Round knife offer

[Jimmy McLaughlin]

Great Job, 

That cut looks very clean. Good work.

Jim

[YinTx]

On 8/16/2016 at 1:21 PM, jcuk said:

You might want to have a look at this Round knife and look at the other Leatherworking tools on this site.

 

Hope this helps

jcuk

 

 

http://www.gandmtools.co.uk/shop/george-barnsley-sheffield-saddlers-half-moonleather-knife/

I just got some other great stuff from these guys, but somehow missed they had a round knife.  Anyone use it that can provide some feedback on how it well it performs?

YinTx

[jcuk]

Hi Yin Tx

Sorry can't help with how good that Round knife would perform I have a Knip knife Texas Rosebud, fantastic tool the reason I did not buy a Dixon or George Barnsley  knife  because I  prefer a flat handled knife. I  had a older Osborne before but it got damaged they kindly sent me a new one free but could not get it to hold an edge - hence ordering  the the Texas Rosebud. 

But Sheffield steel in held in the highest esteem this side of the pond,  many moons ago I worked in an old  traditional  ironmongers selling Sheffield made scissors and various kinds of knives - often customers would come in to get knives and scissors sharpened purchased elsewhere (not Sheffield Steel). Therefore all of us who worked there knew how good Sheffield Steel was. 

I would be  Interested to know what other stuff you got from them, I clicked on the link earlier they had one Round knife in stock just tried again it has gone. Had the the Rosebud nearly a year now never had to sharpen it just stropped it performs as well as the day I got it.

 

hope this helps JCUK

 

 

 

[YinTx]

7 hours ago, jcuk said:

I would be  Interested to know what other stuff you got from them,

Picked up a plough gauge, spare knife, hammer, a bookbinder's leather paring knife, and a smaller paring/skiving knife.  Spent the afternoon working them over with my stones and stropping them, they seem pretty good.  Wish I had remembered about the round knife, I could have included it in the same shipment and likely saved some $$ on shipping.  Not too sure how to use the paring knives, they don't really skive great - or I don't know how to get them to skive great yet is probably more like it.  They all seemed to have about a 30 degree bevel on them, pretty rough but cleaned up ok.  

YinTx

[Mattsbagger]

On the pairing knife. If it's a angled blade style Lisa Sorrel has a tutorial in this month's leathercrafters magazine.