Cutter, Leather
Leather cutting knife, Canterbury, NH
Description
Knife for cutting leather. The blade of the knife is 3 11/16" long x 1 5/8" wide. The blade opens from a stem 7/16" wide. It has two straight sides, one is 2 1/2" long and the other 3 11/16". The cutting edge is curved, connecting to the lengths of the blade. The wooden handle is turned and has a baseball bat-like shape. The handle is 31/32" in diameter at the ferrule. The handle grows in width for 2 1/16" when it reaches its widest point with a circumference of 4 3/8". At the handles widest point there are three turn lines. The handle then decreases in size until it reaches a circumference of 1 7/8". There the handle has a small groove, before a flattened spherical shape (spheroid). Encircling the middle of the spheroid is another groove line.