Traditional butcher

[jason01]

I was pleasantly surprised to find this on the junk knife stall at Birmingham market. The irritating stall holder wouldnt accept that the ugly rosewood scales were warped to hell, 3 mm gap between tang and scale but I still didnt mind paying £5 for a Sheffield made carbon steel butchers knife. I dont know whether this pattern is currently available from H M Slater but it may be?

Before anybody asks, this was the only one he had!

 

[Stew]

Nice rehandle job J!

You must have quite a store of Yew.

 

[Nemisis]

Take it back to the stall ask how much its worth now lol

 

[jason01]

Nice rehandle job J!

You must have quite a store of Yew.

Cheers Stew, Yep Ive got a fair bit of Yew squirelled away Its such a lovely looking wood.

Take it back to the stall ask how much its worth now lol

I thought about doing that but he's one of those blokes you just cant reason with, no interest in knives beyond selling em, he demonstrated how sharp the edge was by pressing it against his palm! It would be amusing to see him do that now I've convexed the edge. Strange stall really, he even has Globals mixed in amongst the junk, suspect he sells a few knives to the buchers and fishmongers on the market.

I found a website for Slaters....

H M Slater

Looks like they have some nice stuff and very reasonable prices too.