sstreun Report post Posted November 5, 2012 this knife was given to me and i ran it down the strop couple of times and it is awesome to cut with and sharp, to me its the best knife out of 4 that i have 76 year old guy gave it to me and used it back in his high school years guess back then it was quality and not quantity Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
St8LineGunsmith Report post Posted November 15, 2012 I think it has a lot to do with the way the blade is shaped and I believe the older blades were solgen steel (Could Be wrong) anyway the old swivel knife blades seemed to hold a better edge longer than these new blades. could just be that I have a cheapo chinese knife and blade and Chinese steel sucks for trying to keep an edge For the life of me I cannot get any kind of control making sharp radius cuts with a straight blade but with an angled blade my cuts are a lot more accurate and I can make tighter radius cuts and just al round better looking cuts than with a straight blade. anyway I have been looking around for some of the older leather working tools especially a swivel knife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
