Road Trip to Canal Street Cutlery and Wawarsing Knife Museum (added museum pics)

This is one of the best threads I've ever read. Thanks for documenting your tours at Canal Street and the Wawarsing Knife museum! I don't know how I missed this the first time around.
 
With my not being able to attend either The Blade Show or the GEC Rendezvous this year, I was kinda bummed out. I was reading a post about Eric ea42 ea42 online, about how great a guy and knife maker he is (all true!), and reminisced about my awesome roadtrip with some great knife-nuts (including H herder ) to Canal Street Cutlery and the Wawarsing knife museum back in 2014.

Figured I'd bring this thread back up for the newer members, and for those who may have missed it the first time. I had to re-upload a bunch of the pics, for some reason quite a few of them were missing. Looking at the website for the museum, it looks like many of the exhibits have been updated or changed, and much has been added, so your best bet is to visit them in person!

Wawarsing Historical Society and Knife Museum
 
Amazing pics and thread ! Thanks for taking the time to reload the pics 👍
 
I discovered this mouth watering thread, it is purely amazing!
I joined just in time to get one of the CSC BF knife and will forever regret to have let those barlows go,

Also much interested by your visit through the museum, as you noticed, a lot of patterns have vanished and it shows the vast variety and sheer quality of yesterday's products!
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Jolipapa said:
I discovered this mouth watering thread, it is purely amazing!
I joined just in time to get one of the CSC BF knife and will forever regret to have let those barlows go,

Also much interested by your visit through the museum, as you noticed, a lot of patterns have vanished and it shows the vast variety and sheer quality of yesterday's products!
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Other than seeing the amazing knives that people show here on BF every day, or maybe displays at a knife show, museums like this are the only way to see such a variety of old knives. I was struck back then by many of the knives, patterns I had never seen before, and the variety of different handle material variations. Sad that many of these knives are squirreled away in private collections, hidden away in a drawer or knife roll.

That makes places like this museum truly special!
 
Thank you for resurrecting this outstanding thread, man!

glennbad said:
This is a machine they use to cut nail nicks in blades.
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Wow, it looks very complicated for only one operation. I can't figure where they put a blade to perform a cut...

I am currently thinking of a way to cut nail nicks myself, but that machine is obviously not something I can bilt me. So far only angle grinder comes to mind.
 
Alex.Y. said:
Thank you for resurrecting this outstanding thread, man!


Wow, it looks very complicated for only one operation. I can't figure where they put a blade to perform a cut...

I am currently thinking of a way to cut nail nicks myself, but that machine is obviously not something I can bilt me. So far only angle grinder comes to mind.
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They put the blades below where it looks like a gear, that's some type of fly cutter
 
Thank you for resurrecting this amazing thread Glenn, even though I made half a dozen posts in it, I'd completely forgotten about it! 😁 It's great that the pics are still in place 🙂 Sorry that you're not able to attend the Blade Show and GEC RV this year, but I hope you can get along next year 👍
 
Hey Glenn, that was such a great trip and hard to believe it's been almost ten years since that adventure. We are due for another one!!!
Thanks for taking the time to re-post all those wonderful pictures. It was really interesting to see the inner workings of the Canal Street Cutlery company and get a nice tour from Eric (ea42).
And the museum was fascinating as well. While I had know Rich previously, that was the first time I met him in person, good guy and quite a character. :)
 
I'm so glad you brought this amazing thread and posts back (I should put this on my calendar to visit annually). So much great American cutlery history was captured and shared with the porch, as well as a shared love of traditionals between friends on the trip.
I hope to visit the museum and area someday.
 
The complexity of skills and variety of machinery/processes is fascinating but for me the museum exhibits were really inspiring :cool: As Glenn rightly points out, so many knives are forever hidden away from view or debate in collector knife rolls never to see the light of day-until auctioned on after the demise of the collector:rolleyes: The only really wealthy people I've ever respected are those who have bought works of art not for themselves but to put into public galleries for the enrichment of everyone.

I have only two CS knives, gave away a fixed one here years ago, but let these be a small tribute to the endeavour of others.

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