Hawkbill Knives | Good and Bad?
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Review of two hawkbills folding knives. Stanley Electricians knife with 2 blades, a hawksbill and sheepsfoot. And a Hawkbill Black Smooth Bone Handle.
Hawksbills have many names, like Electricans Knife, Pruning knife, carpet knife and Mushroom knife, The are useful for precise cutting tasks, often when draw cyutting or pull cutting, and using the tip especially accurately.
Hawkbill Black Smooth Bone Handle
Features:
Titanium coated 440A stainless steel blade.
Black smooth bone handle.
Brass liners.
Nickel silver pins, shield, and decorative bolsters.
Lanyard hole.
3-1/8″ hawkbill blade.
Blade thickness: 1/16″.
4″ closed.
Made in China.
Hawkbill Black Smooth Bone Handle
The Rough Rider Black Smooth Bone series features black smooth bone handles and 440A stainless steel blades. With nickel silver decorative bolsters, pins and diamond shield, making this classic everyday carry pocket knife a must for any collection.
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I already have an antique hawkbill that a friend gave me, and it's very useful, from simple daily tasks to more specific situations, it's always effective
Awesome
Great presentation. Great info about the applications of these hawkbill style blades. These days we see tons of "karambit" knives ... mostly touted as "tactical" or "fighters". Proper sharpening of those concave or inside circular edges mostly requires cylindrical "rod" type stones or "rod" type diamond sharpeners. Some of the early type hawkbill "electricians" knives I have have owned have "liner lock" mechanisms. I think that U.S. custom knife maker Michael Walker went ahead (in the 80s or thereabouts) and U.S. patented the name "Liner Lock". He did not, however, invent that type of locking mechanism. Again, great video. Thank you..!!
Nice video David. I enjoyed it very much.
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Thanks for sharing !
Thank you for the info. I'm starting off as a helper in the electric department and my buddy told me to get one of these. Wonderful video to say the least. Most definitely going to subscribe.
Good luck
Good video! Good presentation, good topic, well spoken, enlightening and entertaining! I’ll subscribe right now!
thanks !
I just now realised the curved edge was for cutting easily and stripping wires with ease but personally i managed to find one of these for less than 2 bucks at the price of 1 buck and 5 cents and hey im not into cheap stuff but when i see a folding knife with traditional style handle and razor sharp edge im buying it i mean it was so strong and durable how do i know this?Because my dumb ass didnt know back than that this was a stripping wires knife so i used it for outdoor wood processing and wood carving and lemme say this its an amazing wood carving little pocket knife here is a little great trick i found about this knife u can easily make holes into wood with this due to the curved edge and tip u cant do the same with a straight edge and tip knife but u can do it with ease with this one because u get lots more leverage to work with with a straight tipped knife u have to push hard into the wood whilst rotating but with this?Just rotate the handle and put the tip on the wood and it will carve u a hole in no time also i made a literal bow cut it and shaped it with just this knife and it made easy work of it whilst maintaining the razor edge and nothing got loose so for less than 2 bucks?Thats a steal id say idk about yall but im confident that this can make a great survival knife if need be and not to mention this is a great hunter knife as well with the hooked edge u can easily skin game with it and process food too the only downside is i cant figure how to sharpen it because i never used hooked knives before this is the only one i got thats hooked as such i didnt know its purpose the price and as much as i could tell from the quality by naked eye i thought this was an excellent deal and for what i used this for it didnt disappoint me one bit its a lovely little knife and i plan to buy more if i find more they're just very awesome and classic looking
Good review! Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Great vid, like a bit of banter & a laugh. I've got an old opinel with the pruner shape blade, been a great knife for many years. As you say a very useful blade shape, off to find your face book page now stay safe, stay wild 🐻👍🏼
I think you found it.
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I’ve got on of these from Chillington tools in the UK, the only knife they do.
Thanks for doing the hand motion on how most of us hawkbill carriers use our knife! Most reviews leave that motion out. The problem with using a more common blade shape, say clip point, is the object you are cutting is constantly pulling away from the blade. Hawkbill solves that issue, and doing that circular wrist motion makes this knife a valuable niche tool. I use mine strictly for gardening. It excels at cutting living soft wood that's thinner than a Sharpie marker. Any thicker wood, or any dead wood, and a pair of shears or loppers work better. But once you get the motion down, cutting fresh vegetation with a hawkbill is quicker and more efficient than a pair of hand shears. Less pain on the hand too as you arent constantly squeezing. I personally carry the 16UH hawkbill.
Cheers for the comment!
Just ordered a Marbles Hawkbill for a specific job. Hope it works. Thanks for the information.
Hope you like it!
Nice vid; great informations.
Greetings from cologne, germany
Arthur
Oktoberfest ! soon?
I'm an electrician, I have at least 4 of them, I have the Stanley, but Kline tools makes the best, I think. Nice video. I'll have to start watching you more.
Good stuff
I have the aluminum handled Klein Hawksbill. Just got it a few days ago when I went to get some wire strippers at Home Depot and saw the kind they had with disposable blades so I went and bought the nicer one on Amazon. Got to use it for the first time today wiring a bunch of COVPs for telecom. It’s a really nice knife, very convenient and very easy to use and I vastly prefer it to a utility knife for stripping larger gauge wires. Much much easier and I’m not worried about cutting myself with the damn thing like I am with a box cutter.
Joseph...how do you sharpen a hawkbill? I have one and would love to carry it but for getting a good edge on it.
i just went to the store and asked the girl behind the counter has she ever seen a black smooth bone...i was immediately escorted out of the store. the Stanley looks more multitask(able??) thanks for sharing.
Fucking hilarious name !
I can say one thing about the Rough Rider brand I have many and have yet to have a failure of any kind in both fixed and and folding . Happy trails
This is my first
Just for the hick of it I went out and counted my Rough Rider pocket knives 31 of those guys over the years and 2 Hawkbill one Red bone the other a honey color . They have a great series of fixed blades I think there called Heavy Hunter series I think there are 6 in the series . I have carried them all over the years my favorite is the biggest of them it's just shy of 13 inches 1/4 inch convex blade great knife to big for most but not me . all very cost effective great bang for you buck . Happy trails . it is very easy to end up with a bunch of these because of the low price and high quaillty no exotic steels I think most are 440 of some kind but there heat treating is great .
They have only just started coming to my neck if the woods. And we seem to be getting stiffed on the prices for them.
I bought it on impulse and then googled at found out I paid 4 times the USA price. Unlikely I will be getting a large collection due to that ;-)
Ouch same here buying from Europe ouch . I have no idea what your postage is but SMKW.com, Smoky Mountain knife works, in most cases has plenty of Rough Rider, also Wild Bill Whole sale in most cases Wild Bill will beat SMKW .com . happy trails
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I had a WW2 British Navy sailors knife it had the same type of blade and a spike to untying sailors knots unfortunately lost it fishing the one time I did not connect its lanyard to my belt
sounds like the sort of knife I would like
that will teach you to go fishing with knife. use a rod and line next time ;-)
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Use my hawkbill for everything. Even cleaned a pig and skinned it with my hawkbill, filleted fish, and just carved up my t-bone tonight with it.
In general which is the more versatile knife: the hawkbill or the sheepfoot?
I appreciate any input.
The more versatile is a sheeps foot, but a hawksbill can do a few things uniquely
@@verysurvival thank you. I figured as much but guy at store was pushing the hawkbill. Never even told me about the sheepsfoot. Didn't find out there was a sheepsfoot type until I looked it up myself later. Thanks again!
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Opening and closing the knife is called:The Walk and Talk.You did a lot of walking and talking in this video. :)
This knife is very useful for cutting a coconut
Lovely
That's interesting!
Electricians used hawk's bill knives to strip wire...
Here in the Southern US back when I was a kid, the hawkbill was used for one thing..cutting flesh! Whether it be animal or human. Think I got my first one at age 10 :)
Human flesh? Are you one of those mutant hillbilly cannibals like in ''Wrong Turn''?
Had hawkbills all my life
Didn't realize I did not speak English
Me either
@@verysurvival great discussion about an overlooked bladeshape I learned a great deal. Thanks and excuse my lame humor
Hilarious
Big black bone 😂
You lost me at "stainless steel".