I was dead wrong about those fancy Japanese chisels

Spent years swearing by my $20 flea market beaters until I borrowed a friend's set from Hattori last month and cut through some hardened oak like butter. Has anyone else had a tool flip their whole mindset after one afternoon?

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felix3851h ago

Is it weird how we get stuck on stuff being "good enough" and then one experience just flips everything you thought you knew? Honestly I think this happens with way more than just tools. I had the same thing with kitchen knives - used the same cheap block set for years until I tried a real chef's knife at a friend's house and realized I'd been fighting vegetables my whole life. It's like once you feel what a quality tool can actually do, going back feels wrong. Same thing happened with my headphones too. You just don't know what you're missing until you actually try something well made.