Bark River

[JakeR]

I am interested in a smaller knife to accompany my Woodlore Micarta. I like the look of some of the bark river knives...what are they like?

I dont want to spend alot. You may have realised that i have little money (being a student)! I have a puukko, but would like something like the Bison bushcraft, but i dont have enough money. The mini candian is about £40, which looks like a bargain.

Any other small recomndations?

Cheers,

Jake

 

[sargey]

i've got a highland, it's a fantastic blade. too sharp for leather so it lives in kydex. i'm looking forward to some of the new models. i reckon the north star will make a great bushcraft knife. quite fancy a mini or a mikro too.

so manyknives, so little money......

cheers, and.

 

[JakeR]

Do you know much about the fieldsman. It is a hidden tang (is that the same as a stick tang?).

Or this http://www.agrussell.com/knives/by_...river_highland_special_antique_stag_bone.html

Cheers,

Jake

 

[JakeR]

I was looking around. Could you tell me the names of some of the reputable makes...heinnie has so many, but i dont know what is good.

 

[grumit]

hi jake take a look at the fallkniven wm1 its a bit more than your £40 but it would compliment the ws macarta well i have one and would recomend it as a good little allrounder :-D

 

[JakeR]

Cheers grumit. I had a look on outdoor supplies and they have a mini canadian for about £41. How much is the WM1?

Cheers,

Jake

 

[grumit]

its about £50 nice knife has a small handle good for small hands :-D

 

[JakeR]

I think i'm gonna go for the bark river. seems reliable enough. and i like the shape!

 

[eraaij]

Another vote for the Bark River Highland. Great little knife and sharp like a razor. If I had to by it again, however, I would not get one with Stag Bone handles. Too slippery when wet.

-Emile

 

[JakeR]

I'm gonna order the mini canadian. From joe on outdoor supplies. Is he a member on the site?

 

[Adi007]

I'm gonna order the mini canadian. From joe on outdoor supplies. Is he a member on the site?

Dunno if he is here ... but he is over on British Blades.

 

[JakeR]

Thats where i got confused then. It looks like a nice knife!

 

[JakeR]

Has anyone uses knives made by Marbles?

 

[Stuart]

Whats the grind on the bark river knives??

 

[Hoodoo]

Has anyone uses knives made by Marbles?

I have a few.

 

[bigjackbrass]

One day, Hoodoo, you are going to shock us all when somebody asks about a bit of kit and you have to sheepishly admit that you only own one example...

 

[JakeR]

Hoodoo, i have never seen anything like it. You have such vast amounts of kit!!! You should photograph it all in a big heap in a field from far away so that you can get it all in.

Anyway...what are they like? Are they worth it? Are they users? I think you should be allocated the job "Kit Advice Man".

:biggthump:

Jake

 

[Hoodoo]

Well gentlemen, think of them as investments. :-D Even if I use them they will increase in value over time. Simply because they are some of the best Marbles knives that were ever made. Almost all the knives above were made when Mike Stewart was running the shop. Same guy who now owns Bark River. In the last year or so when Stewart was there and then afterwards, Marbles quality began to decline. First they stopped doing the cryo treatment. Now they are using "mystery" steel. Lots of great models were discontinued. It's not the same anymore. I have just one of the newer ones but if I were going to get one I'd look for an older one, maybe 2002 and earlier. I'm not exactly sure when they stopped cryo treating the blades nor when they stopped using 52100 steel. When they started screwing up the Marbles knives, that made my little collection worth a lot more. All the ones above with the short little guard are older ones. Somewhere online is a webpage for dating them based on the handle spacers. But I don't have that info handy. I will see if I can find it.

Marbles are wonderful using knives and have a long history as using knives in the woods. They were the favored knives of Rustrum (the marbles expert) and Kephart (the marbles woodcraft) as well as others.

 

[JakeR]

Would you recomend i get the mini canadian as oppose to the the marble?

 

[Martyn]

blimmin 'eck Hoodoo, I've got knife envy!