for Woodworking, KANNA Smoothing Plane Manual Hand Planer Tool for Finishing Wood, 9.5 x 2.5 x 2.3 inches, ECO Oak Body, Made in JAPAN

This is a good product.An excellent little plain.Most people buying this produced will be familiar with how to adjust the cutting blade.If you are not you will find good instructions with the product and a link to a helpful video.The blade on mine was very very sharp. The steel appears to be of good quality and has remained sharp after some pretty hard use.Excellent.

I like this plain works very well.I use it to make chopsticks, works perfectly.

Ease of use

My first Japanese handplane, and I found this one easy to setup and start messing around with. It's good enough to convince me I may need another one to experiment with, but make no mistake it's not replacing my western planes. I somehow lucked into an old Stanley 605 and put a Hock blade in it and I've never seen thinner hardwood shavings than that combination can make, including YouTube videos of Japanese competitions. That said this has definite benefits on softwood and is WELL worth $17!A $17 Japanese plane couldn't possibly be worth its weight right? I mean the whole culture and tradition surrounding Japanese planes involves LOTS of man-hours invested hand tooling every piece... and obviously that costs more than $17... so what on earth is this thing?Well basically it appears to be a machine milled block (dai), and a die cut chunk of steel for a blade. That's really it, and there's nothing magic to it, but there are some small details that make this plane nearly ready to go right out of the package!I snapped some quick photos to illistrate what I'm talking about. The body is all just milled, but it's very flat from the front to the mouth and then ever so slightly relieved behind the mouth just like it should be. The mouth is all just milled, but because the blade is also just a stamped out piece the fit is already very close to what it should be and I expect will be exact after I work on the blade just a bit. I'll come back and finish this review after I hone it up and take some shavings, but so far I'm very pleased. I feel like I paid for a build your own plane kit, and got what looks like a truly functional tool!I have a Stanley 60 1/2 and was considering a new blade for it, but for less than the cost of an aftermarket blade I grabbed this and the Moore and Wright 4003 square I'm using as a straight edge in the pics. If this holds an edge and works endgrain well, it's a 5 star product at twice this price.Update: planed some yellow pine 2x4 without even sharpening it, just filed the blade and chip breaker a smidge to get a fit I liked in the dai and went to town. I knew the technique was backwards from a western plane but I didn't think about how much easier it would make it to line it up planing an edge to get a clean entry onto the board face. Normally with a block plane or Stanley 3 or 4 I might get a little sloppy on the first 1" or so of a board edge, but with this the start was perfect and then the very end got sloppy. Even with a factory sharpened blade it has a very cool burnishing effect on pine that I don't see with any western planes. I'm very satisfied with this purchase even if I only mess around with this on my little pine shop shiznit projects. For the price, size, and weight this thing will probably be with me anytime I do something in softwood. Interested to see how the edge holds up.

After using metal and transitional planes forover 50 years, I wore out the adustment parts on an aging block plane. My choice of this tool as a replacement was a revelation! Setup took 10 minutes of tapping with a tiny hammer and polishing the cap iron edges with 400 paper where it rubs the mortise sides.It shaved walnut and Spanish cedar like butter, and fit and finish are impressive. I'm sure it will perform well with harder woods due to its thick sharp blade and lack of vibration.Using a metal plane now feels odd.

I recently got the hand plane, and I'm new to using hand planes. The hand plane was a little tricky out of the box and required some sharpening to get it to run well. I sharpened the iron parts and they don't seem to line up quite right. It's clear that one side takes a larger bite out of the wood than the other side and I suspect it has to do with the inconsistency of the iron faces. This is probably a good plane if you spend the required time to get it all set up, but if you're looking for a plane that works well out of the box, I don't think that this is the one for you.

I've used hand planes for maybe 2 years as a hobbyist woodworker, and being very intrigued by Japanese style woodworking, I've always wanted to try one of these types of planes. Observing master craftsman adjust these planes always seemed intimidating to me, but when I found this listing on Amazon for such an affordable price, I figured why not try?Immediately I felt like I was holding a premium tool in my hand, with the body of the plane being smooth as glass, heavy weight, and the wood being a beautiful glassy surface. I couldn't believe I paid almost $200 for my western plane when I could have started with this.I don't have a brass hammer (which is softer than steel and preferred for adjustments), so I used my cheap rubber/plastic mallet for adjustments. With a few knocks, and in less than 2 minutes, I had it ready to go. I just used my eyes and lightly brushed over the mouth opening of the plane to see when the blade had come out enough, and with a little time I was producing shavings on padauk and hard maple that were better than my $200 plane ever made!I couldn't recommend this to woodworkers enough, and I think I would even tell beginners to start with one to get an easy and cheap entry into hand tool woodworking.

Better than I thought but I should've known with it being an old Japanese way of planing, of course they kno what they're doing. This thing works great. It is a little tricky trying to adjust the blade depth but just keep trying, you'll get it