given to family and friends

Former Schrade President Walley Gardner and principal Joe Hufnagel joined with nine master cutlers to form a group of US craftsmen with over 300 years of combined knife making experience to create Canal Street Cutlery. It was first located in upstate New York where a long and rich tradition of quality knife making dates back to the 19th century. Unfortunately, the company closed its doors in 2015, but not before making some great knives. The brand was resurrected in 2018 as Canal Street Cutlery Co-Op & focused on making very small batches of high quality traditional knives. As a Co-Op, it was owned by the knife makers who worked there. Unfortunately, the business model couldn't hold up & the entity again ceased production.
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WillClinger
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For Christmas this year, I gave pocket knives to adult relatives and friends. Here are the Canal Street gifts, together with a couple of my own:
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Pinch gift group, closed
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Barlow gift group, open
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Woo-Wee!! How do I get on your Christmas list?? Way to go, very generous gifts ::tu:: ::tu::
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Very nice gifts
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That was a very well thought out gift. The craftsmanship and quality of the Canal Street cutlery knives is phenomenal.

I owe each of the Pinch Locks and English Barlows you have posted as well as a couple of the Half Moon Trappers.

The Pinch and the Barlow are my most favorite of the CSC clan though!

Great gifting

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tjmurphy wrote:Woo-Wee!! How do I get on your Christmas list??
Well, you had to be related to me or a good friend, and I don't do this every year, so it may not be worth it.
:)

Out of 20 gifts, I felt confident that 5 specific recipients would appreciate them. I felt good about another 5 when my brother pulled a Swiss army knife from his pocket within two hours of my arrival for the holidays. At least two of the Buck slipjoints, and probably all three, entered his sons' pockets right after they opened their gifts. I hear one of them was often seen handling his knife over the next couple of days.

Unbeknownst to me, another nephew had asked for a pocket knife, so his father gave him one as well. I suspect he'll use the Canal Street English Barlow in American Chestnut as his dress knife, and carry the one his father gave him as his everyday knife.

A sister-in-law said she hadn't had a pocket knife of her own, so she was always having to borrow one from her husband or a son. (She also told me one of her sons had given her a set of kitchen knives, hoping to inherit her old ones, but she held onto a couple of the old knives she had grown fond of and gave him a brand new set.)

In short, these gifts were more successful than I had dared hope.
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