Holiday GAW - Schrade IXL Canoe! Winner announced - post #51!

[cchu518]

Glad that it got to you! ... Oh and before I forget a big happy bday to you.

It really is nuts that my wife randomly picked your post which also happens to be around your bday. Speaks to the vastness of this universe!

 

[5K Qs]

Glad that it got to you! ... Oh and before I forget a big happy bday to you.

It really is nuts that my wife randomly picked your post which also happens to be around your bday. Speaks to the vastness of this universe!

Thanks, Chris. We talked about my winning post number, 51, being my birth year.
But here's something creepier. (Still working on pics.)
While admiring the canoe yesterday, I noticed that the serial number on the bolster, 1912, is actually my birthdate, expressed "European style" with day before month 19/12!!!
Coincidence, ... or Grand Design??

- GT

 

[Peregrin]

Great GAW, Chris! I gotta admit Gary, I'm hearing Twilight Zone music in the background!

 

[clutchcarter]

Congratulations Gary! And congratulations Chris on a great GAW!

 

[5K Qs]

... It's a single spring canoe and the design is new and intriguing to me. There are 3 brass liners on the mark side and only 2 on the pile side, and only the outside liner on each side is "full height"; the others have various "cutouts" and seem to serve as spacers. The main spear runs diagonally across the blade well, with its tang against the pile side bolster and its tip against the opposite mark side bolster. I'll try to get photos to post in the next couple of days; my "word pictures" are less than ideal!
...

Here are photos of the "asymmetric" liners, from both the spine and the blade well side of the bolster:

And here's a pic of the way the main blade lies diagonally when closed:

Anyone know if this is fairly standard construction for a single-spring canoe??

Thanks, Chris. We talked about my winning post number, 51, being my birth year.
But here's something creepier. (Still working on pics.)
While admiring the canoe yesterday, I noticed that the serial number on the bolster, 1912, is actually my birthdate, expressed "European style" with day before month 19/12!!!
Coincidence, ... or Grand Design??

- GT

Here's a pic of the bolster that show that this knife is apparently "destined" to be mine:

(Now I have to start working on Brumby, who has a scrimshaw I*XL with serial number 1217, my house number for the past 31 years!! )

Thanks again for your generosity, Chris!! :thumbup::thumbup: This is a fantastic knife!

- GT