田斎木目特製 脇差ノミ 革袋付 田斎作 木目 脇差鑿 追入鑿 27mm

Beautiful made and a joy to use.

The chisel I received has almost no usable steel. The blue steel was forged welded so crooked that one side of the chisel has less than 0.5 mm of usable steel. I’m not even sure the chisel can be set up properly without wearing straight through the paper thin cutting edge on one side and right into the iron backing. This was my first experience with this company but it will probably be my last. I own a number of Japanese chisels, a few of them are also tasai and what I received looks like total garbage. This experience has me suspicious of this website selling fake products.

I sold the highest quality hand forged Japanese woodworking tools in the USA and around the world from 1978 until retiring in 2011.