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By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n

I haven’t done a knife story in awhile,\u00a0 but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been buying.\u00a0 Some of these online knife stores’ websites are addictive, and the Chicago Knife Works<\/a> site certainly falls into that category.\u00a0 It’s fun just perusing their offerings.\u00a0 Sometimes, I’ll see something that piques my interest and then I’ll search on a feature that a particular knife has.\u00a0 That occurred recently when I saw a folder I likes with bone handles (or scales, to use knife aficionado terminology).<\/p>\n

Bone as a scale material is intriguing to me, partly because I like the way it looks, partly because it looks like ivory, and partly because of a recent visit to the fabled Colt Custom Shop<\/a> in West Hartford, Connecticut.\u00a0 When I saw an artist crafting custom grips on a Colt 1873 Single Action Army, I asked about the material (knowing that ivory was no longer available).\u00a0 The answer, as good friend and Colt factory guide Tim told me, was bone.\u00a0 Giraffe bone, to be specific.\u00a0 I would never have imagined.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to get back to the main attraction, I saw a Marbles folding knife with white bone scales on the Chicago Knife Works<\/a> site and I liked it, so I searched on all Marbles folders with bone scales.\u00a0 What the site’s search returned was intriguing.<\/p>\n

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I liked every one of the knives I saw, and Chicago Knife Works<\/a>‘ prices are so reasonable I pulled the trigger on all of them.\u00a0 Cheap fun, and they looked good on the Chicago Knife Works site.\u00a0 They arrived a few days later (all the above, with shipping, was only about $50), and I can tell you they look even better in person.<\/p>\n

All the knives are appealing, and I like the white bone appearance.\u00a0 The canoe<\/a> style is one I’ve written about before, and in my opinion, it is about the perfect-sized pocketknife for pocket carry.\u00a0 It has two blades and both are razor sharp.\u00a0 The work knife (also known as a sodbuster) is a single-bladed knife and its name comes from the fact that it is designed to be used by a working man (like a farmer).\u00a0 The trapper knife (as you might have guessed) is the design preferred by trappers.\u00a0 It has two blades:\u00a0 One with a clip point and the other with a spey blade (we’ve mentioned those before; my Case Stockman<\/a> knife also has a spey blade).\u00a0 And finally, there’s that gorgeous two-bladed sunfish knife, which is a big knife.\u00a0 It gets its name from its sunfish-like shape.<\/p>\n

The Sunfish is a physically big knife, as the following photos show:<\/p>\n

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I can’t say which of the above knives I like the best, so I’ll cut to the chase and tell you that I like them all.\u00a0 So much so, I continued the quest for knives with white bone scales.<\/p>\n

Most recently, I purchased a large folder (the Rough Ryder Deer Slayer) from another knife supplier only because Chicago Knife Works didn’t have it in stock.\u00a0 I’ve written about it before.<\/p>\n

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I like the look and size of the Deer Slayer so much that I started poking around to see if that knife was available with white bone scales.\u00a0 It was.\u00a0 The manufacturer this time is Hen and Rooster, and I was able to order it from Chicago Knife Works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I guess I should say the importer, not the manufacturer, as I suspect the same manufacturer makes knives for several importers with slight differences to meet the importers’ marketing strategies.\u00a0 I don’t have the Hen and Rooster knife yet, but when I get it, I’ll post a few photos in a future blog.<\/p>\n

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