It's a nice general purpose design that can do a little bit of everything. A real jack of all trades design. They can chop up veggies for dinner, clean game, build a shelter, split some firewood, make feathersticks, hack through some light brush, etc.
Here is the Bark River version:
Here's the post I made, which shares some background info on the pattern, and shows off more versions of it.
I'd like to see Spydercos take on this classic.Vivi wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:58 am...From what I've read, this pattern was popular with trappers, hunters and frontiersmen in Canada & the US during the 1600's & 1700's. Specifically the Hudson Bay & Great Lakes areas. This was a large camp knife that would be used for skinning game, cutting food, light brush clearing and probably self defense. They were made in Sheffield, England for the HBC.
The knife is a fixed blade with a clip point variation and gently concaved handle with a rounded butt. The blades are typically full flat ground simple carbon steel with a thin spine, making them fairly light for their size. Blades generally 6-9," but I've seen 4" to 14". Handles are most commonly wood.
Here's some examples:
Two of unknown origin from a Fur Trade museum
Bark River
Sheffield
Custom (ML Knives)
Condor (Tempted to buy this one actually)
In fact the camp knife I bought for myself recently is basically a modern interpretation of this pattern.