Oire-Nomi Japanese Hand Made Bench Chisel From The Meiji Period

Smith name: Unknown

Steel: Carbon Steel

Blade width: 41mm

Blade thickness: Blade Bottom(about 7.8mm)，Top of Blade（about 5.8mm）

Manufacture Era: Around 1900 

Weight: 138g

Blade Angles: 23°

Total length: 187mm

Neck length:  39mm

Blade length: 40mm

Types of wooden handles: Rose wood

Accessories：—

Additional Information: Used, in good condition. 

An interesting old chisel. Judging from its shape, it is from the late 19th or early 20th century. The carpenter reworked it in a personalized way, with the ura extending to the neck. And its processing precision is very high. I re-sharpened it easily.

The jigane part uses modern soft iron. From the book of the second generation Hisasaku, I know that there is a kind of soft iron from Switzerland that entered the Japan in 1898. He recorded that this soft iron has a uniform texture, high density, easy to process, and has a beautiful finished surface.

Some other interesting details about this chisel can be found in here:

「An interesting Japanese chisel from the Meiji period」