Unusual Round Knife

[Jesleright]

Greetings fellow leaherworkers,

found this in a kitchen drawer. my dad inherited it from his aunt many years ago. no one here knows what it was used for, so i decided to try sharpening it for leatherwork.

as you can see the paint has worn off the handle, and there is a layer of greenish paint under the red and yellow.(maybe a base coat?)

i have searched the google pages, but haven't seen any knives with rounded tips like that.

thanks for any input, and may the Good LORD bless ya'.

Jes

Edited August 12, 2010 by Jesleright

[yepod]

I'm definately no expert but it looks like a food chopper.

Collectors look for antique kitchen tools in the green handle series as well as the red.

(I know this because my wife used to collect the green series.)

I've seen more of the red lately in 'antique' shops in my quest for old leather craft tools.

[Jesleright]

hmm... when i first saw it, i thought it looked like some sort of cheese knife. (i forgot to mention that my great-aunt was a world traveler, and brought back many things that are now antiques. So this may have come from another country.)

a cook's round knife... what kind of food would be chopped with it? dough, pasta, fruit? might be fun to use in the kitchen.

so would sharpening it for leather work be a bad idea?

[Casey Jordan]

I'm no expert either, but the first thing that come to mind was a pie cutter.

Could be wrong, just a guess!

[russell]

I'm no expert either, but the first thing that come to mind was a pie cutter.

Could be wrong, just a guess!

looks like its all the above also would be good for cutting meat and veggines for someone thats had a stroke or an physical impairment

[bdt46]

Looks like the knives used many years ago , when people canned their own goods. On the old ranches and homesteads here in Oklahoma they were pretty common. They were used to cut cabbage into the thin pieces to make sauerkraut which was canned in mason jars.

[8thsinner]

Looks like an old fashioned ULU to me, mainly used I think by eskimo's of some variety, but it's popularity has spread far and wide.

ANd it was used to cut nearly everything a blade of that size is capable of cutting.

That probably didn't include skinning but it's profile is obviously great for it if the need arose...

[oldtimer]

Looks like an old fashioned ULU to me, mainly used I think by eskimo's of some variety, but it's popularity has spread far and wide.

ANd it was used to cut nearly everything a blade of that size is capable of cutting.

That probably didn't include skinning but it's profile is obviously great for it if the need arose...

An ULU has a different handle ( parallell with the blade) and a pointed blade which is sharpened on one side. This is definitely not an ulu. My vote is for a kitchen tool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulu

Edited August 18, 2010 by oldtimer

[TTcustom]

I googled cabbage choppers to check my memory and the ones my aunts and grandmas had the same kind of handle as seen in the picture.

[Luke Hatley]

It's a Cabbage Chopper.....I would not waste my time with it.

[Jesleright]

Thanks to all for your input.

i did try sharpening it about 2 weeks ago. It will cut leather, but takes too much effort to be practical. (though it does slice celery quick and cleanly.)

conclusion: It is a vegetable cutter\chopper\slicer, to be used in the kitchen. Not for leather.

may the Good LORD bless ya'.

Jes

Edited August 30, 2010 by Jesleright