Is this the right tool for your job?
✕CHOOSE A DIFFERENT TOOL WHEN
- Not a pottery tool — the name collision runs the wrong way on the wheel: wheel-trimming wants wire-loop turning tools (not sold on this store), and clay cutting wants the 40310; an inside-sharpened steel ring does neither.
- Not a hook knife: it cannot pull a cut through sheet flooring, veneer, or carpet — severing through material is the 67090’s open-hook physics, and the closed ring simply won’t enter the work that way.
- Not a whittler or carver — no point, no straight edge, no steered cut; the sloyds own that bench.
- Not a struck tool (the 40210 stands alone there), not a jacket-slitting knife (the 90600’s scoring skill needs an open tip and a straight edge), and not a flat-line flash slicer: cured flash on flat, accessible parting lines shaves flush faster under a square-point blade (60090-class, industrial-knives line) — the loop earns its seat on contoured parts and production repetition, and this store routes the flat-and-occasional job away from it honestly.
Jobs this tool does
EXACT JOB METHODS FOR HYDE №95460✓ Job guideHow to Deflash Molded Rubber GoodsOPEN JOB GUIDE →✓ Job guideMaintain Carbon-Steel Trade Knife EdgesOPEN JOB GUIDE →✓ Job guideResharpen a Loop KnifeOPEN JOB GUIDE →✓ Job guideTrim Sole & Frog with a Loop KnifeOPEN JOB GUIDE →
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✓ Job guideTrim, Pierce & Carve Leather-Hard ClayOPEN JOB GUIDE →
For these jobs—use this instead
THE JOB, THE REASON, AND THE BETTER TOOL✕ Wheel-trimming pottery workThe name collision runs the wrong way on the wheel: wheel-trimming wants wire-loop turning tools (not sold on this store), and clay cutting wants the 40310; an inside-sharpened steel ring does… BETTER TOOL Potters Knife, 4-1/2” 40310 →✕ Pulling cuts through sheet goodsIt cannot pull a cut through sheet flooring, veneer, or carpet — severing through material is the 67090’s open-hook physics, and the closed ring simply won’t enter the work that way. BETTER TOOL Hook Knife (BG39A), 3-3/8″ x 1-5/16″ 67090 →✕ Struck and jacket-slitting workCured flash on flat, accessible parting lines shaves flush faster under a square-point blade (60090-class, industrial-knives line) — the loop earns its seat on contoured parts and production… BETTER TOOL Leather Handle Hacking Knife, 4-1/2” 40210 →
How the pros run it
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The ring indexes the depth
trust it: seat the outside on the surface and the edge meets only what stands proud. Light seat, moving stroke: pressure into the part buys friction and fatigue, not cut. Both directions are yours: draw for control, scrape for stubborn webs — a closed edge has no forbidden direction the way pointed knives do. Keep the outside polished: scratches on the riding surface telegraph into the workpiece. Sharp is the ergonomic program: every hour of deflashing with a dull loop is paid for in wrist and elbow.