Question 1: From Matt: I have 3 questions about getting into kumiko: 1.) What (Japanese) chisel would you recommend starting with?

• Hida Tool - HidaTool.com
• Iida Tool - JapanTool-Iida.com

2.) What online/printed resources would you recommend?

• Spice up your work with kumiko by Michael Pekovich #259–Jan/Feb 2017 Issue
• Mike Farrington's Kumiko work on YouTube
• John Reed Fox on Roy Underhill's Woodwright's Shop

3.) Any thoughts on preparing the strips without a tablesaw or drum sander? Question 2: From Martti: What is it in your preferred kumiko construction that ensures trouble-free cleanup over time for quite some years and decades? Segment: All Time Favorite Technique Ben - Loading magnets into a brass tube in order to keep the polarity correct

• K and J Magnetics

Mike - Sharpening a chisel to 20º-25º for paring end-grain on pine

Question 3: From Al: I am having some trouble laying out the pins and tales on the Wenge in the more traditional way, unlike what Mike shows. Wenge is extremely hard and not at all forgiving and the grain tends to be a problem in scribing the wood. Perhaps this is why he choose to do this with the table saw and router methods. Where can you get the table saw blade and the router bit to do it like Mike.

• Mike building his tea box on PBS

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