Category Archives: Traditional

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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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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Great Eastern Cutlery #61 Congress

I can’t help it. I love this Great Eastern Cutlery knife. The #61 rides completely effortlessly in my pocket.  

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Bark River Camp & Trail — once more, with pizzazz

Maybe you like that Bark River Camp & Trail we posted earlier this week, but you fancy something, well, fancier than Micarta. Here you go — this one is handled in Desert Ironwood burl, adorned with red liners and mosaic pins. … Continue reading

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Great Eastern Cutlery #25 Barlow

What was that? Did someone say Barlow? This well-loved Tidioute #25 Barlow by Great Eastern Cutlery, scaled in “Tractor Green” jigged bone, is just a baby. It’s also one of our favorite traditional pocketknives.

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Bark River Camp & Trail

We’ve heard the Bark River Camp & Trail referred to as “a better Gameskeeper,” and we’d be hard-pressed to dispute that. In fact, our reviewer called it “a perfect knife.”

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Canal Street Cutlery Serpentine Stockman

Over the course of time, every knife collects its share of stories. Some knives, however, have a story to tell right out of the box. The scales on this Canal Street Cutlery 4″ Serpentine Stockman are reclaimed American Chestnut — a … Continue reading

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