To provide a cutting tool having high chipping resistance by applying a composite fiber body composed of a highly tough composite fiber body-like core material and a covering layer to the cutting tool, and sufficiently reflecting a characteristic of the composite fiber body in the cutting tool.

This cutting tool is composed of a tool body 12 and a cutting edge tip 14 brazed to an installing seat 13 of the tool body 12, and is characterized in that at least a cutting edge 17 part of the cutting edge tip 14 is composed of a composite structure 16 of bundling the composite fiber body 31 composed of the core material 32 and the covering layer 33 for covering the outer periphery of the core material 32 and having the composition different from the core material, and an angle α formed by the fiber direction Lf in the composite structure 16 and a tangent Lc of a ridgeline of a cutting edge 17 is set to 2° or more.