AMAZING Japanese Gardening Tool! Making a Hori-Hori Knife
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2019
- The hori-hori is a Japanese gardening knife that splits the difference between trowel and knife. In this video, knifemaker Walter Sorrells forges his version of this traditional blade.
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A hori-hori is a great gardening tool. It cut through roots you can’t get out with most other hand tools. Thank you for showing how to make one, Walter.
Beautiful. I use my hori hori all the time. I'd be proud to own this one for sure. I wouldn't want to dirty it up!
this is really cool because the knife itself looks deceptively simple. seeing it be made just proves how complex and elegant that design really is. awesome video.
Going to have to give that one a try myself. Might sell well with all my organic gardening friends
to be honest the thumbnail is what made me click
i saw a DRO and it imediately peaked my interest
now what was really cool was how you showed us that the hardening technique was successfull
Thumbs up for Walter's cool voice!
Thanks for the video. It's good to see you making something again.
Always a work that brings statisfaction to watch.
Very nice tool! You never ceases to amaze me Walter! good job as always..
Perfect timing for some spring gardening!
Very nice. Once again you make a difficult project look easy, when it isn't. A sign of the true craftsman.
“Hori-hori...I guess that sounds better in Japanese” 😂 great vid, Walter!!
深山刀 is what they call them here in Japan. (Miyamato)
Apparently hori hori is just what they're called outside Japan. Not sure how that happened, but .. Japan lol My Japanese wife is watching with me and thought this was interesting. Thank you for the video.
I ran a search on the Denshi Jisho Online, and could not find either term.
@@ManuelGarcia-ww7gj trying googling something like "ホリホリナイフとは"
If that doesn't work I'll ask how my Mrs searched. :)
From Wikipedia: The word “Hori” (ホリ) means "to dig" in Japanese and "hori-hori" is the onomatopoeia for a digging sound. The tool itself is commonly referred to as a レジャーナイフ, "leisure knife" or a 山菜ナイフ, "Sansai(=Mountain-vegetable)knife" in Japan.
@@DeeegerD In Japan items or food can have a different names from regions, depending or regional dialect. Wiki fails at that part unless you are using Japanese Wiki, but that you would need to know written Japanese.
Wow, for me the one of the vest videos ever. A japanese gardening knife. 👍
O love this tool. I'm gonna try this myself! Thanks for the video!
very rad as always
Well that's a thing that I've not seen before. Thanks for that, Walter. Much appreciated.
Thanks Walter. Now I know what to get that special gardener in my life.
FANTASTIC!
That's beautiful
Outstanding
Hi. Been using cheap mass produced versions of this knife for years to get rid of dandylions in my garden and never knew it was a Japanese design. Thanks, i am a wiser man tonight. Your knife is a lot stronger and better looking than mine but they are perfectly designed for the job. Good health and stay safe.
Great knife / tool. Looks very useful.
Very interesting knife/tool. Like it a lot.
Wow, wish I had the skill and the tools. Amazing.
I fucking love Walter's scrap pile. XD "let me check the scrap pile for this knife" *pulls out perfectly milled 12"x2"x3/16" piece of annealed S35VN*
Fantastic looking tool, it seems that it would get a lot of work done in the garden!
I’ve seen many of your knife making videos always a treat and pleasure. I genuinely like this one almost the best and I don’t know why but I would like to get my hands on that Hori if willing
My dad turned me on to these years ago a very practical tool
Nice - I use one for metal detecting - great digger - roots are no problem.
This is fantastic! I've enjoyed mine from gemplars for years, they are great tool. I've even taken mine camping, and it works perfectly.
You may find yourself making more, your work is beautiful.
Beautiful knife
very cool, cheers from Sweden
Being a part-time knife nerd, this video was in my recommended list. Why have I not seen you before? Love your work. Subbed and belled.
Very nice. I like that is a knife and a tool.
Lovely knife
Your videos are edited, and sped up where appropriate, to keep them brief and interesting. But I’d like to see just one where you make a knife in real time, from start to finish. I realize it would probably be hours long, but it would be a nice thing to watch on a rainy Saturday afternoon while doing chores or just relaxing.
I used to make utility knies out of 5in pipe just llike this years ago very handy the one you made looks a lot better but we beat the crap out of them at work
Well bowled Walter !!!
Bravo Mr Sorrells- Perchance you may re-visit your "tool making" series with a few other garden and home/camp tools as well? Understood this was a by-product of a customer request- but your wood tool series was very enlightening. Even though the world is going digital- gardening and wood-working are the original "digital" (with fingers/hands) way to find craft and solace. Your efforts are inspiring- thank you for your efforts- Bravo again.
Fast forward to post covid and your comment is more viable now than before as all things you mentioned became big time hobbies. I hope he follows your suggestions. It would make for an awesome series.
amazing, cheers
Looks like a work horse!
Great job on a knife style seldom seen. I've often thought that a Hori Hori would make a great camp utility tool, for odd jobs of food gathering (tubers, mushrooms and the like) and digging chores (fire pit maintainance, poop holes, etc.). Thanks.
Lee Valley sells utilitarian versions of these (I've got one) but holy molly is this one nice. I wish I was the customer receiving it. Love these things and that, sir, is a dang nice one.
Ah, if only this video had come a week earlier -- I was in the yard yesterday cussing at the mystery metal tool I was using to (try and) grub out seedling trees and privet in the flower and shrub beds. I'll be prepared next year, though...
you're the best
Nice.
A beauty of a tool, my only fear would be my grip slipping past the handle.
Good to see you at the forge again, it's been a while.
I work with stock that thin, even with more appropriately aized tongs, its tough to wrangle.
Thank you. I just broke my cheap amazon one. Might try and give it a go
I have one of these that someone gave to me. I wonder if this would be a good place to use a leaf spring from a truck. Something you might be able to get for free somewhere. It really doesn't matter much about the steel quality, because you are going to thrust it repeatedly into the ground, hit stones and rocks, loose it in the compost for a while, and treat it the way you never would a kitchen knife. What I like most about this tool is that you can really lean on it and lever up some big-ass dandelions as well as gently transplant some small vegetables.
Finally a bladesmith that uses a milling machine! How long has the one on forged in fire sat unused?
Very cool looking! say since the hollow would be hard to do without a press and stuff, cut a piece of pipe lengthwise, flatten it some, cook it in a charcoal pack until it picks up some carbon?
Great video..as usual. When using 1095 for this.. how well will it keep an edge? We all know dirt is a killer of blades..I guess I'm asking ..is 1095 the best steel for this, or just what you had in hand?
Cool tool. I have started making a handful of specialty blades for cutting and skiving leather (too many hobbies). I'm finding it hard to get a consistent initial freehand grind on curved edges - any tips suggestions? I've been practicing with 1084/1095, but want to do the final tool with A2 or D2 for a more durable edge.
Is it beneficial to forge the shape of the tip over cutting the stock to the shape first? Might try to make one of these but have limited forge access/skills. Thanks!
Hori means dig so its a "dig dig" tool. The "r" is pronounced with a hard sound more like an "l". If I had to choose only one tool to maintain my yard I would choose a hori hori. Short machete, package opener, trowel, weeder and yes, digging tool.
My only concern is that 1095 might not be rust-resistant enough since you don't clean it up nicely after each use. At least I don't, or my trowels and shovels either.
Nice. Got to love gardening. Here in America we got a hoe. In Japan they got a hori hori.😆
Hey what pants are you wearing. They look like they are holding up, something I have been looking for in the shop. Thanks, great blade
That would look cool made out of cable and do a twist cable damascus
Can you use the clay on non-forged or stock metals?
To damned pretty to use in the garden
it's kind of like a shallow wood lathe gouge
This might be a good bush craft knife if with a thicker blade & 90° spine about 3/4 from the point
I found myself trying to blow away the saw dust when he was drilling the hamdle scales
Only Walter would call a 20 ton press, gentle.
Didnt quite understand why he needed to have part of the blade hardened and the other inside part soft. Did anyone else know why?
The last shot showing the hamon reminded me of a yari blade. Thanks for sharing.
That knife is almost too nice for the garden. Not sure i could bring myself to dig with it.
can you commit soduku with these?
No? Thats a number puzzle.. You mean seppuku..
@@PureCountryof91 that was the joke lol
I can Dig it
When you sharpen the blade, why do you press the blade against the flow of the grinder ??
because thusly you can see the edge and not just sparks, and all the burrs and whatnot goes away giving you a nicer cleaner edge to see and work on.
@@jessenen
Isn't that dangerous though?? If the edge catches on the wheel at a wrong angle, I'd imagine it will send it flying down to your foot.
Sorry, Walter. I don't have a press.
So I met a woman at work. It's too early to tell, but early indications is I cant fucking stop thinking of her, and she shows signs of being into me a little bit. We work in different departments at opposite ends of the building, but we have chatted a few times. I'm going to ask her if she wants to get drinks
Nice job, I just don't understand why the customer commissioned it.
Buying a custom handmade Hori Hori is like buying a custom handmade putty knife or lawn mower blade.
I don't have those masks 💀
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