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The surface of bottom blade is curved inwardly and the hollow ground blade serves to collect sap, gum and debris. \u00a0This allows the blades to stay clean resulting in a more efficient cut. Combined with the top-quality &#8220;Yasugi Hagane&#8221; Japanese steel, these shears stay sharper longer than others. Curved blades are\u00a0 notoriously difficult to make. In addition, the Yasugi Blue Grade Steel comes with a hefty price tag. It is expensive even as a raw material. Only master craftsmen like Yoshioka Hamono can make it work and they do the best job in the world.\u00a0 Our users tell us that they snip much less using these Kihachi Curved Topiary Shears, making their job of shaping buxus balls and other topiary designs much easier.\u00a0 And these topiary artists do need to chop hundreds of times!<\/p>\n<h3>Reserve Your Kihachi Curved Shears Today<\/h3>\n<p>These custom-made 240mm-300mm Kihachi Curved Topiary Shears are highly sought after and produced in limited quantities. Due to their popularity, they often get reserved before they even reach our store. If you find that these shears are out of stock online, please don&#8217;t hesitate to contact us. We can reserve a pair for you today.<\/p>\n<p>Kihachi Topiary Shears are made of high quality &#8220;blue grade&#8221; Yasugi Hagane Japanese steel developed by Hitachi Steel. The shears come from one of the most renowned cities for hand forged steel products in the world &#8211; Ono City in western Japan. The artisan manufacturer &#8220;Yoshioka Edged-Tool Works (Yoshioka Hamono)&#8221; have been testing and polishing their skills and knowledge since 1946.<\/p>\n<h3>shokunin store Original Leather Sheath<\/h3>\n<p>All Kihachi Garden Shears now come with a slick black Japanese leather sheath. It is Shokunin Store original, specially designed to compliment the world&#8217;s best Garden Shears made by Yoshioka Hamono. We have listened to our customers, many of whom are garden professionals, that asked us if we have a leather sheath for the shears. You want your shears to look good, keep yourselves safe and take care of your tools and we certainly understand that. It is not just any leather, but it is top quality Japanese leather.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>240mm Curved Blade<br \/>\n<\/strong>Length: 61.5cm<br \/>\nBlade Length: 24cm<br \/>\nWeight: 925g<br \/>\nBlade Material: Yasugi Hagane, Blue Grade<br \/>\nBlade Surface: Hollow Ground<\/p>\n<p><strong>270mm Curved Blade<br \/>\n<\/strong>Length: 61.5cm<br \/>\nBlade Length: 27cm<br \/>\nWeight: 1008g<br \/>\nBlade Material: Yasugi Hagane, Blue Grade<br \/>\nBlade Surface: Hollow Ground<\/p>\n<p><strong>300mm Curved Blade<br \/>\n<\/strong>Length: 63.5cm<br \/>\nBlade Length: 30cm<br \/>\nWeight: 1018g<br \/>\nBlade Material: Yasugi Hagane, Blue Grade<br \/>\nBlade Surface: Hollow Ground<\/p>\n<p>* Locknut is used to resist loosening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kihachi Topiary Shears are one of the most talked about in our garden product range. \u00a0It is extremely popular amongst topiary professionals around the world and we are the only few distributors in the world to have these shears custom made by Yoshioka Hamono. \u00a0 Their ultra sharp blades feature a unique indentation design which is often described as \u201cself-cleaning\u201d. \u00a0The surface of bottom blade is curved inwardly and the hollow ground blade serves to collect sap, gum and debris. \u00a0This allows the blades to stay clean resulting in a more efficient cut. \u00a0This, combining with the top quality \u201cYasugi Hagane\u201d Japanese steel, is one of the reasons these shears stay sharper longer than others.\u00a0 Curved blades are even harder to make and Yoshioka\u2019s are the best of the world.<\/p>\n<p>As they are extremely popular, they often get reserved before reaching us.\u00a0 If you find these shears are out of stock online, do contact us and we can reserve yours today.<\/p>\n<p>Kihachi Garden Shears are made of high quality \u201cblue grade\u201d Yasugi Hagane Japanese steel developed by Hitachi Steel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_brand":[861,862],"product_cat":[32,23,24,622],"product_tag":[506,505,267,449,447,91,266,448,145,461,147,146,104,460,159,441],"class_list":["post-2140","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-kihachi","product_brand-yoshioka-hamono","product_cat-japanese-garden-shears","product_cat-japanese-gardening-tools","product_cat-professional-gardening-tools","product_cat-topiary-tools","product_tag-boxwood","product_tag-buxus","product_tag-garden-shears","product_tag-hedging","product_tag-hitachi-yasugi-steel","product_tag-japan","product_tag-japanese-gardening-tool","product_tag-japanese-hagane-steel","product_tag-kihachi","product_tag-leather-sheath","product_tag-miki","product_tag-shears","product_tag-steel","product_tag-tochigi-leather","product_tag-topiary","product_tag-yoshioka-hamono","pa_brand-kihachi-yoshioka-edge-tool-works","pa_brand-yoshioka-hamono","entry","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kihachi Curved Topiary Shears by Yoshioka Hamono - Shokunin Store AU<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kihachi curved garden shears are an ultimate tool for topiary artists. 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