Trying to learn --pen blades ?'s

[Fish30114]

Probably the second traditional knife I owned was a stockman bought from the awesome display at the local Ace Hardware store when I was a boy. My question is this, I always assumed the pattern 'stockman' was since it was intended for a fellow who worked in some sort of store, stocking the shelves, and used the knife in his day to day chores. As a young guy, I worked several jobs like this, and found plenty of use for the longer clip blade, and plenty as well for the sheepfoot/wharnecliff blade as well, but almost never used the pen blade. I am curious if this blade had a particular use in mind when it was manufactured.


I've tried to search for this info, with no luck--if there are some tips for searching I'm open to any input.

 

[rma100]

The Stockman knife, or Stock Knife, takes it name from the men who carried this knife that worked Livestock, mostly cattle. A true stockman pattern knife has a Spey Blade as one of the secondary blades. Due to the lack of a sharp point on a spey blade, this blade was widely used for castrating livestock of all kinds, but mostly cattle. This was just another chore done by the stockmen at round-up time.

 

[Fish30114]

Well, once again this shows how much I don't know. Maybe there's a pattern for stockboys that work in drugstores or the like?

Thanks for the info rma100

 

[pmew]

The Stockman knife, or Stock Knife, takes it name from the men who carried this knife that worked Livestock, mostly cattle. A true stockman pattern knife has a Spey Blade as one of the secondary blades. Due to the lack of a sharp point on a spey blade, this blade was widely used for castrating livestock of all kinds, but mostly cattle. This was just another chore done by the stockmen at round-up time.

Beat me to it

But pen blades... Originally were used for cutting quills for use as pens.

 

[waynorth]

When I worked stocking orders for my family's wholesale grocery business, it was hard to beat a box cutter. It had a heavy, sharpen-able blade, not a snap-off/throwaway type!