Hida Hawks & Trowels. I could spend all day watching someone plaster a wall.  But after discovering the trowels and hawks at Hida Tools I’ve decided my next project is going to be to learn how to plaster a wall. A quick visit to Hida and you’re going to be inspired to start any number of projects that you never knew you had in you. Some of our favorite tools are Japanese, and Hida is - without a doubt - one of the premier suppliers in the US. They not only have the goods, but a great story to back it up: “Hida Tool Co. was started in response to requests from San Francisco Bay Area woodworkers to get tools like those being used by Makoto Imai, who had come from Japan in 1978 after his 5-year apprenticeship in carpentry plus 9 years as a teahouse and temple builder. His were the hand tools of the builders of traditional homes and temples in Japan, including saws with both crosscut and rip teeth on the same blade, planes with wooden bodies quite different from those of European and early American wooden planes, and both plane blades and chisels forged by methods developed by the blacksmiths who created the famous samurai swords. These tools had a layer of very hard steel forged to a larger mass of softer iron, which allowed the formation in the tempering step of a harder cutting edge than was permissible in tools made entirely of similar carbon steel.”
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Hida Hawks & Trowels.

I could spend all day watching someone plaster a wall.  But after discovering the trowels and hawks at Hida Tools I’ve decided my next project is going to be to learn how to plaster a wall. A quick visit to Hida and you’re going to be inspired to start any number of projects that you never knew you had in you. Some of our favorite tools are Japanese, and Hida is - without a doubt - one of the premier suppliers in the US. They not only have the goods, but a great story to back it up:

“Hida Tool Co. was started in response to requests from San Francisco Bay Area woodworkers to get tools like those being used by Makoto Imai, who had come from Japan in 1978 after his 5-year apprenticeship in carpentry plus 9 years as a teahouse and temple builder. His were the hand tools of the builders of traditional homes and temples in Japan, including saws with both crosscut and rip teeth on the same blade, planes with wooden bodies quite different from those of European and early American wooden planes, and both plane blades and chisels forged by methods developed by the blacksmiths who created the famous samurai swords. These tools had a layer of very hard steel forged to a larger mass of softer iron, which allowed the formation in the tempering step of a harder cutting edge than was permissible in tools made entirely of similar carbon steel.”

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