What do you all think about this as a gutting, skinning, dismembering blade?
It looks similar to a blade shape I use on my favorite knife.
On elk, I usually do an outfitter cut, but on my last oryx, I completely skinned, quartered, gutted and detenderloined it.
154cm is the steel of choice.

Not sure what you're asking. What is a spinning, remembering blade? Shape looks fine. Wondering about the knife in general, no maker's mark and no pins causes some questions to come to mind.

Damn phone puts words in instead of what you type. Gotta remember to proof read!
its not a real knife. .. yet.
I liked the blade of one knife, but not the handle.
A fellow member posted this pic when I was talking about a knife, but with that type handle.
How he did it?
But I liked it and want one made but using scales from my oryx horns.
Kind of a non cookie cutter knife with memories.
I want a kind of do it all knife.

Gotcha, so, thinkin' ya meant skinning, dismembering blade. that blade will work, but personally for a single all purpose style blade I tend to lean to more of a skinner style knife these days. That's purely personal preference but I know me and I'm less likely to cut hair with a skinner style blade.

Dale

Personally I would go shorter and fatter blade for a do all gutting, skinning, and utility knife. Will that knife in the picture work? Sure but it looks to me more of a boning, bird & Trout, type knife.

This is what I've been using for the last few years.
It works great, but the handle isn't comfortable.

154cm, slices and cuts great and stays sharp.
The above has a very similar blade.

I like the shape of it. That blade reminds me of a Rick Menefee knife...of course his would also have perfectly symmetrical swedges on it that he cut by hand while eye-ballin' it...no jigs or templates. I think it's a good all around design. It'd look better with pins and a lanyard tube.

This is just a design.
It'll have pins and a tube when made.

Look again there is a swedge on it.

I don't use lanyards on my hunting and fishing knives. For some reason I always forget to ask them to leave out the hole.

Looks real good to me, but wtf do I know,lol

I could live without the pins. To me it doesn't look bad. I have had a few knives with hidden pins.

I like it. I do not like lanyard tubes. Just asking... what is the purpose?

On a hunting knife there really isn't any purpose for a lanyard. Just another thing to have to clean and another hole to get crap packed into.

Like a swedge no purpose but if it floats your boat then have at them.

Simple,,,,, so you can put a tacticool paracord lanyard through it and then wonder where that stink is coming from after dragging it through the innards of a critter or two.

(Especially fragrant a few days after soaking it in the juice and grease from skinning a couple of Coyotes.)

what's a swedge and your right, never use a lanyard, so no tube.
Getting good ideas here to finalize it.

Unless you know how to properly take advantage of a lanyard

Show me one professional butcher that uses a lanyard.

FieldGrade you are 100% spot on.

I prefer a safe to carry folder with a serrated edge for cutting thru the brisket.

Something like this:



$21.47 Walmart

How much is that knife?

Yea,,, don't get me wrong, I like the looks of a lanyard tube but more times than not, they have more to do with looks than function.
If you like the looks then get one. "So far" there's no law that says you have to use it.

Splattermatic this is a swedge on the top side of the blade.

http://www.menefeeknives.com/swedged-hunter.html

Don't know many professional butchers who work in the field. You don't use one, that's fine, but I know more than a few that find it useful.

field/shop same basic use of the knife. Lanyard only gets in the way and as FieldGrade said smells to high heaven.

Guess you have the world figured for the rest of us, don't take much to clean a knife btw

got it.
Swedge or no swedge, doesn't matter.
It is a Rick knife and who is gonna make it.
Gonna ship out some oryx horn this week, and wait patiently.
Hope my curly oryx horn has enough straight for scales.

Ill leave the type of pins and a lanyard tube up to him.
Id just like that blade with that handle and my oryx.

I know what works and what isn't needed on a knife. You can keep the fluff. I process about 100 or so deer a year, 5 to 10 black bear a year, I can't even guess how many fish. Yeah I have it pretty figured out. If someone else wants it on their knife that is their choice.

This is a knife with a lanyard.


This is a knife without a lanyard.

I like the looks of a knife with a lanyard.

I never put very many lanyards on knifes until recent years. I thought the only thing they were good for is to hide gunk. Bobby Marteniz always demanded them in my knifes when I made stuff for him. I asked him while he was visting one time and he showed me. He put a small cord on you cant get your hand thru it. He like deep sheaths and he uses it to pull the knife out but more important he hangs the knife from anything instead of laying it on the ground when dirty. I cut myself one time reaching for a knife on the ground. Never made one without since. Just my 2 cents.

Yea,,,, cause we all know how "unsafe" a fixed blade in a sheath is to carry.

"21.47 @ WalMart" ???

Get back to me in about twenty years and let me know how that's working for you.

BTW,,,, no need to split the brisket as long as you're not afraid to get your hands dirty.
Not splitting it keeps the meat cleaner if you have to drag it any distance anyways.

If you're going to quote me please don't edit my words.
I specifically said "I like the looks of a lanyard "tube".

I do like the looks of that "knife with a lanyard" though.

"Nothing like buyin' a knife built by a man chained to a chair..."

I like that pattern. I don't know if it's the same size or not
but the one I have is similar to that that I carry daily and have
used it a lot.

Yea,,, no doubt they're useful for extracting a knife from a real deep sheath or one that's extremely snug but I think you'll agree that "more times than not" they have more to do with looks than function.
As far as cutting yourself reaching for a knife,,, I don't think the odds of that are any worse when laying on the ground than dangling from a limb with twigs and such to hang up on. I could be wrong there but I've field dressed at least a hunderd big game animals and skinned a pile of predators over the last half century and have yet to see the need for a lanyard.
I have smelled a few though, and that's pretty much all I need to know about em.

To each his own though and I still like the way the tubes look so it's all good.

See what I mean.
The lanyard tube sure don't hurt the looks of that beauty even if he isn't using it and it's always there if he decides to.

That's what Im wanting right there.

I use to be just like u. Know I like-em someday maybe I wont. I got knives made both ways. If I am working on the ground I hang everything out of habit. .quote=FieldGrade]

Yea,,, no doubt they're useful for extracting a knife from a real deep sheath or one that's extremely snug but I think you'll agree that "more times than not" they have more to do with looks than function.
As far as cutting yourself reaching for a knife,,, I don't think the odds of that are any worse when laying on the ground than dangling from a limb with twigs and such to hang up on. I could be wrong there but I've field dressed at least a hunderd big game animals and skinned a pile of predators over the last half century and have yet to see the need for a lanyard.
I have smelled a few though, and that's pretty much all I need to know about em.

To each his own though and I still like the way the tubes look so it's all good. [/quote]

I grew up hunting Mulies in No. NV.
Where I hunted you'd have to load the deer up and drive it to another state to find a tree to hang your knife in.

I'm a fan/user of lanyards...although I often replace the ones that come on knives. A simple short paracord with just enough reach to wrap around my little finger. It doesn't take much effort to wash it but if it does get stinky, you can buy 100' of paracord for next to nothing and replace them.

I like 'em, but if others don't it's their knife and doesn't bother me in the least.

I like lanyard holes on my sheath knives but I don't put a lanyard on them. The sheath gets a short piece of latigo leather with a tapered tip. The tip is dipped in epoxy to stiffen about 3/4" of it. Pull the latigo through the lanyard hole while carrying it and you get a bit of a jam fit in the hole. Loss proof whether wearing it or carrying in a pack.

Lanyards are also handy working in deep snow or over deep water. If not needed they can be slipped off before use or if they do get rank they are easily replaced. In my mind it is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

I have learned the hard way not to lay a knife down when I have finished using it.

I don't use a landyard either, and would not want the hole/tube in the handle..Life filework, on a knife to be used for gutting game animals, its just another set of nooks and crannies that will fill with gunk...

I like the blade shape on both Splattermatic and JWGross, although I have to say I do prefer a knife with bolsters and/ or a small guard..

Regards,

Peter

I did not grow up in the jungle either. I use the pickup most of the time or sage .

Same here,,,, I could give a rip if the next guys knife has a lanyard or not as long as he'll loan it to me when mine gets dull:)

Off topic but a hell of a cat.

For gutting and dismembering it looks to be an excellent profile. I too have use a Piranha for big game but will bet you straight across Rick will build a far superior knife. For skinning more belly would be better but then you trade off the first two functions. If it were me I would ask Rick to add a little more belly if you wanted better skinning performance. BUT, I use my thumb for the vast majority of my skinning, skinning of hides I wish to keep. If I'm not keeping them a pointed blade like you're showing is fine.

Better yet, have Rick make you one of these blades and a skinnier as a matching pair.

Guess that depends on cost and lead time.
Would love to, but....
I can use other knives I have to skin.
Maybe, a skinner sometime in the future.

This is my Jim Largent custom. Sharp as a razor, or sharper! Great design, and all around hunting knife.

Thanks,,,, I have a bit on an obsession for Cats. They're about all I hunt any more and I'm fortunate to have some really nice ones in my area.
That one's not my biggest but he's a close second.
That pic came out so good they actually published it in FFG.
Don't want to hi-jack any worse than we already have but I've posted pix of several Cats well over 40" over in the pred/varmint forums.

Keep making those great knives buddy.
Wish I had some creative skills.

[quote=splattermatic]What do you all think about this as a gutting, skinning, dismembering blade?
It looks similar to a blade shape I use on my favorite knife.
On elk, I usually do an outfitter cut, but on my last oryx, I completely skinned, quartered, gutted and detenderloined it.
154cm is the steel of choice.


Hey Splatter;

Maybe it should look like this!

Do you remember this one, Rick?

donsm70
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nah, I like the blade shape of my pirahna.
This new one will be better!

Pretty good all around field dressing pattern IMO. Not the greatest for skinning, but could work. That "Reno" pattern may be a better all arounder if skinning is concerned. I generally field dress a critter where it lies or drag it under the nearest tree if it is dark out. Then I hang my flashlight from a lanyard and get to cuttin'. I like lanyards because I hang my knife when not in use. Have lost way to many in the leaves, snow, and such.

When needed, I discard a bloody/stinky lanyard and put on a new one. Rawhide and paracord won't break the bank.

I generally do my skinning in a garage or pole barn barn, and use a more traditional skinning type knife with more upsweep/curve in the blade.........