Canal Street Cutlery - High Country Skinner

Former Schrade President Walley Gardner and principal Joe Hufnagel joined with nine master cutlers to form a group of US craftsmen with over 300 years of combined knife making experience to create Canal Street Cutlery. It was first located in upstate New York where a long and rich tradition of quality knife making dates back to the 19th century. Unfortunately, the company closed its doors in 2015, but not before making some great knives. The brand was resurrected in 2018 as Canal Street Cutlery Co-Op & focused on making very small batches of high quality traditional knives. As a Co-Op, it was owned by the knife makers who worked there. Unfortunately, the business model couldn't hold up & the entity again ceased production.
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I am a big fan of Canal Street Cutlery fixed blade knives.
I only have 2 of these High Country Skinners, the first being covered in white bone and produced for the “Virginia Heritage Hunting Trust Guard” in 2013 (One of One).
The second one has Bengal Tiger scales replacing the badly split white bone from Redtrout. This work was performed by Herman Williams. I love these two and they look superb in my knife cabinet. Tony.
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Those are Fantastic Tony

I bet they look even better in hand, congrats!

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That acrylic is stunning! ::tu::
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Beautiful knives. Wow. ::tu:: ::nod::

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Oh my, those are indeed nice! I think I prefer the tiger stripe but they both rock!
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Many thanks for your replies. It is not hard to see why those two are up there with my best CSC knives.
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Beautiful knives Tony! I'm pretty sure I remember seeing the white bone one up for auction. Unfortunately I didn't win and now I know why, Haha. I have two as well... one in black micarta (via Redtrout) and the other is the NYS 4H red, white and blue kirite. Some of my favorites. Thanks for sharing... the Bengal Tiger handles came out awesome.
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Coreysbu.
Thank you for you input. I was very excited when i won the "One of One". It looks sensational and pairs up well with the Tiger. They are both fantastic knives in the hand.
If you get a chance i would love to see your knives.
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Hi Tony, finally got around to taking a pic of mine:
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Coreysbu
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
Those 2 are most worthy. An absolutely wonderful style of knife. The other style i like is the CSC Catskill Hunter. Thank you for showing.
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Those are stunning Tony! ::tu::
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Four wonderful knives. Wow!
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Thanks @schradenut. The catskill hunter is one of my favorites as well.... actually, I like all the CSC fixed blades. I just wish they would pop up a little more often. Sounds like we'll have to start another thread for the catskills?! ::hmm::
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