Great Eastern Cutlery Tidioute #16 Canoe Rogers Brown Jigged Bone 1095 Carbon Steel Two-Blade Pocket Knife (3.50" Closed) 162226

This Great Eastern Cutlery #16 Canoe runs Rogers Brown Jigged Bone covers and a Square Bar shield. It is a small two-blade traditional pocket knife, rounded end to end, for boxes, tape, and the small cutting a day turns up.

• Rogers Brown Jigged Bone Covers with a Square Bar Shield - Natural bone, jigged for pattern and then polished smooth, so it is a surface you see more than feel. No two sets of covers come out alike. The Square Bar shield sits inlaid in the bone.
• Limited-Run Production - Great Eastern Cutlery makes the #16 in limited runs rather than continuous production. The pattern has been made that way since it was introduced in 2012.
• Nickel Silver Bolsters & Brass Liners - Nickel silver caps each end of the frame and brass liners run its length, and the whole knife is pinned together rather than screwed. Nickel silver is not plated, so the shine is the metal itself and goes all the way through.
• 1095 Carbon Steel Spear & Pen Blades - A spear master and a pen secondary, both flat ground and satin, each coming up on a firm pull and snapping home crisp. 1095 sharpens easily and takes a fine edge. It will also spot if put away wet, so keep it dry and lightly oiled.

The Great Eastern Cutlery #16 Little Indian Girl Canoe

The Great Eastern Cutlery #16 Canoe revives the Little Indian Girl Canoe, a compact two-blade pattern the company first cut in 2012. This pattern hangs one blade at each end of the frame rather than stacking both on a single pivot, and that split is where the pattern gets its double-ended profile and its name. Neither blade has to be sized around the other that way, so the spear can run long while the pen stays genuinely small — two real tools instead of one blade and a spare. Great Eastern Cutlery drew the pattern from the golden age of American pocket cutlery, when a canoe was carried for dress as much as for cutting, and still builds it the old way with pinned construction.

Great Eastern Cutlery Tidioute Knives

Tidioute is the Great Eastern Cutlery line built for function rather than for looks, and the company says as much itself, describing these knives as made for performance rather than cosmetic beauty. These knives carry a tang stamp reading Tidioute Cutlery over Titusville PA.