Great Eastern Cutlery Farm & Field #93 Small Wood Chipper Antique Wormy Chestnut 1095 Carbon Steel Pocket Knife (3.87" Closed) 930126S

Set up for close detail work, this Great Eastern Cutlery #93 Small Wood Chipper pairs a very short wharncliffe with antique wormy chestnut, pinholes and all. Long grip, little edge, 1095 already darkened.

• Antique Wormy Chestnut Scales - American chestnut was wiped out by blight early in the last century, so nothing new gets cut and every scale here is reclaimed from an old barn or building. Golden brown, dotted with insect pinholes, and finished smooth and matte. Some handles carry a worm run or two.
• 1095 Wharncliffe Blade with Factory Patina - A straight edge to a fine point, shorter than a AA battery, ground flat and thin for close work, taking off slivers rather than chunks. 1095 is a simple carbon steel that takes a keen edge and comes back on a strop, and this one lands already darkened. Keep it oiled.
• Bolsterless #93 Swayback Frame - Bolsterless and pinned together over brass liners, with a beaver shield set into the scale and brass pins running through it. The swayback curve locates your hand for you, dropping into the palm one way and staying there, and the slim build lies flat in a pocket.
• Firm Pull & Half Stops - The nail nick gives a proper nail something to catch, which it needs, because the backspring pulls firm. The blade runs through a half stop on the way and snaps closed crisply. That is the walk and talk a pinned traditional is supposed to have.

The Great Eastern Cutlery #93 Wood Chipper

The Great Eastern Cutlery #93 Wood Chipper puts almost all of its length behind the edge rather than in it. That runs backwards for a frame Great Eastern Cutlery introduced in 2019 around an oversized blade, and it is the whole point — carving is a job you hold a knife through far more than you cut with it. This USA Made swayback runs a full size handle while the wharncliffe stops early, leaving room to choke forward when the cut gets fine and room to sit back when it wants weight.

The Great Eastern Cutlery Farm & Field Tool Series

Farm & Field Tool is the working end of what Great Eastern Cutlery builds, and the company says as much — the branding, in their words, exemplifies the intended use for these products, on the farm or in the field. The line runs 1095 blades, reinforced pivots and durable handle materials, and it is aimed at people who carry a knife because they need one.