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idahoguy

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on a lot of knives like Trappers, that has the gouged out circular shape cut from the tip? What's it used for?
 
It is a Spey Blade. It was used for castrating cattle in the past.

A very great tool for EDC tasks as well, though.
 
Do you mean this blade? If so it's a one armed man razor.The point is used to stick into/against something and open the blade with one hand, some work very well, this one does.

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Robin

 
Yup. The one with the really pronounced cut in the end was originally meant for soldiers returning from the Civil War that had lost an arm in the war. Still a very useful shape today and for people with two perfectly good arms too. You put the cut at the end on the seam of your pocket, a belt loop, a belt, or whatever else is handy and snap the blade open.

I need to get myself one of those GEC one armed jacks... but of all of the GECs I've looked at in the past few months (I believe I'll be buying my first soon) I can't draw myself away from the 66/68 clip and pen jacks... I also like the 15 jacks with the same blade arrangement. So the one armed jack is going on the back burner.
 
Humppa said:
It is a Spey Blade. It was used for castrating cattle in the past.

A very great tool for EDC tasks as well, though.
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Forget what I was writting there ... Sorry for the wrong term - as I should have known it better :rolleyes: It was a long and stressy week.
 
Just for posterity's sake, here is a castrating knife with a spey and nutter blades. The castrating blade is sometimes called a "nutter blade", for obvious reasons. :D Most of the "vintage" castration knives I've seen have been all-steel 2 blade folders, but I have seen a very few "nutter blade only" folders and a couple of fixed blade nutters. I have a Kabar FB nutter hiding in a box somewhere.

castrating knife.jpg
 
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