Customer Reviews

Japanese Hori Hori Garden Landscaping Digging Tool With Stainless Steel Blade & Sheath

5 star:		(49)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

WEEDS SCREAM AND RUN when they see me coming with the hori hori. (Note that I don't know whether one hori hori brand is any better than another. It's the tool itself that's so great.)

If I could, I'd get one for each of my gardener friends. Sometimes I might need a spade or pruners or shovel, but overall, the hori hori is often the only tool I take outside to plant and weed.

Solid, unbending steel helps pry out deep weeds or dig a hole even in packed clay or gravel. The serrated edge is great for butterflying root-bound plants. And the centimeter markings helps me properly place seedlings and bulbs.

One thing I'd recommend that's been really helpful for me is to paint the handle with fluorescent paint AND tie some long (15-20") fluorescent plastic tape through the hole so that you don't lose it in the dirt; there'll always be some pink or orange ribbon sticking out even if you bury the hori-hori by mistake.

I've buried my hori hori twice. Once I actually called the local metal detector club to help me find it (it was within plain view of my back door for 4 months). The other time, I just ran out and bought a new one.

I've never damaged the blade on one of these. I killed the wood handle by leaving it buried for 10 months in soggy Seattle, but I still use the blade alone.

ANOTHER GARDEN TOOL RECOMMENDATION: Get a Circle Hoe.

You open the gift box. Yes! it's just what you wanted! You drop the wrapping paper, leave the wine glass, and the astonished friends, you zoom out to the garden even though it's perfectly dark by now, and you find that dandelion illuminated by the front door's light. You heft the hori hori in your hand. You are a warrior. You are invincible. The enemy will die. This sturdy, hefty tool feels great in the palm of your hand. It easily slides into the soil alongside the offending dandy. A little pressure, and pop! the root, the leaves, the whole rosette of the heinous green Medusa is air born like a cork out of a bottle. You think yes! finally! the war is over, I am The Gardener.

Knife seems pretty good. Bought it for setting Cinch Traps. I think the Tang Goes about 1/2 way back into the handle just past the second rivot.

I cannot give 5 or even 4 stars because the item I received is not the item pictured. The pictured knife is a Greep Top stamped and the one I received is Nisaku. The blade is VERY Magnetic too so I don't see how it can be stainless steel. It is made in japan though. it looks like Amazon SKU B003UMVPMM (which also says stainless but I don't see how it can be). Going to contact amazon now since being stainless seems pretty important when it comes to this sort of tool. I could have bought another non stainless version for a lot less money.

I've had it only twelve hours and wonder how I ever got along in the garden without it. What a wonderful tool! I have already used it as a trowel for planting; the blade made short work of an interfering tree root. I loosened weed roots in a flower bed for easy removal without disturbing a lot of soil, and pried weeds from the cracks in the sidewalk. Edging along the front walk was a breeze. I like it that there is a hole in the handle for easy hanging, too.

I bought the Hori Hori stainless steel garden knife because an equivalent product that I had purchased previously broke after a few months of use. That tool (a Fiskars product) worked fine until a design flaw in the handle resulted in the handle coming apart. The Hori Hori knife has a very robust handle and blade which allows it to survive the stresses induced when I pry out tough weeds. One feature that the Fiskars product had that I really liked was a groove cut into the pointed end of the blade. That grove was very useful in grabbing the stems of weeds which made it much easier to pry them out of the soil. The Hori Hori knife doesn't have this notch. I bought two Hori Hori knives so I may modify one of them to add a notch just to see if I can replicate that feature. All in all, the Hori Hori is a very useful tool (even without the notch) and I would recommend it to every gardener.

Love this tool...very effective for digging out the weeds...and sharp enough to hack throough some smaller vines etc. It has good heft and you quickly master the most effective way of weed removal...using the saw blade edge to dig part way around and then lift...the Hori Hori is strong enough that you can really put some pressure(pry)on it.

I'm a master gardener and like a garden without weeds. This is the tool for weeding, cutting flowers, deadheading, and cutting down masses of flowers in the fall. You can also dig with it very well. I like to only carry one tool and this is it. It is VERY sharp when new. It is well worth the money. I've given them for gifts and always keep at least two. (one for my man.....)

I bought this because peak oil and climate change are slowly undermining world food security (yeah, never mind) so I needed some beginner gardening tools like shovel and pitchfork and stuff. A friend sent me a link to this garden knife, so I said what the hey. It looks great and works well, it can dig, break up soil, cut buried roots in place with a serrated or straight edge, and it even has a scale if you want to be super precise about how deep you're planting.

My advice? If you think you might like it, buy it. Great hand tool. Oh, and also, it's not just a hand digger - it's a hand digger with REALLY SHARP EDGES ON BOTH SIDES. So don't carelessly wipe off the dirt with your hand, or you could cut yourself. Be smarter than me, ok?

The blade is wicked sharp, and wicked strong, stored snugly in a solid wooden base. I cut myself the first time I used this. It cut my skin open like a knife through warm butter. I edge my lawn with this. Now I don't need to use my loud-ass, gas-guzzling trimmer. Thank you Joshua Roth 1516 Japanese Hori Hori Garden Landscaping Digging Tool.

I use this knife as a digger when metal detecting. It is extremely sharp, as it arrived, and makes a perfect tool for cutting 'plugs' in a lawn type area. It is easy to put everything back as found. With this knife I can make an almost surgical removal of my target. Non-destructive digging is important in parks and manicured lawns. The only reason I did not give this knife 5 stars is because of the handle, which for most people, would be very adequate. However, I needed something with more padding, especially on the butt, in order to comfortably push the knife into harder soil. I fashioned a motorcycle grip over the handle making it perfect for my use. The scabbard has a very small belt loop that would not fit over my 2" wide tool belt. They could have done a better job on the scabbard, although, once again, it would be very adequate for most people.