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Not all sheep-shears were created equal.
The vast majority had flat blades that were punched out by the thousand and then either welded or riveted to a steel handle.
Then there were those (now rare) ones with had forged convex blades.
Each blade, with its handle was forged from a single slab of steel.
All the ones I have ever seen were either made in Solingen or Sheffield.
It took me a day trip to the smaller towns in sheep farming area in Victoria to wrestle this vintage example from a local.
All the shearing is done with electric shears these days and true hand shearing is long gone.
Blackwood from the woods around my house, pinned copper hoops and a lanyard hole.
I tried to make this knife look like it was hand-made in the 1880's.
Dirk
The vast majority had flat blades that were punched out by the thousand and then either welded or riveted to a steel handle.
Then there were those (now rare) ones with had forged convex blades.
Each blade, with its handle was forged from a single slab of steel.
All the ones I have ever seen were either made in Solingen or Sheffield.
It took me a day trip to the smaller towns in sheep farming area in Victoria to wrestle this vintage example from a local.
All the shearing is done with electric shears these days and true hand shearing is long gone.
Blackwood from the woods around my house, pinned copper hoops and a lanyard hole.
I tried to make this knife look like it was hand-made in the 1880's.
Dirk
