Anvilsring said:
Sorry if this sounds dumb, I'm from the UK and have never seen a knife of this type before. What is it's primary use, especially the flat tip.
Thanks.
That is a good question and not the first time we have been asked that.
The Razel was designed to be a hard use utility knife. You can use the tip for many things. Light prying because you are spreading the stress across the width of the blade instead of a small point. You can scrape a sticker off a window, glue off a table, a gasket any thing you could do with chisel. It works great for putting the notch in a door when installing a lock. You can cut one handed by push cutting with the tip. You also have 2 points instead of one. A double edge point and a single edge point. There is no one perfect knife design that will do everything. It depends on what you need it for, but the Razel will handle many different tasks that you throw at it.
It is not an agressive looking knife, so It is also sheeple friendly, it looks like a tool. When someone who is scared by a knife sees it, their first thought in not,
you could stab me with that. Why do you carry a knife? Are you planning on stabbing somebody? Actually I don't think I have ever had a responce like that. The responce I always get is "what is that". I say "it is a knife, I use it for work". Then I can leave it at that or carry on the conversation. Little do they know that it would stab very well.
I am not sure because I have never seen one, but I have been told by one person that the Apache Indians had something like it. They called it the Apache Tooth. When the elderly lost their teeth, they would use it to chop up their food and then scoop it up like a spoon. I would love to see an Apache Tooth knife.
We named it the Razel, a combination of RAZor and chisEL and it is pornounced like that. With a long A, not Razzel.
I am sure I am forgetting some things but I hope that helps.
. I can't wait to get mine (should be here tomorrow). I didn't realize they were bos heat treated, that a big + .
