K34

Kemper K34 · Trimmer knife, steel blade · For cutting and tidying greenware · Shaped for clay rather than general craft use

A trimmer knife for cutting and tidying greenware, where a general craft knife is the wrong shape for the job.

K34 is Kemper's trimmer knife. Trimming greenware is not the same cut as trimming paper or board, and the tool reflects that: the blade has to enter clay that is firm but still fragile and come away without levering a chip off the far side of the line. It handles the ordinary tidying that comes after a piece stiffens - a seam, a rim that needs squaring, the edge of a cut opening.