A question for knife experts

[LoisWakeman]

When I was a student, I bought a handy little knife, very cheaply. It was sold as a boning knife. The stainless blade was about 10cm long, with parallel sides and a triangular tip. The blade's cross-section was like a thin lozenge, and the entire edge was serrated.

I used it happily till last week for all sorts of stuff, but then it vanished. I guess it went to the dump in a rubbish sack or got buried in the compost heap or stolen by magpies.

I want to replace it, but cannot find anything like it - boning knives these days seem to be long strong-spined single-edge steel blades and quite costly!

Does anyone know what I'm on about and what I should be Googling for? :confused:

[ktinkel]

When I was a student, I bought a handy little knife, very cheaply. It was sold as a boning knife. The stainless blade was about 10cm long, with parallel sides and a triangular tip. The blade's cross-section was like a thin lozenge, and the entire edge was serrated.
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I want to replace it, but cannot find anything like it - boning knives these days seem to be long strong-spined single-edge steel blades and quite costly!

Does anyone know what I'm on about and what I should be Googling for? :confused:It sounds like a nifty knife — wouldn’t mind having one myself — but I have never seen anything like that, except maybe a grapefruit knife (and that has a curved bit at the end of the blade). Boning knives usually are thin and tapered, but that would be a kitchen (or butcher shop) kind of knife. I poked around looking at hunting and fishing knives, thinking it might be for boning game, but no luck.

What you describe almost sounds like a tomato knife. And in fact, by searching for serrated utility knife, I did find one called a tomato knife (http://www.knifezone.ca/boker/tomatoknife.htm) from Knife Zone. Pretty sure that isn’t your knife, but that is an interesting site, with many lines of knifes (most either cooking or hunting, however), as well as a throwing knife and a sword rack and other odds and ends.

Let me know how you fare. I love useful knives myself, and recently I lost one of my favorites — like yours, I suppose it got tossed out with the trash by mistake.

[LoisWakeman]

Ah: we still have our tomato knife and use it almost every day - very much like the one you found.

I have seen grapefruit knives - but this mystery one had a flat blade.