Horsewright
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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We've talked some about a Passaround on the Skivver and I thought what the heck lets do the Roundknife too.
The purpose of this Passaround is two fold. First it gives you the opportunity to try these tools, with no obligation except shipping. Second I want your feedback. I'm interested in edge holding ability, ease of use, ease of resharpening if needed, comfort of handle, looks, basically anything you can think of. I want to know what you like and I want to know what you don't like. How can I make them better? Or have I hit the mark? Remember no actual sales talk is allowed in this post. That should only be discussed in emails or PMs.
There are other rules we must abide by please read this sticky: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/262872-Rules-For-Passarounds
If you wish to participate please email/pm me your forum name, real name, address and phone number. I think at this time we'll have to limit the Passaround to conUS. I realize we have many friends overseas. I just can't figure out a fair way of handling it. So that one guy pays $12 to ship it to the next state and the next guy has to pay $90 to ship them to Mongolia. If you have any ideas on how we can include our overseas friends please post them up. For insurance purposes lets value this set at $300. These are leather tools. They are meant to be used and used hard at a commercial/professional level. Please no abusive destruction type testing. No sticking them into a tree and standing on the handle type stuff. Thats not gonna end well. If they need sharpening, sharpen them and cut leather thats what they are for.
Lets keep the time frame at 10 days to use them and then ship em on to the next guy.
Ok, I think that takes care of all the business side. Dwayne if there is something I need to add let me know and I'll edit it up.
Here is the list. We'll keep it posted here and I'll update it as folks sign up.
1) Leatherman/Dwayne
2) Omega/Anthony
3) Salolan/Chris
4) Darkmatter/John
5)SA Hunter/Dave
6) Gary/G2
Ok a few details about each knife:
Here's the roundknife. This is one of my own personal roudnknives from the second batch I made. I have used this knife for well over a year now. I've only had to reharpen it once. I just buff the edge or strop it and it cuts and cuts and cuts. I have had several different commercially available roundknives in the past. This one will cut circles, squares, rectangles, triangles and any other geometric shape you can think of around those knives.
The steel is AEB-L Stainless at 63 RC. Heat treat was done by Peter's. The handle is Desert Ironwood with Mesquite laminated on. I did this in honor of our Texican friends. No, not really, it was an experiment but I like how it looks. The handle corners are a little more square than my other roundknives. I'm finding I really like this. First it doesn't seem to bother my hand and I will use this knife for hours. Second it kind of orientates the blade for me through feel if that makes sense. I have three roudnknives that I've made and I find myself grabbing this one the most. To me the roundknife is the most indispensible leather tool. This lives on the bench all the time. In this pic the roundknife has just cut through 10 oz Wicket and Craig with one pass. Then I just used a little more pressure to stick it into the cutting board for the photo.
This is the Skivver. This is one of the first knives of three of this type that I made. It was featured in the recent thread on Skivving knives. On all future ones I will include a bolster just like on the roundknife. This type of knife is new to me but Paul has one of the other ones from this run and he says it cuts like a laser. The blade is very flexible and that is part of how its used. Steel is again AEB-L at 63 RC. Handle here is Bocote, a tropical hardwood from the Yucatan.
I personally am learning how to use this type of knife so am not one to talk too much about it. Maybe Paul will chime in, he's had his a couple of weeks now.
So if you are interested in participating in this Passaround, drop me a line and we'll get ya hooked up. Questions and comments are of course welcome.
The purpose of this Passaround is two fold. First it gives you the opportunity to try these tools, with no obligation except shipping. Second I want your feedback. I'm interested in edge holding ability, ease of use, ease of resharpening if needed, comfort of handle, looks, basically anything you can think of. I want to know what you like and I want to know what you don't like. How can I make them better? Or have I hit the mark? Remember no actual sales talk is allowed in this post. That should only be discussed in emails or PMs.
There are other rules we must abide by please read this sticky: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/262872-Rules-For-Passarounds
If you wish to participate please email/pm me your forum name, real name, address and phone number. I think at this time we'll have to limit the Passaround to conUS. I realize we have many friends overseas. I just can't figure out a fair way of handling it. So that one guy pays $12 to ship it to the next state and the next guy has to pay $90 to ship them to Mongolia. If you have any ideas on how we can include our overseas friends please post them up. For insurance purposes lets value this set at $300. These are leather tools. They are meant to be used and used hard at a commercial/professional level. Please no abusive destruction type testing. No sticking them into a tree and standing on the handle type stuff. Thats not gonna end well. If they need sharpening, sharpen them and cut leather thats what they are for.
Lets keep the time frame at 10 days to use them and then ship em on to the next guy.
Ok, I think that takes care of all the business side. Dwayne if there is something I need to add let me know and I'll edit it up.
Here is the list. We'll keep it posted here and I'll update it as folks sign up.
1) Leatherman/Dwayne
2) Omega/Anthony
3) Salolan/Chris
4) Darkmatter/John
5)SA Hunter/Dave
6) Gary/G2
Ok a few details about each knife:
Here's the roundknife. This is one of my own personal roudnknives from the second batch I made. I have used this knife for well over a year now. I've only had to reharpen it once. I just buff the edge or strop it and it cuts and cuts and cuts. I have had several different commercially available roundknives in the past. This one will cut circles, squares, rectangles, triangles and any other geometric shape you can think of around those knives.
The steel is AEB-L Stainless at 63 RC. Heat treat was done by Peter's. The handle is Desert Ironwood with Mesquite laminated on. I did this in honor of our Texican friends. No, not really, it was an experiment but I like how it looks. The handle corners are a little more square than my other roundknives. I'm finding I really like this. First it doesn't seem to bother my hand and I will use this knife for hours. Second it kind of orientates the blade for me through feel if that makes sense. I have three roudnknives that I've made and I find myself grabbing this one the most. To me the roundknife is the most indispensible leather tool. This lives on the bench all the time. In this pic the roundknife has just cut through 10 oz Wicket and Craig with one pass. Then I just used a little more pressure to stick it into the cutting board for the photo.
This is the Skivver. This is one of the first knives of three of this type that I made. It was featured in the recent thread on Skivving knives. On all future ones I will include a bolster just like on the roundknife. This type of knife is new to me but Paul has one of the other ones from this run and he says it cuts like a laser. The blade is very flexible and that is part of how its used. Steel is again AEB-L at 63 RC. Handle here is Bocote, a tropical hardwood from the Yucatan.
I personally am learning how to use this type of knife so am not one to talk too much about it. Maybe Paul will chime in, he's had his a couple of weeks now.
So if you are interested in participating in this Passaround, drop me a line and we'll get ya hooked up. Questions and comments are of course welcome.
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