Prepare for a takeover.... The secret order of the leg knife is no longer a secret.

Can't tell it. The area between the shoe and heal wasn't finished all that great. Kind of a small area to work right..... The rest is pretty good though. It is a less than $10 knife though.
 
yablanowitz said:
The red stag two-blade has been riding in my watch pocket for the last several months. It makes a better bottle opener than the caplifter blade on the 2011 forum knife, and some of my whittlers wish they were ground as thin as these leg knives. I was using that stag Kate for a straight razor while I was trimming my beard around the corners of my mouth yesterday.
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Now you've really piqued my interest - ground as thin as the secondaries on a #57 Geppetto or #62 Courthouse Whittler?
 
To be fair, my 57 and 62 have seen a lot more use and sharpening, but yes. They both average about 0.018" at the back of the edge bevel and the Kate measures 0.013" there. It's a wicked little cutter.
 
If there are BF "cults" for peanuts and barlows ... why not "leg" folders? If somebody gave me a Leg Knife I'd consider it a "major award" :D My only concern now is that Woodrow has stirred up enough interest that somebody is going to buy that certain French Kate from a particular BF vendor before I do! Jake - thanks for starting this thread it's been a hoot. BF guys have a great sense of humor and the range of humor has been a genuine treat.

The more pressing questions for true a KnifeNut - single blade or Main & Pen? Bone or wood covers? If bone ... smooth or jigged? Mine is going to be a single main in a smooth wood. :thumbup:
 
Gentlemen, there are ladies who read and post in this forum. Please post accordingly.
 
Something about those freaky little things has been appealing to me lately. God only knows why... but likely because I discovered it could open a beer. Either way, I think I might have to pick up one of the cheaper ones. Too bad I wouldn't be able to bring myself to carry it in public ;)
 
yablanowitz said:
To be fair, my 57 and 62 have seen a lot more use and sharpening, but yes. They both average about 0.018" at the back of the edge bevel and the Kate measures 0.013" there. It's a wicked little cutter.
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Based on this alone, I might just have to pick one up with a pen secondary. Thanks for the info yablanowitz :thumbup:
 
I shoulda figured there would be something to a leg knife besides, well, it's a leg! The WCTU makes a lot of sense, and I love this forum for the knowledge shared here :thumbup:
 
MunroClansman said:
Something about those freaky little things has been appealing to me lately. God only knows why... but likely because I discovered it could open a beer. Either way, I think I might have to pick up one of the cheaper ones. Too bad I wouldn't be able to bring myself to carry it in public ;)
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When you find out that everyone else has one, you will be sad you didn't bring yours. :(
 
qncygnnr said:
If there are BF "cults" for peanuts and barlows ... why not "leg" folders? If somebody gave me a Leg Knife I'd consider it a "major award" :D My only concern now is that Woodrow has stirred up enough interest that somebody is going to buy that certain French Kate from a particular BF vendor before I do! Jake - thanks for starting this thread it's been a hoot. BF guys have a great sense of humor and the range of humor has been a genuine treat.

The more pressing questions for true a KnifeNut - single blade or Main & Pen? Bone or wood covers? If bone ... smooth or jigged? Mine is going to be a single main in a smooth wood. :thumbup:
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Hmmmm. That is a very interesting question to raise, what happens when the two cults meet?

Do they eye each other warily? Or belly up to the bar for a drink and consider an alliance based on the distant cousins relationship that the peanuts and mini copperheads and tiny trappers share? What happens when two schools of sharp teethed little piraña meet up? If they blend, that would be a swarm that makes full size stockman and trappers tremble.
:D

If indeed Woodrow becomes a leader of the leg knife cult, we may have to sit down with a bottle of good whisky for a conference, while the rest of the pocket knife world trembles. :eek:

Carl. Grand High Muckba of The Legume Cult.

Carl.
 
jackknife said:
Hmmmm. That is a very interesting question to raise, what happens when the two cults meet?

Do they eye each other warily? Or belly up to the bar for a drink and consider an alliance based on the distant cousins relationship that the peanuts and mini copperheads and tiny trappers share? What happens when two schools of sharp teethed little piraña meet up? If they blend, that would be a swarm that makes full size stockman and trappers tremble.
:D

If indeed Woodrow becomes a leader of the leg knife cult, we may have to sit down with a bottle of good whisky for a conference, while the rest of the pocket knife world trembles. :eek:

Carl. Grand High Muckba of The Legume Cult.

Carl.
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Our enemies will be crushed! Bwahahahaha!

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jackknife said:
Yeah, Woodrow needs to get out in the sun more often.:D
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Boy do I. I've been in a plant for the past few weeks for 12+ hours a day and one day off per week. After getting cleaned up, eating, I lay in the bed of my camper for about an hour then sleep only to do it all over again. On my day off, I fix stuff at the house..... all inside of course. Once this is all over, and I get to go back to a normal schedule, I think the wife and I are going to go camping somewhere.
 
Ya know, this is a historical form of traditional pocket knife. I mean, pocket knives have come in all forms now and then, novelty items like advertising knives shaped like little delivery trucks, boots, shotgun shells. Just for the sake of argument, what era were these things popular in? The 1890's? the dawn of the bottled beer age?

I have to admit that I am totally ignorant of the actual history of the leg knife.

Carl.
 
jackknife said:
Ya know, this is a historical form of traditional pocket knife. I mean, pocket knives have come in all forms now and then, novelty items like advertising knives shaped like little delivery trucks, boots, shotgun shells. Just for the sake of argument, what era were these things popular in? The 1890's? the dawn of the bottled beer age?

I have to admit that I am totally ignorant of the actual history of the leg knife.

Carl.
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Apparently the history of the indescribably beautiful objects is still a secret. My Google-Fu is failing me.
 
I will see if I can find an old issue of Knife World that ran an article on old Nehi leg knives. They were advertising knives for Nehi soda. To show you how much I know about Nehi, I thought it was pronounced neh hee, not knee high. My grandfather sold Nehi soda, I thought it was a brand that blew away in the early 20th century, nope.

Well, here is the article.

http://ibdennis.com/Nehi 0802a.pdf

Lunch is over, hope this helps.
 
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