Old Carving Knife

[sstreun]

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

[St8LineGunsmith]

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.