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  • 05/04/2014 at 4:42 am #18536
    Edwin Lurvey
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    Dad is stage 4 so he has been giving me some of his knives and he gave me this. Anyone know anything about these types of knives?

    05/04/2014 at 9:22 am #18539
    Leo Barr
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    They are great utility knives for gardening – lopping off unwanted twigs to splitting small kindling . Some not all are chisel ground this is to aid cutting off branches close to the stem. This one looks like a high quality one from the handle and the sheath . The blade is laminated you can see the harder steel at the lower part of the blade it has a different finish .
    When sharpening do the secondary bevel first followed by the primary bevel. If it is single sided the back will be hollowed – concave run the back with edge leading strokes – like honing to remove the burr. If you are going to use it for utilities then I would make the primary bevel quite high any where between 20-30* .

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    05/05/2014 at 7:14 am #18562
    Edwin Lurvey
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    It’s double beveled. Thanks for the info!

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