If you are trying to find a hori hori knife that gives these combination of quality and service, I was in your shoes just last week. Having a difficult time deciding, I purchased this knife along with a similar knife costing $6.50 less from Bonsai Outlet, also through Amazon. This, Nisaku knife, is on the left in the pictures below.
While the two knives share a nearly identical design, the Nisaku knife is clearly of a higher quality. From the grind and polish of the blade to the wood handle and even the pins, the Nisaku outshines the Bonsai knife. The Nisaku blade proudly states its origin as "Made in Japan", where the Bonsai leaves unsaid its birth in a country that provides cheap but inferior steel. The Bonsai blade has significant pitting, cleaned up in the finishing process but still evident, and easily enough to make one question how this one will hold up in service. If you love high-quality tools, choose this Nisaku knife with confidence. It has my unqualified recommendation.
I am very impressed with this tool, it is indispensable in the garden. I have used it to dig up weeds, dig holes in garden, split perennials and cut sod. This knife was very effective for all of those tasks. This knife is sharp, it cuts right through roots, tubers and most plant stems.
My only complaint with this tool is that the blade doesn't extend through the handle of the tool. This makes the blade feel a little loose. Hopefully it will hold up. I will update after I get more use with this tool.
LOVE these knives! Where I live, we have the mother of all weeds, especially Canadian thistle, which has roots to the other side of the world! These knives work great (bought 2, then someone lost one, then bought one more). It is a gardener's dream - just stab the earth close to the stem of the weed, going straight down (not at an angle), then with a bit of writs motion, give it a good half twist, and out comes the weed, roots and all. Of course, it is easier when the soil is damp, but even in dry soil, it works great. Personally, I find it a fantastic alternative to undesirable weed-killers. The blade is strong, and will not rust, not even if you forget it in the element for a while.
Weeds quake in fear when they see me coming with the hori hori.
I have several other garden tools that I use on occasion, but the hori hori has become my favorite. I will be saving this idea for Christmas gifts this year, because EVERYONE that gardens needs one of these tools. I have become obsessed with pulling weeds out of our garden because it's just so easy. I can't wait to start our vegetable garden because the weeds don't stand a chance against the hori hori.
The hori hori is made out of very solid steel. Even in hard packed Southern North Carolina clay soil, the hori hori can take out weeds like the terminator. It plucks large dandelion roots from the clay with ease. The serrated edge is perfect for releasing root-bound plants and trees for planting. The blade is rust resistant, and as long as you rinse and dry the hori hori like you would other tools, it'll last for a really long time.
Also a plus, the measurement markings on the hori hori make planting bulbs, smaller plants, and seeds a piece of cake.
The hori hori comes with a nice little case to store it in, which, for type A people who like everything in its place and neat, is a wonderful thing.
I HIGHLY recommend this tool for gardeners and non-gardeners alike. The hori hori will turn you into a gardener if you aren't one!!!
The wife accidently lost our first one. Immediately replaced with the same brand because it is very well made and the blade is sharp. This is an indispensable gardening tool. Highly recommend for all gardening duties. Nisaku brand are very well made and their blades are sharp. They deserves higher than a 5 star rating. Note: I prefer the stainless steel version over the black carbon steel version because of rust resistance, however the black blade version is slightly sharper and easier to re-sharpen. We own both versions, but I usually reach for stainless one.
Feature Product
- ★ Our most popular knife; The NJP650 is the standard for Hori-Hori knives worldwide and is rated #1 in many gardening publications!
- ▲ Features: Concave blade for digging, beveled sharp edge for slicing, serrated opposite edge for cutting. Inch markers engraved on the blade ensure you can plant at precisely the correct depth, measure rope and more.
- ▲ multi-use: used by gardeners and outdoors-men and women worldwide, and is perfect for tasks such as weeding, transferring bulbs, digging the perfect hole, and cutting branches. These knives aren't only for gardeners! It is also a great knife for hunting, camping, metal detecting, Prospecting for gold and more.
- ▲ QUALITY: made with the finest Japanese stainless steel, The blade is rust and scratch resistant, washers easily and stays razor sharp.
- ▲ Durability: Constructed with a full-width mid-tang allows the use of thicker steel without making the knife too heavy. This ensures your Hori is extremely durable, bend resistant, and has a lot of levering power.
- ▲ Great gift: included tough leather sheath with a snap-loop for securing to your belt makes this a nice gift item.
- ▲ About Us: Nisaku has a full line of outdoor products made using authentic Tomita Steel (east 1960) manufacturing techniques. We hope you love our product and check out our entire lineup of Japanese Steel tools.
- ▲Questions? Nisaku is exclusively distributed in the U. S by outdoor retailer Sun Joe, makers of the famous SPX3000 Pressure Washer. Feel free to contact our customer service department if you have any questions or concerns.
Description
The Nisaku stainless steel weeding knife boasts both straight & serrated edges that's useful for dividing plants, planting bulbs, flowers & herbs, digging out weeds, removing rocks, cutting through roots & so much more! A comfortable wooden handle allows for a good grip for all-day digging, & ensures you push into the soil with more control. Comes with a leather sheath.
I love this tool. I upgraded to a leather holster with a metal belt clip though. Much better. I use it to pop weeds out of the ground, kill spiders, kill army worms, dig out rocks when planting, cut open mulch bags, scrape soil out of gopher holes and push traps down farther, and also to feel cool when I'm gardening. I imagine I look cool with a knife on my belt! This is versatile, high quality and solid in the hand.
I've been using it for a year now, more or less. It has become rather indispensable to me. I have a big yard and have been trying to repopulate it after my dog destroyed it. I want to plant California natives. Well, my soil is extremely rocky. My area is an alluvial fan plain. That is, we live near the foothills of mountains made of granite. Lots of rocks wash off of these mountains over the millennia and deposit themselves in the soil. So, to dig a hole and plant, I have to go through a lot of rock. I use this digging knife to lever rocks up, or twist among them. I chop down into the soil and scrape the sides of the hole too, getting rocks out. The amazing thing to me is that I have not bent the blade. I wiggle the blade down between rocks and use it to get leverage on rocks so they come out. This works great.
I bought this for my wife as a joke after a creepy neighbor catcalled her while she was out working in the garden. In truth, she takes it with her every time she goes out to work in the garden, not to defend her honor from our creepy neighbor, but because it is an incredibly useful tool. She uses it for everything from cutting thin branches to prying up (or cutting through) roots to digging holes for bulbs and seeds to smoothing over soil after she's dug something out or planted something. According to her, 95% of the work in a garden can be done with a hori hori and a good pair of snippers. Anything that can't be handled with those tools (spreading mulch, mowing the lawn, etc.) she classifies as "heavy landscaping" rather than gardening and leaves to her brown-thumbed husband (me).
She used to have a little bag of various garden tools she would carry around the yard as she worked. Now she carries the hori hori on her belt and a pair of snippers in her back pocket and she's good to go.
It has been a few years since she first started using it and it is still sharp. The only thing I have done to treat the edge is to smooth one spot where it was nicked from being accidentally hit against the edge of a concrete pad. There is no rust on the blade whatsoever (though she rinses it after every use and I dress it with oil a few times a year when I'm dressing my hand tools) and the handle is also in perfect shape.
If she ever loses this under a plant, I would not hesitate before buying another one.
I absolutely LOVE this Hori Hori gardening tool. I have dozens of garden plants and weeds in plant beds never end in Florida. And I am always in the garden as it's my hobby. The discovery of this tool has easily cut my weeding time in half as it makes much lighter work of pushing mulch aside and pulling out weeds. It just cuts through the deep thick rooted weeds and also lifts out the whole root of shallow weeds. Actually I hadn't even purchased this for weeding originally. I got it because I needed to cut through and remove grass to build and create plant beds and I could not afford a sod lifter at the time and was tired of blisters from trying to do it with clippers. And for me I can say this turned out to be a great way to cut that grass out. It's also fantastic for cutting down grass that creeps up to the edge of plant beds and across the brick plant border, since I also don't have a weed whacker to get up to the edge. I did a lot of research on the Hori Hori too which comes from Japan and was originally made I believe to cut through Bonsai. In the end I chose to go with this particular brand because it has Japanese writing on the wood handle and also says "Made in Japan' directly on the blade itself. This gives me confidence that I have a genuine authentic Japanese Hori Hori knife. Later in the year I also plan to use it to separate some overgrown potted plants that could be made in to two plants. I only wish I had discovered this tool sooner. Ad I want to thank Nikasu for making this available.
I've used it for several weeks in the garden now. I'm pleased. This is a heavy knife that's quite solid. It's not quite full tang. The blade goes about halfway up through the handle, but I've done some weeding where I put some stress on the blade and the knife is still solid. The steel is thick! My one quibble would be that I'd prefer to have a leather or rawhide sheath, but it's Pleather... But it is riveted so the knife won't cut through it.
I'm not sure why these aren't standard military issue. They're sharp as all get out and my first time using was evidence of that when I cut my index finger. I abused this from the very start and it's held up extremely well.
I like everything about it and I especially like the following: 1) It has graduation marks so you can measure how wet your soil is or how deep you're digging, up to approximate length of blade 2) Both sides are sharp, but one is smooth and the other is jagged, which is really useful for tearing up and aerating hard soil 3) The wooden blade is very comfortable especially now that I wear leather gloves to reduce chances of cutting myself.
One drawback is the leather sheath. It's really nicely made, light and fits the tool well, but I'm not so sure about wearing this thing on a belt because the point is also very sharp, and I just feel that it's an accident waiting to happen.
However, this is a definite must have gardening tool. I would buy it again and again mainly as gifts for gardening friends. This looks like it's going to hold up for a very long time.
Great for self defense, too.
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