Re: [Paddlewise] crooked knife

Here is something on making a crooked knife:
http://www.cancom.net/~themdays/unclewallace.html

If you have farm stores near you, check in the section where they sell
horse-shoeing tools.  I've found crooked knives of several varieties in most
of the farm stores around me.  Everything from $6 chinese made knives to $12
swiss knives.  I was in a woodworking shop and saw that they sell a nearly
identical german knife for more than $20 (the brand with the three cherries
on the label - pretty common maker of carving tools whose name I forget).
Lee Valley tools might have them (they are on the net at www.leevalley.com,
but not with a complete catalog)

Glenn

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Myers" <jmyers_at_longbranch.k12.nj.us>
To: <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:18 AM
Subject: [Paddlewise] crooked knife


> I recently read a book by John McPhee titled "Survival of the Birchbark
> Canoe". McPhee describes how the canoe builder, a thoroughly disagreeable
> man but a fine, intuitive craftsman, uses a tool called a 'crooked knife'.
> He uses this in place of a drawknife. Does anyone know what a crooked
knife
> is and where one might be obtained?
> John
>
>
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