Spey Blade???

yablanowitz said:


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Ok that's pretty impressive.... If i can figure out how to do that with my speys then they will have won a place in my heart!

On a side note the wife is not fond of me using my knives for food prep, she usually lets me know that "that's just not sanitary" or something of the like lol.... so I only use them when she isn't looking! :D
 
I have found many uses for the short spey blade on my stockman




The thing is that unless its on a stockman I would not want it. Great shape with that belly for very specific tasks but not a great all around blade for my uses. I have no need for the long ones that come on trappers as I can not use it for detail cutting like I need. Its great at shaving wood, cutting sheetrock and all the other things already mentioned. Guess I would suggest picking up a stockman in a size your comfortable with and give it a shot. I did not see a need for it either until I actually used one for awhile.
 
Actually, the stockman that I have and carry doesn't have a spey (i don't think anyway, I don't carry it near as often as my two bladed jacks).... I may have to look into it with my soon trip to the largest knife store in the world. For the record, I am rather excited about this trip I haven't bought a new knife in a while and I have cash save back for just this trip but that is a separate post all together.
 
Have fun at SMKW :D

If I was going to pick up a medium or large stockman to try out right now I would pick up a Buck. I love how they switched the sheepsfoot and spey blade and I read nothing but great things about them around here ;)
 
Blade_Crazy said:
On a side note the wife is not fond of me using my knives for food prep, she usually lets me know that "that's just not sanitary" or something of the like lol.... so I only use them when she isn't looking! :D
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You can tell her that that's why cooking was invented. If you were to eat a fistful of raw meat from a carcass, now *that* would be unsanitary. Once you toss it in a pan, over some heat, any little microscopic nasties that might be present (even ones that came from your cooking utensil) are rendered inert. ;)

Back on topic... I keep the spey blade on my trapper quite sharp. I find it to be a good blade shape for all kinds of stuff. Gave away my last stockman, but when I had one, I found the spey very useful for whittling & general utility.
 
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@puukkoman I have, she doesn't buy it lol. @rockgolfer I most certainly will! We love head out to Gatlinburg but a huge part of that for me is AT LEAST one trip to smkw!


Back to the original point, I may have to grab on of my knives with a spey for the trip to the mountains and see what kind of whittling I can do with it... Not much is better that sitting on the porch over looking a mountain, wood and knife in hand, and no worries (for a while at least).

but yeah, speys.... ill give em a 2nd run in whittling and see what happens.
 
I've used the spey on my trapper to spread peanut butter on my sons crackers quite a few times... works like a charm!
 
It's a great slicer. Here's one of my favorites edc knives ever
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Mike
 
I use the spey on my stockman all the time! It is great for cutting cloth, or shaving excess material away. I use it to cut patches when I'm shooting black powder. I have to admit, I'm not really a fan of wharncliffe blades, and prefer a sheepsfoot when it comes to straight edged blades.
 
I'm on the same boat.
I keep the spey the sharpest.

I was unsure if I would ever use the spey blade when I got a stockman but I'm surprised that I use it quite often.

KG

T. Erdelyi said:
My Spey blades are always kept the sharpest, I use 'em like a scalpel, shaving off calluses, trimming hang nails, even cutting out splinters.

Now that I think about it it usually always gets used to cut flesh of some kind.
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As long as you have a traditional knife, you may as well have an assortment of traditional blades. Look through any old knife catalog at the stockman knives---clip, sheepsfoot, and spey. That is my view, anyway. At any rate, the spey does not bother me.
 
I don't seem to find much use for the spey on my trappers or stockman knives. That's not to say they are useless at all. Looking at that whittling project up there makes me go "hmmmmm....." I could be missing something there. It seems that the blunter point on the spey might be advantage by not tending to gouge the work as badly in concave areas such as those worked by yblanowitz; I must try it.

I bought that long spey stockman that RR had put out with the strawberry bone covers and it intrigues me a bit being basically a trapper spey in a stockman frame with a somewhat shorter Clip secondary.

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It should be a peanut butter and jelly spreader extraordinaire.

Ed J
 
T. Erdelyi said:
My Spey blades are always kept the sharpest, I use 'em like a scalpel, shaving off calluses, trimming hang nails, even cutting out splinters.

Now that I think about it it usually always gets used to cut flesh of some kind.
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Exactly. I keep mine scalpel sharp for the minor surgeries I so often need. Hopefully it will never be needed for it's intended use.:eek:
 
The top is a stock GEC 72 with 'bullnose' blade? and the two 73's below have a modified spey:

If you modify your blade, it will void the warranty.:eek:
 
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