For the money this is a decent set of tools for the hobbyist who carves soft wood. Not the best choice for hard woods although I have occasionally used mine since the late 1980s to carve gun stocks made from Hard Sugar Maple (Acer Sacharum), Red Maple, Walnut and Cherry but for this application a higher quality tool like Pfeil, Two Cherries or Henry Taylor is a better choice. For what I paid for these tools in the 1980s though, I have gotten good use out of them.