Hello from Aotearoa

[Guest]

Hi everyone,my name is Richard and i am a professional blade shearer here in NZ,ive got a company that have been designing and testing prototypes of improved hand shears,the blades that Ive being using have been made from D2 which proved to be a huge step up from the basic high carbon shears made in Sheffield UK.
I joined up here with the idea to keep learning about steel as i'm sure there must be other steels out there that would be well worth trying.

[gajinoz]

Welcome to the forum. There are plenty of experienced knifemakers and others here who can tell you all about steels. Go to the General Blade Discussion area and ask some questions.

[International]

Gday Richard, welcome to the Abf. I'll be interested to find out about your shear's and shearing. I have a reasonable collection of blade shear's , about 180 pair's and I know quite a few other shearing related collectors.

[neville sharp]

Welcome Richard, the more kiwis the better even you ones that havent moved over here yet.

[watsonmultishears]

Gday Richard, welcome to the Abf. I'll be interested to find out about your shear's and shearing. I have a reasonable collection of blade shear's , about 180 pair's and I know quite a few other shearing related collectors.

Hi International,thanks for the welcome wow 180 pairs is some collection,what are some of the names of those shears??,all my old pair get cut up and used in the garden.

[watsonmultishears]

Hello gajinoz,thanks for your welcome,i'll have to go and have a look around.

[watsonmultishears]

Welcome Richard, the more kiwis the better even you ones that haven't moved over here yet.

Hi there Nev,I spent some time over in OZ shearing in Queensland back in 90's,boy that was hard yacker dealing with huge merinos,that was shearing with machines though which was about the last time i shore that way,since then all my shearing was using the old style blades on many of the sheep stations in the South Island's high country.

[Dutchy357]

Welcome!!

G'day Richard!

Welcome to the forum.

Bladeshearing, Wow!

I am sure you have lots of info that you can share here.

Dutchy

[Wozfnq]

Hi Richard, welcome to ABF mate.

[Andrew]

Hello, welcome aboard.

[Danny Jones]

Kia ora e hoa! Welcome aboard!