Minimum Blade Width for 12 to 15 degree per side
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For really narrow knives, even the LAA won’t solve the problem. The only solution to my knowledge is the Tormek Small Knife Adapter, which leaves the blade suspended in mid-air above the vise, where it is easily accessible. One of our senior members is Josh at RazorEdgeKnives. He once posted about how he used a Tormek SKA on top of a LAA. With this, he was able to get down near the 6 dps territory. Wider knives would let you reach even lower angles.
One caveat about the Tormek SKA is that folder blades which are not tightly held on their pivot pins may need some additional support. Since I sharpen one side at a time, I use the opposite side hand to steady the blade.
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I have a WE130 with the LAA and the only blade that I have a problem with on pocket knives is the spey blade. So I sharpen them by hand. Here is a photo where I have the sheepsfoot blade of my Buck 301 clamped up.
Spey blades were originally used to castrate animals. The shape should not catch on things that it should not. These days, I doubt if they are used for such, but it is still a common blade on the Stockman pattern knives. The Case small stockman almost always has a pen blade rather than a spey blade. On a stockman, the other two blades are always (I think) a clip and a wharncliffe.
I only know about spey blades because I like stockman knives.
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I have a rancher friend in NE Wyoming who carried a small Case folder which he used to convert bulls to steers. The blade was really slender, looking more like a Texas tickler after many, many sharpenings.
This would be one of those applications which would benefit from a toothier edge, maybe 800 grit.
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I have a rancher friend in NE Wyoming who carried a small Case folder which he used to convert bulls to steers. The blade was really slender, looking more like a Texas tickler after many, many sharpenings. This would be one of those applications which would benefit from a toothier edge, maybe 800 grit.
I put a toothy 800 or 1000 grit edge on all of my blades unless I plan on collecting them. I decided to collect my Boker Plus 74 Kalashnikov Damascus Auto, so I put mirrored edges on it as best as I could with what was included in my Pro Pack III.
I heard that they called it a sheepsfoot blade because it is shaped like a sheep’s foot. It is good for cleaning horse hooves if I remember right.
I read that it looks like a sheepsfoot, but that feels like a stretch to me (read uneducated opinion based on not much). Understand that I also laugh at the ancient greeks (or whoever did this) who looked up into the sky and said “yeah, that square cluster of stars up there, that is a guy riding a horse with a bow”.
I never heard of anyone cleaning a horse hoof with a real knife. I used a farrier hoof knife often enough for the task, but that has a curved edge similar to a spoon (or bowl) carving knife (curves back in a U shape) or maybe more like those fake springy running legs / feet for people who lose a lower leg. Have not done it since the early 80’s so my memory is likely fuzzy at this point.
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