Rounded helps when using a fleshing knife, but i'm improvising a flat piece of 2x6 now...and it works after a fashion. In the other coyote hunting thread i detailed that we killed 20 this year dn only 2 were good down here in SoCO. We did get 1 swift fox, 3 badgers and a bobcat this year though. Now fleshing badgers is a bit harder--but doable.