What traditional did Dick Proenneke use?

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sodak said:
If you don't know who Dick Proenneke is, shame on you. :D
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All right, I'll bite. Who is "Dick Proenneke" and why would I as a user of Traditional knives need to know about some hermit who lived alone in Alaska?
 
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I can't tell for sure. I've always wondered. The shield reminds me of a case oval. It wasn't a small knife for sure.
 
Tapping into my vast traditional folder knowledge bank, built up through years of extensive knife study and use I'm going to say that looks like a Case model 64047p.
 
sodak said:
Pause this at 4:34 and cast your vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

One of my all time heroes. If you don't know who Dick Proenneke is, shame on you. :D
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My Dad & I have watched the 'Alone in the Wilderness' program a couple times, and never cease to be amazed at the life he lived. As close to self-sufficient as I could ever hope to be. In a perfect world, I think both of us would've been out there too (if we were up to the challenge, that is... :D ).

No idea what the pocket knife was, though I'm SURE he made the best use of it. :thumbup:


David
 
Cory Hess said:
Tapping into my vast traditional folder knowledge bank, built up through years of extensive knife study and use I'm going to say that looks like a Case model 64047p.
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I concur with Cory. Many years ago, if memory serves, I saw an unedited version of Dick Proenneke's adventures in AK. Seems showings in recent years are shortened with a heavy hand. Remarkable man. He also had a sheath knife, but can't recall what kind.
 
Dick carried only the blades and fashioned handles for them once he arrived in the wilderness. He did this with all his tools:D
 
As a journeyman carpenter with 30 years in the trades I take my hat off to Dick, his skills were amazing... Case would be my first guess.
 
Those Dick P. films are mesmerizing. At one time they were available on YouTube and they killed my productivity at work, and made me feel like a real half-man! :-)

-- Mark
 
Obsessed with Edges said:
Just found an old GAW thread posted by member 'sunnyd', themed around guessing Dick Proenneke's 'favorite folder'
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I'll admit that that thread was the "vast traditional folder knowledge bank" and "years of extensive knife study" that I made note of earlier. I am much more adept at using Google than I am at identifying knives. :p
 
Cory Hess said:
I'll admit that that thread was the "vast traditional folder knowledge bank" and "years of extensive knife study" that I made note of earlier. I am much more adept at using Google than I am at identifying knives. :p
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Nothing wrong with that. I've learned a TON more than I ever would've thought possible, just by pondering questions and other things posted here and elsewhere, and being inspired to go 'Googlin' for more answers (hence the link I posted). It still amazes me, the difference made by the availability of information on the web. A very wise person once told me that it's not important to know all the answers, but knowing how to find them is what matters. And that's from back in the 'Before Time', when all we had to rely upon were those things called 'books' and 'libraries' (and stone tablets, and drawings on cave walls). :D


David
 
knarfeng said:
All right, I'll bite. Who is "Dick Proenneke" and why would I as a user of Traditional knives need to know about some hermit who lived alone in Alaska?
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Because "some hermit" was an very well educated engineer who decided to live a life many of us dream about, where he utilized traditional skills and traditional tools to live a life of comfortable solitude that he built by himself, after retirement, and lived there until old age. As a proponent of traditional knives, why would you not want to know about him and how he used his tools and lived a traditional settlers lifestyle?
 
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