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[chrisash]

6 minutes ago, Brokenolmarine said:

As this is a skinner, the forefinger rests on those cutouts as the user guides the blade while skinning the deer, goat, rabbit.  As the hands are most likely "wet" this helps insure continued contact with / accurate control of the blade while separating the skin from the carcass.

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[Bert03241]

I'm familiar with wrist surgery I have 3 screws in my right wrist, plus a whole bunch metal in various other parts of my body Love the Blades and leather you do nice work

[Leescustomleather]

The notched part on the spine of the blade is called a choil, not that anyone asked.

[Brokenolmarine]

45 minutes ago, Leescustomleather said:

The notched part on the spine of the blade is called a choil, not that anyone asked.

Cool, new to knife making, did I explain the use correctly?

[fredk]

2 hours ago, Leescustomleather said:

The notched part on the spine of the blade is called a choil, not that anyone asked.

The choil is on the edged side of the blade not the back

 

1 hour ago, Brokenolmarine said:

Cool, new to knife making, did I explain the use correctly?

The back side notches are derived from older knives where the notches were deeper. They were called blade breakers. In double handed sword/knife fighting, called ;main gauche' fighting the knife is used defensively and you try to catch your opponents sword or knife in one of those notches and if you are skilled or just plain lucky a twist of your knife with the captured blade will break that blade [ I broke a few good sword blades in some fights doing this ]

More modern knives have more shallower notches which are often slightly sharp and they can be used for de-scaling fish, cleaning fat off the meat or skin of killed prey/food or even as a saw for cutting fire wood

 

Edited May 18, 2022 by fredk

[Brokenolmarine]

I have knives with the sharp saw teeth on the back, in fact we often carried one in flight vest with massive teeth on the back.  Those on the skinning knife are flat and dull and I do ride my finger there when cleaning.  Thanks for the input...

[chuck123wapati]

40 minutes ago, Brokenolmarine said:

I have knives with the sharp saw teeth on the back, in fact we often carried one in flight vest with massive teeth on the back.  Those on the skinning knife are flat and dull and I do ride my finger there when cleaning.  Thanks for the input...

they can be any of the four things a thumb rest usually rounded to fit the thumb, They can be really sharop and used for sawing lioke the ones on survival knives or as fred says there are knives made with the purpose of catching the blade and on some just decorations. on these i would have to say thumb rests.

 

7 hours ago, fredk said:

The choil is on the edged side of the blade not the back

 

The back side notches are derived from older knives where the notches were deeper. They were called blade breakers. In double handed sword/knife fighting, called ;main gauche' fighting the knife is used defensively and you try to catch your opponents sword or knife in one of those notches and if you are skilled or just plain lucky a twist of your knife with the captured blade will break that blade [ I broke a few good sword blades in some fights doing this ]

More modern knives have more shallower notches which are often slightly sharp and they can be used for de-scaling fish, cleaning fat off the meat or skin of killed prey/food or even as a saw for cutting fire wood

 

 

On 5/17/2022 at 6:51 AM, chrisash said:

Many Thanks

they can be any of the four things a thumb rest usually rounded to fit the thumb, They can be really sharop and used for sawing lioke the ones on survival knives or as fred says there are knives made with the purpose of catching the blade and on some just decorations like these on mine. on these i would have to say thumb rests.