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Robson Valley

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All of the traditional crooked knives from here in the Pacific Northwest have bevels on one side only.
Most of those blades are double edged. Oddly not my preference at all.
Harder and sharper than most Japanese wood carving tools that I've tried.
I still find myself going back to battered, second-hand farrier's knives, revised for carving.

Where, oh where did you find the Mocotaugan crooked knife? (Top horizontal in your first picture)
That's a 1-handed draw knife, never intended for any sort of sculptural carving yet people keep trying to make it so.
 

tombear

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Cheers for the links N!

I'll get somat drawn up Stew, scanner died a death so I will do a digi pic. Cheers!

RV, that's the knife I made from the other blade I got straight from the maker in Sheffield, I'm pretty sure I sent you the spare blade I got a few years back...? If wasn't you my apologies. There was hardly any bevel on the back of the one in the pic one for me to remove, i think you had more to do.. The handle came from a 160 odd year old ash (I think that was the number from the postmortem ring count ) that went down in front of the house and flattened next doors new Ford Ka, another 45 degree over and it would have cut the house in two! The binding is tenis racquet cat cut, I assume synthetic but it was a pretty ancient reel.

ATB

Tom
 

Robson Valley

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Yessir, you did in fact send me the Sheffield Mocotaugan blade. Did get it hafted 3 ways crooked and have some recall
that I posted pictures of it, even with copper wire binding (which stretched). Good experiment, looked elegant.

I used some birch, Maybe handle #3 was finally good enough shape to work with.
There's much more to the design of those knives than meets the eye.
Building is the honest lesson.
 

Wayne

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I have a very nice kiridashi made by Nic Westermann I use for leatherwork. I also have a Dave Budd one floating around somewhere.

I did a little bit of chopping on a shrine in Japan a few years back after watching a Japanese craftsman. Amazing skills and beautiful tools. One sure I would have let a stranger loose with them. Still I kept my fingers and didn’t wreck the shrine.
 

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