Members craig h Posted May 5, 2011 Members Report Posted May 5, 2011 Being a senior beginner with limited income...what choice of round knife and what size is the best at a decent price...also what other recommended knives are most useful for all around use. Thanks Everyone Craig h Quote
Moderator Art Posted May 5, 2011 Moderator Report Posted May 5, 2011 Hi Craig, Buy a round knife from Bruce Johnson's website. These are mostly older knives from really good manufacturers. Four or five inch tip to tip will do. Get 2 clicker knives if you can, go to shoe distributors, one curved blade and one straight blade. Box cutter or Utility knife, you will have to strop new blades for best cutting. Surgical scalpel with #11 blades, you can get these on eBay. I know guys that use: 1. Scalpel for anything and everything, 2. Clicker knives almost exclusively, 3. Utility knives for everything. I use any and all of the above (including head knives), not so much the utility knife, I use that to open the boxes the other knives come in. Art Being a senior beginner with limited income...what choice of round knife and what size is the best at a decent price...also what other recommended knives are most useful for all around use. Thanks Everyone Craig h Quote For heaven's sakes pilgrim, make yourself a strop!
Members bentley Posted May 5, 2011 Members Report Posted May 5, 2011 Some Art stores sell scalpels also. The one I go to (Utrecht) keeps them behind the counter so you have to ask for them. Quote Mark Bentley Leather Goods bentley.leather@gmail.com
KAYAK45 Posted May 6, 2011 Report Posted May 6, 2011 Al Stohlman in his later years only used a 4 inch round knife, saying anything bigger was too hard for him to handle. I have round knives. scarf knives, utility knives, etc. etc. Use the round knife and surgical exacto the most, Quote Once believed in GOD and the DOllAR...... Hello God!
Moderator bruce johnson Posted May 6, 2011 Moderator Report Posted May 6, 2011 The round knives that are the most comfortable for me are 4-5" across the tips. It gives me good control. Four inches is a good starting size. I like a wider knife for push skiving down an edge. I also use wider knives for when I am making a rolling cut and not a slicing or puch cut. I do rolling cuts to "chop" straps to length and to cut softer leathers, especially for fringe. when you roll the knife you never want to roll over past center of the front of the knife. You lose any leverage advantage. Friend of mine did that several years ago. The underneath point kicked up into his wrist. Quote Bruce Johnson Malachi 4:2 "the windshield's bigger than the mirror, somewhere west of Laramie" - Dave Stamey Vintage Refurbished And Selected New Leather Tools For Sale - www.brucejohnsonleather.com
Members craig h Posted May 9, 2011 Author Members Report Posted May 9, 2011 Thank all of you for your replies....just one more question...which is the wiser choice... Osborne or Stohlman for a beginer with limited income..of the todays knives. Gee...makes a man scratch his head..in thought! Craig h Quote
Moderator Art Posted May 9, 2011 Moderator Report Posted May 9, 2011 The Harrison NJ Osbornes are good knives, but cone dull out of the box. Get a Newark NJ CSO from Bruce Johnson, it will be better steel and sharp. Art Thank all of you for your replies....just one more question...which is the wiser choice... Osborne or Stohlman for a beginer with limited income..of the todays knives. Gee...makes a man scratch his head..in thought! Craig h Quote For heaven's sakes pilgrim, make yourself a strop!
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