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Wood Handled Sliding Blade Knife
Solid brass body with Rosewood grips ( 8 Customer Reviews )
Regular Price: $19.95 Today's Low Price: $12.95 You Save $7.00

Well-made, handsome, and really solid in the hand, this unique knife has a drop point blade that slides completely inside the handle, or can extend as far out as 4". Made years ago here in the USA, but now imported, the high quality has not diminished at all—we know, because we have seen all the models.

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	- Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Practical affordability
Reviewed By:	Steve Brook (Crittenden, Kentucky)
Although this knife has numerous applications around the workshop, I added it to my toolbox specifically for its mastery of wood scribing; both freehand and following an angled, curved, or straight edge. In the past I have always reached for utility knives or other fine-tipped blades to complete this task. The problem with this approach is that tools with acute-angled tips and/or thinner blades have a tendency to flex if too much pressure is applied to them. Alternatively, if too little pressure is applied to these blades they have a propensity to drift along a wood’s grain particularly in harder woods like oak or cherry. Frustratingly, both of these issues result in an inaccurate scribe line and a poorly fitting joint. This little gem of a knife solves these problems via the unique shape of its tip and the subsequent distribution of its blade steel. Instead of ending in an acute angle, the blade of this knife is tapered (as seen in the photograph) and this results in more steel, greater bulk, and thus less blade deviation exactly where it’s needed: At the point where the blade touches the wood. The result is a scribe line of unparalleled accuracy and the resultant confidence to move onto stock sizing without the need to re-measure or re-scribe.

	- Monday, September 05, 2011
The perfect rough carver
Reviewed By:	Jim (Virginia Beach, VA)
Those people critical of this beauty simply were expecting something different. This is a screw lock-blade with an extraordinarily comfortable and beautiful wooden handle. It is not a push-button utility knife that one might get at Wal-Mart. My wife bought me one, and it lay unused for months until I had the right job for it, doing some hand carving of mahogany and walnut, and the knife is perfect. The blade is strong and sturdy and retains an excellent edge, even after carving mahogany and walnut, both tough hardwoods. It is a 5-star knife all the way, baby. *September 2011 Rate & Review Honorable Mention $50 Winner. Congratulations, Jim!!*

	- Sunday, November 28, 2010
The Grandfather of the utility knives
Reviewed By:	Roger (Portage, MI)
I have had one of these knives for quite a few years. It is always on my workbench ready for a variety of jobs. I use is at a marking knife, utility knife, hacking knife, pencil sharpener, etc. This knife is superior to modern utility knives because the blade is heavier and not prone to breaking.

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