bark river mini canadian

RescueRiley

RescueRiley

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trying to decide on a knife to ask the mrs for...my B-day is next month I like the look of the mini candian and have found it for as cheap as 50 bucks...Any feed back is welcome I don't know a thing about a-2 tool steel and how it compares to others also if anyone could offer anything on how thick the blade is that'd be helpfull thanks
 
i love bark river knives.... i have both the mikro and mini canadian... they are awesome knives, perfect for EDC.... :thumbup:
i ended getting a kydex sheath for them both, so they can be used as neckers.... i believe that the newer leather sheaths are equipped with riveted holes, similar to kydex sheaths, so they can be piggybacked on one another...:D

mike
 
I just googled it and hit up some of the results for prices one price I remember was 56 bucks @ 888knives are us .com
 
how durable is the minicanadian??? and how is the a2 steel for edge retention sharpening and corrosion resistance???
 
The stainless Bark River uses is 12C27. Excellent steel. I have one in stainless, and 4 that have A2. Both have excellent edge retention and toughness, with the nod going to A2.
A2 is not stainless, so if you do something like cut onions and let it sit, or cut hot meat, it will patina. It is significantly more stain resistant than, say 52100 however.
My Mikro is in A2. It is a wonderfully stout little blade. Can't go wrong! :)

David
 
Riley, when you're buying a Barkie, you don't have to worry about quality. Its in there. Problem is stopping once you started. Lots of great designs over there.
 
I wonder why a knife that small is so thick? THey look neat, but shouldn't 3/32" be plenty and slice better for a little fellow like that?
 
I'm looking at the mini not the micro the mini is slightly larger probably ideal as a samll game/fish knife...too bad the mini doesn't come n stainless
 
Actually, one of my co-workers who is a fanatic elk hunter uses a Mini-Canadian to field dress his elk.

Go figure!
 
I guess if it's sharp it doesn't take much...I was thinking about it I guess an obsidian or flint knife would have to be equally short in roder to have a thin edge and not break...worked fine for us for several thousand years...just a thought I''m no archaeologist
 
I have a Mini Canadian and I really like it .It's in my work duffle bag and I use it to trim my cuticles,cut boxes,and skin oranges. Excellent knife. Mike Stewart is a blade god. You might want to look over the rest of Bark River's knife lineup. Might be something else you might want also. edge retention is excellent. All you need to do is a couple swipes across your denim pant leg or if it has dulled quite a bit then a mouse pad and some 400-600 grit wet dry paper is the ticket. Also Mike has one of if not THE best warranty in the buisness.
 
GIBBY said:
I have a Mini Canadian and I really like it .It's in my work duffle bag and I use it to trim my cuticles,cut boxes,and skin oranges. Excellent knife. Mike Stewart is a blade god. You might want to look over the rest of Bark River's knife lineup. Might be something else you might want also. edge retention is excellent. All you need to do is a couple swipes across your denim pant leg or if it has dulled quite a bit then a mouse pad and some 400-600 grit wet dry paper is the ticket. Also Mike has one of if not THE best warranty in the buisness.
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I have a Wolf River, great knife, sharp as a razor. I have not yet had the opportunity to take it in the field, but kitchen chores are yielding positive results. BRKT offers some of the most mind blowing choices of handle materials I have ever seen, nice stuff for sure.
 
I've been raving about my Mini Canadian since I got it a month or two ago. It is quite sharp and is a perfect fixed blade pocket knife. I carry it in a Woodswalker pocket sheath after wet molding it to the Mini C's shape. I don't care for the belt sheath it came with. The Mini C is tough enough to use hard and "cuts bigger than it is," as the saying goes. The choil allows a four finger grip, but I find a three finger grip more comfortable on it.

Unfortunately, they're currently hard to find. I think their production runs are small or something, because when I decided to get mine, I had to try a dozen on-line places before finding one in stock.

I accidentally ended up with two becasue I forgot to cancel a back order. I got a green canvas micarta one with hollow pins and a copper burl/mosaic pin one. I kept the micarta - although plain, it felt better in my hand. The burl/mosaic is at this moment in the mail to another forum member to whom I sold it.
 
RR- a friend of mine has a mini canadian in red g-10, that he is trying to sell.... if you're interested, i can ask him if he still has it....:D

mike
 
Foilist said:
I've been raving about my Mini Canadian since I got it a month or two ago. It is quite sharp and is a perfect fixed blade pocket knife. I carry it in a Woodswalker pocket sheath after wet molding it to the Mini C's shape. I don't care for the belt sheath it came with. The Mini C is tough enough to use hard and "cuts bigger than it is," as the saying goes. The choil allows a four finger grip, but I find a three finger grip more comfortable on it.

Unfortunately, they're currently hard to find. I think their production runs are small or something, because when I decided to get mine, I had to try a dozen on-line places before finding one in stock.

I accidentally ended up with two becasue I forgot to cancel a back order. I got a green canvas micarta one with hollow pins and a copper burl/mosaic pin one. I kept the micarta - although plain, it felt better in my hand. The burl/mosaic is at this moment in the mail to another forum member to whom I sold it.
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Well, now might be the time to say "Thank You", Foilist. I am the forum member to whom that knife was sold and it is a beautiful little knife. It will be a gift this Sunday for my little girl.

Just yersday I received a Mini_Skinner in Oregon Myrtle Burl. It's for an Easter present but my wife, being the babe she is, let me drool on it and almost touch it for 3 or 4 hundred nano-seconds before she put it away.

Anyway, the point in telling that is that I actually like this mini-Canadian better than the mini-skinner. Of course, I should probably reserve judgement until I can actually get close enough to "touch" the mini-skinner. The pouch is much nicer on the mini-Canadian, though it needs a little work as the knife is very loose in it (something Foilist warned me about).

Very nice knives those Bark Rivers are.
 
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