kiso hinoki

Hi everyone! I’m Corey, a designer by trade, and I had some high-quality Sugar Maple and Walnut furniture veneers (0.5mm tangential cut) lying around the workshop. I looked at them and thought: "Why not build a blade?". I wanna share with you guys and maybe inspire a blade making community...

Hi, just got my hands on this Mizuno Single Ply Hinoki. It is 8mm thick and weighs 126gm. I didnt open the handle cover since it feels so comfortable, and i dont feel any lens underneath. Hard to find information on this particular blade. If anyone knows, can please share more?

I have a few 1-ply hinoki blades for sale. I used to play jpen style, so I developed a love for the kiso hinoki wood and carried it with me as I learned to play with other grips. Currently I am using Nittaku Miyabi cpen as my primary blade and I don't see myself going back to the others, so I...

Hi, I've been playing with a Yinhe Kiso Hinoki 5, a 5-ply (supposedly) Kiso Hinoki blade for a couple of months now, and I'm beginning to love how it behaves. Previously, I played with a Butterfly Jonyer H-II for about 5 years, an all-wood Hinoki-Cypress (?) combo of some sort. The Jonyer felt...

Hy Anybody played with this beauty?