Knipschield knives?

[SouthernCross]

5 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

Yeah it's really good to use like a whittling knife. Shaving edges and such. Some of the patterns I use have some very small cut nooks and crannies. So, a push cut doesn't really work there.

1 hour ago, KingsCountyLeather said:

 

If you were mainly cutting out pieces for holsters would you recommend sticking with the French style head knife? 

Also, does anyone have any experience with his Keith Seidel style knife?   It's supposedly a little bit smaller than the French knife? 

[immiketoo]

1 minute ago, SouthernCross said:

If you were mainly cutting out pieces for holsters would you recommend sticking with the French style head knife? 

Also, does anyone have any experience with his Keith Seidel style knife?   It's supposedly a little bit smaller than the French knife? 

Thats what I do most of the time, and its perfect for that.  I've been to Keith's shop and he has a standard french as far as I know.  Chan Geer's is a bit smaller in size than the french, but I've never used it.

[SouthernCross]

Terry Knipschield told me that the Keith style was smaller, so that's what I was going by.

[bikermutt07]

I'm not sure I would like anything smaller than the French style. Sometimes it feels a little small in my big hands. 

I would totally use it for holsters. 

[SouthernCross]

That's what I'm thinking.   I'm still not convinced that a pull-knife wouldn't suit me better, though, having tried an Osborne head knife just recently. 

[Caesar]

I put my name down for a pull knife back in January.  Not sure how long his wait list is atm.  Now I kinda wanna get a French head knife as well...  

[bikermutt07]

2 hours ago, SouthernCross said:

That's what I'm thinking.   I'm still not convinced that a pull-knife wouldn't suit me better, though, having tried an Osborne head knife just recently. 

I haven't tried an Osbourne. They do take a little getting used too. 

I have been making razor knife cuts towards me for 25 years. It took a little while to get comfortable with the push cut.

[bikermutt07]

51 minutes ago, Caesar said:

I put my name down for a pull knife back in January.  Not sure how long his wait list is atm.  Now I kinda wanna get a French head knife as well...  

I think my last order took 5 months. Keep in mind, he has no one else touching these knives. When I first contacted him I asked about what he might have in stock. He laughed and said he hadn't had stock in 4 years. Once Nigel did his review, Terry was slammed.

If you could make it to one of the shows you could maybe buy one off his table. I'm sure he gets some made up for those.

[Caesar]

17 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

I think my last order took 5 months. Keep in mind, he has no one else touching these knives. When I first contacted him I asked about what he might have in stock. He laughed and said he hadn't had stock in 4 years. Once Nigel did his review, Terry was slammed.

If you could make it to one of the shows you could maybe buy one off his table. I'm sure he gets some made up for those.

Yeah, I kinda figured that it was going to be a long wait.  I didn't even ask.  He told me he'd put me down for one.  That was good enough for me.  I'll wait as long as it takes...  

[immiketoo]

Pull knives are ok, but tough to make tight corners with in my experience.  I didn't know that about Keiths knife, but the one I held looked and felt just like mine.  Good to know.

As for wait time, let me say this.  I am happy to see all of you willing to wait.  Terry stresses out about the long wait times, but he refuses to cut corners in his process and I can assure you the wait is wort it.  So much so that if you don't like his knife, I will buy it from you without question.  Terry is a friend of mine, and  I would wait years for one of his knives if I had to.  They're that good.