Timber Tuff 10" Straight Wood Blade Draw Shave Knife Woodworking Tool, TMB-10S

I love my draw knife. It works well stripping the sticks that I use to create walking sticks.

I used the knife to debark white oak logs. The knife came sharpened out of box and appears to be hardened steel. After two 6 foot logs, I used a fine Arkansas stone to touch up the blade to a wire eagerly and it has held the edge well. For my purposes, it worked as intended.

If you don’t have tools on hand to sharpen this do not buy!! The tool comes non sharpened. I just took my grinder out and sharpened it up like you would lawn mower blades. After it was sharpened it works really well. Handles make it nice. I used to use a flat blade knife before. Defiantly makes it quicker, and easier with the dual handles. Takes little effort to scrape bark off of logs.

I read some of the reviews for this draw knife and thought I was going to have to do a bit of work to get it doing what I wanted.It comes with the handles not attached, but they go on pretty easily. There is no blade guard so you need to be a bit careful if you store this in a tool box that you might blindly grab into.It is not razor sharp but it definitely has an edge. When using it on green wood, this thing seems to strip bark off easily. I use it in combination with a spoke-shave bench, something that is easy to build and I highly recommend. On green maple, this thing is a breeze to use. On green fir, its a bit more work, primarily because you get pine tar that is pretty sticky and needs to get cleaned off.I have included a couple of pics to see the scale of the blade and the shaving bench. You can see the shavings on the ground next to the shaving bench, and some of the wood I have been using the blade on (green maple saplings).

I was a little skeptical on how well one of these would work. I was even more skeptical considering this one was on the cheaper side of what is available out there. Now my use for this has been strictly as an amateur bowyer, but it has served its purpose beyond my expectation. Once you get used to using it, you find there is quite a range of versatility. You find different angles and levels of pressure you can apply to remove exactly how much wood you want to remove. You can also "use it backwards" as a scraper. I say use it backward because I don't know if that was an intended use at all or not. But if you turn the around you can scrape very small amounts of wood from your project for more minute wood removal which is how I use this half the time.I have also left this tool outside for several months now (under cover) and it still works like new. I am very impressed, so if you are in the market you have nothing to lose by choosing to purchase this. The price point is very reasonable and the quality is superb. I will buy another one when my current one is no longer serviceable (which I assume will be when I lose it, because I don't see it breaking or becoming unusable in the near future)

I bought this for rough de-barking some pine and hemlock logs, and I’ve spent a couple hours using it now. It’s sharp enough for that purpose out of the box, but could definitely be sharper. It’s a big flat chunk of steel, so it feels like it’s going to last pretty well. I think the angle of the handles could be better — I wind up using it with my index fingers hooked over the top of the handles to get better control. Overall it’s very usable (especially for rough work), but not a “great” tool.The wood of the handles is soft and doesn’t seem like it will be very durable. Mine arrived with one handle already cracked, looks like the wood wasn’t fully dry when it was made and cracked as it dried. I needed to use it right away, so I kept it rather than returning it. But not a great impression on the quality control.

I bought this in 2011 just to learn how to use a draw knife. I use it for simple things like making tool handles from cord wood and limbs. I think that some of the negative comments in reviews were made by very professional woodworkers who should have known better than to buy a tool made in China. I think that when I originally bought it, the tool was advertised for taking bark off felled trees. That is not precision work. And I knew the tool was made in China. Some reviewers resent having to sharpen it. If they don't want to sharpen their draw-knives, I guess they aren't sharpening their axes and chisels. So I don't know how they get anything done. The tool is very heavy duty. I am impressed enough to buy more Timber Tuff tools in the future.

Gave it only four stars due to the fact that it is just okay as far as quality goes. Not sharp when arrived and the blade cover is all but useless. What makes me sad is that this is the very draw knife a high quality woodworking retail carries as well. Theirs is no better than this in workmanship. For such a high quality name and supposedly product, they are highly lacking. However with some work and TLC, it makes a very good tool. Just hurts paying a high price for such low quality.