Traditional turkey carver. What's in your hand?

[fasteddie]

Mike, I love that old carving set. Just beautiful.

I took a different approach this year. Saw a video on the NY Times site about how a butcher carves a turkey. Essentially just uses just a small curved boning knife. Takes the thighs off at the joint, takes the legs off at the joint, then bones the thigh. Takes the breasts off by fileting them back from the breastbone, then slices the breast pieces and thigh pieces across the grain. I got almost all the way through with just a henkels flexible boning knife and broke out a Chicago Cutlery slicer at the very end. Worked like a charm.

And I made it all the way through this post without once saying boner.

 

[Will Power]

Russell Green River Works 9.5" blade 15 3/8" overall. Amber popcorn stag handle.

It's fantastic! Good enough to carve Swan or Peacock with

Do you know how old it is? I wonder if carving sets are undervalued and could offer some real bargains?

 

[fasteddie]

I wonder if carving sets are undervalued and could offer some real bargains?

You can find some very nice stag on them. I've heard that some knifemakers harvest stag from some of these old sets.