Scythes & Scything

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm AT bellsouth.net>]

On 6/5/2010 1:58 PM, Chad Knepp wrote:
> Botan's site is the Minnesota one @
> <http://www.onescytherevolution.com/>  but is currently closed for mail
> order due to this being the busy season.  In terms of US suppliers,
> I'd recommend him way over Scythe Supply who are very nice folks but
> have fairly consistently shipped incorrectly fitted rigs to myself and
> friends, also the Swiss and Canadian snaths incorporate a lot of
> Peter's ideas and are much nicer/ergonomic than the Scythe Supply one.

But Scythe Supply has a way better selection of blades, some quality 
ones made in the 70's. I own all of the ones they offer and more and an 
even wider range of them I bought from Peter and Kai.

I think highly of Scythe Supply having known Eliot its founder
(he did all the art on their website - he was also a sign painter);
he sort of got the ball rolling or revived Austrian scythe use in the 
USA at a time when it was much needed. (picked up where Green River 
Tools and Smith & Hawken left off).

I agree with you about the snaths. That Swiss snath is the one to have
unless you make your own. 1SR also offers the natural whetstones; they 
are excellent. I need to buy one more. Persimmon wood (a branch) is 
really tough and dense and might make a good snath though will probably 
be heavier than an ash. I own one of the metal snaths offered by both 
companies, is is good but heavy.

>   Also Lehmans<http://www.lehmans.com/>  is now selling a Canadian
> snath similar to the Vido's modeled by Ashley (?).

Couldn't find any snaths there; do you have a URL?