Monthly Archives: March 2015

Great Eastern Cutlery #38 Tidioute Grinling Whittler

The classic whittler pattern is one of the most useful slipjoints we know of, and we especially love the Great Eastern Cutlery #38 Tidioute Grinling Whittler with its tapered serpentine frame. We thought it couldn’t get any better — and … Continue reading

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Fiddeback Forge: Beauty meets function

Every time we get another batch of Fiddleback Forge knives, Andy Roy’s hand-forged work impresses us more. Few knifemakers produce tools that so successfully combine performance, comfort and beauty. (By the way, we just republished an interview with Andy Roy that … Continue reading

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Bark River Little Carver 3V, in the garden

Those of us who live in colder northern climes soon will be preparing our gardens for the growing season. It’s a lot of work and, to be honest, it can be tempting to postpone it ’til we find a bit … Continue reading

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Bark River Springbok (a different view)

Here’s the flip-side of the Bark River Springbok, for those of you whose desktops prefer a different orientation. (Our earlier Springbok wallpaper is here.)

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Zero Tolerance ZT0808

The Zero Tolerance ZT0808 just landed — it is sweet!

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Northwoods Norfolk Whittler

In this bigger-is-better world, every now and then it helps to stow the Bowies and return to the simple pocketknives our granddads carried. The Northwoods Norfolk Whittler is such a knife — three blades, the biggest of them a handy … Continue reading

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Alan Warren Bowie

We’re shooting a lot of Alan Warren Knives right now because I had a chance to buy some from a collector. Alan won his first award with this knife.

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Alan Warren Loveless Drop Point in Stag

Alan Warren Knives are, in my opinion, the very-top-of-the-food-chain of custom knives. They’re beautiful. Functional. Flawlessly executed. This is a very early Alan Warren knife. It has beautiful Sambar stag handles. I bought this one from a long-time collector. I … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery #15 in Blood Orange Camel Bone

We had an SFO from Great Eastern Cutlery that was strikingly beautiful. We threw 50 up on our site, and 50 sold almost as fast. If you picked up one of these, count yourself lucky. For the rest of us, … Continue reading

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Alan Warren Neck Knife

This is one of the CPM 154 neck knives Alan Warren designed just for us. It’s one of the slickest designs I’ve had in my hand. The scales are Buckeye Burl and the pins are Musk Ox. What’s not to … Continue reading

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