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The knife below is just a good ol' "Old Hickory" carving knife I picked up years ago. Our neighbor in Brazil did a bit of leather work and the sheath is a Brazilian style one made from goat or deerhide, I don't recall now which of the two it was. It's "adorned" in the common sertanejo style of the area we lived in. Years ago I lost count of the goats it's skinned and the meals it's fixed, not to mention its use for myriad camp chores and fishing trips and such. It ain't fancy, didn't set me back a bundle and to most is "not much of a knife" - but it brings back memories and still accompanies me on fishing trips, camping trips and other outdoor adventures as time and opportunity allow.
And then there's this one. It ain't a bowie either although it's closer to the "profile" as far as blade shape goes, and it's got a hand guard of sorts. Anyway, it belonged to a Presbyterian preacher named Love in Joplin, Missouri. He passed away and later his wife had a stroke. His daughters hired me and another college kid to help load up the household stuff to send back to their residences. We could have anything they didn't want. The preacher would have been an interesting man to know. The house was full of games and such that he'd invented, including a board game called "Royal Checkers" or some such name, a game he'd had made up and sold to folks. He was also a sportsman, at least as far as fishing goes. I got a rusty old tackle box full of old lures - and this knife. It was rusted into the sheath, which was falling apart. I got it out and cleaned it up. It took a while, but eventually I got most of the rust induced "serrated edge" cleaned up and it takes a good edge. It, too, has traveled a lot of miles with me. Back in '88 I almost lost it when I did the dumb stunt of sticking a stingray with it. The ray was in shallow water and I stuck him dead center with the knife. He took off - with the knife breaking water like a shark's fin. My cousin was next to me and reached out and held the knife down with the palm of his hand. I then grabbed it and flipped the critter up on the bank of the river. Got my knife back and we had some ray for fishbait. It has also skinned a bunch of game and is usually with me when out camping or fishing down here. The sheath was also made by our neighbor. It's not as "fancy" but is also made of deerhide (or goat? - so much for memory) and is a fairly typical sertanejo style sheath.
Paul - in Pereira
"He is the best friend of American liberty who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion." -- John Witherspoon
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men
shall possess the highest seats in Government,
our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots
to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams
One of the guys I hunt with carries a 6" or 7" thick bladed boning knife (very similar in shape to AmBraCol's first picture) and uses it for everything. If he breaks one (very rare) he just goes to the local grocery store or butcher shop and gets another one. He likes them because they are cheap and easy to sharpen.
Here is one of a small skinner I own. It is made of Damascus steel and has brass inlay in the handle. I posted it before, but this seemed the place to post it again. It was made by Brian Wilhoite, a smith at the Smokey Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, TN.
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway, "On the Blue Water," Esquire, April 1936
