What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

He bought the knife at a small show where the tables were crowded and the talk was mostly about steel and memory. The seller didn’t say much, just slid it across the cloth so the light caught the dark green jigged bone. The Schatt & Morgan Canoe had a steady feel to it. Two blades that opened with a clean, deliberate snap. It wasn’t rare enough to argue over, and not cheap enough to forget, so he paid and moved on.

For a while it stayed in his pocket without much thought. It opened boxes, trimmed loose threads, and once shaved a sliver of wood from a chair leg that rocked too much on the kitchen floor. The larger blade took most of the work, the smaller one kept its edge in reserve. He wiped it down at the end of the day out of habit more than care, noticing how the steel picked up faint marks that didn’t quite polish away.

Over time, it became a pocket knife he reached for without deciding to. Others came and went through jeans pockets, carried and set aside, but this one rotated often. Not because it was better, exactly, but because it had settled into a rhythm with him. When he opened it, there was no surprise left in the deliberate and dependable motion, just perfect muscle memory satisfaction, and that seemed to be reason enough to keep it close. Well that and the quiet certainty this Schatt & Morgan Emerald Canoe would do exactly what was asked of it, no more and no less.

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May started out here with a heavy frost and 34° this morning, and it looks like the next couple mornings will be the same. We saw our first humming birds at the feeders the day before yesterday, and the first Oriole yesterday. I bet they wish they'd have stayed down South for another week.
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Sticking with yeller RR1740 Classic Carbon XL stockman in pocket.
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and a David Mary custom kneck knife with "Trout" Micarta scales that was gifted to me a couple years ago, hung from my kneck.
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(I can't recal the name of the DM ..."Itty Bitty Bitey"? I dunno ...)
 
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Miscellaneous Knife of the Week is a fish knife from Providence Cutlery. I probably haven't fished since I started high school over 60 years ago, but I still like toothpick knives because I remember Grandpa T. using his to cut up corn borers for bait before he took me ice fishing for my first fishing experience. I was young enough that he was baiting my hook for me, and I caught so many that he started using fish eyes for bait because we had run out of the bait we brought!
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Lambsfoot of the Week is my 2019 desert ironwood Guardians Lambsfoot that I've named Valley Jack because of the grain on the pile side wood.
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- GT
 
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