The Original Use of the Wharncliffe Blade

[anthony cheeseboro]

I'm sure I read it somewhere but I can't remember what Wharncliffe blades were originally designed to do. I just know that they make dandy utility knives.

 

[PhilL]

I've heard that the wharncliff happened by mistake. It seems the inventor sharpened the spine of the blade by mistake, but was far too frugal to throw any mistakes away and sold it to one of his customers (who were used to less than perfect knives). It wasn't until years later that anyone found a use for the knife.

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[anthony cheeseboro]

Thanks for the info. A Wharncliffe does look like half a spearpoint.

 

[JerryO]

http://www.the-ekd.co.uk/1024/uk2.htm

go down to the part about Lord Wharncliffe

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[Running Dog]

Used by flower growers and for grafting plants...Lots of them still made in England for this purpose...

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[MAURICE]

lynn griffith invented, just ask him

 

[Walt Welch]

Phil; I should charge you a royalty for using my gag!!

Walt

PS: don't forget to warn Cliff!!

 

[Steelwolf]

A couple of years back, at the only blade show around these parts , I encountered a knife which the maker said was patterned from a design found in a history book. Apparently, that blade was used to cut the cotton char cloth used in black-powder muzzle-loaded rifles. It was a wharncliffe blade with a chisel grind.

 

[fisk]

Steelwolf
If you see knifemaker named Thomas Gerner tell him I said hello.

 

[Steelwolf]

Fisk, I'm sorry to say that I don't remember ever meeting this guy at the blade show. But I will look around and pass your greetings to him. Does he know you by your bladeforums username or do you use another name with him?

 

[judge]

Just a guess, but could his name be Jerry Fisk?

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[fisk]

Steel Wolf
I use my name, Jerry Fisk. Thomas lives just a bit south of Perth. Heck of a nice guy and a JS with the American Bladesmith Society. He hopes to go for his Masters exam one of these days. He does belong to the Guild there if I remember right. Does blades that are kinda Puko like. I have one of them good quality.