Keep your ship sweet and clean with this maritime essential. Rest blade on target area, with other hand raise mallet and deliver a fierce blow to the back of the 1/4" thick spine of the Best Made Rigging Knife: this is how you will cut rope. Our Rigging Knife, based on time-honored nautical conventions such as this, is a heavy, fully-balanced, full-tang USA made knife that is securely tethered by a hand-whipped lanyard and solid bronze snap hook. The peculiar point (or lack there of) is a venerable feature of high sea knives, it will insure that the unruly members of your crew won't stab each other, rendering dissension among the ranks "pointless".