Dose anyone sell or make a great skinning knife that holds a edge for a long time?

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I reckon, it depends on what you're skinning. Most furbearing critters require minimal knife work and a sh**ton of pulling. Best knives for me are cheap, soft steal that I can run an accusharp across a couple of swipes to get ready for the next critter. That said, I use two knives, one for opening cuts (long and pointy) and one for skull work, short and rounded on the point it. The skull knife gets sharpened every or every other critter. The opening cutter might get through a dozen critters before sharpening.

Victorinox serrated pelter.

$6 or $7 at most trapping supply stores.

Best skinning knife made. I skin everything with it . It re-sharpens well on steel, ceramic or diamond.

Thanks Clay Creech for turning me on to this little knife for critter work!!!

I just ordered 4 more from Sterling Fur. Got em a couple weeks ago. $5.95 each.

Buy a set from Gulo on here you won’t be disappointed. They are functional works of art. Eric

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Here's mine:

Vitorinox makes plastic snap on sheaths for those as well.

Plenty out there but it depends on what you want to spend on it.. Steel, heat treat and edge profile will dictate how long it holds an edge.. Get a nice knife made from something like cpm154,s35v,cpm3v ,elmax etc and you would be amazed at how long they will hold an edge. Like many,many,,,,,,many times longer than knives sold by trapper suppliers....

I’ve got a few Zeph and like em. I got a free victornox skinner for free with an order from MTP and gave it to a bud. Kinda regretting not even trying it now…lol.

Learn to use a ceramic steel and you can keep an edge for a very long time with minimal touch up

4 in rapala filet knife works great

Will depend a lot on how you use it. Teeth are a quick way to dull a knife. Also the longer it holds an edge the loner it takes to put and edge back on.

It’s my opinion a variety of knifes are required in order to obtain efficient and effective pelting results when dealing with a variety of animals. My basic choices are a:
1. A knife with a round tip curved blade for “clean” skinning beaver.
2. A sharp pointed thin blade for opening cuts on small animals and splitting tails.
3. A small skinner with curved tip for general work on smaller animals
4. Piranta scalpel blades for splitting lips and other detailed taxidermy work, skinning out toes etc.
5. A 3 ½ inch general blade paring knife for skinning and general overall work on larger animals.

If I had to choose only one to work with it would be #5 style; the 3 ½ inch blade paring k

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/users/749/mike-cope - Send this guy a PM and have him send you a small selection of resharpened butcher shop knives. They are cheap and sharpen in seconds with one of these... https://www.amazon.com/AccuSharp-AC...r&qid=1708809668&sr=8-7&th=1 not a knock off brand but the actual Accusharp Brand. Like a razor in 3-4 passes.
Then buy yourself a cheap utility knife and a package of these... https://www.harborfreight.com/pack-of-5-utility-knife-hook-blades-37557.html not just any hooked blade but these exact ones as they are the perfect size hook to open all your critters.

You'll be set up for under $40 for the rest of your life, or nearly so.

If you’re like me try a scalpel knife with changeable blades is easier and quicker than sharpening knives when you can just change out a blade. Just get the fixed handle they last longer than the folders if you drop them.

This is a good setup.

Yes' Sir...Post knives, and a old made in the U.S.A. carbon blade Schrade sharp finger.

You get a good knife , make yourself a leather strop. Just a few swipes to bring it back to very sharp every so often. Balsa wood works great too. I know a lot of folks like guided sharpeners and thats fine but if you get a good stone or plate they will sharpen any knife, no matter how hard they are in a few swipes(it does to take practice, Ill admit).. IF you dont dull the crap out of it before you try to sharpen.. maintenance is the trick.. Dont let them get that dull before you strop or sharpen

I use a Russel Green River paring knife. Modified the blade a little.

I use dexter, rapala and buck knives