Define "Shirtboard" pattern

[pertinux]

And now, with pictures!

A sleeveboard pattern is shaped like a sleeveboard. (Like those old style ironing boards.)

Sleeveboards got their name from actual sleeveboards that were used for ironing sleeves. They're wider on one end so that a sleeve could be slid over the board and fit flat for ease of ironing. Sunfish are traditionally an equal end knife.

A sleeveboard is a handle shape like the sleeveboard on an old ironing board....

Oh, okay-- got it!

No really, I have this, built into the cabinets our older house:

In the center cabinet:

I do whatever it takes not to use it, but I gots it (lacking the rounding-off of the larger edge, but I can use my imagination).

So sometimes, a pattern name makes sense(!), being directly descriptive. Nice.

A sunfish or toenail pattern is not shaped like a sleeveboard. Doesn't matter what blades are in it . Remington made a single blade sleeveboard that had 2 backspringa resting on the head end on a fiber spacer. By doing this they didn't have to make a die for a spring, they used the one they had. Somewhere in here is a picture of one I saw a while back.

You can never figure out why old companys called the same pattern a different name, I been looking at them all my life and still can't.

Thanks again, everyone. This is all very helpful in understanding what I'm looking at, and in realizing what might continue to puzzle due to inconsistent nomenclature.

(Source thread: Pattern Description: Sunfish vs. Sleeveboard)

~ P.

 

[Jack Black]

Excellent re-posts Pertinux, the halcyon days of Traditionals

To quote BRL on Sleeveboard Jacks:

Regular jacks have squared corners at the blade end. Similar tapered knives that are rounded at both ends are usually called "sleeveboard jacks" because they are shaped like the small auxillary ironing boards once used for pressing shirt-sleeves. Unlike regular jacks, some sleeveboard jacks have their blades hinged at the wider end.

 

[black mamba]

So among GEC's offerings, the #25/26 frames and the #78/79 frames are sleeveboards, and the #15 and #77 frames are regular jacks.

Thanks for the clarifications to all who contributed!

P.S. - And I guess barlows can be either sleeveboards or regular jacks, as long as they have the longer bolster, eh?

 

[smiling-knife]

A Sleeveboard lobster.

 

[Jack Black]

A lovely example S-K :thumbup:

 

[Will Power]

I wouldn't want to try ironing on this

Blackwood amongst the firewood.