Thread: New Fillet Knife

Very nice work!

Tha is a good looking knife.


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The knives are certainly the work of a craftsman.
The fish cleaning station caught my eye also. Whats the deal on that?

Couple more questions about the knife.

What is the length of the one in the picture? Looks to be 10"-11" blade?
I see your going to offer a 6" blade, when? Cost?
How much flexibility in the blade, say compared to a Rapala of roughly the same length?
I have a 9" and 6" Rapala blades. I like the sizes and I like to support US made products, besides I have a small knife collection. Nothing fancy or extravagant. I prefer Case XX folding and fixed blades for a variety of things. I also have Western Bowie knife I use for camping.

I prefer the Case blades over Buck knives. The Cases blades hold an edge longer and take an edge easier then Buck blades. The Rapala blade falls somewhere in between the Case and Buck.
I fillet most of my fish with a blade. If it's a big basket of fish, I will use the electric fillet knife.

Can you give me idea on blade flexibility, sharpening compared to either Buck or Case knives?

Hanr3, flexibility is about the same a the Rapala. This was a shot I took as I was working on the knife. I wasn't pushing very hard on it.It takes an edge as easy as a Case CV blade, easier than their stainless. It holds an edge better due to the Rockwell hardness being higher, more condensed carbides in the steel as well as the edge geometey. The blade is barely over 8" and the overall length is 13".

Chris

Oops! Double post. Sorry.
Chris

Nice looking knife, and very nice work. I know another knifemaker in Tennessee, Bob Levine, and he taught me some of the ins and outs of the knife trade. I never knew just how involved making a quality knife could be.

I'm still hoping you will post a pic of your fish cleaning station???