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SWIVEL KNIVES: Its All in the Hand BY NICK PERN OKAS hile the history of modern leather tooling can be traced back several centuries through the Spanish, to the Moors, some of the tools that are used today have a murkier past. One of the tools found on almost any leather toolers bench today is something of a mystery. A necessity for the craftsman who is producing Western-styled, hand-tooled products, the swivel knife probably did not exist in its current form even 100 years ago. Today, there are a lot of different styles and ments carried out until swivel knives became makes of swivel knives and almost as many available commercially. opinions on the proper size and blade as there are leather workers. However, as recently as a F.K. Russell, of Dallas, Texas, was an early century ago, craftsman in the saddle shops of leather tool maker who is known to have made the West were still laboring to produce intri- swivel knives and had patents on other leather cate tendrils and flowers with rigid cutters. tools as early as 1909. All of his work would predate his death in 1931. William Salter, Leather tool guru Bob Douglas of Sheridan, a saddlemaker at Porters in the Twenties Wyoming, has actually seen some of these has also been credited with designing the knives in the collections of early Western modern swivel knife. P. B. McMillen Tool saddlemakers. Usually they Company produced it as the were cold chisels that had