Folks, we have been a sponsor of this amazing website for a few years now, since our inception. We have fiddled around trying to find our place...first as a blogging site, then as a retail site selling traditional archery products. Over time, I was "side tracked" by my day job, and Traditional Woodsman fell to neglect. Our site was hacked, we weren't very active.
My other company is perking along now;I have hired both my sons, and now I have a little bandwidth to get things going again. We have been working diligently to get the site back up and running, and developing some new (although traditional) products. We will have some of the Asbell products that we were known for, as well as a few surprises. The thing is, nothing happens all at once. We will be rolling a few products out at a time...here is the first:
The Traditional Woodsman Skinner. I will never claim to have "designed" this knife. It is the culmination of what I thought a proper field knife should be, and from Carltons perspective, how a knife should be built.
The 4 inch blade is 1095 steel, with a Cocobolo handle. The steel requires some care. Clean it, oil it, don't just toss it in a drawer until you need it next year. The chemical etching gives it the patina of an old friend. It's meant to be used, and cared for. It's meant to be handed down, not tossed away.
Carlton has taken great care in the process to make sure the spine of the blade is more flexible than the cutting edge. Close inspection shows a "quench line" dividing the blade.
The blade shape is heavily influenced by the knives I "go to" the most when hunting. Plenty of belly for skinning, yet a tight enough point so opening up a whitetail doesn't require a second knife. Carlton modified my blade model a bit, adding scroll work on top and a more abrupt bottom edge, to keep the blade for slipping under load. We have a lanyard hole on the knife, I find them very handy when taking apart big game, when the handle get s slippery, or when using the knife in a spot where dropping it could be bad new (over water, in a treestand).
I won't claim "this is all the knife you will ever need"...most of us have a drawer full of "perfect knives". But to me this knife is special. I have spent a lifetime in the woods, fiddling around with different ideas for the perfect hunting knife. And while I wouldn't want to choose, if I had to, this knife can do almost anything required of a woodsmans knife.
Price, including the sheath, is $135 plus actual shipping. In a few weeks you can go on my site and buy online, for now please email me:
[email protected] and we will work out the details.
Stay tuned....more great stuff on the way
Topic: Traditional Woodsman Announcement UPDATE! (Read 1264 times)
