Deluxe Extra Large Carbon Steel Hori Hori Garden Knife with Thick Leather Sheath and Extra Sharp Blade - in Gift Box. The ultimate Gift for Gardeners and Campers

I bought this for my daughter. She does yard work for extra money while she is in High School. This has been her go to tool for the last three months!! She uses it every time she works for just about everything. She digs out weeds, prunes tree limbs, trim grass in those tight places and prune grape vines. It is heavy enough to chop with, strong enough to dig with, sharp enough to cut with and it has a serrated blade that actually works pretty good as a saw. She has cut through a few 1.5 - 2.+ inch dried apple limbs. Which is harder than green limbs. It is stainless steel so it doesn't rust easily. She has never needed to sharpen it. I have been thinking about getting another to put with our camping gear. Impressive design with high quality workmanship and materials. Yes, I know it doesn't chop as well as an ax, or dig as well as a shovel, or saw as well as a bow saw. However, those three will not fit on your belt comfortably while you walk around the yard, garden, campsite and this does.

I (Tyler's SO) purchased this for digging up weeds and other general garden use. I've used it regularly for about 2 months now. It is by far my favorite garden tool. It is the only effective tool I have for pulling up the rampant onions plaguing my garden, allowing me to get the bulbs up from below with precision and avoid damaging nearby plants. My soil is clay-heavy which is hard to break up with a traditional dowel or cultivator, but this blade cuts right through the soil. The thinness of the knife is also great for transplanting. The knife itself came nice and sharp, so be careful -- I've cut up my garden gloves a bit when I'm being careless. The full tang is nice, and I haven't had issues with the blade breaking, though seeing that others have broken their blades means I've been a bit cautious throwing my weight into the knife when it's fully submerged in the ground. The measurements on the knife also make it incredibly useful for getting the measurements for planting and soil sample taking. As some others pointed out, I'm not so sure the case is actually leather, but that wasn't really a selling point for me anyways. My only wish was that the belt loop had snaps instead of being sealed shut, so that I could snap it onto something other than a belt (or snap it onto a belt more easily). I'm also skeptical of the effectiveness of the sharpener because it seems pretty rough, but when the time comes maybe I'll try it and give an update. Diamond files are useful to have around so I can't complain about the inclusion of it In any case, at this price point and with no discernible issues so far this is a worthwhile purchase for any gardener

I have had various types of garden "knives" in the past, but this one has been one of the best ever---so far has been holding up well--it is the second one I've gotten, as I accidentally lost the prior one--but have also given them as gifts, and they have been well received. I have had this type from True Garden for some years, and before I lost one, it held up to all kinds of things---have used to open soil bags, do root cutting, divide up plants to replant, cut vines, cut underneath the bulb ends of climbing vines like cat's claw for easier removal, cut string, dig bulb hole or any planting hole, etc. Extremely useful. The sharpening tool is also quite good--no info came with it, but I easily found a video on You Tube that gave great directions for using it, can sharpen the garden knife, as well as kitchen knives, any serrated knife or tool, (it has two different ends to the sharpener as shown in photo), and the groove can be used to sharpen fishing hooks or similar items! I have at times gotten, either as gifts, or on a trial, less expensive knockoffs, but they rust out and don't work nearly as well. I have placed some reflective tape on the handle so that I can find it more easily when working in dim lighting which makes it easier to find if I place it down. I highly recommend it.

I bought it with buckhorn plantain in mind. I had been using a weeder that looked like a wide screwdriver with a notch in the end. I'd have to pinch and pull a weed so hard that my fingers quickly got sore. The Hori Hori slides in more easily. It cuts more roots so I don’t have to pull hard. I can work faster and keep at it indefinitely. That weed was soon hard to find in my yard. Dallisgrass is worse. It’s hard to find an herbicide that will kill it selectively. It can make a lawn look overgrown four days after mowing. If it hasn’t rained in a week, it can still be wet enough to clog a mower and leave a mess. Like crabgrass, it turns brown at the end of summer. Unlike crabgrass, it’s perennial. The mass of roots gets wider every year. My Hori Hori digs it out better than anything else I’ve tried. If I can catch a plant before the roots spread, the Hori Hori will get it in a flash. If there’s a patch of roots, I slide the tool under, about 2cm deep, and hear the delightful snapping of roots. I can snap more roots by twisting the tool. Then I make another incision beside the first. With my other hand I pull the leaves so I know where there are still roots. Over the past month, I’ve used a crabgrass herbicide several times. If it will kill dallisgrass, it will need more than a month, but it has slowed the growth. That keeps the lawn looking better longer and gives me time to go after the worst specimens with my Hori Hori. I’m winning! The day it arrived, there was a lot wrong with the tool. The sheath required one hand to hold the stiff leather strap open while I removed the tool with my other hand. The handle was clumsy to hold because it was too big and the edges too square. The cross section is 30 x 18mm. By comparison, the handle of a larger kitchen knife, made to last generations, is only 18 x 18mm, and the corners are much rounder. The butt of the handle was flat, with 4 edges and 4 corners. I’ve never before seen a knife handle like that. When I shoved the blade into the ground, the corners hurt my palm! With a side grinder, I ground off the corners of the butt at 45 degrees until I had a sort of octagonal shape. Then I rounded it into a sort of semicircle. That’s much more comfortable to my palm. Next, I went around the wood faces with a set of rasps and files, rounding the edges. That made the handle less clumsy to grasp. I left the sheath on a table with weights to hold the ends of the strap out flat. The next day, it stayed out of my way. Occasionally, it would get in the way, so I cut it off. I’ve worn that tool daily for two months, in the sheath on a belt over one shoulder and under the other arm, and it has never fallen out. The plain edge is rounded like a butter knife. That’s adequate for cutting weed roots in soil. A sharp edge would be less durable and more dangerous. In case I ever need to sharpen it, I tried the included sharpener. It must have been intended for small items like fish hooks. I tried a large, coarse sharpening stone, secured on a board so I could apply pressure. Sharpening would have been a long task. The steel was too hard and there was too much to remove. It may never need sharpening. If it does, I’ll start with a grinder. **** Update, 2 years later: There has been almost no dallisgrass since the first year. I got only the worst clumps with the hori hori, and I didn't see any kills from repeated use of crabgrass spray. Maybe the spray kept it from storing energy to survive the winter. After eradicating buckhorn plantain, they say you have to get the seedlings the second year. I didn't see much the second year. There was much more the third year. It was a wet spring. Maybe they were plants that past conditions had kept too small to notice. The hori hori was harder to push into the ground than in the past, and it tended to push roots aside instead of cutting them. I sharpeed the end with a side grinder. The included sharpening rod wouldn't have done the job.

I used it every week or so since i got it a few months ago. It was a charm , until a dandelion was a bit to strong for it. It broke in two pieces , sharp. My heart broke ! I got no choice but to put a one star .