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As promised to Beelzebubby, here are some photos of tools I peruse. Some self made, some are not but my guess is that they are not all that common to most people out there.

From top left they are as follows:
1) Kiri tagane, these are basically japanese chisels for carving metal.
2) Kiri tagane (what happens in photos 2 & 3 is that the kebori chisel is so magnetised that the chisel for shishiai-bori and katakiri-bori are stuck to it, the other chisels in the photos are smaller versions of the basic set of 4 plus one which I have found handy to gouge large pieces of material when preparing for inlay)
3)Kiri tagane
4)Giri tagane, these are japanese punches to move metal around like you would in western chasing and repousse. With the exception of tools 1,2 and 3 from left in that photo, which I use for inlay. Some of the others there are used for textures as well.
5)Giri tagane, as I said above some of these are for textures, there you can see one for Chidori-ji (the one with the shape of an Y which leaves the impression of sea-birds in the sand), nanako (fish roe), Ishime-ji (a slightly dented and irregular surface treatment), etc. The Nanako one needs to be remade.
6) And that is why I have all these blanks (Tagane Sunobe).
7) Is a selection of tools both self made and made for me. The bigger files on the right were made for me by a friend. The smaller ones by me. As well as the small miniature hand spoke shave, knives and chisels (these ones for wood and other organic materials). The last three are two copper tipped pushers and a groove cutter for when I attempt Nunome Zogan (a type of japanese inlay which uses gold or silver foil usually which is forced on a very fine grid made by the indentations left by the groove cutter chisel).
8) Polishing tools and a small wooden vice from Dick Fine Tools. The cord bound brushes are called thus: Karukaya Uzukuri (Hard "grit", made out of the root of japanese nutmeg); Bakin Uzukuri (Medium grit, made with the leaf of Agave); Umage Uzukuri (Soft grit, made with horse hair). The smaller one is also made with horse hair and that one was purchased from Jim Kelso who very kindly parted with it. The scrapers are japanese in style and self made and the vice is just for working with organic materials which allow themselves to be held in it.
9)&10) Kanazuchi, basically hammers used in different aspects of japanese metal work. The 6 you see from the left to the middle (yeah that includes the one without a handle) you can see used for raising vessels amongst other things in books like Kinko Dento Geiho. The other ones are typically used in Chokin (carving) and they come in a wide range of weights and diameters for different requirements.

Well that's all. Apologies for the hastily put together crappy collage but I had no time for anything better.

Hope you enjoy.

I recommend you download the original file as otherwise you will not be able to get a proper view of the tools and yeah I am aware not all of you will want to do that but I care not. It was one file or 10 separate submissions.

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That is almost a full Hyllyn's Studio in one image! Too much to learn from you, watching is not enough, you touch each item and your soul created many artworks from these items, much appreciate it!
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That's awesome that you use mostly handmade tools!!

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Oh look over there.... fills pockets and inches towards the door! ;)

Very nice bro, the cord bound brushes are sweet!! I have seen people using sawdust to burnish pieces on the lathe and these would work a treat, I will have to experiment with different materials.

I have often toyed with the idea of engraved copper plaques inlaid into some of the furniture I make, I think I will go through some of the old files I have collected and give them a grind to copy some of the profiles here. Very helpful, thanks for putting this up.

Cheers,

Pete.

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Well obviously I use other non handmade tools, although I do foster a passion for wanting to make all my tools (that would include welders, etc) but the costs of building up a electrolytic cell reliable enough to produce hydrogen and oxygen for a oxyhydride torch are unjustifiable when there are people who make it for less.

I do have some other tools to make which probably people here have never seen, mostly out of old dentistry books (as you might know most of them were originally jewellers' tools) and other rarities coming from all sort of trades.

I'm glad you enjoyed this.

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Yeah the brushes are a treat. First time I heard of them was when Ataru Maeda a netsuke carver/artist referred to them and other grasses being used bound to bring out the grain during polishing on japanese wood that is originally or normally found in areas with volcanic activity or in peat bog like conditions, I believe it is normally a type of cedar he was referring to but I will check what I have saved on it and post it here.

I will most definitely try and gather some grasses I have seen which seem to contain a fair amount of coarse grain in their leaves as they live near dunes so that could be an interesting nature-ready-made sand paper.

If you need to I will get some copies across of the profiles of the tools as they appear on the books.

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Oh come on, I'm only young and learning (too much to learn still for me and so it should be).

I do hope however that many worthy artworks will be made with these though. I'm glad you appreciate this image.

Take care

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very cool =)

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I love japanese cedar, or Cryptomeria Japonica, it is one of the most durable timbers bar none. The oldest standing timber structure is a Japanese Buddhist temple made of cedar dating back to 850 ad.

It is considered a sacred tree in Japan, when the timber is burnished properly the play of light really dances across the surface as you walk across a room... stunning. It was commonly grown as windbreaks in old gardens in our area and I have a nice stash of slabs sourced through a friend who is a local tree lopper to work with. This is a piece I have made from it. [link]

I can understand why they use these brushes for raising and burnishing the grain as it is a really oily timber and it can be hard to get it to except a finish evenly around knots, you can bleach the oils out using Oxalic acid but it does bleach some of the colour out as well.

Tough native clumping varieties of grasses in Australia have a very high salt/silica content, so I suspect it may not be the texture as such but the silica content that acts as an abrasive. Also the silica content would be higher still in the fiberous roots.

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Thanks for the background my friend.

The timber I was referring to is indeed japanese cedar but in its variety known as Jin Dai Sugi (some places refer to it as Jin Di Sugi) Look at this [link] and then you will see the stuff I mean.

Also click on the Lotus table here and then on the support for the table itself that connects it to the base and you will see what I mean.
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The cedar (some like that link say it is cypress but according to Ataru Maeda who is the president of the Japanese Ivory carvers association it is not and it is cedar indeed) is buried (sometimes on purpose with volcanic ash) or found in peat bog like conditions and then dug up after some time. The one in the first link the timber is 3672 years old from what Ataru said.

Indeed once more you are correct, the silica content in the grass is what is supposed to add silica to the japanese steel, and likewise it is to be expected that it would be of use when polishing with it.

By the way, the photos in the japanese link are clickable and will lead to many more photos such as there which I am sure you will enjoy.
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Best regards

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