All About Pocket Knives

Charlie, you have a canoe collection to envy. Love the GEC’s, Kabar’s and the Canal Street’s.
The Carl Schlieper and the Bulldog are very nice.
After seeing all of these, I have some new goals for my collection.

Thanks Mark. I know a few guys who have canoe collections that I envy too!

While we're at it let's not forget Frank Buster and Fight'n Rooster...

Of course don't forget a Fight'n Rooster.

And Boker. How about one of them?

Lovely, lovely.

Boker makes a fine example of the canoe pattern so, of course we can't forget them!

Here is one you very seldom see.

Squatch and geocash, what great taste in canoes you both have.

If we are going to show some old rare ones, this is the best I can do.
A.G. Russell Mohawk Stag Canoe, Henckels, by Boker, 5 blade canoe, A.G. Russell Mohawk Pearl Canoe and a large Case Stag Gunboat.
I know, I brought a knife to a gun fight.

Sharpnshinyknives wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:10 pm I know, I brought a knife to a gun fight.

If it makes you feel any better, I brought my fists! And might I say those are some mighty good-looking Canoes!

There's not a weak one in the flotilla but I especially like the Henckles.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:54 pm Squatch and geocash, what great taste in canoes you both have.

Quick Steel, thanks for mentioning me in the same breath as Sasquach. I'm trying my best. Here's my favorite - a Henckels with stag:

doglegg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:14 pm Lovely, lovely.

Thank you doglegg. Hope you're enjoying this as much as I am.

geo, we all struggle under the long shadow of Charlie. I feel I am Gabby Hayes to his John Wayne. [You may be too young to know who Gabby Hayes was.]

geocash wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:36 pm

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:54 pm Squatch and geocash, what great taste in canoes you both have.

Quick Steel, thanks for mentioning me in the same breath as Sasquach. I'm trying my best. Here's my favorite - a Henckels with stag:

I tried to get a Henckels just like this a few months ago, but got outbid. That is a beauty.
Thanks Dan and Garry. Mine do pale in comparison to many posted on this thread. Canoes aren’t a pattern I set out to collect. I just looked one day and consolidated them into one display case and to my surprise I have about 12 of them. I have had a real shotgun method to collecting. I wish I had focused more on a brand, a pattern or something like stag handles. I tend to buy what appeals to me. Once something trips my trigger, I go after more. I envy those collectors that post one after another of a a brand, pattern or handle material, I wish I could be more like that but old habits are hard to break.

Mark, I hear you. Most of my collecting has been of the shotgun type. It was only Bull Dogs that induced me to focus on them. Now there has developed a growing focus on Japanese fixed blade knives. But apart from these two exceptions everything else is virtually anything that appeals to me.

geocash wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:36 pm

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:54 pm Squatch and geocash, what great taste in canoes you both have.

Quick Steel, thanks for mentioning me in the same breath as Sasquach. I'm trying my best. Here's my favorite - a Henckels with stag:

It's not a contest or race Geo. Every collection has its own merit and every collector envies the collections of other collectors. It's the nature of the beast. We are almost never satisfied with our own collection because another collector has a rare one we're looking for or has more knives the we do etc. It's what drives us to keep collecting. I've said it before and I'll say it again, while I appreciate the complements I know collectors who have collections that dwarf mine......and of course I envy them. You keep posting those beautiful canoes and keep on collecting. Now I must bow to you for your last post, I don't have a single Henckels in my collection......YET.

Here are some Colonel Coons you might find interesting.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:09 pm Mark, I hear you. Most of my collecting has been of the shotgun type. It was only Bull Dogs that induced me to focus on them. Now there has developed a growing focus on Japanese fixed blade knives. But apart from these two exceptions everything else is virtually anything that appeals to me.

I certainly have a soft spot for canoes but, like you QS, I'm subject to snag any knife that "speaks to me" if you know what I mean.

Speaking of Bulldogs...

Sharpnshinyknives wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:35 pm I tend to buy what appeals to me.

Same here. My big problem is that so many knives appeal to me!

Squatch, that horn handle is really interesting. I don't think I have seen one with so much natural white.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:01 pm Squatch, that horn handle is really interesting. I don't think I have seen one with so much natural white.

I've often wondered about that myself. It appears to be completely natural. I'd like to know what specific species of buffalo contributed the horn.

Dan In MI wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:47 pm

Sharpnshinyknives wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:35 pm I tend to buy what appeals to me.

Same here. My big problem is that so many knives appeal to me!

So I'm not the only one!

Buffalo horn: This can be sourced from many different countries. I do know that the horn used in Japanese knives is most commonly Asian water buffalo which are all over in almost every country in S.E. Asia, e.g. Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and on and on. Are these used in Europe and elsewhere? I believe they are. If a reputable knife maker says buffalo then it will be buffalo not simply horn from cattle.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:12 pm geo, we all struggle under the long shadow of Charlie. I feel I am Gabby Hayes to his John Wayne. [You may be too young to know who Gabby Hayes was.]

Quick Steel, sometimes I feel too old to remember Gabby Hayes but he eventually comes back in focus.