Arkansas Toothpick?

[SteelBlade]

my great uncle always told me he was going to get me an Arkansas Toothpick---is this just one knife inpeticular and if so does anyone have a pic?---or is an Akansas Toothpick a catagorey of knives?

 

[gailt]

lok under tactical knives here for one type.www.dozierknives.com

 

[ian_j]

maybe he meant a texas toothpick? A texas Toothpick is a style of slipjoint(non-locking) knife thats kind of long and skinny.

like this: http://www.1sks.com/images/case/cc-0266.jpg

this is a case texas toothpick. I've never heard of arkansas toothpicks though.

 

[TheBadGuy]

That Akansas Toothpick on the Dozier site is really nice, Does anyone here own one?? If so, I would like to hear what you think about it. Thanks

 

[Benjamin Liu]

The term is usually used to refer to a large Bowie-sized dagger, though it has also been used for Bowies.

 

[jim_l_clifton]

Bad Guy,
Doz. is "sweet"! Bob gives you a choice,you don't have to get the top sharpened! You can also get them made bigger if you wish(costs more ,but he is fair)!I have 4 Doz.like them all!!
jim

 

[rev_jch]

an Arkansas toothpick is usaully a large dagger, or a slender bowie.

 

[A. G. Russell]

Rev:

From the mid 1800s to 1956 an Arkansas Toothpick was one of those Bowie knives that the rough Arkansawers used to pick their teeth with. Then Hollywood needed a different knife for Sturdivent to use in his fight with Jim and the writers for "The Iron Mistress" changed forever the meaning of "Arkansas Toothpick"

Since then several makers, Dozier, myself and others use the term for knives of their design and choice.

A. G.

 

[rev_jch]

thanks a.g !!!!!

do you think you should be sharing the teeth picking thing???
arkansas has a bad enough rep allready!!!!...lol!!!!!!!!....just kidding!!!!

 

[ravenQ8]

I've got a Dozier AR Toothpick that I ordered along with one of it's brothers on the internet. When I got this one I cancelled the other. It's well made and quite sharp but toothpick describes it well, it is way too small for my hand. What makes this worse is the scales are too slick and there are no guards. I'd hate to use this when it was bloody. This is one of the knives that tought me not to buy knives over the internet. Anyone want a toothpick?

 

[NGK-Webmaster]

Arkansas and Texas toothpicks are not the same thing, they Arkansas is explained above but he Texas toothpick tends to have a long slender narrowing blade, ill use one from Case as a example:

 

[Mongo]

The traditional Arkansas Toothpick is indeed a large knife with a pointy dagger type blade. An example can be seen in "The Sacketts" where one of the Sackett boys pulls his knife in a bar fight and effectively ends it with pucker factor alone. Looks to be about a 10"-12" blade.
The Bob Dozier Arkansas Toothpick is a semi small knife that I absolutely love. I would not feel "under-knived" with this one. I was not aware that one could get a larger model though. This knife would be interesting with about a 6" blade! The regular model is one that I will carry on occasion. I have it with the horizontal sheath, and it pretty much disappears on the belt with an untucked shirt. It also is small enough to slip into your pocket. An excellent tactical carry. I guess I'll have to shoot Mr. Dozier an email about the possibility of making a larger version!

 

[RGRAY]

The top knife was refered to as an Arkansas Toothpick; the bottom a Bowie (Randall Knives).

 

[Tracer-san]

You should ask Monica L. what is an Arkansas Toothpick...