Swivel Knife Dilemma

[TwinOaks]

The flat yoke works well if you control where your finger is. If you kind of just drape your finger over the top of the yoke, you'll like the saddle yoke better- there's no edges. If you already have a flat yoke, you could just pad it with something.

[jmorton]

My suggestion is to buy the deluxe adjustable swivel knife sold by Tandy and others. It is still less than $20, I think. Use that for a while and then, love it or hate it, you will have a good idea what you want next. The upside is that you may like it fine, and if not, just dedicate that knife to tasks that you don't do very often.

All that said, in the end, you will wind up with several Swivel knifes eventually.

Also, the cleaner and the sharper you keep all your blades, the more you will like the rest of the swivel knife.

Happy Tooling!

John Morton

[Thor]

@Calait, here's what you might need.

The original Doodle page is currently for sale on ebay.com. If shipping to Germany wouldn't be so expensive I would just get them one at a time.

[NavyVet]

If you haven't used one much the 1/2 inch barrel will feel more comfortable for sure, but if you plan on doing any carving you'll want a smaller barrel because as you follow your lines you'll be needing to roll the barrel between your thumb and finger when on the curves

I agree, Tight curves are the bane of every leathercrafter. There is a rhythm that you will get into depending on the lines you are cutting. Don't be put off on having multiple swivel knives with different blades in them.