Best swivel knife to buy?

[Harry Marinakis]

Thanks

If that's all it is then think I'll just keep my oil stones on my work bench, and keep my $30 Craftool.

Sharpening my tools brings me pleasure anyway.

[MADMAX22]

 

If you keep the blade sharp, what's the difference between a $30 Craftool and a $150 Wrangler?

 

The difference is in the "swivel" portion of the blade. I use to use a crafttool, then I happened on a henley and picked up a barry king. Both of these latter ones have a very smooth swivel portion. Like the difference between a cheap loose fitting chinese bearing and a nice tight japanese bearing. The henley and king you can hold the knife and flick the finger post and it will sit there and spin smoothly for a good bit, the crafttool not so much. It makes the big difference when your cutting curves and what not when there is nice smooth action. 

That being said do with what ya got if you gotta. 

[Harry Marinakis]

On ‎8‎/‎24‎/‎2016 at 0:09 PM, MADMAX22 said:

The difference is in the "swivel" portion. 

Ah-ha!

Thank you Mad Max. Then I think it would very worthwhile to get a good swivel knife.

 

[brmax]

The first knife I bought not long ago was Henley and seems to me a good tool, I thought about it pretty slowly and from a bit of searching and reading on the site here. I had seen there is several custom makers talked about here and I'm sure from! here in ancient times.

I now have almost a hand full of tools and that's fine, their the top line from my study on here and this seems to work. I kinda looked at it like using a box-end wrench on a contrary nut with "next to no room to move the wrench", now I have did this you might say more than a few times so heres the truth from some one that put food on the table for a living doing it and time is food. A snap on wrench has next to nothing in slack or slop so the removal of tough nuts is really forgot about in short order.

( my first snap on wrench complaints as a 19year old; these #%^# wrenches wont fit on this painted nut) hmm,

that's why you always take a cresent wrench "to crack n remove the paint"

On another note have seen cows out my windows my whole life and haven't a clue about leather workings, toolings now I found some of these articles on here are pretty sharp.

Well coffee is done and got to get back to the sew machine, good day there

Floyd

[Tugadude]

If it helps, Springfield Leather has Barry King knives for 54 bucks in three different sized handles and various blades for $17.50 each.

[Harry Marinakis]

MadMax22

Just received my Leather Wrangler swivel knife. Night and day compared to my Tandy swivel knife.

Thank you for the good advice.

[MADMAX22]

On 9/26/2016 at 10:25 PM, Harry Marinakis said:

MadMax22

Just received my Leather Wrangler swivel knife. Night and day compared to my Tandy swivel knife.

Thank you for the good advice.

Glad you picked up a nice knife. Those ones have had great reviews on the site here and one of these days Im gonna try one out. 

[maritimemoose]

On 2016-03-30 at 9:32 PM, Colt W Knight said:

I have the 3/8 and 1/2 Crafttool Pro swivel knives and they are both very, very nice. Haven't tried any of the expensive boutique knives though

Sorry to kick a dead post, but is the small pro knife any shorter than the large or is it just barrel size? I cannot seem to find this info anywhere.

 

Thanks!

[billybopp]

The length is the same, barrel diameter differs.  Both had a height adjustable yoke.

Bill

[Colt W Knight]

1 hour ago, billybopp said:

The length is the same, barrel diameter differs.  Both had a height adjustable yoke.

Bill

+1