Yes Susan, its actually a chipcarving stroke but is much safer, at least I feel better when I know the blade is not going to fly off somewhere

, in fact the few times I have cut myself, it has been under those same conditions...I just recently started using the chip knife for other than chip carving and is really a very useful knife....in fact I got a large version made by Harold Woods that is outstanding and not far from Lynn's utility blade for size and use. different story
