Grohmann knives

As a teenager I carried a Nessmuk trio. Double bit hatchet and stockman pocket knife. On my belt the Herter knock-off of the Grohmann # 1. At the time I’d never heard of Grohmann. I thought Herter had invented the pattern. George said he did, right in the catalogue!

Later I carried the Grohmann # 4 for a year. Until it went AWOL. I was fond of that knife. The sheath, not so much.

Much later Jerry Busse got drunk and designed the SAR 5. (That’s Search And Rescue) It’s not a knock-off of the distinctively shaped Grohmann # 4. But it is of that ilk, with better steel. I scored one, plus two Sambar stag scales. Bark River converted the knife. Remove old handle slabs, stripped the coating, convexed the edge, mounted the stag grips. I’ll take that knife over the Grohmann Survival, any day of the week. I had a deep pouch sheath made for it. This one, I want to keep.

Sorry if I’ve wandered off topic.
 
Well, I obviously prefer a Grohmann to a Busse...I have 2 Grohmanns, and the Busse got gifted to my dad. :D

The stainless steel seems to work just fine. Sharpens easily enough (but doesn't seem too soft), and holds an edge well enough, at least on the 2 I have.

If they offered a wider selection of sheaths, that would be cool. :)
 
My Grohmann Russell folding belt knife.

I bought this knife shortly after joining the forum. I had never heard of Grohmann, but saw this at a local cutlery store. The dealer said a customer returned the knife because it had a little blade play and if I liked it , he'd cut me a deal. He made me an offer I couldn't refuse. :)

 
I have a Grohmann #3, and it is my go-to fixed blade. It works in the kitchen, cleans fish, breasts out birds, whatever. And if you go to a board where Canadian hunters gather (like Hunt Ontario) and ask what knives people recommend, you will get Grohmann - Grohmann - Grohmann. They are simply good knives.

The steel is no great shakes. It's not horrible but it isn't wonderful either. Edge retention is simply okay, but on the other hand the knives are easy to sharpen.

But steel is only one little part of what makes a knife, a part we like to talk about on the Internet because (let's face it) you can rate knives by steel without ever having to actually use them. The Canadian belt knife is a great pattern: that elliptical blade with the offset handle just works.
 
SAK Guy said:
Don't be bummed out yet. Own several 80's J Russell Green River Knives in 440A which are excellently heat treated...so much so when I first got them, I thought it was a carbon steel. Edge retention was excellent after a couple of hours of stripping and cutting knots off 4-5 walking sticks...it would still almost shave. Blew my mind and completely changed my view about "lowly" 440 steels.

It's the one on the far left in this photo....
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Sweet!

Cate
 
Hello,

My husband special ordered one of these knives from a gun store (Now gone.) in town several years ago. I think that he ordered three knives and I know about two of them.

He gave me the traditional Grohmann-Russell Canadian Belt Knife #1 and it has a nice leather sheath with it.

There are three others, one that I may have written about here on BF, that I like too.

I like this one, #3, VERY, very much!

#3 Boat Knife, Canadian Armed Forces, or Yachtsman Design.

Side note:

I like the small short blade skinner ones too - #103 and # 104F. I like them even if I do not hunt. My husband hunts but I do not.

He told me that the Grohmann knives are very nice knives and I think so too!

We only own ONE Grohmann knife but we have looked online at several other G. knives. I have not seen any of them IN PERSON at a store in this town so that is very disappointing to me.

Cate

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I forgot to ADD this here. Apologies to the forum!

I can HANDLE this G. knife very well and the leather case is easy for me to open too. It snaps on the top.

I have an OLD accident injury from a VERY, very bad fall. Broken arm, nerve damage, ct, arthritis set in there and I literally ROLLED my entire body from the back of a pick up truck onto a stone driveway. Heat issue even though I did all of the right things and I still passed out and did a HARD FALL. I bled a bit too. My entire body was messed up royally and I had to LEARN HOW TO USE MY FINGERS, HAND AND ARM all over again. I was in a big, heavy plaster arm cast. The other part of me felt like I was in a cast just from my PAIN.

Anyway, I am lucky that I did not end up paralyzed from the neck down after loading a JD lawn mower, not my tractors, with HELP.

Now that I am older, these old injuries from my 40's (!) have flared up, add in arthritis and my older age - I will be 65 years old soon.

I am very careful and PICKY about what TOOLS I use for anything including my knives and THIS G. knife and an older inexpensive COLD STEEL Canadian belt knife in it's own case are EASY for me to use. Plus MY BUCK FB knife and two other BUCK knife styles.

So it is VERY important how the knife FITS IN MY HAND, like my former handguns, and how the SHEATH WORKS just as I was picky about my former handgun holsters. I used to own about 15 or so guns mainly handguns and I shot a LOT even after I had healed up from my old, bad fall.

Sorry to elaborate but these things are very important to me as a knife owner and since I DO CARRY A KNIFE on a daily basis at my old lady age! I have good and bad days too. I still shoot a few rifles (Lever actions and a bolt action rifle.) and I STAND UP when I shoot - practice self defense shooting. I do NOT shoot bench rest, NO offense, I tried it and I Never liked it. I shoot standing up and I do not lean on JACK SQUAT. Grin. I use iron sights and NO scopes too. Plain old fashioned eyeglasses - only I wear bi-focal glasses now. I have worn Rx eyeglasses since I was 5 years old.

Cate

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Grohman has a clearance page on their website that also offers seconds. If you want to try Grohmann at a considerable savings, you can pick up some good deals if you monitor it. The selection changes regularly.
 
brownshoe said:
Grohman has a clearance page on their website that also offers seconds. If you want to try Grohmann at a considerable savings, you can pick up some good deals if you monitor it. The selection changes regularly.
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I've picked up 3 Grohmanns from their clearance page, one #100 large skinning knife and two X107SD Grohmann Outdoor Knives. The 100 is a little bigger than i really need.The 107s are a more useful size but also also slightly heavier than one would expect (metal guard adds some weight). I also got a used Boat knife on ebay a while ago. All of them hold an edge pretty well. The grind on the used Boat knife was a little out of whack from the previous owner so i kinda scandi grinded it. It cuts like a razor now! One of these days i'm going to special order a flat ground carbon steel boat knife straight from the factory.
 
We should probably load up on Grohmans pretty soon. Losing the Canadian Army contract must have been a kick in the guts for them.
 
scrteened porch said:
We should probably load up on Grohmans pretty soon. Losing the Canadian Army contract must have been a kick in the guts for them.
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There's a lot more outdoorsmen here than military members. ;)
And their kitchen knives probably sell more than the army contract ever could.

But I'll take the excuse to buy another knife! :D
 
stabman said:
There's a lot more outdoorsmen here than military members. ;)
And their kitchen knives probably sell more than the army contract ever could.

But I'll take the excuse to buy another knife! :D
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Good news, but yes, just in case...
 
Catherine_Montana said:
That is a shame.

Who got the knife contract for the Canadian Army?

Cate
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Some made in China knife company.

http://www.greenparty.ca/en/releases/16.09.2008

"Michelle Jamieson, co-owner of the company, said she has received complaints from soldiers who say the new knives are cheap knockoffs. The two look similar, but the China-made one costs $1 to $2 less, she said."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/greens-take-stab-at-mackay-for-dropping-local-knife-supplier-1.709402
 
Peregrin said:
Knives not politics, please.
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Fair enough.

The cheaper knife they went with is not as good by all reports.
Many soldiers replace it with something better...like the knife they were originally issued before the change.
 
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