Who makes a good canoe?

Im fed up with cheap chinese junk canoes, and last time I went to the SMKW I couldn't find many canoe pattern knives to pick from. The few that were there were either similar junk as to what I have had and broke, or were display quality knives fancied up to a point of being gaudy. I bought a Chinese Buck a few years ago for my dad and his has developed a bit of scale rattle, so it will soon fail. All of my knives have broken either by weakened springs or by broken scales. Case XX had no canoe knives (last i looked) aside from the display pieces. Call me crazy but I just don't see the point in paying $100 bucks for a $40 knife with "pretty" grips that clearly aren't durable and aren't meant for use.

Will do. I was hoping to drop a hint for Father’s Day as it will be my first, to get a decent knife I can use, enjoy, and cherish. That means current production. The problem with current production as I looked around last night is in scale materials. I would greatly prefer bone, but most new knives have a synthetic material. That can be good or bad. I’m typically a traditional guy when it comes to knives so I don’t know which synthetics are durable and which ones are cheap junk. To compound matters, a few of the knives I looked at didn’t say which synthetic material it was, just that it was synthetic.

I need to look up and possibly part ways with some of my vintage pieces. Prices seem to be up a bit again and I would rather have guns and reloading gear than a couple of my knives which never see daylight. Of course most are used and not collectible, but the MOP Eisenhower with silver bolsters still in wax paper might be worth something.

Armored farmer said:

Take a look at the Rough Riders.
They are decent and cheap.
In another thread, some of us have admitted to owning them.
Lol

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I’m one of the ones who own them. The toothpicks are great for the money, but the canoes don’t seem to hold up as well. Seems like the larger scales are more easily broken free.

To my point earlier...the canoes have very similar size and shape, and most importantly rivet placement to this, my current everyday carry...bought the day that I last visited SMKW.
This knife was bought between thanksgiving and Christmas so let’s call it 4 months old. You can already see the bone scales failing at the rivet point. I believe that they are peening the rivets a tad too hard which puts too much pressure on the scales causing the slow but certain cracking. There may also be an issue with the drying process also affecting the scales. Look closely at the center rivet and you can see the crack forming. This knife probably has 2 months at best before it sheds a scale.

No clue how that image doubled unless it did it when I edited the post.

WestKentucky said:

No clue how that image doubled unless it did it when I edited the post.

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Hey @Derek Zeanah do you have any idea on how to fix this?