Arrived Today..

[Ice Tigre]

Kutmaster USA stainless Electrician,

Not quite what I expected; Hawkbill blade is waaaaaay too high to be able to realy use any of the other blades... plus the screwdriver tipped blade has a liner lock :barf:...

But, its good and sharp, has great walk and talk, and nice halfstops.

So.... she is in pieces on my bench right now, loosing the hawkbill blade and the liner lock. And a swap from brown plastic to some wood. Becoming the two large bladed barlow I've been wanting.



G.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Great pattern. After I left high school, I carried an electrician's knife. The screwdriver/scraper blade was the one I used the most, but the hawksbill opened the taped cartons. The lock keeps the screwdiver from folding up once in every turn.

 

[stockman242]

nice knife for sure. though I dont quite understand why you want to loose the lock.
I really enjoy carrying a TL-29, hard working knife.
my picture from the "what are you carrying today" thread:

Peter

 

[Ice Tigre]

Loosing the lock is purely personal preference; I dislike(almost hate) locking liners... not too fond of locking folders anyway(although lockbacks are growing on me), but liner locks really disagree with me.

Although, now that it is mentioned, it would have helped when using the screw driver. Have often had that problem with SAKs....

G.

 

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

That one saved me when I was working as a swamper on the rigs. My glasses broke in half and I used the lanyard rope I had on it to attach the nosepieces together. Used it a bit and it never let me down- pretty good for $10 IMO.

 

[sunnyd]

Ice T,

You have one very nice Kutmaster knife in that package. Many years ago I use to use one very similar and it had a belt sheath that came with it to carry it in and a long lanyard around the bail/shackle.

Typically, I am with you on the liner-lock thing, but I must say in this application regarding the screwdriver it is a safety thing you would not want to be without. If you did not have the advantage of the liner-lock while operating the screwdriver where lots of pressure is applied by the user with the tool, it would be closing on your hand constantly.

I hope you enjoy it.:thumbup:

Best,

Anthony

 

[neeman]

The 'screwdriver' blade is in fact a reamer!

I was a Union electrician in NYC and we all carried one of these on our tool pouch.
When you cut EMT tubing, the edge is sharp and you have to ream both the inside and outside of the tubing, so it does not strip off the insulation on the wire when you pull it thru.

It would be very dangerous to use the reamer with out the linerlock.
It would close on your hand as you reamed the tubing back and forward.

That knife was in constant use though out the day!
The only brand availiable from the supply houses was Colonial.

A Hawkbill was called a splitting knife, seperate from the electricians knife, for splitting Romex (plastic) cable or very heavy cable.
Since Romex was not code in NYC, we never used a hawkbill!
For heavy gauge wire, we would use the spear blade, score the insulation around, then slice a strip off the insulation, then the insulation would be taken off with a Klien plier.