Kana Hoe 217 Japanese Garden Tool - Hand Hoe/Sickle is Perfect for Weeding and Cultivating. The Blade Edge is Very Sharp. (Beijing-022)

I'm a rose garden contractor, I don't have time to pull weeds, and I can't spray them with the delicate plants I work around. This tool does the trick better than anything I've tried over the last 4 years. This thing is strong steel, sharp as heck and compact. You can glide under the mulch and uproot weeds quickly. Or chop through thicker ones without worrying about bending the tool.Now my coworker has one after he kept borrowing it. I would say you can get about 3 years of everyday use from it before it's worn out.

It seems such a simple tool design, but once you use it, you'll wish you had sooner. It arrived wickedly sharp and has held its edge quite well with usage.Because the blade offset is to the left, it is really best used right-handed. Occasionally, real world circumstances make a gardener wish the tool was "reversible" to be able to hoe and cut to the right of the users hand instead of the left side, but it's a small trade off for how well it works otherwise.Full disclosure: I left my first purchased tool outside long enough for it to rust-this thing IS NOT rustproof. Do better than I did and store it in a protected environment after properly cleaning it. However, the rust was only aesthetic and did nothing to negatively impact the tool's usability. I will certainly continue to use it. I ordered a second one that I intend to keep "pretty." Happy hoeing.

You’ll be done weeding with this tool in half the time (or less!). It chops right under the weeds in a quick swipe without disturbing the soil much.Not ideal for weeds with taproots, but fantastic for general purpose upkeep of your garden.

The blade is welded on and can be sharpened . The angle of the blade is perfect and it does what it’s meant to do

I trimmed dry bamboo with it and it worked well. Very sharp and quality steel. Would work well with green bamboo.

My landscaper suggested this tool for getting in small places and loosening up the roots to easily pull the weeds out by hand. Using the triangular hoe works kind of the same for larger areas in a standing position.

I love this thing. For hand-to-hand combat with weeds there is little better. I have this one for close in work, and a longer one to reach out to get weeds. Easy to manipulate and manuever. Easy to sharpen, and keeps an edge real well. Why didn't I get one 30 yrs ago?

Tool is extremely sharp. Packaging was hard to remove. Hand slipped. Resulting inGiven 3 stars because packaging was hard to unwrap resulting in hand slipping and blade slicing an inch into my finger.ER visit and tetanus booster shot later. There is the image to show that the blade is quite sharp

La función para lo que fue creada funciona a la perfección. Ultra liviana.