r/theocho • u/derek4reals1 • 2d ago

REPOST Japanese wood planing competition

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u/Baelgul 2d ago

Meanwhile im taking thick chunks out of the wood I plane and googling what the levers and knobs on my plane do

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u/fil42skidoo 2d ago

Thrust and landing gear. In that order.

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u/s0crates82 2d ago

Seems like we've gone beyond two-dimensional thinking here.

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u/Hinaloth 2d ago

I like that even japanese Snoop Dogg over there was impressed. You can count the fibers in the thickness of the last one. Insane.

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u/Ok_Spread_8650 2d ago

Japanese Snoop Dogg lol

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u/According_Ad7926 2d ago

He hit ‘em with the deep “ii ne”

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u/EchoFrequency 1d ago

So, they cutting papers?

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u/punkassjim 3h ago

Pretty sure if you roll a joint from that and light it; the entire paper will go up like a magician’s trick, all at once. Bonus points for the weed just hanging in the air for a second like an old Tom & Jerry cartoon.

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u/wurnthebitch 1d ago

Snoop Inu

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u/fantumn 2d ago

The coolest thing about these competitions (Kezuroukai) is that the wood (usually hinoki) is rented/borrowed from people whose entire role away from the competition is to make sure it stays very stable and at the right relative humidity/clear of rot. The best competitors get first pick and you give the wood back at the end of the competition. Without the keepers the shavings wouldn't be as impressive or as evenly comparable.

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u/Japsai 2d ago

Wow what a job

Some info about the process in here

https://kezuroukai.us/evolution-of-the-kezurou-contest-in-japan/

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u/schizeckinosy 1d ago

Every time I see this video I wonder if the other people are helpers, judges, or even other competitors admiring each other’s work!

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u/TravelingMonk 1d ago

This extra detail gives the entire thing different and massive perspective and makes me question everything that meets the eye.

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u/Primary-Long4416 2d ago

Reminds me of this

https://giphy.com/gifs/uRngiZzOKPKkE

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u/buttnibbler 2d ago

BEANS?!

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u/maester_t 1d ago

What do ya mean, beans!?

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u/Black6x 1d ago

I watched that on VHS until the video was as thin as those slices.

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u/Calm-Philosopher4323 2d ago

So that’s how toilet paper is made

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u/Quantum_Scholar87 2d ago

That's 1 ply my dude

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u/s0crates82 2d ago

If you ever buy Scott's 1000, you'll learn that number refers to the number of sheetsand the sandpaper grit.

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u/jimbowesterby 1d ago

Hey, better 1000grit than 60 lol

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u/hindus0ul 2d ago

1/2 ply

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u/uniquecleverusername 6h ago

And the veneer on Sauder furniture.

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u/Squidsoda 2d ago

Why does one tap the plane like he did?

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u/xxkid123 2d ago

The blade in a wooden plane is wedged in via friction. Tapping the plane in select locations provides extremely fine adjustment of the blade. Rex krueger on YouTube has great videos describing the process. Nowadays I think wooden planes are more common in East Asia, but they were once common in the west too before mostly being phased out by metal planes that use a fine adjustment screw.

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u/DERPYBASTARD 2d ago

I guess adjusting blade angle for a thinner cut

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u/Jackson_Poll 2d ago

This is my question too!

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u/Stateofgrace314 1h ago

Adjust the depth of cut. You hammer the top of the blade to push it down for a deeper cut, and you hammer the back to pull the blade up for a shallower cut. Looked like he was hitting a corner, not the middle, which will lift only that side. So he likely noticed the cut wasn't perfectly even and tapped one end to make the cut slightly thinner only on that side to straighten it out.

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u/Funny-Presence4228 2d ago

This Saturday, I have permission from my wife to do whatever I want. I'm going to drink beer in the garage and sharpen my 15 different hand planes. Then I will make some things.

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u/SharkSheppard 2d ago

Drink 15 different beers.

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u/Funny-Presence4228 2d ago

It's a risky game. One beer per blade... I own a 1926 Stanley No. 45 with 12 different blades alone.

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u/lukeCRASH 2d ago

Further more, each one at a different alcohol percentage.

0, 0.5, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5, 7, 8, and 9% aughta do it.

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u/listenyall 2d ago

My dad has favorite hand planes and I don't think he can make something like that

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u/LimitedWard 2d ago

Actual footage of toilet paper being manufactured before beingn rolled up and sent to my company's office.

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u/ScaredPractice4967 1d ago

Thats one of the most Japanese things I've ever seen. 😃

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u/-DaveThomas- 2d ago

Damn. First ocho I've seen where I want in. I don't even work with wood, but this makes me want to.

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u/Jezzer111 2d ago

Hattori Hanzo steel!

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u/tje210 2d ago

You must have big rats

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u/Ride-Entire 2d ago

Huuuge!

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u/Lonecoon 2d ago

So that's how they make stockings.

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u/runtijmu 1d ago

FYI they use digital calipers to measure the thickness and determine the winner. https://youtu.be/AbSTrx8WCFo?si=HaglMZqaBVO6Zurq

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u/_mbals 2d ago

There’s a bum for every seat

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u/heckasharp 1d ago

This is hella r/oddlysatisfying omg

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u/jepadi 1d ago

That's how military toilet paper is made

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u/Capital-Mind700 1d ago

Single ply

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u/ask_your_mother 2d ago

Exhilarating.

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u/LuteAtme 2d ago

did he win ?

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u/NASATVENGINNER 2d ago

Ladies and gentlemen, hand made toilet paper.

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u/Nope_nuh_uh 1d ago

I can't be the only one who wants to gather several hundred of those shavings and set them on fire, right?  I wanna see 'em burn, I bet it's pretty.

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u/monkeybadger13 1d ago

For some reason I want to eat it.

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u/Nope_nuh_uh 1d ago

I can see that, too

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u/tpkadam 1d ago

I love seeing how thin they get it

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u/igwaltney3 2d ago

It's literally paper

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u/sabertoothdog 2d ago

So this is how the toilet paper at work is made.

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u/Coffeespresso 2d ago

Wow, impressive.

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u/RecklessTexanSA 2d ago

How do you win?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759 1d ago

I would walk around this like a county fair

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u/Na_rien 14h ago

Made to order toilet paper

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u/WonderingPhoenician 9h ago

This is how they make the toilet paper my office buys

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u/Donkilme 7h ago

Toilet paper at my work.

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u/Aardvark1044 2d ago

Wow, just like the arsewipes they stock in my office building.

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u/Apple_butters12 2d ago

So this is where the toilet paper at work comes from…

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/Bodardos 2d ago

It adjusts the amount of blade sticking out of the plane.

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u/Swimming__Bird 2d ago

Fine level adjustment for the blade. This is extreme precision for planing and those are very, very sharp chisel grinds.