Great Eastern Cutlery Tidioute #72 French Creek Trapper Bloodwood 1095 Carbon Steel Two-Blade Pocket Knife (3.87" Closed) 728226

Bloodwood covers mark this Great Eastern Cutlery #72 French Creek Trapper, a traditional pocket knife whose clip point and drop point are both 1095 carbon and capable of taking the full share of the cutting.

• 1095 Clip Point & Drop Point Blades - The long clip main handles detail work and the drop point secondary takes the heavier push cuts. 1095 sharpens easily on a plain stone, though it will rust if you put it away wet. Wipe both blades down after use and keep a light oil on them.
• Satin Bloodwood Covers - Bloodwood ranks among the densest hardwoods used on a pocket knife, heavy enough to sink in water and hard enough to finish nearly like stone. The grain runs deep red with darker streaks, and no two sets of covers come off the bench looking quite the same.
• Full Size Trapper Frame - This one runs wider through the handle than most trappers its length, which gives your fingers a flat to press against instead of a narrow spine. That matters on daily cutting chores where you end up bearing down on the blade for longer than you meant to.
• Two Stiff Backsprings - Each blade rides its own spring with a firm pull and a hard snap at both ends. Nothing wanders open in a pocket and nothing drifts shut mid cut. Plan on two hands and a thumbnail you trust until the springs break in.

The Great Eastern Cutlery #72 French Creek Trapper

The Great Eastern Cutlery #72 French Creek Trapper is a full size two blade jack built on a frame Great Eastern Cutlery has run for years as a lockback hunter. The trapper version trades the lock for two backsprings and a pair of working blade shapes. That puts it closer to a farm knife than a slim pocket folder. The name comes from the creek that runs south through Crawford County and joins the Allegheny on its way to Pittsburgh, a few miles from the Great Eastern Cutlery shop where the knives are pinned and finished by hand.