show your turkey knife!

[tongueriver]

This old knife has a ten inch blade. I think the deep profile made it easier to lift slices of meat from the bird to a platter. ?

 

[SAK Guy]

Looks like something used to "repel boarders"!

Nice! :thumbup:

 

[Old Hunter]

Used this Buck 102 on opening day this past spring. OH

 

[knarfeng]

I use a 6" boning knife to disjoint and remove meat from the bird. The family carving knife is used for slicing breast meat after the breast has been removed from the bird. I could do that with the boning knife, but it's fun to use the carver.

This is the family carving knife. Carbon steel blade. I have no idea how old it is beyond being in the family for at least 100 years.

 

[sitflyer]

^^ Nice looking carving set Frank!

 

[W.M.B.]

I use a 6" boning knife to disjoint and remove meat from the bird. The family carving knife is used for slicing breast meat after the breast has been removed from the bird. I could do that with the boning knife, but it's fun to use the carver.

This is the family carving knife. Carbon steel blade. I have no idea how old it is beyond being in the family for at least 100 years.

how very cool. My great grandfather owned a butcher shop, and my grandfather worked there. last time I visited my dad, he told me he had a box of old unused boning knives left, and offered me one. we could not find the box, unfortunately. the same knife in use in the same family for so long, wow. that is something special.

 

[knarfeng]

the same knife in use in the same family for so long, wow. that is something special.

Well, you have to remember that in my family, that's only about three generations. Grandfather was born in about 1880. Father was born in 1914. I know grandfather owned the knife, but he might have gotten it from great grandfather, or he might have purchased it.

But, thanks, I do enjoy using the knife.

 

[Peregrin]

I bought this Case fixed blade back in the early eighties. It's been used for carving the holiday turkeys every year since then.

 

[herisson]

OP, my idea is you're right : this is a knife for "slicing and serving". It's a great slicer but it's made for a solid chunk of meat (understand ham, shoulder, loin...) where you present the beautifully roasted piece of meat then proceed with slicing and giving everybody it's chosen piece. A good moment in a happily shared meal. The technical stuff, deboning, carving out and through joints, will be done with much smaller and pointier knives. Your knife and Knarfeng's set are something to cherish and hand down to the next generations.

 

[Pipeman]

Dinner, behind my house. 13 dinners

Regards

Robin

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[ptradeco]

Someone usually shows this every year but just in case:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/dining/1194833560897/carving-a-thanksgiving-turkey.html

I was gifted this knife a few years back by Vince, thanks brother!, not sure you knew what you were giving up! Really a wonderful knife! Not quite a Boning nor as big as a Chef, the Sabatier is a great all around profile and I use it constantly.

 

[edbeau]

How about my Schrade LB7 with turkey scrimshaw?

 

[tongueriver]

how very cool. My great grandfather owned a butcher shop, and my grandfather worked there. last time I visited my dad, he told me he had a box of old unused boning knives left, and offered me one. we could not find the box, unfortunately. the same knife in use in the same family for so long, wow. that is something special.

Here is my maternal grandfather's butcher shop, circa 1936.

 

[edbeau]

A very nice picture of the old time shop. I am old enough to remember shops that were specialized. Shopping meant going to different places but it was more fun.