Love hate relationship with them, I'm waiting for them to go on sale again to buy another couple sets. But they require a good bit of work to get them flat and sharpened.

Just got these and really like them. The handles are slippery which is my only complaint but they are 21 on sale and can be sharpened quite easily. I think the reviews complaining about the sharpness don't know how to sharpen, because I was able to shave with them after only 5-10 minutes of sharpening on just 2 stones. Fantastic if you don't want to spend a lot on chisels and will get the job done

bought these at half price to let students use for boat building. factory grind is next to useless. youd have to spend some time to get these properly sharpened. moral: dont skimp on tools. buy the best, care for them and keep em for life. These shall be returned.

I purchased these on sale so a really great price. However they are a ton of work to get sharpened correctly and I wish I could post pictures here to explain better but I will do my best. One of the most important steps in sharpening chisels is to have a dead flat back of your chisel for about an inch or so from the chisel's cutting edge. I first started flattening with my water stones. Started with a 1000 grit and right a away realized I had a convex (or belly) on the back, the worse case scenario for flattening because of all the metal to remove. So I switched to my 240 stone and after several passes the cutting edge and especially the corners were not being touched. I kept having to flatten my stone and I have been wanting to upgrade my sharpening tools so I thought this was the time to upgrade to the Trend Diamond Stone 300/1000 grit. It took me 3 days of working about an hour each time to flatten the back of the 1 inch chisel, that was as much time as I could do before my hands were too sore to go on. Lesson learned, don't by inexpensive tools you will only suffer. They can be made to be decent chisels if you are willing to put in the work. Dull chisels are dangerous and will not yield good results on fine woodworking, my advice is spend more money on good chisels that you can get to work with much quicker, but if budget is a serious issue and you are willing to do the work then by all means go for it.

It is a decent chisel set but not machined well from the start. When flattening the back before sharpening the corners took forever to start taking off material even with a 220 grit wet stone and even then I could not get a perfectly flat and polished back with the biggest chisel, the smaller ones did much better. The bevels were a little better. For the price you can't beat them, but you understand why better chisels cost so much more.

These chisels can be honed to an amazingly sharp edge that seems to be holding up quite well. Slices through hardwood like butter. Way better than my old garbage chisel set anyway. I sharpened both sets exactly the same and tested them side-by-side. My old set is now in the trash :-) Results weren't even close. I'm sure there are better sets out there, but if you can't get professional results with this set, you need to find a new hobby.

I was trying to drive it through a 3/8 hole to make a poor mans router plane, snapped it right off. Guess I won't do that again.