New Ebay Ripoffs of the week...
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:50 pm
Just to drum up more commotion, since it is fairly quiet on this group, and so I've taken it upon myself to try to stimulate some discussion...
What is it about Tasai Chisels? I guess part of it is hype, but it doesn't justify $585 for a single 6 mm ratty looking chisel:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tasai-Japanese- ... SwImRYf9zu
Sure it looks like it has a gumi handle and it's damascus but it's so thin that you can barely notice it...
And why are there suddenly all these Tasai "Wakizashi-Nomi" (single chisel in a holster) popping up for $350?
Not just on Ebay but at most of the Japanese tool merchants that I rely on online. I didn't know there was so much demand to walk around with a chisel on your hip, and then stab yourself in the foot when you dropped it while trying to get it out to pry that bottlecap off your beer.
...Oh wait, bottles are twist-off now.
There's another seller Japanese Antiques trading and shopping center on eBay
With a 17 chisel Tasai Damascus Mokume set for almost $6000.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Japan ... Sw2xRYkY45
I would assume that's for collectors.
There was a set of paring chisels that briefly showed up made by Usui Kinzaburo.
They are beautiful, but he has inset a sword like design on the ura that would get destroyed as you use it.
Once again, for collectors I assume.
I hope to get my new Sharpskate 4 designed by Harrelson Stanley soon and then post a review of it. Unfortunately crazy snowstorms have paralyzed the Massachusetts area, so there will be some delay to get it. I got to speak on the phone with him for the first time ever, and ask him about his updated design, and there was A LOT of thinking that went into improving the design to adapt to skewed blades and even portable planer blades, and the improved durability of the little wheels...
Nori
What is it about Tasai Chisels? I guess part of it is hype, but it doesn't justify $585 for a single 6 mm ratty looking chisel:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tasai-Japanese- ... SwImRYf9zu
Sure it looks like it has a gumi handle and it's damascus but it's so thin that you can barely notice it...
And why are there suddenly all these Tasai "Wakizashi-Nomi" (single chisel in a holster) popping up for $350?
Not just on Ebay but at most of the Japanese tool merchants that I rely on online. I didn't know there was so much demand to walk around with a chisel on your hip, and then stab yourself in the foot when you dropped it while trying to get it out to pry that bottlecap off your beer.
...Oh wait, bottles are twist-off now.
There's another seller Japanese Antiques trading and shopping center on eBay
With a 17 chisel Tasai Damascus Mokume set for almost $6000.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Japan ... Sw2xRYkY45
I would assume that's for collectors.
There was a set of paring chisels that briefly showed up made by Usui Kinzaburo.
They are beautiful, but he has inset a sword like design on the ura that would get destroyed as you use it.
Once again, for collectors I assume.
I hope to get my new Sharpskate 4 designed by Harrelson Stanley soon and then post a review of it. Unfortunately crazy snowstorms have paralyzed the Massachusetts area, so there will be some delay to get it. I got to speak on the phone with him for the first time ever, and ask him about his updated design, and there was A LOT of thinking that went into improving the design to adapt to skewed blades and even portable planer blades, and the improved durability of the little wheels...
Nori