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FEATURES AND BENEFITS
- Made in Japan
- Premium top grade Japanese and Western style chisel
- 6 set of blade width 6 mm / 12 mm / 19 mm / 25 mm / 32 mm / 38 mm
- Forged Japanese high carbon vanadium steel
- Excellent sharpness
- Chisel bag is included
About Japanese high carbon vanadium steel
Japanese high carbon vanadium steel is one of the highest-grade Japanese steel. This steel is characterized by its outstanding sharpness and toughness and is suitable for professional woodworking work. You can use it for both precise carving work and hard cutting work.
The Fusion of Japanese Chisel and Western Chisel
The quality Japanese red oak handle, which fits in your hand, is sturdy and reliably transmits the striking force to the blade, and heavy-duty ferrule and butt ring further strengthens the entire body. It is a masterpiece of a craftsman combined with the excellent features of Japanese and Western chisel.
6 sets of blades enable various types of woodworking.
MADE IN JAPAN BY JAPANESE CRAFTSMEN
All KaKurI products are manufactured in Japan by Japanese master craftsmen. While many other makers in Japan have shifted to creating products outside of Japan, we continues to plan, create trial products, and carry out product tests in our factory and are able to incorporate the fresh and new opinions of craftsmen. This allows us to ensure our high quality in our products.
Fusion of Japanese Chisels and Western Chisels
These are KAKURI's original chisels that combine the respective characteristics of Japanese chisels and Western chisels. As a leading Japanese woodworking tool brand, we produce unique woodworking chisels that allow Western people to enjoy Japanese quality chisels.
Product Features
Blade Material (Japanese Style)
The blade is quality Japanese steel (Forged high-carbon vanadium steel). It is durable and has excellent sharpness.
Professional Japanese craftsmen sharpened each blade one by one.
*All chisels are ready to use right out of the box.
Blade Shape (Western Style)
The blade style is single steel, and the backside is flat (no hollow grind), which is common in Western chisels.
Hoop (Japanese Style)
The handle has a hoop ring (KATSURA, SAGARIWA) that prevents cracking the wooden handle when hitting with a hammer.
*Each chisel has already been done hoop setting. You do not require hoop settings like general Japanese chisels.
Handle (Western Style)
The handle is larger than the Japanese chisel, and it is easy to hold even for western woodworkers with large hands. The handle is made of Japanese quality evergreen oak (red oak), durable, and fits your hand.
Bambi Forester
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2023
My husband doesn’t ever give anyone a five, but if he did he would give them a five. They are good quality, and they are very sharp. Be careful.😉
J. Campbell
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2021
All of a sudden these chisels are the nicest thing I own!I already have a set of “cheap” chisels that are all purpose duty workhorse chisels and need constant sharpening. No matter how much I try they just don’t get razor sharp but they do the trick. I was offered this chisel set free of charge in exchange for an honest review and please do NOT think that just because I’m over the moon about them that I’m influenced to give a better score than they deserve. These chisels deserve every bit of five stars!The first thing you notice is the handsome earth tone green wax canvas bag with black tie that helps keep these works of art safe and damage free while not in use. You definitely do not want to simply toss these in your tool box! Once you unroll the canvas bag you’re struck - at least I was - by the immediate craftsmanship of these tools. You can visibly see the minute differences and slight imperfections in the wood handles that went in to each chisel. You can see the individual hammer marks on the end where the artisan secured the metal ring around the end of the handle. The other thing you can see is your reflection in the end of the chisel it’s so sharp!Speaking of sharp these are truly razor sharp! These easily sliced through a piece of paper and also shaved a strip of hair off the back of my hand. These chisels will easily devour any job you throw at them. Even though my old chisels state they too are made of vanadium steel I now believe this is not the case as vanadium is a rare earth element added to steel to harden the steel which will make the steel hold a sharper edge. Of the two sets I now own I have 100% confidence that these are indeed made from vanadium steel.I showed these to my wife and though she couldn’t care less about my tools, even she was taken aback at how beautiful these chisels are! I got these to replace my old chisel set but I am now going to keep both. I put my old chisels in the nice wax canvas bag these ones came in and tossed them in my tool box. I’ll use the old ones for day to day smashing and chiseling but will keep these ones on display on my peg board and only use them for specific projects like detail woodworking, dovetail joints, etc. just to keep the razors edge on them.I am truly blown away at the craftsmanship and the beauty of these chisels. They are not cheap by any means so if you just need a set for your everyday tool box I can’t really recommend you spend this kind of money on something like that. However, if you do furniture building, cabinetry, or fine woodworking and need an amazingly beautiful set of razor sharp hand made chisels, well look no further than this set!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sotto voce
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2021
I would need to pay a couple more hundred to get better hardness, edge durability, and resharpen-ability. The 30° edge + Japanese high-carbon vanadium steel is incredibly durable and likely maker proprietary. My 'fingernail peel' sharpness test puts them among the sharpest knives I've seen.For hand joinery in furniture and cabinetry, these are utopian. I put them behind my 'personal use only' drawer lock. They aren't going to be disappeared for paint scraping.The super-premium tool high carbon tool steel is likely less than 10% of the cost. >90% is craftsmanship with a primo skill set, precision tools, and expensive tool & die grade labor. No signs of 'mass-production'. These are honed and lapped on all surfaces. As high-end bench chisels go, the tool thickness and light beveling put these in the distinctive style of Japanese beveled bench chisels. The perfect balance between sharpness and durability is simply an unresolvable paradox narrowed here by the high carbon tool steel.A 1-star commenter mentioned a problem with flatness. That made me curious. I laid a 2" optical flat on the back ... up comes the equidistant parallel lines with irrelevant astigmatic interference on the two orthogonal fringes. Beat my already high expectations. Magnified inspection revealed honed/lapped finish on all grinds about as close to a super-finish as non-super finish processing can get. The crisp, actually sharp corners are distinctive. I don't know how you get any more flatness in a tool or the all-things-considered relevance of an optically flat finishing to finicky wood grain. Whatever weight one puts on optical flatbacks it would not be discernable to the human eye.Delightful. The only maintenance I plan is a leather strope ... when I need to resharpen sharpen, these are a good reason for a 10,000 grit whetstone.Was my review helpful? If so, click "Helpful" so I can know. I'm trying hard to increase the value of my reviews to assist in your selection.
nathan
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2021
None of what I will say would detract from these making a really nice set of chisels for someone. It just doesn't make sense to me at $300.Couple things immediately. Like most of have said, these are Western style chisels that happen to be made in Japan. They're nice, no doubt. Much thicker blades, oak handles, strong galvanized ferrules.But I can't help but be disappointed by the finish quality given the price. The blades look to have been exposed to the elements after manufacturing, with widespread surface pitting, though pretty superficial. Additionally, the blades have scoring on them, as though someone threw all the finished blades into a sack and tossed them around a bit. (I have stored much cheaper chisels loose in drawers for years and saw less surface abrasion.)Addressing all that, of course, can be done in preparing the chisel and wouldn't have an effect in the end: flatten the back and sort your bevel to preference and these are perfectly fine.One thing, though, that makes me scratch my head is that they couldn't even finish the handles with a fine sanding, leaving instead course turning marks. I find it weird that the claimed “master craftsmen” who make these would do something like that.I've added some pictures to show the pitting and abrasions up close. I wiped down the blades and ran a lint roller over them right before taking pictures to minimize dust that can be confused for actual surface abnormalities.
p
Reviewed in Japan on November 2, 2020
ぜんぜん切れない砥石で研いだが期待出来ない使用したら刃先がグダグダになる(写真上が研いだもの)
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