'Razor sharp out of the box'

[C_Claycomb]

Exactly how do you find their respective skill levels?

As I see it they are cleverer using the more appropriate tool for the job. Their knives are sharp but not always razor so, some do have modofied edge geometries so they get the cutting properties they want. Also using selected wood so no worries about hard dead knots. You know just knowing how to do it properly and the easiest way.

Don’t worry, he was joking.
And my previous post was not about TLM, but someone else.

 

[TLM]

Yeah, but your post was so funny that it was hard to resist replying in jest!

Made me wonder but I have met enough people from non-knife-as-tool-user-populations who really do not know how to use one and what problems one might encounter. I have broken one knife in two in Lapland in the middle of nowhere (that was a Marttiini, never since), had at least two broken edges (that could be honed out), had to sharpen twice while dressing an elk that had apparently been rolling in a gravel pit and had silicon carbide coated bones ...

I know that northern knife users have a different way of looking at knives and its use but that is what we are used to and it has been going on for some while as with the all other ways of using knives. Not any better or worse as such. If there is one main difference it is that we do not look at knives as weapons as much as elsewhere, I was reminded of that two weeks ago at Leka when talking with some Germans about the puukko they had just bought.

 

[Chris]

Now THIS arrived sharp. Could shave a fly’s feet with this thing.

 

[HillBill]

Take some getting used to those things. Have had various leather knives over the years. Settled on a clicker. Just couldnt get use to head/half head knives. Much prefer to cut on the pull, rather than the push. More control that way, especially when using some bodyweight to lean on the blade.

 

[LeviathanNI]

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Now THIS arrived sharp. Could shave a fly’s feet with this thing.

It's l like a baby billhook
Where did you get it?

 

[Chris]

It's l like a baby billhook
Where did you get it?

It’s this: https://www.georgebarnsleyandsons.co.uk/product-page/half-head-knife

 

[LeviathanNI]

Thank you. I'd love to start working leather, but I've too many other things on, and I do like being married