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Omigosh--I just tackled my first project with a hori hori, and am now wondering how I ever lived without one. I'm installing a pottery ring around a shrub, and needed a round trench about five inches deep and four inches wide, cut into a Bermuda lawn. Used a trenching shovel for the initial cut, then got to work with the knife.
A-freaking-mazing. The pointed tip drove right in to make nice vertical trench walls, and the serrated edge zipped through the roots like they were overcooked spaghetti. If I don't manage to chop my arm off with the daggone thing--it's sharp! sharp! sharp!--I'll have found a tool for life.
I didn't do a whole lot of research before I bought, but I did note that one knife kept popping up on all the "best of" lists, so that's the one I chose--the Nisaku NJP650, about $22 and change on Amazon. The sheath that comes with it is kinda cheesy--PU "pleather"-- but there are lots of genuine leather ones on eBay and Etsy if you care to replace it.
A-freaking-mazing. The pointed tip drove right in to make nice vertical trench walls, and the serrated edge zipped through the roots like they were overcooked spaghetti. If I don't manage to chop my arm off with the daggone thing--it's sharp! sharp! sharp!--I'll have found a tool for life.
I didn't do a whole lot of research before I bought, but I did note that one knife kept popping up on all the "best of" lists, so that's the one I chose--the Nisaku NJP650, about $22 and change on Amazon. The sheath that comes with it is kinda cheesy--PU "pleather"-- but there are lots of genuine leather ones on eBay and Etsy if you care to replace it.
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