Thread: Why are kiwi knives more curved?

Originally Posted by Tahr

There is another thing about the skinning blade shape, and that is that the sweep of the blade follows the natural ark of the arm's movement, making their use more natural and effortless.

I'm a bit like R93 and mainly use straighter blades nowadays because I mainly bone meat and don't skin anything now apart from Tahr. So I still take a skinner shaped blade when I'm chasing Tahr, and it works pretty well on the boning too.

Here I have both bases covered (skinner at top).

Be interesting to see how much (or little) those two blade curvatures differ. Even straight bladed drop point blades are curved. Not like anyone with sense would dress/skin with a true straight blade.