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Could be but it doesn't look very large in the drawing.
Maybe a little off topic but have you noticed from that pen and ink drawing of Nessmuk he seems to be carrying his famous knife on the back of his...
I ordered a model 1-8 in late 67. It was delivered in the spring of 69. By then I was almost finished with a tour in Viet Nam. I told my dad not...
I heard plenty of stories from both my grandfathers as a kid of .22's failing to drop hogs. The message was you had to hit them exactly right or...
There may be knives still marked Forschner but there really isn't an importing company by the name anymore. Victorinox bought them out a few years...
Not sure what is happening in your search but try knifemerchant.com. They are my go to source for Victorinox and they have the 10 and 12-inch chef...
I've never hunted deer in Germany but I once picked up a hunting book over there that showed how these knives were to be inserted at the spot...
My Truper machete is 15-20 years old. Pretty sure the same feed store still sells them so I will check and see what the current ones are stamped....
A little rougher in workmanship. My local feed store sells them so I tried one. Seemed like the blade steel was harder to sharpen.
Made in Mexico. Quality is about what you would expect from a $14.00 machete but better than most of the Chinese ones you see in hardware stores...
Great, but why did he not mark it?
"my understanding of the trade knives like Green River is that they were mass-produced cheap to shove off on the Indians in order to grab furs...
You can go to the Bay and bid on them. They don't come cheap these days but other than knife shows and yard sales that is about your only option.
The best reference for these knives is The Museum of the Fur Trade's 'Encyclopedia of Trade Goods, Volume 3 Tools and Utensils"
Given I lived a few miles from Ron in those days, I wish had known he was making knives. Randall, Ruana, and Moran were about the only makers on...
The general thought in fur trade circles is the Hudson Bay Camp Knife came out fairly late during the beaver years. Some of these knives were...
They carried a lot of straight backed "scalpers," basically the most common pattern of kitchen knife back in France during that period. Also...
I've read about the Guam connection of that knife design but I can tell you from first hand experience they sell the same pattern in some Mexican...
Planning on cutting out the middle man and going straight to the source? Or maybe starting your own line?
None of this history seems to mention the 007 was a cheap knockoff of a folding hunter KA-BAR made for a number of years. It was generally...
