Xacto X5175 Deluxe Woodcarving Set

Xacto X5175 Deluxe Woodcarving Set

Xacto X5175 High quality tools for the discriminating wood worker. A complete set for virtually every work working requirement--three dimensional carving, deep relief carving, and whittling. Set contains No. 5 knife with No. 24 Deburring Blade, No. 18 Heavy Wood Chiseling Blade, No. 19 Angled Wood Chiseling Blade, No. 22 Large Curved Carving Blade, No. 26 Whittling Blade, and No. 27 Heavy-Duty Saw Blade, five gouges, and four routers boxed in a wooden chest. No. 5175.For more than 65 years, Elmer's Products, Inc. has been providing creative adhesive solutions that support success and turn ideas into reality.

This tool set is generally pretty good. As with
most Xacto products, the blades are shape and the tools all there upon arrival. They do not all fit into the little holder thing which I felt was a little unsafe for the main carving knife blade to be free floating in the holder. At this time, Owning the product for about 72 hours now, I have since broken 2 blades, bent the saw tool blade and really wish I had gone for a different more stable tool kit all together. This kit is ideal for many, however if you are a beginning wood worker, stay away from this product. Go for tools that are solid in construction.

The blades are decent, but really leave much to be desired. Switching blades out can become a hassle, even if the tool handle is comfortable, switching tool bits out when your in the moment of carving takes too much away from the experience. The blades break quite easily, bend very easily and are frustrating to use. Perhaps this item is more adept in its usage by more experienced wood crafter, but for a novice, I am honestly sorry I went with this over my other option of solid tools. In general I honestly can not say this tool kit is absolutely useless, I can see great potential for this kit, if it were used for scrap booking, or perhaps even small wood projects. If you buy this intending to do only wood carving, I recommend you buy something more stable and solid.