Long Spey Blade

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What is the traditional use of a Long Spey Blade on a trapper?

What do folk here use the Long Spey Blade for?
 
The traditional use is for, well, speying animals.

I use them for many things, including a spatula, by the way.

Although I find it a useful blade, I find that The Bose Warncliffe Trapper, with a clip and warncilffe blade, far more useful.
 
all of mine have the spey made to a spear point since I don't skin or spey animals, a drop looks better... but the function is the same, I use the spey/drop for food and eating, and it leaves the clip for utility use.

G.
 
My trapper mostly sees weekend carry. I reserve the spey blade for rough cutting, as a way to keep the other blade as sharp as possible. I also use it to spread stuff on bread ...... hence, my wife calling the trapper my "picnic knife."
 
I've been carrying a #73 Great Eastern Tidioute Beaver Tail. It only has one blade and it's a spey. I keep it silly sharp and I use it for everything. It's kind of like a fancy sod buster.

Mike
 
I've been carrying one of knifemaker Ken Coat's "Big Speys" for a month or so. Has a nice, beefy 3.5 inch spey blade. Works great as a utility knife and has just enough of a tip for penetrating boxes and other kinds of packaging.

I have to agree with shaldag that the Bose pattern trapper is probably the ideal, all around slipjoint pattern.;)
 
Shaldag, I agree about the Wharncliffe set-up,that's why my CASE Mini Trapper with Wharncliffe gets used(despite some lurid scales)it's a useful&attractive blade.

mike w nice to see somebody is using their Great Easterns,thought it was only me....my latest is their new Burnt Stag Liner Lock same size as the Beaver Tail but clip blade in carbon AND swedges!

I use a spey blade as a spreader on picnics,jam,pate,butter etc.I don't geld animals....
 
What is the traditional use of a Long Spey Blade on a trapper?
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Castrations.

What do folk here use the Long Spey Blade for?
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I use a spey blade when I'm looking for general use, but without a pointy tip around. It looks like it would make a good spreader, but I've yet to use it for that purpose. I often find that I use the spey more than the clip.
 
On my trappers I find I am using the Spey the most. If I need to open bags of stuff for the garden or work I find that the long staight blade will slice them very nicely. Steven
 
Wilgoy, before I purchased the Beaver Tail I also picked up a Great Eastern Northfield, #73 Scout. It’s a terrific folder. However, you can only open it once a month; since each time you do you have to wait for your fingernails to grow back. Praxis I saw the pics of a Coats “Big Spey”. It’s a little bigger than I’m used to carrying but that’s just my envy talking.

Mike
 
I've noticed that while long spey blades are nice, but short spey blades, like those on a stockman, are pretty useless to me. too short to sharpen well.
 
mike w, no such spring problems on the liner Lock model but I've heard others complain about GE's backsprings.
They do a Cuban model too which includes a spey blade I think, it could be tricky to sharpen those short spey blades true enough.
 
I actually find short spey blades to be more useful to me, as I use the flat portion where the point drops as a spot for the tip of my index finger. Again, it's great for when you don't want a sharp point around, or when you need a bit more of a sweeping stroke thanks to the belly that the tip has. Think of it almost like a tiny butchers knife.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Think of it almost like a tiny butchers knife.
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I've used both short and long speys for skinning small game, and I think that given the history of the design of the blade, it is perfectly appropriate, no matter the actual length.

In animal use, I like the shorter blade -- more like a scalpel. Slicing stuff up, the longer.

My dad always turns his into a short clip point -- doesn't like the blunt tip at all.
 
Peanut butter, my serrated Spydercos leave disturbing weird patterns on the toast.:D
 
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