Portland Grallocher..?

[Stuart Mitchell]

I get that - I unzip on the deck before sawing the breast and suspending.



Hocks, then undercarriage removal and a small slice across the lower stomach muscle lining using main knife - then little finger poke to get the unzipper in.

Unzipper I’ve found is so much quicker when you have multiple on the deck working with someone (not to mention I don’t come home with numerous holes in my index finger from the main knife protected finger unzipping technique. )

Understood, all good

 

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Some thoughts @Stuart Mitchell

My tripe knife is pretty much ambidextrous up and down due to the handle shape and a space for either thumb or forefinger. I think to make truly ambidextrous I would add grooves for the forefinger on the top as well

I also think curved is a better design

1. As you start to zip up (I am a ground gralloch) the ball end is held as close to the inside of the skin as possible. This ensures the skin is stretched and slides along a sharp blade cutting easily
2. If the blade is straight it needs to be held in slightly to achieve the same affect to cut but is less effective than in the ball and curvature of the blade in pushing the stomach below and away


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Very nice blade, my old gralloching blade has approx same dimensions, works very well extracting the gralloch , nice job

 

[Tikka 260]

10 years on, and 630G is still doing the job, and an amazing job it does - Still takes a hair splitting edge using Sharpmaker ceramic sticks only
If I were to change anything, I'd go for orange or glow scales as 90% of grallochs are done in v bad light or darkness, and I would like the knife to be better visible when clearing up post gralloch. Still, I haven't lost it yet

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

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10 years on, and 630G is still doing the job, and an amazing job it does - Still takes a hair splitting edge using Sharpmaker ceramic sticks only
If I were to change anything, I'd go for orange or glow scales as 90% of grallochs are done in v bad light or darkness, and I would like the knife to be better visible when clearing up post gralloch. Still, I haven't lost it yet

Nice to see that again, thank you.