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Old 11-06-2011, 11:25 PM
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I would stick with western planes initially, and try out japanese planes as you have time. Past experience is that if you eventually decide to go all japanese kanna, you will have no problem selling your high quality western planes, but high quality japanese planes are difficult to sell if you want to buy some western planes. My experience is the learning curve is much shorter to get great results consistently from western planes.

For chisels, you can get some great used and antique chisels cheap, but it is alot harder to find (and evaluate) used japanese chisels. New tools you have to rely on the dealer, and there are some incredibly good chisels being made - but they are not cheap.

The one thing you need to really invest in is a good sharpening system. Without that, your investment in any good edge tools is almost pointless - I hope you've already planned for that!
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