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Antique Japanese Sumitsubo Marking & Layout Tool (Body Only) Nomi Red Oak

Antique Japanese Sumitsubo Marking & Layout Tool (Body Only) Nomi Red Oak

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Antique Japanese sumitsubo are essential tools for Japanese wood working and joinery. They work just like a chalk line in western carpentry but with sumi ink instead. This listing is for the body only. Waded up cotton soaked with sumi ink is placed in the ink pot (the bowl part), the string is then drawn though the ink soaked cotton from the spool on the back. The now inked string is pulled taught and snapped and reeled back in, just like a chalk line. This ink line can now be used to guide cuts, and unlike chalk lines, will not rub off. This tool is made of a very hard durable Japanese red oak.

It has been well used yet well loved and still has all original component parts. It remains in very good condition.Overall it measures 7 1/4" long (18.5 cm) and 3" wide (7.5mm) wide.

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