Strange blade in an old slipjoint

[buendia]

I have an old, strange knife. It`s clear to me that its blade was designed to serve particular purpose - I don`t know it though. The length of the blade is 6 cm. Do you have any experience with such blade?




http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b102/georgix/BLADE/aaaaknife.jpg

 

[MikeH]

From the picture, it looks live someone tried to cut a 'hot" electrical wire with it.

 

[canbkr]

Looks like an old hordiculture knife or a knife used for bloodletting to me assuming the back portion is also sharpened on the hump

 

[glennbad]

I would agree with the budding/horticultural knife assessment.

Glenn

 

[jackknife]

I think they were called budding, or grafting knife, for gardening.

 

[berzerker]

My father occasionally had to cut a "hot" wire; the resulting notches looked much different.

That blade looks similar to this one, on an SAK gardening knife:

http://www.swissknifeshop.com/Swiss...qQa38PbO1ynknvrkLOlQzNp65In0?sc=2&category=24

A bloodletting blade is a sharpened triangle set at a right angle to the shaft, sort of like a flat version of an old fashioned can punch.

http://www.medicalantiques.com/DougA/da11.jpg

Best regards.

 

[cockroachfarm]

Grafting/budding knife for fruit trees.

 

[JD Mandrell]

Yes, it's a grafting/budding blade.

 

[puukkoman]

I think they were called budding, or grafting knife, for gardening.

Bingo. That's what it is.

 

[buendia]

Aah, now I know... Thank you. For grafting my father used different shape of blade - curved, that`s why I `ve thought about it this way.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

It is a grafting knife, and strangely enough, the Douk-Douk has a similar blade. I wonder if, despite the general purposes it's put to now, it may have begun as a farmer's knife.