Quill knives and how to sharpen one
The quill knives that are available nowadays for the most part are in fact Sloyd knives, or bench knives intended for woodworking and whittling that have been reground and presented as quill knives. This selection of high quality knives is produced by Lee Valley. Notice that model E is the exact same knife, albeit reshaped, as is sold by John Neal Books as a quill knife. In its natural state it retails for about $18, reground $70. Here are two others that are made by Pinewood Forge. With a moderate amount of grinding these make extraordinarily good knives for cutting quills. This is the quill knife available from Kalligraphie.ch for 125 Euros plus international shipping, again looking suspiciously like a spear-point whittling knife available in the US for $25-30. What sets a quill knife apart from a carving knife is not the quality of the steel, or the shape of the handle, but the way the blade is reshaped. Given this fact...