Re: fleshing knife
[Re: smitty65]
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10/23/18 03:30 AM
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I purchased my Post from Mr. Jim Bethell on here last season. Put up several coon and several beaver with it as season winded down. I could not be happier with it. Quality knife.
TC
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Re: fleshing knife
[Re: smitty65]
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10/23/18 06:17 AM
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Get the Post and start setting steel. Post is well worth the price and Jim Bethell is a straight shooter. After I got my Post, my Necker seldom gets used. And I watched two very experienced fur handlers that were teaching an advanced fur handling class use a Post fleshing knife on a beaver for the first time last year. They were in different areas of the building and neither knew what the other was doing and the comments from both of them were identical..."I got to have one of these" And I know for a fact that they both have a Post 2 handle flesher now.
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Re: fleshing knife
[Re: TrapperCarl78]
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10/23/18 03:34 PM
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I purchased my Post from Mr. Jim Bethell on here last season. Put up several coon and several beaver with it as season winded down. I could not be happier with it. Quality knife. Jim is where I got mine also! Awsome knife!
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Re: fleshing knife
[Re: smitty65]
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10/23/18 04:05 PM
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You can pick up the top of the line knife but If you don't know how to use it won't be worth squat. When you hear some one down grading a certain knife It's probably operator error.
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Re: fleshing knife
[Re: smitty65]
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10/23/18 07:52 PM
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The Beav
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The only knife I ever used was Necker 600. There might be better knives out there but I got It down to a science.
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Re: fleshing knife
[Re: smitty65]
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10/24/18 09:22 AM
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When I hear that comment about the shape of the knife doesn't fit the contour of the beam I just scratch my head. Since most your knives have no curvature to them. And of coarse that Isn't an issue anyway. First of all your knife should be just about flat to the beams surface. If It's not your holding your knife wrong. Then the next thing Is your using a side to side slicing motion so your following the contour of the beam with the flat of your knife. Then of coarse your only using about 2" of the knife blade as you slice. If your starting out and using your knife like a snowplow your doing It wrong.
It's all about operator technique with any knife.
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Re: fleshing knife
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10/24/18 11:04 AM
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Got my Steinmeyer, and it’s the last fleshing knife I will ever need. Same here !!!
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Re: fleshing knife
[Re: smitty65]
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10/26/18 08:55 AM
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It's all In what you get use to.
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Re: fleshing knife
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10/26/18 09:13 PM
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I use Lee’s parallel knife, and it cut the time it takes me to flesh a coon in half. I will be getting one of the short parallel knives from him also. I put one of them on the gift table at Minktoberfest this year, and I really liked the way it felt in my hands. I think the gentleman that got it was pretty anxious to put it to work. ^^^ THIS^^^ Love it... and it comes sharp and stays sharp a long time. Two hits with a steel and you're back in business - for a long time! Excellent craftsmanship and a great guy - on the forum.
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Re: fleshing knife
[Re: smitty65]
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i use a freedom brand 10 inch works great . never liked the necker \
a hunt based on the trophy's taken falls far short of what the real goal should be
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Re: fleshing knife
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04/01/19 11:55 AM
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The only knife I ever used was Necker 600. There might be better knives out there but I got It down to a science. This is the one I use. I do have the cheap blue single side ones I use that for skins like mink and rats .All other furs I use the Necker 600 .Like Beav stated of get it down to a science. It take a few skins before before I need to sharpen it . When I first got the 600 ,it took some getting use to. but now I would not part from it.
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Re: fleshing knife
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The Post Fleshing knife is all I use. Great lite weight wood handled knife with great steel to hold an edge. This ^^^^^
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Re: fleshing knife
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07/20/19 12:06 AM
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Lee Steinmeyer. Never need another knife.
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Re: fleshing knife
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Re: fleshing knife
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07/29/19 05:38 PM
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I used to use a Knecker 600 until I bought one of Lee's parallels now the knecker just hangs out.. Something about the angle and the steel he uses takes a lot of the work out of the equation.
Common sense catches alot of fur.. Pay homage to all you harvest..
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