last week i had a somewhat similar type knife to sharpen, but it was un-mountable in the WE, so i just used the 600 to 1000 diamond paddles on it, but it was chisel grind job.
That Knife is an Ulu a knife originally used by Inuit woman for food prep and scraping skins.
I have a couple of them. Very useful for dicing and chopping vegetables and as a general purpose knife.
http://www.the-knife-connection.com/knife-blade-types.html
An Ulu (Inuit woman’s knife) knife is a sharpened segment of a circle. This blade type has no point, and has a handle in the middle. It is good for scraping, and sometimes chopping. It is the strongest knife shape. The semi-circular version appears elsewhere in the world and is called a head knife. It is used in leatherworking both to scrape down leather (reducing thickness), and to make precise, rolling cuts for shapes other than straight lines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulu
An ulu (Inuktitut syllabics: รกโโ, plural: uluit, English: “woman’s knife”[1]) is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Eskimo women, both Yupik and Inuit. It is utilized in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child’s hair, cutting food and, if necessary, trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build an igloo.
Leo’s version might be what this quote calls a head knife.
Just a bit of data to make it easier to talk about..
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