Is there a commercially made

[tombear]

Poking about the net it seams the Japanese have a type of one sided bevel knife called a kiridashis , ones from very hard steel for marking out only and ones made of less brittle stuff for wood carving.

In fact the japenese have a whole range of single bevel knives, there several on this Aussie site.

https://www.japanesetools.com.au/products/carving-knife-straight-back-single

ATB

Tom

 

[tombear]

OK does anyone know of a reasonable source of Japanese tools in the UK? My google fu is not up to it!

ATB

Tom

 

[nitrambur]

Will Germany do?
Searching for single bevel on Dictum brings up these
https://www.dictum.com/en/search?p=1&followSearch=9686&q=single bevel&o=7&n=12

 

[Stew]

Tom, message me a drawing of what you want making and we can talk. Cost for a bare blade of that style will be quite reasonable.

 

[nitrambur]

https://www.niwaki.com/

Various Japanese tools here too

 

[Robson Valley]

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]

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]

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]

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.