@@AdrianPreda Hi Adrian, did you ever make a video on the planing jig? I can't see one but I figured it can't hurt to ask. Your channel is inspiring me to get started on simple handtool creations such as boxes and Kumiko work. Thanks for some amazing content.
Great! I admire kumikos. I read Mike Pekovich's articles how to make it. But he's using power tools for the strips. This is a great way for those, who dont have table saw (like me).
Thanks! I follow also M P and enjoy his work. I believe that with a table saw, no mater the quality of the blade you will have some saw marks, and it's quite impossible to sand after without altering the edges and the thickness of the strip. It may be run after on a drum sander, but at the cost of one, even a cheap model... :) A good clean solution with power tools I heard are the Proxxon tools. The FET table saw and the thickness planer leave a nice finish, but again, these two may go over 1000$ :) Kumiko patterns usually are not finished with oils and lacquer, they rely on the glass smooth finish made by the plane in the process of sizing them.
Your jig is exactly like mine, with the spacers in the middle. So much work goes into making those strips! And the waste grows even more if you use any power tool to speed things up!
GREAT video - I almost fell off of my chair when I saw you pull out a ryoba saw to cut these strips!! I know the header said HAND tools, but that is a very loose term these days. Thank you for posting this video, I enjoyed it to no end and learned quite a bit watching it. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! I admit that I wanted to show also that you can cut those by the bandsaw, but at that time, just a couple of days before, I broke the only bade I had :))
Ingenios sablonul de grosime, iar maiestria se vede la taierea anterioara a suvitelor de lemn. Foarte frumoasa treaba. Plus micul banc de lucru. Il admir deja de ceva vreme :)
the bird sounds in the background are so relaxing (on top of the calm classical music) - I have (lots of) basswood, and will evolve the set of jigs to go this. I think that I have most of the tools. There will be some kumiko in my future. This seems so much more "refined" than the power-tool version of strip-preparation. you are using a low-angle plane - is it because that is "what you had", or do you think that the low-angle makes this process "better" or "easier"? I have a new-to-me Lee Valley 4-1/2 smoothing plane that will probably be what I would use LV is just down the street - maybe I just go get their kanna and give that a try - for all of the good reasons that you would want to own a Japanese plane - and do your 2-step process
Great video (as all the others)! I'll try to make a similar planing jig for small pieces. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge in such a careful way!
bravo domnule barbos! (am vazut barba o fractiune de secunda) :)) ideea cu sablonul pentru grosimea betelor e super tare! o sa o folosesc si eu! Succes si multe like-uri!
Very interesting. In a book on shoji and kumiko I have to get the final strips the guy used a riving knife to cut them instead of a saw, essentially splitting the grain then planed the next face. The book was by a guy called Toshio Odate if you're interested. Like your thicknessing jig very much.
BEAUTIFUL EXQUISITE WORK,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,have you been doing this kind of work for years and how long did it take you to reach this quality and precision? thanks,,,,,,,,,very inspiring...........
Hi, when planing to thickness, do you find that the wood is sometimes pulled up by the blade and so planes too thin? I have found this with my own thickness jig.
wow, all this handmade, no machine, very impressive. Great video. You just awakened my passion for kumiko. I started to buy some tool (planes, chisels, saws) to start it. But why using the kanna (min 5:57) to thin the strips ? Is the kanna more "accurate" than de western plane you're using (it's a very good Veritas plane if I'm not mistaken) ? I do not know anything about japanese planes and don't understand what's the interest of buying one.
You can get "Skinny sticks" at wall mart to try small patterns with. im currently trying a 100mm square piece. with them they are 146 x 6.35 x 2 mm made of some kind of hardwood. i couldn't cut wood like this by hand and i have no table saw so it was the next best thing.
Hey Adrian, I've been trying to research on how to make Kumiko strips and have watched your video several times, but as a noob and lazy person I can't imagine rip cutting over and over again, and honestly can't imagine historical woodworkers doing this. Been trying to do some research and I've found a tool called a "Wari-Kebiki" (Splitting Gauge). It's essentially a marking gauge but goes all the way through the wood, making rip cuts literally take less than 30 seconds. You could buy 1/8th thin stock and split it with the Wari Kebiki. The only downside I see to this is the cost to wood ratio.
With the kebiki you need to have a very soft wood to go >6mm width for ex (2×3mm, two passes on both sides). Riping harder woods like walnut, even this basswood is not that soft, will be difficult. But I normally use the bandsaw to rip. Here I wanted to show this option as well but my only bsaw blade was broken then😀
Yet another very satisfying video to watch from you. Thank you! I love your content, please never stop. Sad that there's so much waste, but I guess that's how it is. :)
Thanks! I have a cheapo china 2.5$ shipping included digital caliper that shows only one decimal, xx.x. I found out that 0.1mm is acceptable, so if it measures 2.0 or 2.1mm is ok. Much important is that your all your strips to be the same thickness, lay them one to another and feel with your finger any difference. Also, do not change your blade depth adjustment during planing the strips.
I am so impressed and happy to find your channel, where are you located? I am thinking to take a class (I live in London) of Kumiko, would be just one patter, but I want to learn much more and here in London is not many options =( Tell me you are in London and you teach =)=)=)
Amazing video. Do you plane the faces cut by the dozuki on the final cuts or leave them un-planed? Is the finish OK from just the dozuki? Also, would you use this same method fork for slightly larger pieces like e.g. shoji frames or use a different approach + tools? Thanks!
Thanks! Yes, if you notice, after I cut with the dozuki I run the strip on the thickness planing jig. The strip, after is cut by the dozuki, has a square trapezoidal form (one side has been already joint before), so when planing on the jig practically I transform the trapezoid into a rectangle. Sure, I use this technique with small pieces too, which are not wider than the jig width (plane's blade width). For example almost all my recently made boxes, the stock of the frame is prepared in this way
Adrian Preda Thanks for the reply. A suggestion for a future video: Oke stave making technique using hand tools. I can't figure it out without a specialized curved draw knife which is hard to find. I also am having a hard time figuring out how to make copper bands to bind together the oke.
Thank you for this video! I'm going to buy your plans on Etsy to try to make some mini lamps. May I ask what the dimensions are of the basswood lumber before cutting? I can see the width to be about 106mm.
Thanks! It doesn't matter what lumber section you have, use whatever you can get and divided so you make groups of strips as you desire. If you use the same technique with the plane thickness jig try to make the intermediate big strips around 1/2 to 2/3 of the plane's blade width, so it will be easy to plane. For example here, I was aiming 6x3mm kumiko strips I remember, so I made the intermediate strips at 6x30mm in order to obtain 5 kumiko strips. 30/5=6mm for each kumiko assuming half will be wasted from saw and plane.
I do use the bandsaw now to make those cuts and the loss is less but not so much gain. I use a 1/4" 10tpi blade, it's ok, but I want to try a 14tpi too to have them more clean so will ease the planing after
@@AdrianPreda I dont have a bandsaw yet and thought that maybe wit a well set bandsaw I could avoid the planing. So cutting with a bandsaw doesnt leave a clean cut?
Not even the table saw, will still have blade marks. Bandsaw will shorten the time, and the cleaner it is less work on planing. But planing is necessary, it leaves a nice glass finish.
The loss can be higher if you start from a rough piece of timber. You take out the bark, live edge, heart wood, joint it, plane it and will probably go to another 50% (here was already sized the initial one)
Nice video. A lot of patience and skills is needed for this stuff. Good job
Thanks man, glad you like it! Yes, and tobacco :))
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The way he saws the work piece evenly around all the corners so the cut finishes in the middle is genius. No tear-out
Wow, this was indeed done by handtools. Nice smooth work, must have a steady hand to handsaw kumiko!
Thanks Bjorn! Steady fingers more :)) When the strip lowers after many cuts I barely can hold it to cut.
Outstanding work young man. So peaceful watching your videos.
Many thanks Sir! I'm glad you enjoy my videos!
This whole video was pure relaxation.
Thank you!
Episode can be called: "Strip Tease"...! Making Jigs for repeatability...Good craftmanship...! Excellent video Adrian.
Hi Jakob! Nice to see you again :) Many thanks!
Very nice work Adrian. That's a handy planing jig.
Thanks John! Yes, it's a dirty version of it, but works great. Probably when will wear off I will make a cool one, and a video too :D
@@AdrianPreda Hi Adrian, did you ever make a video on the planing jig? I can't see one but I figured it can't hurt to ask.
Your channel is inspiring me to get started on simple handtool creations such as boxes and Kumiko work. Thanks for some amazing content.
@@carlinglis7705 little late but I think it would be cool if he made a whole video on jigs/how to make jigs
Great! I admire kumikos. I read Mike Pekovich's articles how to make it.
But he's using power tools for the strips.
This is a great way for those, who dont have table saw (like me).
Thanks! I follow also M P and enjoy his work. I believe that with a table saw, no mater the quality of the blade you will have some saw marks, and it's quite impossible to sand after without altering the edges and the thickness of the strip. It may be run after on a drum sander, but at the cost of one, even a cheap model... :) A good clean solution with power tools I heard are the Proxxon tools. The FET table saw and the thickness planer leave a nice finish, but again, these two may go over 1000$ :) Kumiko patterns usually are not finished with oils and lacquer, they rely on the glass smooth finish made by the plane in the process of sizing them.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowlege with us.
Looking forward for part two!
Wonderful, you have changed my life for the better, I kid you not. Many thanks..
Your jig is exactly like mine, with the spacers in the middle. So much work goes into making those strips! And the waste grows even more if you use any power tool to speed things up!
Thanks for sharing. You have amazing control of those handsaws - great work
Thank you! Also the marking prior to cutting helps considerably the job
Amazing work Adrian. Every video I watch of yours a gets a little bit smarter ;)
Thanks! Appreciate that!
GREAT video - I almost fell off of my chair when I saw you pull out a ryoba saw to cut these strips!! I know the header said HAND tools, but that is a very loose term these days. Thank you for posting this video, I enjoyed it to no end and learned quite a bit watching it. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! I admit that I wanted to show also that you can cut those by the bandsaw, but at that time, just a couple of days before, I broke the only bade I had :))
Ingenios sablonul de grosime, iar maiestria se vede la taierea anterioara a suvitelor de lemn. Foarte frumoasa treaba. Plus micul banc de lucru. Il admir deja de ceva vreme :)
Mersi! Bancul cred ca-l updatez in curand, mut menghina pe acel planing board din iroko plus ceva modificari
Absolutely stunning and a pleasure to watch you work!
Thank you Bill!
Very relaxing!! Nice job my friend 👌
Many thanks Mik!
It took me a while but finally I watched the video. What shall I say? Another great video, Adrian!
Thank you Marco! No prob😁 Today there will be part 2😁
Great job.... man with gold hands..... I love your skills...
Thanks man! Me too, yours :)
I keep rewatching your videos, they're so relaxing, learning and getting me excited to go back to my shop :) Love it!
the bird sounds in the background are so relaxing (on top of the calm classical music) - I have (lots of) basswood, and will evolve the set of jigs to go this. I think that I have most of the tools. There will be some kumiko in my future. This seems so much more "refined" than the power-tool version of strip-preparation.
you are using a low-angle plane - is it because that is "what you had", or do you think that the low-angle makes this process "better" or "easier"? I have a new-to-me Lee Valley 4-1/2 smoothing plane that will probably be what I would use
LV is just down the street - maybe I just go get their kanna and give that a try - for all of the good reasons that you would want to own a Japanese plane - and do your 2-step process
Great video (as all the others)!
I'll try to make a similar planing jig for small pieces.
Thank you for sharing all this knowledge in such a careful way!
Well edited, great music & great technique, thanks
Thanks for the feedback!
bravo domnule barbos! (am vazut barba o fractiune de secunda) :)) ideea cu sablonul pentru grosimea betelor e super tare! o sa o folosesc si eu! Succes si multe like-uri!
Hahaha, mersi! Era, acum nu mai e, am rindeluit-o :)
Very interesting. In a book on shoji and kumiko I have to get the final strips the guy used a riving knife to cut them instead of a saw, essentially splitting the grain then planed the next face. The book was by a guy called Toshio Odate if you're interested. Like your thicknessing jig very much.
BEAUTIFUL EXQUISITE WORK,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,have you been doing this kind of work for years and how long did it take you to reach this quality and precision? thanks,,,,,,,,,very inspiring...........
Thanks! I started woodworking about 3 years ago doing it in my apartment room :)
@@AdrianPreda thankyou
This is truly brilliant. Can’t wait for the next one
Thank you! Next week if agw :D And, the following one too, making a kumiko box.
Hand-sawing mastery!
Always always waiting for the next one
Never never bored with your skill
Love it
Thank you very much! Happy to hear that!
Very cool! I like your thickness fixture! Thank you.
Thank you Robert too for watching!
Thank you for this! I need to make a thickness jig. Many good tips you shared here
Glad you like it! Yes, that jig I use it every time, not only in kumiko, to dimension small stocks.
Could you do a video on making the thickness jig?
Complimenti per la precisione e per la pazienza.
Grazie Andrea! Il prossimo video, dove faccio un modelo Kumiko, avra piu di questi :))
Hi, when planing to thickness, do you find that the wood is sometimes pulled up by the blade and so planes too thin? I have found this with my own thickness jig.
wow, all this handmade, no machine, very impressive. Great video. You just awakened my passion for kumiko. I started to buy some tool (planes, chisels, saws) to start it. But why using the kanna (min 5:57) to thin the strips ? Is the kanna more "accurate" than de western plane you're using (it's a very good Veritas plane if I'm not mistaken) ? I do not know anything about japanese planes and don't understand what's the interest of buying one.
Beautiful job Adrian!
Many thanks!
Great video... and great music choices!!!!!
Very impressive. I admire the dedication and skill to do that all with hand tools.
Many thanks Matt! Tomorrow I hope to enjoy admiring your work too :D
Inspiring, entertaining and educational, indeed; spiritual too!
Thanks
Thank you also for watching!
what kind of wood are the strips made from
Basswood, linden
@@AdrianPreda and the Japanese also use linden ?
You can get "Skinny sticks" at wall mart to try small patterns with. im currently trying a 100mm square piece. with them they are 146 x 6.35 x 2 mm made of some kind of hardwood.
i couldn't cut wood like this by hand and i have no table saw so it was the next best thing.
Great viedo! what is the size of the strips?
Hey Adrian, I've been trying to research on how to make Kumiko strips and have watched your video several times, but as a noob and lazy person I can't imagine rip cutting over and over again, and honestly can't imagine historical woodworkers doing this. Been trying to do some research and I've found a tool called a "Wari-Kebiki" (Splitting Gauge). It's essentially a marking gauge but goes all the way through the wood, making rip cuts literally take less than 30 seconds. You could buy 1/8th thin stock and split it with the Wari Kebiki. The only downside I see to this is the cost to wood ratio.
With the kebiki you need to have a very soft wood to go >6mm width for ex (2×3mm, two passes on both sides). Riping harder woods like walnut, even this basswood is not that soft, will be difficult. But I normally use the bandsaw to rip. Here I wanted to show this option as well but my only bsaw blade was broken then😀
@shane McCarthy. How do you think they would have gotten the wood down to that thickness?
FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO AÑO NUEVO 2025.
Yet another very satisfying video to watch from you. Thank you!
I love your content, please never stop.
Sad that there's so much waste, but I guess that's how it is. :)
Thank you! Yes, it may be reduced somehow but there are many pieces to be cut, waste is inevitable😁
Hi. You’ve made an excellent video. When planing the strips, what is considered acceptable tolerance in their their thickness.
Thanks! I have a cheapo china 2.5$ shipping included digital caliper that shows only one decimal, xx.x. I found out that 0.1mm is acceptable, so if it measures 2.0 or 2.1mm is ok. Much important is that your all your strips to be the same thickness, lay them one to another and feel with your finger any difference. Also, do not change your blade depth adjustment during planing the strips.
Thanks. That’s very helpful
Incredible! Love your videos
Thank you!
Once again amazing bloody amazing
Thank you Barry!
Like always an awesome video... congrats!!!
What kind of wood do you use??? It’s basswood???
Thank you! Indeed, it's basswood.
Me interesa adquirir manual de Carpinteria Kumiko y Herramientas Manuales, es posible? Gracias
So good job you're a Master...
Thanks🙂
Great video, thanks for sharing! Particularly interesting the not on material loss.
Thanks! Yes, the loss % was just trivia stuff :)
Great job and video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching also!
What do you do with the wood shavings? can you make home made aper with them or anything?
Or do you have a fireplace/camp fire?
Barbecue, throw them in the chicken's coop or at garbage :)
I loved watching this. Thank you.
Thanks you also! Glad you like it!
Thank you very much. I am going to use some of these idea with other stuff. You helped much. Does anyone know what the metal plain was?
Thanks for watching too! It's a Veritas Low Angle smoothing plane, link in description
I am so impressed and happy to find your channel, where are you located? I am thinking to take a class (I live in London) of Kumiko, would be just one patter, but I want to learn much more and here in London is not many options =( Tell me you are in London and you teach =)=)=)
Bravissimo Adrian!!!
Amazing video. Do you plane the faces cut by the dozuki on the final cuts or leave them un-planed? Is the finish OK from just the dozuki? Also, would you use this same method fork for slightly larger pieces like e.g. shoji frames or use a different approach + tools? Thanks!
Thanks! Yes, if you notice, after I cut with the dozuki I run the strip on the thickness planing jig. The strip, after is cut by the dozuki, has a square trapezoidal form (one side has been already joint before), so when planing on the jig practically I transform the trapezoid into a rectangle. Sure, I use this technique with small pieces too, which are not wider than the jig width (plane's blade width). For example almost all my recently made boxes, the stock of the frame is prepared in this way
Adrian Preda Thanks for the reply. A suggestion for a future video: Oke stave making technique using hand tools. I can't figure it out without a specialized curved draw knife which is hard to find. I also am having a hard time figuring out how to make copper bands to bind together the oke.
nice vid, but @ 1:41 are you not using the crosscut side of the saw, instead of the rip side?
Thanks! Yes, it's the rip side there.
He is using the rip side ;) It's correct
Thank you for this video! I'm going to buy your plans on Etsy to try to make some mini lamps. May I ask what the dimensions are of the basswood lumber before cutting? I can see the width to be about 106mm.
Thanks! It doesn't matter what lumber section you have, use whatever you can get and divided so you make groups of strips as you desire. If you use the same technique with the plane thickness jig try to make the intermediate big strips around 1/2 to 2/3 of the plane's blade width, so it will be easy to plane. For example here, I was aiming 6x3mm kumiko strips I remember, so I made the intermediate strips at 6x30mm in order to obtain 5 kumiko strips. 30/5=6mm for each kumiko assuming half will be wasted from saw and plane.
@@AdrianPreda Understood! Thank you very much!
What are the measurements of your strips?
How wide by how thick?
Thanks for sharing. This was great.
Craftsmen worthy work.
Many thanks!
Awesome work!
Thank you!
which type of wood would be recommended?
Basswood works the best, although any wood can be suitable
What tools do you use
Bravo, Adi!
Îți doresc succes și... să nu ți se termine răbdarea.
Multumesc😁
The 58% lost you'll save on your tools. No expansive tools for simple problems. And finaly it's a hobby. I loved you video.
58% loss is way more than I expected handtools to make. do you think a bandsaw can be set up accurate enough to minimalize planing?
I do use the bandsaw now to make those cuts and the loss is less but not so much gain. I use a 1/4" 10tpi blade, it's ok, but I want to try a 14tpi too to have them more clean so will ease the planing after
@@AdrianPreda I dont have a bandsaw yet and thought that maybe wit a well set bandsaw I could avoid the planing. So cutting with a bandsaw doesnt leave a clean cut?
Not even the table saw, will still have blade marks. Bandsaw will shorten the time, and the cleaner it is less work on planing. But planing is necessary, it leaves a nice glass finish.
you are awesome!! only applauses
Thank you! Glad you like it!
How if the kumiko strip more longer (2m) and thinner (2mm)?
You make a longer thickness jig. I made mine ~35cm/13" cause I don't make kumikos bigger than that
With this method, the strip will curved if more longer than 30cm.
Can you perhaps share drawings to replicate the handmade plane thickness jig?
What a tease... I love this channel though.
Thank you!
What kind of wood do you use here?
basswood
In which language is this kumiko book?
English
waiting for part 2 :)
Next week if agw :)
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Gracias Emilio!
Muito bom!
asa ma frate! fuarte frumos!
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شكراً لك التقدير عمل رائع 😎 💕
Thanks for watching!
すごいねー！
Wow.
Nice
Thank you!
👍
👍👍👍🇹🇷
one word, circular saw
Someone buy this man a tablesaw!
🤪😅
Yeah, on viewers demand :))
Adrian Preda thanks Adrian, nice job 👍👍 (and I really love this thickness jig 😍)
That is not the correct way to use Japanese Kanna. You won't get a good job if you use it that way.
smecher ce faci aici... iese bani din asa ceva?
58% loss.no wonder why some of those are expensive.
also, 100% handwork, more handwork and you would be planing those with your nails.
The loss can be higher if you start from a rough piece of timber. You take out the bark, live edge, heart wood, joint it, plane it and will probably go to another 50% (here was already sized the initial one)
What is this
If u had not make it then y waist others time
Мазохизм)))
haha, yes almost :)
waste of time...