Discover The Art Of Japanese Cutting Tools: Scissors and Shears

Discover The Art Of Japanese Cutting Tools: Scissors and Shears

Scissors and shears might seem like fairly simple, straightforward tools, yet they play a crucial role in a range of tasks for both the household a...
How To Remove Rust From Metal: 11 Different Methods

How To Remove Rust From Metal: 11 Different Methods

Rust is not only unsightly but can cause your tools to stop functioning or at least function less well. It also can be a pain to remove. If you are...
A Guide To Essential Gardening Tools

A Guide To Essential Gardening Tools

Whether you have a small garden bed, a large residential garden, or a plot of farmland, you’re going to need a range of gardening equipment to keep...
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Top Japanese Gun Makers & Their Iconic Weapons

Japan isn’t particularly known for its firearms and defense industry, yet in 2022 they were the world’s 39th largest weapons exporter, and the world’s 7th largest weapons importer. In fact, many of the top companies and conglomerates in Japan, including Nissan, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Subaru, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Daikin are making everything from rifles to anti-tank missiles.
How to Sharpen Knives With a Whetstone: The Best Method

How to Sharpen Knives With a Whetstone: The Best Method

If you use any kind of blade regularly, it will eventually lose its edge. Whether it’s a kitchen knife, a plane, a chisel, or a saw - blades often need replacing or re-sharpening. Sharpening most bladed tools and knives, luckily, is a fairly simple process. In this article we’ll explain how to sharpen a kitchen knife with a Japanese whetstone.
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Top 5 Best Screwdriver Sets That Are Better Than Phillips Screwdrivers

The best screwdriver set will always depend on your personal needs, but one thing’s for sure: there are always better options than settling for a typical Phillips screwdriver set. If you're not careful, Phillips screwdrivers will often eat up your screws leaving them bent and mangled. Then you’ll be stuck trying to work out how to remove all those broken screws.
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7 Great Types of Pruning Saws & Why You Need Them

Pruning large trees is important, not only to shape them and prevent overgrowth, but for safety. We often need to remove branches above property that could fall and cause damage during a storm, and branches that grow too close to power lines.

There are many types of pruning saws, and many types of blades, handles, and configurations. Each saw has its own set of strengths and weaknesses, so it’s important to choose the right saw for your use case.

Japanese Power Tools

The Ultimate List of the 24 Best Japanese Power Tool Brands

Japanese power tool brands consistently rank near the top of the list for customer satisfaction, durability, quality and innovativeness. Brands like Makita, Hikoki, Tone, Shindaiwa, Echo and Kioritz are known world-over for their incredible quality and longevity. This article hopes to introduce you to some of the Japanese power tool brands that you may not have heard of, as well as to answer some of the common questions about the brands you know and love.

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Buying Guide To The Top 7 Best Nata Japanese Axes Updated Every Year

Nata are great for pruning, stripping branches, cutting through brush and undergrowth, splitting logs and bamboo, and even cutting down whole trees. They’re versatile and multi-functional, to a level much greater than a western axe or hatchet. They’re an extremely useful tool for gardening, land-clearing, and forestry.

We’ve ranked the top seven Japanese nata axes, so that if you’re in the market for a nata this year, you can know with confidence that you’re choosing the right one.

Top 5 Best Pruning Saws Updated Every Year: Know What to Look For

Top 5 Best Pruning Saws Updated Every Year: Know What to Look For

Pruning is something a lot of us neglect. Every summer, especially if you’re in a tropical or subtropical climate, there’s an explosion of plant gr...
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Kiridashi: The Ultimate Marking Knife for Perfect Woodworking

Kiridashi knives are marking knives, carving knives, leather knives, and everyday carry (EDC) knives. In fact, they’re probably the closest we can get to the best EDC knife. They’re cheap, easy to use, and extremely durable. They’re loved by carpenters as marking knives, they’re used by leather workers for detailed cuts and paring, they’re handy for cutting ropes and opening boxes, and they’re used for pruning and detailing bonsai trees. The purpose of this article is to introduce you to the kiridashi knife, and show you why you need one in your tool kit.
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All About Nata: The Japanese Axe – or Is It a Machete?

What is a Japanese nata tool? Well, some people call it an axe, others call it a hatchet, and more still call it a machete. Let’s examine some of the types of nata, and some other Japanese axes, to see if we can’t work out an answer.