Flash Sale ⌛ Bernal Cutlery Cleavers Big LF&C 10″ Hogsplitter Cleaver Hand Forged Carbon Steel 1890’s -1920’s ⌛

 A big one here, hand forged carbon steel with dome shaped steel ferrule (nice and secure, no wiggles) and grooved beechwood handle. Was originally wider but has been thinned and given a good geometry for getting back to work. 

 

This knife has been re-ground and thinned behind the edge on a large 3 foot diameter Japanese water stone wheel (kaiten mizu toishi) and then resurfaced with a medium fine finish, our take on an old style grinding and finishing technique. While the particular wheel used to refurbish this knife is typically used in Japanese knife making it is very similar to the old grinding wheels used to shape European and American hand ground cutlery. A convex face to a blade greatly increases a knife’s performance as there is less sticking as there is on a flat face and the blade does not get thick behind the edge nearly as fast as with a flat faced blade. Being that we are often working with old blades that need re-shaping and might have been rusted expect some minor imperfections, we try to give a fresh start to our re-ground blades with an eye towards their original grind style and keeping as much metal is needed on a blade when ever possible. 

 

Steel Type	Carbon steel
Handle Material	Wood
Weight	62.3 oz
Total Length	20.”
Blade Length	10″
Blade Height (tallest point)	4.5″