Chopstick Master---Master Your Happiness

CSMv2 Chopstick Master Gen.2, a unique tabletop tool, Chopstick Master allows anybody, regardless of experience, age 8 and up, to make a pair of gallery-quality Chinese chopsticks and Japanese chopsticks. This original design utilizes a Japanese blade to form the finials on the end of the Chopsticks.

John, who has been designing woodworking tools for over 30 years, wants to design a tool that could be used without any prior knowledge of woodworking, so that everyone, including children, would be able to enjoy the simple pleasure of making something by hand. In creating such a tool, he would first need to create a project that everyone would enjoy making, be simple to understand and easy to use.

After a long period of research, John found that chopstick is the one. For China, the world's most populous country chopsticks are both
daily and culturally object. Suppose that people can make a pair of chopsticks used by themselves. That would be an exciting and meaningful matter. As a result, John carefully designed the "Chopstick Master" tool.

Experience the happiness of becoming a craftsman with the Chopstick Master

Even if you’re a busy professional, you can take 10 minutes to make a pair of personal chopsticks by yourself;
If you’re an artist, enjoy every minute of the innovative process, to create a pair of chopsticks you like;
If you have never tried woodworking, and are looking for a simple and easy project designed for all ages, including the elderly and children, you can make a pair of classic chopsticks with the Chopstick Master™.

Teaching you how to make chopsticks in six steps

Making Chopstick Master is not only easy, but making a pair of chopsticks is done in only 6 steps.

01—Mark four sides the chopsticks with number

To make the four bevels of chopsticks, mark “1 / 2 / 3 / 4" at the end of each side of the chopstick blanks for tracking the making of each bevel.

02—Choose the type of chopsticks you want to make

With the Chopstick Master you can make Chinese chopsticks and Japanese chopsticks, when making Chinese chopsticks, select the red arm; when making Japanese chopsticks, select green arm. (The diameter of tip end of Chinese chopsticks is 5mm, the diameter of tip end of Japanese chopsticks is 2mm.)

03—— Make four sides of chopsticks

If you want to make a pair of Chinese chopsticks, first set both adjustment knobs to “1”, and install the face of the chopstick that you marked “1” into the chopstick jig on a diagonal resting it against the pin near the front of the jig and against the back of the red arm. Fix the wedges on both sides of the chopstick until the chopstick is firmly secured. Use the block plane to cut the chopstick. The plane automatically stops cutting the chopstick at the correct thickness. Repeat the same process on the chopstick face marked “2”.

Rotate the chopstick to the face that is marked “3”, adjust the knobs to “2”, and fix the wedges until the chopstick is secure and use the block plane to cut the chopstick. Repeat the process for the chopstick face marked “4”. (When making Japanese chopsticks, place the green arm in the chopstick master jig and turn the adjustment knobs to “2” when cutting faces 1 and 2 and then turn the adjustment knobs to “3” when cutting faces 3 and 4. The tip of the chopstick will be thinner at 2mm.)

04——Shaping the Octagon Tip

Keep both adjustment knobs set to “2”, (Japanese chopstick is “3”). Place one corner edge of the chopstick blank in the “V” groove located in the arm. The narrow end of the chopstick should still be against the stop at the far end of the arm. Hold the plane in your favorite hand and with the opposite thumb push the blank into the stop at the end of the arm. Plane the corner of the blank that is facing up until the plane quits cutting. You will only need to plane the far one-half to one-third of the length of the chopstick. Repeat for the other 3 edge corners. When complete, you should have a perfectly shaped octagon on the tip of each blank.

05——Making the Pyramidal Finial

For the Chopstick Master 1 attach the sliding table to the Chopstick Master body. It should slide smoothly without any slop. Insert the saw blade between the body and the blade clamp, with the narrow end of the blade closest to the orange bench hook and the teeth pointing upward. Place the chopstick on the sliding table transversely. Place your right thumb in the indent at the rear of the sliding table, and use your right index and middle fingers to firmly hold the chopstick down. With your hand firmly in place, push the sliding table forward using 90% of the blade being careful to not to push the chopstick all the way off of the blade. Rotate the chopstick 90° and make sure it is against the stop and make the second cut. Repeat for the 3rd and 4th cuts. The result should be a perfect pyramidal fifinial at the end of each chopstick.

06——Sanding, oiling and resting

Your chopsticks are almost done now. If there are corners that feel sharp, lightly sand with 400 grit sandpaper After sanding, you can use oil to handle the surface, then set aside for a few minutes, you can put chopsticks in cloth chopsticks bag to take home for use.

*All parts of the tool need to be checked and debugged before and after use, including debugging of block plane, sliding table, sharpening operation, selecting operation position etc., which have simple and detailed operation steps in the product instruction.

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