Originally Posted by
Mike Brady
Getting back to the OT, for a moment, Derek, can you show us your preferred profile for the cutting edge of the combination plow knicker? I have made a pair from some scraper stock and would like to try more of a finger nail shape. I have a Lie-Nielsen cutting gauge that they sell for cutting stringing. I use it as a marking gauge sometimes. It came with a spear point cutter profile that would wander off-line sometimes. I made one in the fingernail shape that solved that problem and stays very sharp. It is also much easier to sharpen freehand that that arrow shape with the intersecting bevels, which I find impossible to hold while sharpening. The fingernail is much easier to hone and strop by hand since it is a continuous bevel.