Dave Shirley Northwoods

The Northwoods Knife brand name originated in Gladstone, Michigan when a man named Dave Shirley adopted it as his knife company's name in 2004. Dave was well known for collaborating with popular knife companies to have knives made to his specifications for resale well before 2004 & beyond. KnivesShipFree bought Northwoods from Dave & has continued to team up with respected makers to produce knives marked with the Northwoods brand name.
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8) Hey I can add some of my Dave Shirley's Northwoods to this thread ::tu::
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Thanks Mitch!

Here's a good pic of all four of the handle materials offered on the Railsplitter Moose.
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Wow Mitch, those are amazing!!!
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Here's a Fixed Blade to add.
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Wow. This is great for viewing and as an archive of D.S.Northwoods. Thanks Rick, Mitch & Kennedy.
Anyone know how many different patterns Dave Shirley used in his Northwoods line ?
And how many handle materials ? I know of D.S. Northwoods with elephant ivory, mammoth, Stag, jigged bone. Are there more ?
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8) I forgot to add these to this Thread. Dave Shirley also produced a Northwoods Scagel line of Knives that were Pretty Cool! ::tu::
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Mitch you are Mr. Scagel Northwoods. Wow, what a great collection of these knives you have.
Are you able to list all of the Scagel patterns that Dave Shirley had made ? I am trying to get this thread to be an authorative source for information about Dave Shirley Northwoods & Scagel knives.
Did D.S. consider the Scagels as part of his Northwoods knives ? He used the same shield but "Northwoods" is not marked on the Scagel knives.
I had a large single blade Scagel Jack which i carried & used. I regret selling it and now these Scagel folders are hard to find.
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8) KJ, Don't have a complete list of DS Patterns. Back in the day, I would buy Dave's knives by phone and later online when he had a model available. As far as his Scagel reproductions, they were always called Northwoods Scagel Knives, so I consider them Northwoods as well! :D
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Thanks for posting those Mitch! They are beautiful!

Here's a couple more Scagels.

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8) Rick, Very Nice! ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu::
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"they were always called Northwoods Scagel Knives"
Thanks Mitch. So Scagel knives are correctly being shown here in the Dave Shirley Northwoods thead.
I had one of the Scagel fixed blades, antler handle and a thin upswept blade. Again, wish i had held onto it.
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Here some I think you have a couple of these already on here
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What year did the Northwoods line start ? The one's I have posted I believe I got them in 2007 .
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Awesome KK. Thanks!
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gsmith7158 wrote:So if the Northwoods brand was born in 2004 and Dave Shirley sold to Bohn in 2009, that leaves several questions to be asked. How many and which patterns did Dave produce and what was Derriks first pattern? Also how long after the sale was the Gladstone, Mich. stamp used. It certainly would be nice to have a chronological list of the patterns. By the way Kj those Canoes are outstanding indeed!
This is a Scagel Fruitport marked 2010 made by GEC this might be the first run after Derrick bought Northwoods/Scagel name?
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In case anyone is interested there is a square bolster Premium Stockman with mammoth handles on ebay for $42,250.00. I already have one (albeit with rounded bolsters), so i will pass.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-NORTHWOOD ... SwrslabKFb
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kootenay joe wrote:In case anyone is interested there is a square bolster Premium Stockman with mammoth handles on ebay for $42,250.00. I already have one (albeit with rounded bolsters), so i will pass.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-NORTHWOOD ... SwrslabKFb
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I picked this one up today and I'm going to assume that it is from the Dave Shirley period. The seller's pics aren't very good and I got it for under $100. It's the single blade bone gunstock. Does anyone know the manufacture period on these.
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Picked this one up at the Queen show last year in Titusville, beautiful well made knife. Mitch, there was one of those 2 blade Barlows there also and still kicking myself in the butt for not buying it.
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JohnR wrote:Picked this one up at the Queen show last year in Titusville, beautiful well made knife. Mitch, there was one of those 2 blade Barlows there also and still kicking myself in the butt for not buying it.
There is nothing about that knife not to like.
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I think the above Scagel is the best of all the Scagel folders. I had one and used it a little and then, foolishly sold it. Seeing this one JohnR has posted reminds me of how fine a folding knife it is.
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Here is a three blade stockman I just received from Roland. Queen made with Mammoth Ivory handles.Of course He sent along atoken of appreciation for the purchase, a two blade pearl Keen Kutter. Thanks Roland she's a beauty!
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Greg, what do you think of the blade finish ? My pictures made them look more shiny than they are, but they do have almost a mirror finish. How would you describe it ?
Nice pearl knife too ! 3" or 2 1/2" ?
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