Yep - old sheffield table knives - very thin, quite stiff,
in response to Ed, a palette knife would be very similar - we have a
ridiculously thin and floppy one, and a quality stiff, wide one which would
work, but is thicker than the table knife (and blunt edged)

the blunt edge could be sharpened a bit, but you don’t want ‘sharp’ - you want
thin enough to slide into the joint, so as regards grinding, which I mentioned,
I’ve found that the almost semicircular end isn’t always the best shape, so I’ve
ground a couple to be more like a striking knife shape at the end.
Being a table knife, they have a stiffish spine, which allows a bit of gentle
emerge if needed (though I snapped the end off one not long ago - whilst abusing
it on a home repair task)

The point was really about alcohol being a way of cracking open a veneered
surface without damaging the surface using water.
Damned if you use water, damned if you use alcohol,  or at least, if you allow
anything to stand too long.

Way too much to ‘know’ when stripping a piece.


Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman Galoot in Northumberland




> On 22 May 2015, at 16:09, Don Schwartz  wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2015-05-22 5:44 AM, yorkshireman@y... wrote:
>> just get some alcohol into the glue line, followed by an old, thin, reground
table knife, and it just cracks away without water damage.
> Richard
> 
> I have used old wide-blade Sheffield table knives for this purpose and others,
but have never reground them to suit. What sort of grind do you give them?
> 
> Don
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