All About Pocket Knives

Here's a Canal Street stockman that was a Red Hill exclusive back in 2006.

Beautiful knife Wazu!

Does anyone know anything about the Red Hill exclusive program?

Can't tell you much, but what I've observed on the Canal Street offerings from Red Hill Cutlery is that they have patterns that are common to the stock Canal Street patterns but have them done in different handle materials than the stock Canal Street versions and then have a special shield on the knife rather than the standard Canal Street shield. I've got a few of these in my collection. The only other seller marked shield on a knife I've got which bears the Canal Street tang stamp is one from Droppoint Hunter on a swell centered jack.
I know other sellers have had SFO runs made up by Canal Street but I'm not aware of any others that bore their own shield while still displaying the Canal Street tang stamp. Knives made for A.G. Russell and for Sooner States Knives come to mind as examples that have had special runs made which did not bear a different shield.
Moore Makers has had some knives built by Canal Street but the ones I've seen didn't bear the Canal Street mark anywhere. I've also seen (and have one) Rigid marked knives that were made by Canal Street.

EDIT: Looks like I've spotted another Canal Street stamped knife with a different shield. In fact there are three of them for sale on ebay right now. Here's a picture of the stockman model.

Thanks Phil

Beautiful says it all. To me it is stunning.

To add to what Phil has already stated....

Some of these companies, like AG Russell and Red Hill provide the handle material to Canal Street to have them put on the different Canal Street Patterns. I believe they have even purchased knives without handles and had someone else put the handles of their choice on them.

I do know that AG Russell provided Canal Street with some beautiful Stag to be put on the English Barlows, since I had to get one from AG Russelll because it wasn't available from Canal Street. I believe Wally Gardner told me that he made the Barlows for Red Hill and they (Red Hill) had the Micarta handles added by someone else.

Tom

Tom. AG provides the stag for all his CS knives, it's beautiful stuff that's been warehoused for decades.

Red Hill had some mica pearl (a type of resin) handles applied to barlow skeletons, I think there were around four varieties that are impregnated with different chips of horn, mammoth tooth and bone, pearl, etc.

Eric

Thank you Eric for jumping in and clarifying that for us!

I appreciate it.

Tom

Here are a couple of Founder's Day knives done for Red Hill's annual Founder's Day gathering. This was Canal Street's first year for that shindig, 2006. They made two muskrats, one with Wally G's signature and one with Joe H's:

Those are niiiiiiiiiiiice.


The bone kind of reminds me of the Big Pine bone Utica is using.

1967redrider wrote:Those are niiiiiiiiiiiice.


The bone kind of reminds me of the Big Pine bone Utica is using.

I do see a lot of similarity in the jigging.