H-1 Spyderhawk, a great gardening knife

[MacTech]

My veggie garden is starting to produce edibles, and I've found that the Spyderhawk makes a stellar garden knife, my plants are very closely growing, creating a near impenetrable thicket of greenery, hiding Sunsugar cherry tomatoes, Beefsteaks, a Pineapple tomato, green beans, broccoli, and cucumbers, here's not much room to reach in and cut the veggies off their stems, so the curve of the Spyderhawk's hawkbill blade gives me the precision I need to sever just the stem I want, without disturbing other plants.

when I have two softball-sized Pineapple tomatoes growing right next to each other, one ripe and ready, one just blushing, I want to make sure I sever the correct stem, place the tip of the SH under the stem, and pull slowly up, a quick, surgical cut results, and the tomato I want comes free of the vine without disturbing the other

Same thing for the cucumbers buried under their thick, matted canopy, with the SH I can be sure of cutting only the stem of the cucumber I want

the broccoli, the SH sails through the thick fibrous stalk like butter

and when I get back to the house and want to cut up some fresh veggies for a snack, the SH comes out again, the downturned point allowing a precise coring of where the stem attaches to the tomato, it's Scary Sharp blade cuts through the skin of the tomato without squishing it, and the curve of the Hawkbill blade conforms quite efficiently to the curve of the tomato

Grab a cuke from the fridge, and I'm able to cut ultrafine slivers of cucumber so thin you can see through them, once again, the curve of the blade conforms to the curve of the cuke, making whisper thin, gossamer cucumber slices possible, and the thinner the slice, the more readily it absorbs basalmic vinegar...

So, don't let anyone tell you a hawkbill is useless for food prep, it's actually quite useful, and the Spyderhawk is just the right size, and with it's H-1 steel, immune to tomato acids, and other fruit and veggie juices, just rinse it off, wipe it down, and back in the pocket it goes

[ChapmanPreferred]

Nice post. I carry a Spyderhawk Salt daily. Great tool!

[Jazz]

Cool post - I love the hawkbills! Is your knife PE or SE?

- best wishes, Jazz.

[unit]

I have got to try a hawkbill.

Nice post. Thanks for the story. I love knives and food prep!

[MacTech]

It's a SE, I need to add a PE to the collection as well

[dewildeman]

I bought a used H1 Spyderhawk off a member of another forum a couple of weeks ago. I have a fence that some morning glories had taken over. Enter the spyderhawk. It went through them like green apple through a goose. The only complaint I have of the knife was it's size, I like big folders and this is just about at the upper limit. So, I stopped by Grand Prarie Knives Saturday and picked up a Tazman. I'll have to give them both a try at food prep.

[bh49]

It's a SE, I need to add a PE to the collection as well

Thank you for info. I am thinking for a while to add Spyderhawk or Tasman for my yard need for a while, mostly to remove vines from trees and bushes. It sound like I need SE. What are benefits of PE?

I bought a used H1 Spyderhawk off a member of another forum a couple of weeks ago. I have a fence that some morning glories had taken over. Enter the spyderhawk. It went through them like green apple through a goose. The only complaint I have of the knife was it's size, I like big folders and this is just about at the upper limit. So, I stopped by Grand Prarie Knives Saturday and picked up a Tazman. I'll have to give them both a try at food prep.

What kind of food preparation are you planning to do with hawkbills?


I never thought about use of hawkbills for food preparation