For me, I work on and design tools and knives every day it seems. I'm always working on the tool that will save me time and energy in doing the tasks that need to be done. I've been working staves down recently with a hatchet and while it works just fine I felt like it was a good bit of wasted energy. Then going to a draw knife to remove wood with a finer touch and less splitting. So what if you had something that was heavy enough to chop through with a fine enough edge to do some cutting to shape? Well, I started playing with that idea. Not so sure this is a knife, more a cleaver to my mind. I forged in some recurve with a deep convex edge. Being a tool I wasn't really concerned with a fine finish. It is a full 1/4" thickness of 5160 spring steel. Just a heavy comfortable grip that could be swung to dig big chunks off with a positive grip. The recurve in the blade makes working effortless. Here is the first iteration of it, so far I have worked two staves down and really dig it!
