Cool Canoes

mckgreg

mckgreg

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One of my favorite patterns, the Canoe. I guess one word that could be used to describe them is "mellow". They have such a rounded and pleasant feel and appearance that the word just comes to mind. Here is a pic of a Bob Cargill Canoe from the seventies when the word "mellow" was used extensively.
 
A true beauty.
Man if I were an Amerikan you for sure could be my friend and we could sit down look at our colektions and you could se all my 20 knives and mabye I could take a peak on your little kollektion.:D
As life is as it is im mighty happy to see them here. ;)
 
Those two blades, one in each end, and the confortable canoe handle makes just that one a true Winner. Must admit that I newer aktually handeled a Canoe because they seldom finds their way to this far away place. Have just handeled and owned stockmen, trappers and muskrats of the more american patterns. I often use a file on my usertrappers to remake the spey and get this bladecombination.
Seams to me that you like the crippled knifes.
 
Here's a little Boker Canoe with a different blade setup. A little slimmer blades. A nice, crisp little knife.
 
Just beautiful,

Greg, Check out Bruce Voyles site. Lots of CC canoes up in auction today.
Gus
 
Beautiful knives.

Is there a traditional size for a canoe pocket knife or does it range greatly???????
 
I am no canoe expert, but They seem to come in quite a range of sizes.

The largest is sometimes called a gunboat or gunboat canoe. They typically have three large blades. (Clip, spey and sheep's foot on the two I own.) It is a pretty big handfull of a knife and it may not be the best of choices for pocket carry.

The others vary down from there to almost peanut size length with 2 or three blades. The blades of just about all canoes are ground wide rather than narrower. The medium to large size patterns are usually built to work and work hard compared to a lot of other patterns. Even the small ones are tough little knives.

One of the things that I also like about the pattern are those dimples in the bolster. When the knife is closed the corners of the tang don't stick up out of the bolster as on most multiblades making them even more pocket friendly. The wide blades also make them easy to open. You can just grab them, if you do not want to use the nail nick.

I'm pretty sure we have some serious canoe collectors who hang around who could add a lot more. If I am not mistaken the first one that Greg showed us in this thread is a Bob Cargill handmande. (At least I am guessing by the shield and the stamp.)
 
You're right on both counts Bastid. That was a Cargill handmade and I know there are others here that have buckets of Canoes that they could post here too. Where's Morgan?
Greg
 
Greg, Hope you were able to find some stuff in Bruce's auction.
He had some nice ones. Not sure yet, but I think I won a couple of stag Cargill whittlers and a few DR. knives.
 
Hey Gus. I think I might have won a few of them. The bids were a lot higher then the last large auction of Cripple Creeks Bruce had. I mean a LOT HIGHER!!!
Greg
 
I noticed. I was hoping for some bargains here and there. Many of those older DR patterns had been cleaned some had cracked handles and they went for very high prices too. I will be lucky to add one or two to my collection that were not cleaned, and have sound handles. I am not sure at all if any of my bids held up for the Cripple Creeks. Noticed very high prices on the Case Classics I was interested in also. Anyway it sure is good to see them getting some recognition (meaning that folks are willing to shell out for these Cargil knives.)
 
Ya gotta be happy with the way the Case Classics and the Cargill Cripple Creeks are going. I was lucky enough to get a full collection of the Case Classic Sunfish when they first came out. Wish I would have had the vision to have gotten more of the Case Classics. More Creeks too. Regardless, I am still happy.
Greg
 
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