Tsunesaburo 70mm Maboroshi Smoothing Plane
Uradashi — the periodic tapping-out of a plane blade's hollow back — is among the more demanding aspects of maintaining a traditional Japanese hand plane, and the reason many craftsmen never fully commit to one. The Maboroshi, whose name translates as phantom or illusion, addresses this directly. Tsunesaburo engineered the blade with a gently curved back profile rather than a hollow ground one, so sharpening requires only flat whetting on the back face. No tapping. No special technique. The cutting steel itself is Aogami No. 1, a high-carbon blue paper steel valued for edge retention and its response to natural whetstones. The 70mm blade is bedded into a white oak dai at 38 degrees in the tsutsumi-bori style, with a cutting edge ground to 26 to 27 degrees. For a craftsman who wants a serious Tsunesaburo plane without the maintenance discipline a traditional hollow-back demands, the Maboroshi is the considered answer.
Original: $480.00
-65%$480.00
$168.00
Description
Uradashi — the periodic tapping-out of a plane blade's hollow back — is among the more demanding aspects of maintaining a traditional Japanese hand plane, and the reason many craftsmen never fully commit to one. The Maboroshi, whose name translates as phantom or illusion, addresses this directly. Tsunesaburo engineered the blade with a gently curved back profile rather than a hollow ground one, so sharpening requires only flat whetting on the back face. No tapping. No special technique. The cutting steel itself is Aogami No. 1, a high-carbon blue paper steel valued for edge retention and its response to natural whetstones. The 70mm blade is bedded into a white oak dai at 38 degrees in the tsutsumi-bori style, with a cutting edge ground to 26 to 27 degrees. For a craftsman who wants a serious Tsunesaburo plane without the maintenance discipline a traditional hollow-back demands, the Maboroshi is the considered answer.
