Timber Tuff 5 Inch Ultra Sharp Blade Heavy Duty Steel Curved Draw Shave Tool with 30 Degree Angle and Wood Grip Handles for Building Furniture

This draw knife works very well to remove bark on smaller diameter pieces. It's well constructed and stays sharp. The rounded shape is better than the long flat style for my needs.

Used this tool as soon as it arrived. Using it to make some walking sticks from various types of wood.Perfect size for 1” diameter pieces of wood.

I used this after purchasing it and it worked great. However the shave tool came with a lot of small chips in the blade. It was sharp but these chips were not just felt by the bare hand but were big enough to see without looking hard. Prior to using this shave tool I decided to run a file over the blade to smooth out the chips and put a finished edge on it. This tool was easy to sharpen and worked really nice however I only gave it 4 stars because strait out of the box you shouldn't have to break out the file to straighten out an edge. The tool does come with a rudimentary rubber protector for edge retention during shipping so this must be how the finished product comes from the manufacturer.

This is the perfect thing to buy if you are a bush whacker!

Wooden handle is fragile. But overall good product

First off, the grind is incorrect for a drawknife. It's ground like a chisel and that WILL not work for shaving. Not flat (yes I know it's curved) on the bottom, but I know us woodworkers WILL understand that we can't have a truly sharp bevel without a flat back. So the First order of business was to flatten the bottom and reestablish a proper bevel and started polishing. There was so much paint on this thing that it takes a good while just to get to metal. Come to think of it, the entire blade was painted, so I don't know how that would cut after the first few uses. Oh, yeah, it would be hard if not for what I did. A rotary tool will speed this process up, and also to get rid of excess material. But you should always finish with stones. Also during the sharpening and polishing process oxidation was already evident on the bolts and nuts holding on the handles. In the end, I will make this tool better than how I got it. And for the price you can't beat that.

The handles are well shaped, and the blade was properly sharp upon delivery. As with all of my edged tools, I cleaned and sharpened it each day after use. I used the draw knife to remove the bark from several oak limbs.Some of the sharpness issues noted in other reviews may be due to technique, both with the tool and with the stone. Using a skewed slicing motion with each draw more easily removes material. After cleaning with 409 each day, I used a flat stone, oil, and circular motion on the bevel side with great sharpening results.

Imagine an 18th century Williamsburg cabinet-maker, carpenter or cooper who had this tool dropped off at their shop. They would be thrilled as that is how the village blacksmith would have made it at his local forge and foundry. It was then left up to the craftsman to fine tune the tool for work. Thus, this is a quality tool that requires a lot of milling with a few files, and then some serious sharpening with some diamond-embedded sharpening stones and emery paper. The work can be sped up with a grinder and power sander. For $30 I now have a nicely tuned tool that would cost me $150 from an European tool company. If you want to use this tool right out of the box, this is not the tool for you.

Works good but the blade cound be a bit longer.

Neben einer Säge war dieser Hobel das einzige Werkzeug was ich benutz habe um einen Eibenbogenrohling aus einem Eibenast zu schnitzen. Entrinden, hobeln grob und fein sowie abziehn war kein Problem. Die Konstruktion ist in sich so steif, dass man selbst bei hohem Kraftaufwand den gewünschten Klingenwinkel halten kann. Die Schneide hat werksseitig eine sehr gute Schärfe und die Klinge bleibt lange scharf.Wer häufiger Holz wie gewachsen händisch verarbeitet wird seine Freude an diesem Werkzeug haben

Good quality good value for money

El producto es chino pero de buena calidad sobre todo considerando el precio, el acero retiene bien el filo, pero hay que hacer notar que no viene afilado si no tienes experiencia afilando no es recomendable ya que por la curvatura tiene cierto grado de dificultad para afilarlo,

Very sturdy, very sharp blad, easy to handle and manipulate.Made less work.Great product!