For those who aren’t aware what the word spey means, here’s a little heads up: Speying means desexing or castration of an animal – whether it’s a farm animal or a normal pet. SO a spey blade knife is used precisely for what its name suggests.
A spey knife blade is an essential part of every case or ‘pocket knife.’ It leaves everyone wondering for what exactly it has been placed there – quite a lot people aren’t aware of its usage.
How exactly does a spey knife look?
A spey blade has only one sharp side. The sharp edge is straight. The other side of the blade is blunt, and the sharp edge meets the blunt tip in a curved manner, which doesn’t give this knife pointed structure. The point of this knife is blunt too.
Uses of this knife:
- The spey blade knife has been specially crafted to conduct speying of an animal in the right and safe manner. Usage of this blade ensures the safety of both the animal and the person who is conducting the speying. While any sharp enough object is fine for speying, the spey blade is considered best to do this task efficiently. This particular knife is used mostly by farmers or people who own livestock. Farmers also use it to earmark their livestock. Also, these knives come handy during skinning fur-bearing animals.
- Apart from this, the spey blade knife is used by carvers too. The fine spey blade is extremely handy to those who carve, as they can draw out the intricacies with the help of this knife blade.
- Some common uses of spey blades include peeling fruits too. It is also used to scrape off the insulation off wires. Some who don’t know the use of the spey blade say it comes very handy when something has to be scraped off!
- Some botany enthusiasts even use the this blade knife to get the precise cuts they require for grafting.
Hello, Dante: Thanks for the excellent description & 2 pix of “spey blades”. I’ve just come upon this term today.
HOWEVER, the BLADE of the BENCHMADE folder with beige scales (photo #2) has a pretty sharp point, and DOES NOT match the profile of a “spey” blade, as shown in the other 2 photos. Worth another look from the Author?