I got one for ya, JK, ol' wise guru of all traditional sharp things. One of my favorite patterns is the Canoe pattern. A very handy, durable, and elegant knife. I was wondering if you knew it's origin/history? Why are both blades spear point? Why were they designed so the bolster cover the tangs? I know many "traditional" patterns, like the stockman or Barlow, are actually based on designs that originated in other countries. Is this the case with the Canoe? If so, what was it's influence?
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I have a question, jackknife ...
What will it take to finally get some pics posted of some of the legendary knives in your collection!?
+1. and furthermore... how many are peanuts?
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Jackknife. I dont know what to ask direktly as you are the storyteller for me that one has to wait for inspiration on. Memories, thoughts about the things you meet in life or novels about other times, all ís equally good. Im very qurious about that wilderness of your younger years and some information I read into this makes me belive there is no wilderness left there nowadays. Do you have any wilderness to be in nowadays?
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I'm not sure I am folloeing your quiestion. Shifts in what?
Oh heck yes, there's lots of wilderness left in the U.S., it's just that the best of it is all now in the government hands. Either in the Bureau Of Land Managment, or the National Park system. That's not a bad thing of course, It does protect some of our most beautiful lands, but it makes it a little more of a regulated thing now. You have to check in at a National Park to get a back country permit, and pay a fee. Out west, the BLM has zillions of acres of empty land, but that's out west. Here in the east, it's all just National parks or posted private land. A little more inhibited. But yes, there is still areas wild enough that you can go get eaten by a grizly bear if you so wish. The last time Karen and I took a camping trip out in the badlands, we heard the quiet munching of a buffalo grazing just outside our tent in the primitive camping area of the park. Having a 2'000 pound wild critter grazing the other side of a thin nylon wall was a unique experiance.
As far as the places I used to go when I was a kid, the natural progress of an expnding civilization has done away with most of them. The woods where Dave, Ev, and the rest of us used to roam with loaded Red riders, is now car dealerships, housing developements, or other trapping of the expanding suburbia. Down on the shore, LaCompte Marsh has been turned into a national registered wet lands, so it will never be developed.
Locally, even with the sprawl of suburbia, we have wild critters that have moved right in among us. Just a few miles north of us is one of Karen and my favorite areas close to home; Black Hill Regonal Park. It's right on the border of suburbia and Marylands rolling wooded farm country. Weve seen river otter when we kayaked the twisting lake, Ospry, even an occasional eagle fishng. Once, while hiking in a back section, we got a fleeting glimpse of a couger. The DNR told us there are no couger in Maryland, but when we mentioned it too the park naturalist, Glenn, he was exited that we saw 'the couger'.
Closer in Coyotes are becoming a problem, raiding trash cans and doing away with family pets left in the back yard. Last summer while on the archary range, I went down to pull my arrows, and n turning back to walk back I saw a lone coyote watching me from the edge of the woods. I yelled and he vanished.
So, yeah, we still have some wild woods to go ramble in.
I have a question, jackknife ...
What will it take to finally get some pics posted of some of the legendary knives in your collection!?
At the present time, my 'collection' is down to just about a half dozen knives. My grandson Ryan has become the historian of the family, and he's the custodian of all the family heirlooms. He bought a few display cases at Michaels, and has the knives in a case under glass, with a card by each knife telling who owned it, (me or dad or grandad) and about how long it was carried. There's a photo in each case of the person. He's even drawn up a map of the family tree all the way b ack to Ireland. Not that thats a long time. Got a sense of history that lad. I've got a few of my ever day users, but Ryan has the rest, which is good if I want to get them photo'ed. Niether Karen or myself has a camera, and we are a little short of the techy knowhow. Karen has this computer mainly for e-mails among her far flung family cousins in Georga, California, Virginia, and Texas, that keep in touch and have re-unions every year, with small get togethers often. I just sort of learned enough to go brouse the internet to see what all the fuss was about, and stumbled blind into this place. The few other forums I've found that may have been mildly interesting at first, like gun forums, a few motorcycle forums, and what ever, have all fallen by the wayside. Too many idiots and too many large egeo's to deal with. This is about the only thing I bother getting on the internet for.
I'll have to check with Ryan to see if he has a freind with a camera to get some of the old ones up on view.
Only two. My father and I were the only people who carried a peanut. There is my dad's old bone handle one, My old yella handle one, and my bone stag one.
I don't carry a peanut anymore, as the small slip joint is a little much for me to deal with on a bad day.
That's the saddest story you ever told me.
Having never owned a canoe, I haven't any idea of it's history. I can only imagine that the name is derrived from the profile of the knife being like that of a canoe.
For some reason I never got around to trying a canoe, a muskrat, or a trapper. Most of my knife carrying has been scout, stockman, some soddies, and the peanut. A barlow was in the mix for a while, but it lost out to the stockman, as it was almost the same weight, but didn't give me the versitility of the stockman's three blades. To this day, the softest spots in my heart are for the scout and the stockman. They got me a really long way for a long time.
For some reason I never got around to trying a canoe, a muskrat, or a trapper. Most of my knife carrying has been scout, stockman, some soddies, and the peanut. A barlow was in the mix for a while, but it lost out to the stockman, as it was almost the same weight, but didn't give me the versitility of the stockman's three blades. To this day, the softest spots in my heart are for the scout and the stockman. They got me a really long way for a long time.
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Theres a practical point to the copperhead pattern. The bulge in the bolster encloses the sharp corner of the knife blade, where the spine approaches the pivot. Theres less wear and tear on your pocket with that right angle hidden by the bolster.
The canoe pattern is an ambidextrous copperhead.
I know nothing about typical blade patterns for the canoe.
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Thank you, Jackknife for your answer. Its nice to hear about the wilderness. I have tried to search for the invironment of your youth in the maps but cant say I understand where it is. We have a Swedish woman (Renata Clumska) that made a film about her trip around the 48 states that tock her around a year and a half. She thought it was a very tuff journey. She is one of ouer tuffest adventurers, reaching summit of everest and other things in himalya for ex. It was a very beautiful film. Nice story about the buffalo. I have a simular memory from camping in the mountains some years go when I had a flock of reindeers outside my tent, I was tired and it was cold outside so I hesitated going up to shase them away a bit, Suddenly a helicopter flies over us in the middle of the night making the reindeer frightend and starting running. The risk was obious they could try to run over my small green mountaintent, so man was I quick to rice and come out of the tent, as I came out it was in the las moment as the reindeers came running into the campplace, around 30 to 40 of them. As they saw me they turned a little and ran close to the tent and over my triangia field stowe.
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