Japanese Pruning Shears for Gardening Heavy Duty 8", Made in JAPAN, Professional Garden Bypass Pruners with Leather Sheath, Hand Forged Japanese Carbon Steel, Black

Bought as a gift for my husband and will have to buy another pair as he's not too keen on sharing them. They are sharp and feel great it your hand. We have pruned just about every hedge in our yard multiple times and they are still cutting like butter. Will definitely buy again.

Excellent tool

Outstanding and revered by my partner. Be careful, you could take your finger off with these if not mindful. Pleasant in the hand and effective.

So far I am very impressed with the quality and ease of use of these shears. I have never been disappointed in the quality of products made in Japan and seeing that these shears were made in Japan I decided to take a chance. These shears are not cheap, however in my first use of them they performed flawlessly. These shears blades are very sharp, very well machined and fit and finish of the blade mechanism is truly excellent with a beefy pivot bolt, nothing is cheaply built. I was able to cut through 9/16th inch, just over half and inch or about 14.25 mm diameter bush stems very easily. And for a trimming like that it was just about as comfortable and easy to use these manual shears as my electric Milwaukee ones. See the picture I am going to upload as well to see what you can cut with one hand. The overall ergonomics are very good, full steel handles with a nicely engaging locking mechanism. There are no comfort grips but I wear gloves while gardening and the rounded face of the handles caused no hot spots or discomfort. If you wanted you could likely use plastidip to add a rubber handle but it’s really not needed, and you know you have steel handles all the way down, nothing hidden by plastic. The leather sheathe seems to be of good quality. It is only formed for right hand carry but I am a lefty and you can easily just put the shears in “backwards” and the sheathe being leather has no issues retaining the shears and they don’t get stuck. I would advise these shears will probably rust a little easier than cheaper shears as they are probably a higher carbon steel, but I have no doubt that when dull you could bring these to a sharpening service for knives and they could easily get them sharp again, they are properly made.

Make sure to wipe them off after use, they rust fairly quickly as expected but sharp and great!

These are my wife's new favorite shears. Tried and liked a couple of others but so far this one is her favorite. Shape of the handle fits well in her hand. Mine as well so i'm happy with it.

Just replaced it. Lost the other pairs, which I had for many years. These sheers are way better than the other ones, and are actually hanging in my door jam going to the garden. I couldn’t do without it.

These pruners cut extremely well. They're amazingly sharp for a pruner and the long, shallow bevel cuts through stem like it's nothing. I haven't had it long enough to know how well it holds up with use, but the out-of-box performance is truly outstanding. For the time being I'm just going to assume it shouldn't be used on thicker branches, but for what I've used it on, this is crazy-go-nuts good.

It's an essential tool when wandering through your garden

Bought as a gift for my daughter who grows flowers professionally. She highly recommends them.

Amazing quality

These were very nice decanters at first but the blade chipped and broke in the first couple of weeks. Stick with Felco.