you did a good job cleaning it up. Yes, carpenters, linolieum (sp), electrician, etc.
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you did a good job cleaning it up. Yes, carpenters, linolieum (sp), electrician, etc.
It looks like a sheep shank blade. I think thy were used to clean hooves.
Here you go:) :Linoleum knife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am going to have to disagree with it being a sheep's foot style blade as the curve on the sheep's foot blade does not extent below the straight line of the cutting edge. I believe the type of blade is a Hawk's Bill User:Legitimus/Hawkbill (knife) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . It can and has been used for all the tasks mentioned in this thread from linoleum, tar paper, pruning, wire stripping and many more I am sure.
Bob
This is without question a blade a Mohel would use,plain and simple.
its a pruning knife i have a few of them also electricians use them to strip wire ect. hawkbill is my favorite blade style.
That type of blade was originally created as a pruning knife. Been around a long time. Later used for a variety of stuff as in linoleum and wiring as has been stated above.
It is not a sheep foot which is a different shape entirely.
Here's a pic of a Wostenholm I*XL pruner made in the '30's or thereabouts. Been sharpened down over the year and has lost a lot of the "hawk bill".
http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/u...bKnives017.jpg
And a Schrade from the '40's
http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/u...radePruner.jpg
So wullie, you do not think it was used for the barbaric act of Circumsission?
Horrible thing that, happend to me at age two days, could not walk for a year.