Andrew

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…[Read more]

Grumble, operator head-space. Yes, Sheepsfoot (apparently designed for trimming sheep hooves), not a wharncliffe (designed for use by sailors is one story I have heard).

Not everyone agrees see https://blog.knife-depot.com/history-of-the-wharncliffe-blade/

Wowser, at my house, we used a scalpel, and it was goats, not cows….

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…[Read more]

I do own a Tormek, and I have the knife jig. I was not aware that Tormek had come out with a “small” knife jig. Looks interesting.

000Robert, what angle are you using on your Buck 301?

Although I like the spey blade, it is one of the more difficult ones to sharpen on the Stockman.