Great Eastern Cutlery Northfield #16 Canoe Ivory Linen Micarta 1095 Carbon Steel Two-Blade Pocket Knife (3.50" Closed) 162226

This Great Eastern Cutlery Northfield #16 Canoe pairs smooth Ivory Linen Micarta covers with satin 1095 blades. A two-blade traditional pocket knife where the spear does the work and the pen handles the fine cuts.

• Ivory Linen Micarta with Federal Shield - The covers run smooth and polished under the thumb, off-white ivory across both sides with a Federal shield inset on the mark side. Micarta takes water, sweat and pocket grit in stride, so this one takes hard use without fuss.
• Satin 1095 Spear & Pen - The spear master is the blade you reach for, with the pen behind it for detail work, both finished satin. 1095 is a high-carbon steel that takes a keener edge than stainless and comes back fast on a stone. It patinas and can rust, so keep it dry.
• Two-Blade Canoe Frame - The frame swells through the middle and falls away to a point at either end, so there is not a square corner anywhere on it. It is a pinned, non-locking slip joint, and both blades come up and snap home crisply.
• American Made & Hand Finished - Great Eastern Cutlery makes this one in the USA, with over 200 hand operations going into a single knife. The master blade carries cut swaging along the spine, the bolsters are coined, and the backsprings are 1095 like the blades.

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 Northfield UN-X-LD Knives

Northfield UN-X-LD is the dressier of the two names Great Eastern Cutlery stamps on its traditional patterns. Where a Tidioute is put up plain for someone who needs a knife to work, a Northfield gets the cosmetic tooling and the finishing you would find on a well-made pocket knife from the early 1900s, along with the better cover materials. Same patterns, same shop, more attention to how it looks coming out of a pocket.