Show us your Skookums!!

[hiwa]

My jaw is dragging 20 feet behind me right now !! And some of you own more than one!!
I've been waitin a year and a half for mine ( A2, Red micarta. ) Rod just told me he is about another month or so away. I am really eager to get mine. Your SBT's look awesome and I bet perform just as well as they look. I am real impressed.

Pete ( In Edmonton )

 

[hiwa]

Darn double post.

 

[Marion David Poff]

Good for you, Marion! :thumbup:

When ya get it, hang onto it! If just for investment purposes. I think the longer the waiting list becomes, the more Woodlore (as in Ray Mears and Wood) the price might become. I won't say what little I paid for mine in comparison to what they sell for now. Either way - worth every nickel, IMHO.

BTW, we really like CDA (and the surrounding area) up there where you live. Nice country.

Yeah, I am getting it to use it, but you are right, the value will increase.

CdA is really nice, this whole area is just beautiful. I love it. And pretty darn wild. A grizzly bear, 'known' to be extinct in our part of the state, was killed just down the interstate from me. It had gutted a guys stud elk on an elk farm, and was menacing the neighbour's dogs.... Moose come into the edge communities all the time. There is a small herd of elk that migrate across the Rathdrum Prairie each season, under the cover of darkness of course. And whitetail are thick like thieves all over the place, we added a special depredation hunt last year, for the units just around the edge of the city of CdA, because there were so many does and fawns in the yards and on the side roads.

It is getting pretty Californicated, but, with a little luck we might be able to slow that down.

You what quadrant of Oregon you in?

 

[Marion David Poff]

OK repeat

Is that a Fiddleback Bushcraft, there at the top?

Marion

 

[PB Wilson]

Nope. If I recall correctly, it's a Shing project that he slapped scales on.

 

[eraaij]

They will probably increase in value over time - but what I like about the Skookum knives is that they are real workers - and people so far seem buy them for that. I hardly see a second hand Skookum that has not been used. Hard to find second hand too

Great knives in this thread. Keep posting them

This was my earlier version SBT with the old pin placement - the one that lives with its new owner now:

-Emile

 

[Rockywolf]

This thread is great yet depressing. I loved mine but had some major car issues last year and sold a bunch of knives, this being one of them. I have bought some similar ones back, but the long wait time for this keeps me away. I know I should've just kept it! Grrrrr

 

[Dannyboy Leather]

Post expired.

 

[Marion David Poff]

Yep, the Skookum's beg to be used. I own some far more expensive Scandinavian knives than the Skookum Bush Tool, but the SBT is my favorite and most durable overall.

I just keep seeing this knife, and it is one of those singular items, given the story of it's design, it's heritage... Quite Singular.

We were going to locate the ranch around CdA a few years back, but for a number of reasons it didn't come together for us. We really like the area, have a few friends up that way, and have spent lots of time there in the past. Nice place.

Yeah, it is nice, my roots are a bit east of CdA, in the Silver Valley, but the whole Idaho Panhandle is quite nice, but then again, so is Central Idaho, though different.

We live about 30-miles southwest of Bend in the Cascades. I completely and fully understand an area being overrun with Californians. Bend has got to head that list. Love folks from California -- just not SO MANY of them all at once!

Nice, Bend. I lived there a while when I was a kid. I remember the really cold nights followed by the really hot days. As a kid, I always marvelled at having to wear a winter jacket on summer mornings. Yeah, so many, and especially the ones who left California, and then want to make all the West just like California, dumb.

We have some elk, bear, lots of coyotes, deer, quail, on the place. In the winter months, far too many mountain lion like to hangout at these elevations. And did I say, too much snow!

Sounds beautiful.

 

[warrigal]

I designed ( well sketched it out) this before I first saw Skookums. It has taken quiet a while to finish.

It obviously doesn't have a pommel plate and although you can't see it from there it is 4.8mm thick ( 0.1889 of an inch) 110mm blade 230mm OAL 30MM wide, a definite scandi grind Steel is O1. Professionally heatreated to 58-60rc. The edge is polished now.
It got it's first really work out on the weekend just gone it battoned it's way through a heap of "Ironbark" (Syncarpia glomulifera) blocks. I ran a safe use of a Blocksplitter ( splitting maul) for a Army Cadet camp I had aprox 190 kids go through 15-18yrs old. Most had never lifted a splitter before. At the conclusion of each session I demonstrated how you could scale it down and use a knife and batton to acheive finer kindling. I also set a couple kids up with it on the Sunday to feed smaller wood to four drums ( what we call 44gal or 200liter drums split lengthwise) with two 12qt cast iron oven in each cooking stew for lunch.
I got home Sunday night cleaned the sap off gave it a quick strop and if is shaving cleanly. I'm wearing a big grin.
Oh yeah handle is natural paper micarta. Pins and lanyard tube are stainless.
Big thanks to Stewart Townsend Here in Queensland for all his help.
Carl