Thread: Boning with a Skinner?

One knife can't do it all, nowadays you need specialised equipment and that's why I carry all four types:

From the top we have the 'sticker', 'gutting', skinner and boner.
The same goes for ammunition, again I carry ammo for each situation bullet 1) yearlings, spikers, chamois and fallow 2) Hinds and medium pigs 3) Red Stags and Boars 4) Tahr

@Tahr, that knife is one of the very few Cold Steels with a full flat grind. Still sold in XHP too ,when a lot of the other CS designs are being migrated over to S35VN. Miles of straight edge before the belly, available in orange & blue rather than just handle colours that mean it is gone forever when dropped or inadvisedly put down in some situations. A lot to like there. I think if I ordered one in I might take to the spine with a grinder though, and use it as a test case for attempting to sandblast off the dlc coating along with the writing!

Originally Posted by Puffin

@Tahr, that knife is one of the very few Cold Steels with a full flat grind. Still sold in XHP too ,when a lot of the other CS designs are being migrated over to S35VN. Miles of straight edge before the belly, available in orange & blue rather than just handle colours that mean it is gone forever when dropped or inadvisedly put down in some situations. A lot to like there. I think if I ordered one in I might take to the spine with a grinder though, and use it as a test case for attempting to sandblast off the dlc coating along with the writing!

I took the V grind off mine and convexed it with water stones, and a lot of the coating came off while I was doing that. Yes, they are great. Lots to like and way better than the Mercator.

Mike Stewart (the owner of Bark River) told me that he would have used XHP but Carpenter couldn't supply enough of it or guarantee continuity. Cold Steal were in the same boat it seems.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

started out with a green river bushmans friend...the boning knife they make now replaced it...did everything with that knife and the shape of blade is still what I prefer...sort of a 7" bowie with the upper edge not sharp. skinned hundreds of sheep n goats back when was on the farm.

hmmmmm just looked and PGG Wrightsons web site still has bushmans friends advertised.

Sorry don,t like the handle on the knife far to narrow for me, I have used various knives over the years, best folder in budget range, opinel either number 8 or 9, a good budget is the mora as a fixed blade, below are two knives I have used a lot,