looking for a knife - shaped like a creasing iron

[mrcharly]

I was at the viking festival today and someone doing carved jet/amber used an unusually-shaped knife.

It was a bit like a creasing iron in shape, with a flared curved end, almost like a half moon. The edge was at the end.

Would really like to get something similar, but single bevel. Would be great for lettering and similar stuff.

 

[mountainm]

Sounds like a type of chip carving knife - one of these maybe?

 

[mrcharly]

No much bigger and more robust - imagine a kiridashi with a 2" wide sweeping curve to the end.

A bit like this but much much more extreme curve

http://couteliersduvalblanc.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Kiri-340930146

 

[mountainm]

...oops didn't see the dashi you posted.

 

[mountainm]

 

[mrcharly]

Getting close, mountainman but this had a fantastic long curve which provided a fantastic point. The girl who had the knife showed how she used the point to carve dimples in the end of beads before putting them on a bow lathe.

 

[mountainm]

Getting close, mountainman but this had a fantastic long curve which provided a fantastic point. The girl who had the knife showed how she used the point to carve dimples in the end of beads before putting them on a bow lathe.

not an Ulu?

Or a pruning knife?

 

[Dave Budd]

a bit like the skew chisel in this picture? I've just finished a batch of blades, including some skews. Off the top of my head, they are about 1 1/4" edges and double bevelled

 

[mrcharly]

Like the skew but much more of a curve. I think I should try drawing one or cutting shape out from cardboard.

 

[Robbi]

Like this ?

 

[Robson Valley]

I can't help but wonder if the tool was a fishtail gouge, originally intended for wood carving?
Much in the design of the tools that Dave Budd posted (#8).

 

[mrcharly]

not at all like a gouge, Robson, more like a skew chisel. Was roughly hand forged.

 

[Robson Valley]

OK. I'm out for a duck.
BUT, draw the profile and I imagine Mr Budd can make it.

 

[Dave Budd]

you know me Charley, if you can draw or conceive it then I can most likely make it for you

 

[mrcharly]

Got the shape
Take second axehead down in this pic, make head tip to tip under 2" and widen the 'neck/tang' as appropriate. Stick in a basic handle.

I have a bit of old circular saw blade somewhere, might try cutting something out of that and grinding an edge on it, see how the shape works out in use.

 

[Robson Valley]

HA! I understand what you need. Never imagined an application for the corner, outside of the kitchen.
We (me and my grown and gone kids) all use Umialik(sp?) Ulus as kitchen tools.

http://shop.theulufactory.com/

 

[mountainm]

Tried that...

not an Ulu?

 

[Dave Budd]

now you mention it with the axe picture, I do remember seeing the tool you mean in a medieval picture of a leather worker. It looked like a smaller round knife with a longer handle (say 3" edge and 6" handle). I assumed it as just a round or head knife

 

[mrcharly]

There are similar knives available now for carpet and leather workers - they sharpen a hook into the 'back' of the blade, for use when ripping out seams.

I'll try one in the mild steel I have, just to see if the shape works out. Then consider better quality. Might take me a month or two, my grinder and vice aren't even mounted on a bench.

 

[Jared]

There are similar knives available now for carpet and leather workers - they sharpen a hook into the 'back' of the blade, for use when ripping out seams.

I'll try one in the mild steel I have, just to see if the shape works out. Then consider better quality. Might take me a month or two, my grinder and vice aren't even mounted on a bench.

French Pattern Knife ?

http://www.vergez-blanchard.fr/boutique/fiche_produit.cfm?ref=3_646&type=41&code_lg=lg_fr&num=2