Draw Knife ?

[HeelSpur]

Are these wider draw knives for a certain purpose or for really big dudes?
This is a friends and its 28" overall and a 14" blade.

[scottg]

Knuckle clearance.
  Dragging your hand across stobs and chunks of bark is not much fun when peeling poles.
When carving curves in big work, edges and such will still bite you.

  I like to slide a knife sideways as I pull many times. Sliding sideways as you pull makes a shearing cut that removes wood faster and with a smoother finish in the bargain. The harder and more wild the grain of the wood, the faster I slide. Sometimes its practically all sideways.

Of course if I slide too far, too fast, there go my knuckles, again!

Big knifes like this are the bomb!! 
  yours Scott

[Branson]

Eric Sloane talks about the really big draw knives.  The longest is the mast knife.  I had one once -- 28 inches of blade.

[john k]

Gee Scott, wear gloves, leather ones.   I found out like Scott, they go better when pulling at an angle.   I have a few, maybe a dozen, but none have that much gap between blade and tang.  The small one here has a ten inch blade, and the larger one 14 inches, and nineteen inches overall.   Just a couple of recent finds, not my working tools.   

[HeelSpur]

Thanks for the info guys. Having lots of trouble posting.