Yeah I think another reason why I held off on it is that I can only imagine who crappy it would be to break it in. I mean its not a flat bottom so unless your holding it in your hand its going to rock around when you take a chisel and put pressure on it. I know a lot of you guys use butchers knives but I have found those big wide floor chisels are nice and I can really bear down on it with some pressure. It seems to work faster that way.