![]() Buy it now and buy some leather to cut with it and make sure the total is over $70 so you get free shipping, or for that price buy two. This is less than I paid for it from them 10 years ago. Siegel sells this knife for $55.38 but has had it on sale for a while at $38.95. 70 carbon that will harden nicely and be an easy blade to sharpen. The CSO #70 Round knife from Siegel of California is made from 1070 steel, medium priced steel with. I think Sheridan Leather Outfitters sells it for around $11. Herb French put out a pretty good little book on sharpening leather tools. Some put a very thin fine edge that immediately rolls, and others leave a chiseled edge and hone marks that aren't close to sharp. You can't afford the downtime to ship one back for resharpening, and many local knife sharpeners have no clue what we need. They also require a lot more effort to bring back to original. Some of the knives come sharp and hold a an edge quite a while. You will need to talk to the maker to see what they recommend for stropping compound and sharpening. There are some new or old-but-new-again steels, and steel treatments being used. The guys making knives for other uses have seen the void, and the need for quality tools that has always been there. Some of the old line makers like Linneman, Jolly, and Buchmann are not making many/any. There seem to be several new knife makers coming on the scene. Remember that feel, because it won't be that way in a week, and maybe not in an hour. I think that the original post about buying a sharp one ready to go is a good idea. MY anecdotal impression is that the Clydes go a while longer than the CSO before the need to strop and sharpen.īrings me to my thoughts on buying a knife. I batch my sharpening, use a knife for a while, grab another, until I have a few to sharpen. I have a few old Clydes, and they are my favorites. Isn't the TLF price 90 something? I have a CSO knife. TLF used to carry a more complete line of CSO tools, but have scaled back. The #70 CSO knife is $35.95 from Siegels website, it has been at that price for a while. I can't answer how companies price the same goods. If really on a budget, three utility knives of varying sharpness from out of the box to scary is a good choice. If I were on a budget, I could get by easily with a Scalpel, Utility Knife, and Clicker Knife and stay under $50. If you are lucky enough to get a Buchman, don't expect exotic handles, there is Black Walnut and maybe if you are lucky Black Walnut. Also it may be harder to find the smaller handles if you like to "palm" the knife. For serious leather cutting, you need to at very least strop these blades.īill Buchman is over 70 now and doesn't take new customers, Big Sky Tool and Die might still handle them but you may have a hard time getting the X versions which are not in his regular lineup. You do really need to sharpen them for serious work but for general stuff the blades work out of the box. Last but not least the Utility knife, the only knife you can do most anything with. The old skiver tried and true and indispensable. Here is a picture of a Don Carlos (I couldn't find my DC head knife that looks somewhat like a cleaver) straight (sorta) Knife, A Clicker knife (Blue Handle) which works on everything if you keep it sharp, this thing and a Utility knife could get you through your leather career, and last but not least the surgical scalpel (No.10 on this one). It is a little smaller so it is better than the big knives around curves. This is a knife made by Duey Peters and is quite good, sharp as hell out of the box and around $60. Nice knife but needs work out of the box.Īnd of course this is the CSO Round Knife dull as a piece of straw out of the box. This is the standard CSO Head Knife that has been around for years, and so has this one. The BXV2 is a very small knife Bill also made for Verlane and is great for tight places, sometimes you just have to have a knife like this. The BBXV is a pattern that Bill made for Verlane Desgrange, a long tail oval knife with a small handle for palming. The BBX3 is another head knife that is smaller with a smaller handle, you can "palm" this knife easily and it turns easier. The BBX1 is a little skiving knife with a larger handle that I use as much as the BB6. ![]() The BB6 is a large head knife that I use a lot especially for long straight cuts. I'll show and tell with about half of what I have. ![]()
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