The Far-Eastern Wood Butcher: Prime cuts from the far east.

For people who do not like long winded essays; "I re-sharpened my whittler blades single-beveled at about 20 degrees angle, and it cut better" There. For windbaggery fans: Four score and seven years later, the whittler knife remains mostly unchanged. Abraham Lincoln was a whittler. He used a six bladed ivory scaled Congress made by a Sheffield cutler. My post today is the result of my purchase of 3 whittler pattern knives. I felt that a change is in order. I will attempt to whittle away the logic behind a whittler blade, a sliver at a time. Most Whittlers are made for collectors What makes a whittler a whittler is their ability to cut wood with ease. The type of steel, the heat treatment and the way the steel is shaped / sharpened affects the cutting characteristic of a whittler to a large extent. Unfortunately, many folders sold today have collectors as their primary target, not wood carvers.  As a utility steel for cutting cardboard boxes, strings, orange