End of Year Sale at Hida Tool

Hida Tool (pronounced Hee-Dah) is an American seller of Japanese hand tools, and as many followers of this site may have read, I commonly use Japanese carving chisels when building my wasen models. Well, for the month of December, Hida Tool is having a sale, so it’s a good time to buy.

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New Japanese Measurements Page

Here is some information on measurements in the Japanese unit called the shaku that I just put together. I discovered that information like this is in my notes somewhere, but I often don’t know where I put them. So, for easy future reference, and for your benefit too, I just added this info to a new page under the Resources menu and called it Japanese Measurements.

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