Amazon Basics 8-Piece Wood Carving Chisel Set with Honing Guide, Sharpening Stone and Storage Case, 1/4" - 1-1/2"

The media could not be loaded. Usually when you go cheap you get what you pay for but these chisels are actually great. Plenty of sizes and they came pretty sharp. Not quite sharp enough though. I paired these with cheap diamond plate sharpen stones and leather strop and now they are razor sharp! Keep in mind I'm in no way a professional but in my video you can see it effortlessly cuts through wood almost like butter (and that's only with one hand). The angles are true and I like the big handles. The only thing I can say negative about these is the sharpen block and honing guide are low quality, the guide doesn't even fit the chisels properly. Well worth it to give them a try.

Well made and perfect for my needs.

I'm impressed with the edge and how they perform so far I used them on ash and a good number of hard woods and they have done good so far ill edit my review when something happens

Good

I haven’t bought a lot of Amazon basics, but I’d consider buying more. These are pretty solid.Really good 9” files cost as much as this kit, and the handles come separately. For light/miscellaneous use, these will work.

Very good value. While a chisel can only be evaluated after extensive use, this set appears to be adequate for general woodworking use. The honing guide, and stone were surprises, and the guide seems like it will do the job.

This chisel set came super sharp. Didn’t have to sharpen before the first use. I love that they came with the things needed to sharpen them. The color is nice. The handle is comfortable to hold. No complaints about these.

I'm admittedly an amateur woodworker. I bought my first set of chisels, figuring something cheap would get me started until I decide which tools require better quality to get good results.As a beginner, I think I will get totally adequate results from this set. I've already chopped and pared some pretty good through mortises in pine, right out of the box. When I felt the ones I was using were getting too dull, I set about actually flattening and sharpening them.And flattening. And flattening. My wife wonders what I've been doing at the kitchen counter all weekend. My back wonders, too.I started on the larger ones, and every single one so far (I've tested four of them) is anything but flat. Tool marks I can understand and handle (and there are plenty). But bellied backs and wavy warps are very common. I think they've all had a thin spot in the top left corner that I still haven't been about to reach by grinding down the rest of the surface. I mean, one of them is noticeably thinner along one side profile vs. the other. I've probably worked on the big one for an hour today alone, with the 120g oil stone included, as well as a coarse diamond stone. If I can't make the back flat along the edge, then I don't have much hope in getting a truly sharp bevel. It's possibly this is just user error, of course. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my expectations are too high.Honestly, if I had seen how not-flat they are (especially all in the same corner, at the edge), I would have just returned them. But now I'm just hoping that I get some good sharpening practice out of them, before putting them back into use. And at that point, I do expect they will serve me well, once I've got them properly set up. So, 4 stars for now. We'll see if my patience holds out to really put them to work and report back.Edit: Well, it's three years later, and I still haven't bought new chisels. I have, however, bought better sharpening tools, to make the process faster and more accurate. But yeah, these chisels are fine. They won't hold an edge through hours of hardwood gouging, of course. But they'll get the job done. They're also great to use in situations where I wouldn't put a nice Swiss steel at risk, like when I needed to shave off some material from my wood floors, right up against the concrete slab. My Amazon chisels nicked that concrete plenty, and then I just touched them up after. I should probably get some better quality chisels eventually, but these have held up perfectly well so far.