St Judes Tippit Hog Stripper

[tippit]

I just finished the St Judes Tippit Hog Stripper that I added to the auction as extra incentive to get more money for the Kids.  This is my second generation of hog strippers with more changes.  The original one was an inside curved blade that slips under the skin & cuts it from the inside.  Works great but unless you have a KME JewelStix...very hard to sharpen the curved edge.

Gen1...

   

Second generation is basically an extreme drop point delta shaped blade with a blunted end used up side down.  This allows you to push the blade under the skin and edge cuts up.

Gen2...

 

     

Several Advantages...

1)  Delta shaped blade cuts like a wedge...thus cutting the skin from the inside being much cleaner than cutting dirty/muddy hair shafts from the outside.

2)  The blunt end rides on the muscle or under tissue without digging/cutting anything under the skin.

3)  Easy to sharpen.

4)  Handle fits in your palm for easy pushing of blade under the skin.

5)  Very fast way to skin out a hog or any other creature.

6)  By cutting from the inside your edge doesn't dull as quickly as cutting hair & mud.

Disclaimer...

I haven't tried it yet     BUT a regular delta shaped blade used in this manner works well except it want to cut/dig into the underlying muscle all the time.  The Hog Stripper is a single use blade.  But from having skinned out mud coated hogs in the past...very useful indeed.  I actually like it better than the other knives in the St Judes Package...tippit

[rbcorbitt]

Neat design, Jeff!!

[Seth Stevens]

Beautiful knives Jeff!

[awbowman]

Pretty neat Jeff, and looks way more useful than just opening up a hog.

[elkken]

Now all we need is a hog volunteer ....

Thank you Tippit for another great year of donating your talent and craftsmanship creating beautiful and fuctional knives to benefit the Kids at St Judes.

Best to ya, Ken

[tippit]

I kinda has the usefulness as an oyster shucker.  If you need to open oysters, you can't beat it...but not much else.  Therefore mine just stays in my pack till it is needed  

[Matty]

Oh man just incredible work and design doc!
       
I'm sure that will strip more than hogs!  I wouldn't dare use that to shuck an oyster with it that's for sure. Too pretty. You should see my oyster shucker. I don't think it qualifies as a blade. Just a rounded edge with and crappy handle covered in electric tape!
I'm really hoping Barry and Gene don't put an end to pig gig!  Else I'll have to find another place in Texas to hunt hogs and try this sucker out!

[tippit]

Matty,
You just bend that Oyster Shucker into a curve and you got another Hog Stripper  

[Sean B]

Nice Doc!!!  But when I first read it, I thought you were offering up a hog hunt STRIPER fishing combo!!!!!!!  I need to wear my reading glasses more!!!!

[FerretWYO]

Originally posted by Matty:
Oh man just incredible work and design doc!
       
I'm sure that will strip more than hogs!  I wouldn't dare use that to shuck an oyster with it that's for sure. Too pretty. You should see my oyster shucker. I don't think it qualifies as a blade. Just a rounded edge with and crappy handle covered in electric tape!
I'm really hoping Barry and Gene don't put an end to pig gig!  Else I'll have to find another place in Texas to hunt hogs and try this sucker out!

I bet we can find a place to put it to work buddy.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Not anything like the Strippers I was thinking of   :rolleyes:        

I still like it!