The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
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Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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A couple look like old school butcher knives. Custom orders or re-handles?Fixed Blades. A couple in progress pics. From this:
To this:
To ready to buff:
Wood handles have their finish drying:
Pretty full day in the shop yesterday.
Thanks! Those two are old, from the 70s, Green River blades that I modified slightly to fit a hand better than a rectangle. They’ve never been handled before.
I've never seen one in action either. I know folks do use them in the kitchen. That's a leather working round knife. So the difference basically between a roundknife and an ulu is the angle of the handle. A roundknife has a handle that is perpendicular and vertical to the center whereas the ulu has a horizontal, parallel handle. I've never made an ulu but lots of roundknives but not many these days. They try to jump off the grinder and bite you, bad! The steel is AEB-L. One of my roundknives with lots of use on er on the right. The knife on the left is a skiving knife. Both dedicated leather knives. I've never made an Ulu but did try rough grinding a hash knife once for a friend and that didn't work out. A hash knife is kinda a cowboy/western version of an ulu.
Thank you!That one has a nice mountain man look to it.............As always, beautiful work
AntDog
a couple of knives. I think he can vouch for my limited sharpening skills.
I've never seen one in action either. I know folks do use them in the kitchen. That's a leather working round knife. So the difference basically between a roundknife and an ulu is the angle of the handle. A roundknife has a handle that is perpendicular and vertical to the center whereas the ulu has a horizontal, parallel handle. I've never made an ulu but lots of roundknives but not many these days. They try to jump off the grinder and bite you, bad! The steel is AEB-L. One of my roundknives with lots of use on er on the right. The knife on the left is a skiving knife. Both dedicated leather knives. I've never made an Ulu but did try rough grinding a hash knife once for a friend and that didn't work out. A hash knife is kinda a cowboy/western version of an ulu.
Thanks
Thank you!
No, but I'd probably say no. The grind is different and honestly I just don't have time to develop a new pattern. Meet ya in the middle. Bet a guy could find a kit blade and I'd be glad to handle it for ya. Did a pizza cutter recently:
Ulu’s are still widely used up here. Watching Native Elders process salmon with them is very humbling! One Elder told me she prefers them because she has arthritis in her hands, but the Ulu allows her to use a lighter grip and for her to use her arm versus wrist for cutting. Very cool blades that have been around for a long time in harsh conditions.
Man, I just tried to post a pic of a TOPS Tracker, in another thread, when it jumped out of the sheath.
It bit my foot and (R) middle finger on the way down. The hypertension, 0730 hours Jack & Zero, and Copenhagen may've contributed to the bloodletting...
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The only one I have was a gift from an Elder. I think I know a maker who would consider making a stainless one. I will send him a message.Man, honestly, I think that my cousin would love a blade like that, or similar to that. From my limited knowledge, I think that she could/would use it.
I know that the Inuit and Yupik people have been using 'em for decades, maybe even centuries.
My biggest challenge has been finding something like that in a "stainless" steel.
Horsewright
also makes an ulu or maybe it's ulu'esque and not quite an ulu
