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Chouna Japanese Adze

$221.65
This is the chouna cutting head, a traditional, hand-forged carpentry tool used for surfacing and texturing wood. It features a sharp, cupped blade fixed to a flexible, often curved, wooden handle. The tool is designed to remove scoops or divots of wood from the surface in a single stroke, historically serving to flatten beams and boards after rough hewing with an axe. In modern practice, the adze is primarily employed to create a distinctive, decorative texture on timber and furniture, leaving behind patterns of repeating scallops or round scoops depending on the blade style. The handle's flexibility is key to its operation, allowing for rapid strokes where the blade enters the wood and then bounces out of the cut. Different blade shapes, such as straight-edge and various round-edge styles, are available to achieve specific finishes. Handles may be made from bent laminations, or specifically trained wood such as enjyu or rattan.
This is the chouna cutting head, a traditional, hand-forged carpentry tool used for surfacing and texturing wood. It features a sharp, cupped blade fixed to a flexible, often curved, wooden handle. The tool is designed to remove scoops or divots of wood from the surface in a single stroke, historically serving to flatten beams and boards after rough hewing with an axe. In modern practice, the adze is primarily employed to create a distinctive, decorative texture on timber and furniture, leaving behind patterns of repeating scallops or round scoops depending on the blade style. The handle's flexibility is key to its operation, allowing for rapid strokes where the blade enters the wood and then bounces out of the cut. Different blade shapes, such as straight-edge and various round-edge styles, are available to achieve specific finishes. Handles may be made from bent laminations, or specifically trained wood such as enjyu or rattan.