Electrician Blade

harronek

harronek

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Am I a lone voice when it comes to wishing that Victorinox would make a run of Electrician knives without the curved cutout at the base of the Sheepsfoot blade ?
I love the Electrician and the Sheepsfoot bladed knife has always been my favourite Slipjoint but that annoying cutout in the blade twists my undies ever time I go to use it . I have no problem with the short length of the blade , in fact I really like its design apart from that curved abomination .
Can anyone honestly say that they use that piece of the blade if so I'd love to know what that duty is , and why it can't be achieved with the main blade , the awl or the straight edge section of the Sheepsfoot blade .
I wonder if there was a peasant uprising and we all marched on Switzerland toting pitchforks they might consider changing their blade options .

Ken
 
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Ken
 
Ken, I hear you my friend but I have to say that wire strip notch is fantastic for it's main purpose but I don't use it enough to justify it being there.

I'd rather just have a stubby sheepfoot:thumbup: When I strip a lot of wire I simply use a wire stripper.

But I'll be right alongside of you with my pitchfork;):D
 
Of course you are not alone, I've always felt that was just mistake on their part and it wasn't meant to be ground like that, certainly could SAVE them money by not having to put the extra time and effort into making that big single serration.

Where do we sign? ;)
G2
 
The concave wire-stripping notch seems to be traditional on European electricians' knives, and the familiar TL-29 has one on the screwdriver blade. I'm with you, though - a straight sheepsfoot blade would make the Electrician a much more generally useful knife. I don't own a pitchfork, but I'll sign your petition.
 
I like the small curve cut out on the victorinox electricians knife

and i like the curve cut out on the back of the screwdriver blade on electricians knives as well.

An electricians knife with out the curve cut out would just be plain ugly.

that curve cut out is one of the things that makes an electricians knife special.
 
I'll add my name to the petition. I find that the notch gets caught up on cutting material unless I'm just using the tip of the blade in a draw cut. Love the pattern though and carry one often!
 
Don't know how I missed this thread from a month ago. I'm going to register a dissenting opinion, Ken. When I can find the time, I like to mess around with whittling. Most of my wood comes from deadfall from the white pines along the parking lot where I work, and I usually grab stuff that's small enough to stick in my coat pocket: maybe 4"-8" long and at most 2" in diameter. The first thing I often do is take the bark off my little branches, and that notch in the sheepsfoot blade is kind of nifty for that. It's also pretty handy for scoring lines around my cylindrical sticks!

But I haven't had my Electrician very long, and have no idea what sharpening challenges that notch might present!

(Al, thanks for digging up that Smoky Robinson song; that's one of my favorites of all time, or at least one of my Motown favorites of all time! :thumbup:)

- GT
 
I really do not have that much heartache over the notch, but yeah, I think I'd like it better without.

As long as I'm wishing, a small blade shaped similar to the CRK Insingo would be the pooh in my book. I'd like to see a custom guy get into crafting SAK blades. A nice saber clipped blade for your main blade in CPM154 or something.

But I'm guessing the cost would get pretty prohibitive pretty quickly. And the standard Vic steel works fine.
 
I personally like the notch. It is a Multi-Tool so the blade performs more than one function. And it does quite well as a wire stripper. Much better than the notch on the bottle opener.
 
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