Row Row Row your.... Canoe.

Beard&Owl

Beard&Owl

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The Canoe pattern doesn't seem to get much love on here and has become one of my favorites. Hows about a Canoe thread. Here's mine, a Case Canoe in amber bone CV.
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The Canoe patterns for some reason don't really float my boat. :p

I've got one full-sized Case Canoe in the Amber Bone CV but don't have any pics of it. I also have a 2001-made Case Baby Butterbean, the mini-canoe, which I do have a pic of handy:

 
The Canoe pattern is a bit strange, I got mine at the beginning of the summer thinking I would really love it only for it to sit on the shelf with the others until a few months back when I decided again that it did indeed really like it. I think it took me getting my own edges on it and seeing how good of a slicer it really is. As far as it not floating your boat man, I hope you have a PFD. Sweet Butterbean.
 
I got one of each (Canoe and Butterbean) as part of my exploration of the various Case patterns. To be honest I have way too many knives and the Canoe has never called out to me enough to give it a try. It looks like a decent pattern. There's just always something else that gets the pocket time.
 
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Here is my only canoe at the moment (just like yours, a Case canoe in cv and amber bone). It is pictured next to my Queen copperhead. I believe this Case version is fairly popular, my seeing it pictured quite a bit online. I do have a Rough Rider canoe on the way, and if quality is up to snuff, it will be the second canoe to make it into my collection :-)
 
They don't really get the respect they deserve. Pocket friendly, pinchable main blade, thin, and they make a great worry stone.

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Woodrow F Call said:
They don't really get the respect they deserve. Pocket friendly, pinchable main blade, thin, and they make a great worry stone.

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I really like those GEC Canoes and how the blade seems to stand a bit straighter than on the Cases. Is that ebony? Great looking blade.
 
I've been eyeballing the GEC Canoe for some time now. Its one of those in my future, just haven't gotten one yet... :)
 
had a rough rider conoe a while back but wound up swapping it for a sunfish. didnt really even carry the canoe, i dont think. i like them all right and will likely wind up with another eventually.
 
I have always liked the look of the Queen CIty Cozy Glens. It is a pity I have never found one. Oh well.
 
I like the Case Amber Bone, CV, 62131. I never really gave it too much thought, but the pinchable blade, is what keeps me coming back to this pattern. It's seriously one of the sharpest knives I own. 1095 lives up to the way it's revered by the local "old guys". Nearly swore off 1095 in favor of more modern steels.

 
It's funny this thread should just now pop up. I recently aquired a 4 dot canoe and really liked the pattern but couldn't bring myself to sharpen and carry it so I traded for a second canoe in Amber bone cv. Love it! I'm now on the hunt for some of the darker green and blue ones!

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I like the canoe pattern quite a bit, but have gifted away my Case amber and Buck with tortoise covers. Here's a few you won't see everyday though:




Buck/AG Russell signature canoe, Sambar stag, S30V Wharncliffe and 154CM spear



Buck 308 build out, mastodon ivory, same blades as above


And this little gem, which didn't start out as a canoe, but rather was a stockman with a broken mainspring, re-assembled into a single spring canoe ;)



440C blade frankencanoe
 
Danggggg. Thanks for sharing those. Really like the mastodon ivory scales! Really am enjoying looking at all these seaworthy knives folks.
 
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