Anybody out there a fan of vintage meat cleavers or lamb splitters???

[HARDBALL]

ST,

Yes indeed! That is one beautiful Cleaver! Enjoy.

Regards,
HARDBALL

 

[chrisgeggie]

I am trying to track down cleavers like the long handled ones pictured here.
Any idea where I could buy a few for a movie?
thank you.
chrisgeggie@rogers.com
416 725 2680

 

[Rhinoknives1]

YUP....love my old cookin stuff.... FES

I have that F.Dick butchers steel in a black handle. I love how the angle set in that steel ring.
Mine was worn smooth over the years and works great!

 

[marcinek]

I am trying to track down cleavers like the long handled ones pictured here......

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[FortyTwoBlades]

 

[300Six]

Also, here's an interesting household cleaver I have that I use as a chicken chopper. I use it when culling old birds that aren't laying reliably anymore.

Hey! That's just a garden-variety trowel with a few added notches along the side.

 

[marcinek]

Yeah...I thought that would turn up! :thumbup: Really...I must have one.

 

[tjiscooler]

Im a huge fan. ive been waiting on the right one on ebay/yard sales etc for ages. That F Dick one is gorgeous, but I think id rather find a vintage one, I think it look better hanging on a wall. Although Id likely restore it and use it to chop apples or something in the kitchen.

Also into vintage scythes too....i have no need for these things but damn do I want a few hahaa

 

[Colt6731]

I do Filipino Martial Arts and have been experimenting with using cleavers as combative tools. The old Tongs of 1800's Chinatown fame used them quite a bit as edged weapons.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Hey! That's just a garden-variety trowel with a few added notches along the side.

Lenticular cross section--not dished.

 

[cows milk]

7 Enderes 8 village blacksmith removed old beat handles, squared spine, rehandled in raspberry Dymond wood, brass cutlery pins.

 

[havocfyw]

I have a few my self It started when my son and I started looking for vintage cleavers because of Bill the Butcher on the movie Gangs of New York. I have to large two handed beef/lamb splitters that were made by Foster Bros. My "smaller" cleavers run from 6s to 10s (in reference to blade length). I'm slowly cleaning them up by removing rust and repairing handles. Trying to keep them as original as possible. My daily use kitchen cleaver is a Bridell 8. Holds an edge very well and actually slices well too now that it has a nice edge.

I just found a meat cleaver under the roots of a dead tree in my back yard. It's quite rusty but seems sturdy enough to restore. I'm trying to get an idea for its age etc. It's actually shaped a lot like two of the cleavers in your first picture - the third and fourth from the right - do you know anything about the maker/era that those two are from?

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Those two are a fairly common shape. Have pics? They'd be a big help.

 

[Brew-Jitsu]

This one belonged to the old man, who passed away last year. I have yet to put it back in service, but I will at some point.

 

[Zuluninja]

Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I've been bitten badly by the cleaver bug recently. A little story... around 4 years ago I met a co-worker from a different work station and we started talking knives. By then I had been doing some stuff and he asked me if I could put a handle on an old cleaver, and I said sure, I'll do it, we'll talk price after it's done... after he handed me this monstrous, rusty cleaver, I couldn't make up my mind as to what wood to use, and somehow forgot about it, being put in an indefinite hiatus.

A couple weeks ago, as it sat staring at me from the wall it was leaning on, guilty conscience made me finish it. I rang up the fellows phone number and it still was the same, but he had moved to Georgia. After apologizing, I assured him I did not steal his cleaver and soon would be on it's way, along with a small necker made by me, no charge... I realize it is bad form, hopefully he will like the handle job on the cleaver and not toss away the necker. He actually asked me how much was it, and I declined while relieved that he was not pissed off about the wait.

After I started on it, I really fell for the way these tools were made in days gone by. A convex edge, distal taper, tapered tang, good old carbon steel... I liked it so much that recently snagged a Samuel Lee on the auction site, and it is waiting for a new handle. The co-worker's cleaver got a Jatoba handle

and this little necker in 440C and purpleheart is keeping it company

He had asked me not to bother with the rust, as it is heavily pitted, so I just did a light surface sanding/oil, crowned/polished the spine and put a convex back on it, as it seems like it was taken to a grinder at some point. From my limited experience and google-fu, this one seems to be a Foster. Now I keep hunting for vintage stuff, looking mainly for tapered full tangs, and ordered some cleavers from Spain, quite similar to the Portuguese blades posted earlier. Man, this stuff is addictive!

 

[Zuluninja]

went overboard and got 4 more, have to take pics of them before I start spa treatment

 

[harronek]

Ken

 

[Zuluninja]

that might scare the lamb to split itself before contact with blade

 

[harronek]

that might scare the lamb to split itself before contact with blade

That made me laugh .

I actually keep it up high where only I can reach it ( I'm tall) above our hat rack at our front door .
My wife calls it our " crowd control " tool for unwanted visitors .
This pic makes it look smaller than it really is , maybe it's the angle or something .



Ken

 

[Zuluninja]

pretty cool crowd control tool

got some more that need tlc. Village Blacksmith 10:

full distal taper & tapered tang

Fosters, maybe? don't know, no visible marks, but I'm leaving that oxidation on

F. Dick

Samuel Lee

after taking care of spine mushrooming and buffing the tangs and some heavy rust on the VB