SUIZAN Kanna Japanese Wood Planer 2" Double Blade - Hand Block Plane

I love it. Simple and works great. Easily adjustable. Crazy sharp blade.

Great hand plane! It comes sharp out of the box, which not even all premium ones will. It took about 30 minutes to tune up. This is standard for even more expensive Japanese planes. The size was as advertised, though I wasn't expecting it to be nearly as heavy as it was. I was able to use it one handed and still took red oak shavings as well as pine from Home Depot. It took paper thin shavings down to thick heavy curls. Use the hammer to tune the depth of the blade and you'll have your desired shavings! Overall/TLDR: EASY TO USE, SET UP, and excellent value! It is easy to adjust, and will last a long time!

Came packaged simply, little waste. Had a brand sticker on it, which i suppose is better than something permanent etched or embossed into the wood block. Little rubbing alcohol to get the residue off. It's really beautiful how simple it is in concept and execution. The block itself is very hard, very dense, very well worked. The blade came installed and fairly sharp and regular. Blade fits very snugly in the designated slot. Grasping the blade with pliers and tapping the back of the black with a wood hammer is a slow but effective way to adjust and remove the blade. Tapping the blade back in again with a wood hammer is also a slow and gentle process but allows you to fix the blade in place with only friction. I'm not sure if all of them come this tightly fit but it certainly suits me. I see that other reviews have had trouble with removing and adjusting the blade, which is unfortunate. With about 20 minutes of tinkering i was planing thin little ribbons off of fairly rough sawn surfaces and leaving very smooth flat finishes. Blade fits nicely in a sharpening jig. So far so good.

..at how I have been planing wood for decades and just now got a Japanese plane. I'd heard about them, seen them, wrote them off as an oddity and passed them by. This popped up on my suggestions list and since I was ordering some other tools, and this one is $20, it seemed cheap enough that there was nothing to Japanese planes, I wouldn't lose much. I took it to my bench and tried to figure it out. I couldn't decide how to get the iron out. It was stuck. No instructions in the plastic bag. I came back in to find a video and watched several. Back to the bench. None of the video solutions worked. I don't have the right kind of hammer, I thought. It looked fairly delicate and didn't want to do any permanent damage, so I finally, after half an hour, turned the thing sideways and pinched the iron into my drill press vise and gently, sort of, tapped the body (dai) off the iron with my smallest wooden mallet. It let go, slowly, and when I pulled the iron out to look, there was a stream of glue on the face (backside) of it. Apparently so the iron would not fall out during shipping halfway around the world. I scraped it off. I decided to not fool with it any further and just re-set the iron and see what it would do, no set-up, no tuning, no honing the iron. I was shocked. Really. I fiddled with that kanna (plane) for another hour with different kinds of wood. That is the best $20 I think I have ever spent on a finishing tool. I have high-dollar planes that are far more complicated, finicky, adjustable and put no better finish on softwoods than this kanna, out of the box, well, plastic bag. I have to believe it will do as well on hardwoods after I get a more serious edge on the iron, though I have to say, the factory edge is respectable . I put 2 tiny slices in my hand fooling with the iron in the beginning. I was treating it like the junk I suspected it to be. This tool is a small finishing plane. It is not a jack plane or jointer plane and will not do those jobs well I think, but for end and edge smoothing, I'd grab it as quickly as my $100 Stanly 9 1/2. And it isn't nearly as demanding or heavy.

Very bad description. This is a Japanese plane with a chip breaker, not a double bladed plane. Tuned and sharpened it works ok, not amazing. Performance is very dependent upon the user having very good skills at sharpening. Japanese planes are very sensitive to sharpness to get good performance.

We TJ’s great and perfect sized.

This thing is awesome. I have always used powered planers or push planers. The pull plane is far more controllable. There is a slight learning curve (I read books and such on how use the Japanese style). I like the fact that there are no screws and your depth and angle are adjusted by tapping the block with a hammer. Despite this I feel as though I have as much or more control over setting the cut depth. The planing iron in this is great. I used and abused it, cutting pine and just plowing through knots. It took a chip out on the blade about the size of a pen tip, that’s it. It sharpened out on hand stones in a few minutes and polished to mirror finish on my steps through the grit. Very nice steel.

Excelente

Muy bueno, se nota su calidad, madera dura pesada, y cuchillas bien afiladas, recomendable

Excellent

Razor sharp out of the box

Japanese plane with acceptable quality

J'adore cet outil!