Traditional Austrailian Bunny knife questions

Cambertree said:
A lot of the old rabbit hunters actually used the pen blade to make an incision along the legs, and just peeled the hide off by hand - easy to do when the carcass is still warm.
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"See how easily Mr. Bunny's pajamas come off?" From a French movie I don't remember except that it was about a kid staying with relatives in the country.

Cambertree said:
From 1950, when the Myxomatosis virus was released, that whole industry was turned upside down.
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The rabbits had to be killed faster, or nobody would touch them?

Didn't you guys also have a plague of gigantic venomous toads? Not Night of the Lepus or Them gigantic, but way too big for toads. And who'd want to make a meal or a hat out of those?
 
scrteened porch said:
"See how easily Mr. Bunny's pajamas come off?" From a French movie I don't remember except that it was about a kid staying with relatives in the country.

The rabbits had to be killed faster, or nobody would touch them?

Didn't you guys also have a plague of gigantic venomous toads? Not Night of the Lepus or Them gigantic, but way too big for toads. And who'd want to make a meal or a hat out of those?
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Ha ha, yep we call it the ‘banana peeling method’ but I’m gonna have to remember that line the next time I’m showing someone how to skin a rabbit!

Myxo’s a horrible disease. There’s still a lot of rabbits around, but not in those pre-1950s plague proportions though. There’s no harm apparently from eating a Myxo afflicted rabbit, but you’d have to be pretty desperate to even contemplate it. The fur becomes worthless. Rabbit fur, incidentally is what felt is made from.

Yeah that’d be Cane Toads. They’re still a major environmental pest - another disastrous gift from our farsighted captains of industry. Type ‘What Happened to Baz?’ into Youtube, for a humorous Pixar style short film showing some of the Aussie control methods for the dreaded ‘Toads. (But be forewarned, I didn’t link the clip here, as although the language would barely merit a PG rating in Oz, it’s not really Porch friendly.)

The Cane Toad plague hasn’t given us a new pocket knife style, unfortunately.
 
A bit of useless information in relation to Cambertree Cambertree 's post. Akubra hats are an Australian icon, and hugely popular with visiting tourists to Australia, they love to take them back to there homeland. Akubra has had several attempts at being bought out by overseas multi-national companies, but has remained true to it's roots and remains in the same family that their forebears founded. Their hats are made from rabbit skins which are processed into felt. They now have to import their rabbit skins such has been the culling of the rabbit population. There is still plenty of them out there, but not in enough numbers for hunters to make a living out of, and therefore supply enough skins for Akubra. You cannot buy rabbit's for human consumption anymore, for 2 reasons, health and safety and lack of supply, where as you used to be able to buy them from every butcher or meat outlet.
 
I think there might be some confusion, both Wright's and Eggington's (who own the Joseph Rodgers name), do knives with a Lambsfoot blade, and they also do knives with a Clip-point blade. The only maker I know to put the two together was Trevor Ablett, who brought his blades from Wright's, and combined all of their full-size blades at various times. TEW made a knife with a Bunny blade and a Lambsfoot blade for the Australian market, but it's rare :thumbsup:
 
My apologies i misread the post from screened porch screened porch . I thought he was after a clip blade and pen blade "Bunny Knife". I have one in front of me on a website a Joseph Rodgers, model no. JR77W. On this particular website there is also a Lamb Foot and Pen blade Bunny Knife style, model no. JR67W. Sorry for any confusion, i have to concentrate more. Hope everyone has a good week.:oops:
Jack Black said:
I think there might be some confusion, both Wright's and Eggington's (who own the Joseph Rodgers name), do knives with a Lambsfoot blade, and they also do knives with a Clip-point blade. The only maker I know to put the two together was Trevor Ablett, who brought his blades from Wright's, and combined all of their full-size blades at various times. TEW made a knife with a Bunny blade and a Lambsfoot blade for the Australian market, but it's rare :thumbsup:
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waynorth said:
Trevor made great knives!! R.I.P. Not a bunny knife!
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He sure did Charlie :) This is a bit nearer I think (gifted this one to @Old & In The Way ) :thumbsup:

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Taylor's did a Bunny with a Lambsfoot - my pic, but not my knife either I'm afraid! :D :thumbsup:

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cudgee said:
My apologies i misread the post from screened porch screened porch . I thought he was after a clip blade and pen blade "Bunny Knife". I have one in front of me on a website a Joseph Rodgers, model no. JR77W. On this particular website there is also a Lamb Foot and Pen blade Bunny Knife style, model no. JR67W. Sorry for any confusion, i have to concentrate more. Hope everyone has a good week.:oops:
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No worries mate :) :thumbsup:
 
waynorth said:
Eh? What's up Doc?? Bumpin' this thread up is What!!:)
The Bunny knife saga is an interesting one, partly stimulated by humans messing with nature (again) and looseing those "wascally wabbits" onto the Australian landscape!!!
Is this handy knife relevant to todays knifery?? I don't know, but this accumulation is due to the kindness of others, and has been sitting on my desk waiting to be shown to my knife friends!!
A couple of German makes, and a couple from Sheffield, please enjoy the pics and the erudite scribblings that came before!! Great Writings and opinions!!!^^^:cool:View attachment 1162484 View attachment 1162485 View attachment 1162486
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I really like that light brown covered one? Who makes it? Is anyone still making this pattern?
 
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