Hyde Tools 60115 Black & Silver Square Point Knife

Everything distinctive about handling this knife follows from its length. Let the straightedge or the material carry the blade's far end — the guide, not the wrist, owns the tip. Finish strokes deliberately; the last inch of a long pass is where flutter lives. Reach with the blade so the hand can stay out of deep kerfs — that is what the length is for. Travel, never press: motion parts soft stock; pressure ruptures it. Angle low, start from an edge: the square end plunges into nothing, by design. The four-inch gate: half the blade is the clean-capacity ceiling in soft stock; material beyond it is not on this ladder at all. Edge care, per the accepted claims: the hardened high-carbon steel blade is the maintain-and-return kind — frequent light honing on a fine stone, a dry wipe after damp or adhesive work, attention to the tip half of the edge, which meets the work first in deep stock and dulls ahead of the rest. This straight edge dresses dead-flat on an ordinary bench stone in a few strokes — worth naming, because its wave-edged neighbor cannot make that sentence true. Grind geometry behind the edge is unstated in the record, so none is assumed here .