Great Eastern Cutlery Northfield #16 Canoe Wave Blue Jigged Bone 1095 Carbon Steel Two-Blade Pocket Knife (3.50" Closed) 162226

This Great Eastern Cutlery #16 Canoe runs Wave Blue Jigged Bone covers over brass liners, a traditional pocket knife with a spear blade for the everyday work and a pen blade for the close stuff.

• Wave Blue Jigged Bone Covers - Wave Blue is the name Great Eastern Cutlery gives this bone, cut and jigged in the bone works in Titusville. The jigging is textured enough to feel under the thumb without biting at a pocket, and a federal shield sits inlaid in the cover.
• 1095 Carbon Steel Blades & Backsprings - The 1095 takes a keen edge, sharpens easily, and colors as you use it. The master is a spear and the secondary a pen, and both take a stiff pull off the nail before they snap shut hard. There are no half stops on either.
• Brass Liners & Nickel Silver Bolsters - Brass liners run the length of the frame and nickel silver caps both ends, curving in toward the middle, which is where the canoe gets its name. The whole thing is pinned together, and the covers sit flush with the bolsters.
• 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.