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nice planes migs, can you post the store name and prices, will be in HK someday... 🙂

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Here's the link to the store i got the planes from http://mujingfang.com/eng/p5.asp

There is also a map in that site. You can try to call them once your there, but if you can't speak the language like me then its better to go straight there.

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any review yet? can you compare it to the Stanleys you have?

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I haven't gotten around to really using them yet. Need to finish a project first. But i'll try to do a review when i get to play with them more.

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After delivering a commissioned piece, i decided to pass by the pasig wood store and get some food for my handplanes today.

After an hour of looking i got these

mahogany. ipil and acacia

All these are quite rough as is all the lumber from that store. That means quite a workout to get these into furniture shape but im looking forward to it. These would also give me a chance to try out the mujingfang planes i recently got.

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I decided to start working on the ipil first. Since its quite rough, my scrub plane gets first dibs

After hogging out the rough layer, i brought out the stanley #5 and mujingfang jack plane.

I got to compare the differences between a steel plane and a wooden bodied one, and the biggest difference was the weight. The stanley#5 is way heavier than the muji.

In planing a board at this stage, it is more tiring to use the stanley. The hard part in using the muji was setting it. I got the stanley to work right away while it took a while to get the muji to get consistent shavings.

It has to be noted that the stanley has been fettled to some degree while the muji was used out of the box..err.out of the newspaper that is hehe. But as seen in the pictures the mujing fang already takes good shavings. The blade is iirc a dual steel blade. The bottom part is hss while the rest is a different steel. I dont know why they did this though. Another noticeable positive for the muji was the thicker blade. This helped take out chatter while planing. so far im quite happy with the muji jack, can't wait to see how this performs when the blade is properly honed. Stay tuned..

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moji,
would the muji blade fit the stanley plane?

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I compared the two blades, unfortunately the blade of the stanley is wider than that of the mujingfang. Not to mention the configuration of the slots is different too.

Here is a close up of the HSS blade combo

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Im quite happy with the muji jack plane, set properly it produces consistent full width shavings.

After much work, i got one side of the ipil ready, flat and devoid of twist.

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Im quite happy with the muji jack plane, set properly it produces consistent full width shavings.

After much work, i got one side of the ipil ready, flat and devoid of twist.

that is one sweet handplane moji, but you know what? with a thicknesser, you can have it done drinking softdrink... hahahaha...

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True true true Timber and I'm not one who should disagree being so power planing crazy however there is virtue in a plane whizzing across a workpiece producing a long continuous sliver of wood. You might even call it music.

I've not heard that sound since I was a boy. Back then all of U.P.'s furniture was made in its own woodworking shop. On weekends the carpenters would moonlight and occasionally they'd come to our house and make us this and that ... I clearly remember my study desk being made. It was always amazing for me to watch them. No power tools back then just wood block planes, chisels, a saw, a marking gauge, a foldout ruler, a pitik, and sometimes a bit brace would be in their bags.

Galing! I'd not be surprised if this was one of the things that keeps me coming back to working wood.

@moji

You must be really really good to be able to plane those planks with such nutty, but beautiful, grain patterns. Me I'll still to watching guys like you and my power planers 🙂

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Reminded me of this video of someone demonstrating a Japanese handplane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGlEIcotjcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28zgQS1eXfg
The shavings look like toilet paper, only thinner. Interesting to watch the onlookers try it and struggle, whereas master makes it look easy. It looks like a full body workout, involving the abdominal and leg muscles for power and control.

I think the whizzing sound can be heard here:
Jay van Arsdale's Kanna DVD

Which reminds me, Japanese sawhorse still on my to-do list.

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Great links there Bro. Yup that's the kind of high planing skill I had in mind though my childhood memory is of a carpenter pushing a plane about 6 feet in one go with a continuous ribbon coming out of the plane.

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that is one sweet handplane moji, but you know what? with a thicknesser, you can have it done drinking softdrink.

I know..hehe but i don't have one yet..I would probably get one just because i do commissioned work..

but still, somehow i really like handplaning. Quite addicting, relaxing yet tiring at the same time. Plus low levels of noise, i was able to prepare that ipil all at night and at the wee hours of the morning.

Incc,

thanks but think the wood had more to do with it than my skill. This is my first time using ipil and it is surprisingly easy to plane.

guad,

Those japanese are really in a different level. I guess it's because they treat woodworking as an art. I'd be really happy if i got my smoothing planes to take shavings like that haha