I’ve got a Green River Hunter sitting in front of me right now. I bought it as an assemble-it-yourself kit, when I was a teenager, back in the mid 1970’s. It was a mail order kit, probably from the back pages of Fur-Fish-And Game magazine. Don’t remember what it cost. Just slapped it together, sanded the scales for maybe 6 minutes, and off we went to my Ohio trapline and hunting, etc. Sometime in the late 1990’s I contoured the clunky handle down to a more bird knife type grip, and replaced the scales with ebony on oak liners. This time with epoxy and no rivets or pins. A cool looking quality knife that I treasure. Thanks for an interesting excellent video.
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I bought the same kit for my nephew 12 years ago, when we visited the Daniel Boone home in MO. He gave me the kit back this last thanksgiving. I have it ready to put it together this weekend. I may wait a long while to get it back to him.!? He probably wants a nice sheath back as well.
My great-great grandfather made a knife with a Green River blade in 1891. The handle was antler from an elk he killed, the sheath was beef leather. I still have it, as well as a scrapbook he kept.
Interesting content here. The Louisiana Purchase opened up vast new territory, followed by westward migration along trails like the Oregon Trail and the California Trail, leading to conflicts with indigenous populations and ultimately the Mexican-American War. Settlers moving west faced challenges including building shelters, farming in difficult terrain, dealing with harsh weather, and relying on self-sufficiency. The westward expansion significantly impacted Native American tribes, leading to forced relocations and conflicts with settlers. Many settlers sought land to farm, prospect for gold (like in California), or raise livestock. Frontier communities often developed a strong sense of community, with shared hardships and reliance on neighbors. Trade knife blanks were in high demand with the settler migration into the western frontier. A solid knife was a necessity and these trade knives became a trade commodity on the frontier. Thank you Desert Dog Outdoors for presenting this historical account of the Green River knife brand. Clearly, you have researched the history of these knives well. I appreciate your effort. Best wishes - Tennessee Smoky
I have the butcher, buffalo skinner, Dadley, and a boning knife from Russel green river. As a former mountain man reenactor, I love these knives. I used the butcher knife to skin, debone and process a buffalo. It worked great. Perfect tool for the job. Love your channel! Great content 👍🏼
Hi DD I befriended an American hunter years ago and he gave me a Russell Green River skinning knife as a gift. The wooden scales eventually split ,so l made up some horn scales , it has served me well as a skinning blade , the quality carbon steel blade holds it's edge nicely. I enjoyed the presentation.
It's a pleasure to hear it. I've been forging knives in Argentina for more than 20 years. I always tell the same thing to people. The American West was conquered with shotguns and kitchen knives!! After the movies and the marketing, they put the Wuinchester to the Colt and the Bowie. The settlers did not have the money to indulge in expensive weapons and knives. In my country the Creole knife is born from the tips of swords that were broken, they made a tang and a Creole knife came out from there, the shape of the tip, in short, many times the story differs quite a bit from what they later sell to us. It happens in all of them. the areas, a dear pleasure your videos are show the reality that what was in the past
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I have read a wonderful essay on the knives of the Gauchos. The pics were beautiful and showed the knives as art. This was at the same time the Bowie knife was so popular in the U.S.
Thanks again DD, What a cool tutorial on this American icon company & its products. Appreciate the walk through history on something I should have looked more into myself by now. The folks on/at eBay will be thanking you shortly. Love the fact you incorporated the “Green River” lingo from historical times into the learning. So much jargon we’ve heard from our older generations now past is forgotten. We don’t even know what so many sayings mean and where they came from. Appreciate your contribution to reconnecting the links from the past to the present. Only way we can continue to carry it CORRECTLY into the future. Great tool work, by the way, on your new knife setup. Very cool!! Well done!! JD
In the days of my youth, 40 years ago, I carried a green River Boner in a leather sheath I had made as my belt knife through many bushwalks and Camping trips in the Northern Territory of Australia . Around Alice Springs and Katherine. Loved that knife!
im in new zealand my father gave me a green river butcher knife and have treasured it for almost 20 years ive had it my father pointed out the pressed trim around the edge of the wooden handle on mine and held sentimental value and meaning to me so glad to of found this video on the green river knife and the history
I found some old knives in an old house when I was a kid and have kept them as well. Now I got a pretty good collection so I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing
Sir i must say this is one of the best videos i have seen on here in ages. You are such a wealth of knowledge about Green River Knives. I loved especially the historical part, your knife collection and the beautful craftsmanship you showed. Thank you very much again for this video. Greetings from a new subscriber from Bali, Indonesia.
I was gifted a modern Green River knife in a 4 3/4 butcher blade configuration by a close friend. I dipped it in vinegar to force patina and really like the blade color now. Thanks for dropping this information on Green River knives.
Thanks DD for the history on the Green river knives🙌 when I was a kid my dad had a set of Green river knives that he got from his mom before she died that she used and he used as a kid during the depression to cut up the wild game such as deer and elk to survive and to sell to miners and loggers where they lived. When my father died my uncle from Idaho got a lot of his keepsake things which included the knives. My best friend who lives in Idaho as a kid and is in his late 80’s still has some of these and is now a custom knife maker and I sent him this video and know he is going to enjoy going down his childhood past as much as I did. He is very fortunate to have lived by some pillars of the gun community in the 50’s and 60’s and I was fortunate to have lived by some great gun writers and makes like Zane Grey which my grand parents live next to on the Rogue River back when he was writing his western novels and my fathers best friend who was gunsmith and reloader as friend with John and his brother Bob when they were just getting started out in Ashland making the Nosler bullets and have used them ever since.
The best I've seen about Green River Knives so far... and my guess is, this vid will be hard to top! You did an excellent job on your knife there, congratulations! Stunning! I have a blank blade and two pieces of beautiful, stabilized wood for the scales... and now I can't wait to put it all together...
Outstanding video. This is the gold-standard video on RUclips for understanding the allure of Green River Knives. I carry a Dadley with Texas Honey Mesquite scales and brass pins. Nothing slices better. Thank you for this.
In my experience the best way to learn about something is to own one. I have one of these that came in an old D bag I picked up to go with my PA rifle collection. Now I have to find out WTF I have ! Ha Ha
My property is the site of a Civil War battlefield. (Second Battle of Corinth) I have dug up a lot of relics with a metal detector. While detecting, I found a sawmill cut oak board with square nails in it. It was solid black from the minerals in the soil and still rock hard. I made handle scales for my Dadley blank and used three brass pins. With linseed oil it now looks like Ebony wood. I now have 160 year oil scales on a Green River!
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I have seen videos of oak taken from the swamps and was turned into some beautiful, pricey lumber.
Before I started forging my own, I made many many Knives with Green River blanks from several "Fur Trade" supply sources ie. Dixie Gun Works. Log Cabin Shop. Basically anywhere I could order from. I was stationed in Germany and would shoot with Germans who loved living history. I made them knives and Knives for guys in my unit. I have no idea how many are out there masquerading as authentic Green River knives.😊
Very interesting and great correction of a American icon. Thank you for sharing I have been collecting knives since I been a child.Very interesting history.
Just found your channel. So good to hear logic on RUclips! 😁 I've been practising bushcraft since I was a child. We called it living back then. If we didn't catch fish or rabbits, we didn't eat. The term bushcraft, as you said, is now a marketing buzz word to sell needless equipment to gullible people. Was also nice to see a still of an Imperial Stag knife, being a local company to me in Ireland, all my skining knives were Imperial and I still have two today. Unfortunately, the company closed down twenty years ago but their knives still shave hairs and will skin a rabbit as effectively today as they did when I bought them thirty plus years ago. Really liked this video, looking forward to going through your back catalogue and seeing more.
I am blown away by the level of quality of production, information and demonstration that went into this video. I’m a fan of knives and have a small collection myself and recently discovered Green River knives My first dive into the history of Green River knives was by chance this video. I feel very fortunate to have stumbled upon your channel and this video just days after it was uploaded. Thank you so much for your passion and the effort that went into this.🙏🔪
My parents used to own a farm that was over 150 years old from just one family in the 1980's. Downstairs against the back of the sink was a whole bunch of those knives they used for butchering animals. My dad kept one of them when they sold the farm and keeps it out in their camper for use when they go out camping in the summer. If I had been into knives back then I would have snagged a few of them myself. We still had the foundation from the original log cabin still standing in the back yard. They used rocks from when they picked them out of the field The lady my parents bought the farm from had a whole bunch of old arrowheads. The farm was at an old Native American summer campsite so they had them piled up in a scrap pile.
Outstanding video, Desert Dog! Thank you for all the historical information and details. I was going to skim thru this video, but the extensive historical information and stories were too fascinating to skim past. So I watched the complete video at normal speed! Again an outstanding, well produced video, just loading with information. Thank you, and best wishes!
Hey bud, I just happened upon your channel/ video today for the first time and I enjoyed it very much so. You have inspired me to try my hand at my first self made knife. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, really cool.
I have my great great grandfather's bowie knife from around 1880-1890's I believe. Has the original sheath also. Thx for the video amazing knowledge of the history.
Hearing my home city of Sheffield England mentioned made me smile. Fascinating history of trade, copying and industrial development. I hope that’s not one of your good lady’s best dinner plates that you’re using to mix epoxy. Nice knife DD. 🇬🇧
I bought a few Green River knife blanks about 7 years ago. I put nice handle scales on them with liners and brass pins. I soon got into blacksmithing. I got the hunter and a butcher. I still have a fillet blank that I need to put a handle on. I see you done the exact thing😅. The video wasn't finished when I first commented. I bet you burt up a few drill bits 😅. I blackened my blanks since they weren't without a couple scratches. I used leopard wood on one and Hickory other. I never thought of using micarta or g10. Ive used it on other knives. Maybe I wasn't at the point of using such things yet. I do have some blocks of desert ironwood. That stuff is hard to work with though heavy and toxic. Wear a respirator 😅 good video. I'm gonna dig my Green River knives out of the closet now.
I have a good collection of Russel ,Green River knives. My favorite is the skinner , great value and great at what it does ….skinning. That’s for doing this video
This is a true story, I was full time in the sangre de Cristo mnts of northern NM for 3 years when I was young. One day, sitting on a mountain side, praying, Lord how would I do up here if I had only the shirt on my back up here, digging around in the dust at my side I pulled out an original green river knife. Would still take an edge, just needed the grips changed.
Hello Desert dog that was a butcher for many years the Green River Dexter Russell was my favorite. I used to be able to wear one out in a year or two and then it got designated to a different job other than skinning my family owned a slaughterhouse and these were a utilitarian knife and best suited for butchering. I have most of the knives you have there. I wish I could find the hunting knife I don't have that thanks for another informative video
Glad that you pointed out that Green Rivers were actually a rarity among the beaver hunters, because of the late introduction from the East. That being said, I have a number of Green Rivers, one of my butchers was produced in the 19th Century. A collectible. I particularly like the 'Hunter' model. Still great knives for a backwoodsman. Just as in the 19th Century, I make sheaths for my knives, often using copper tack rivets and artificial sinew, with stout leather, or rawhide materials.
Great video on an American icon!! I became interested in these amazing blades about 15-20 years ago, and have since become a believer in them. I currently own 2 of the hunters and one of the small butchers. I have used these blades in the woods on many occasions, including survival trips and such, and I will say that they have become some of my favorites, very good blades imo!!
Both companies are still in business today. I recently bought a Ministry of Defence Survival knife made by Sheffield and it's a beast of a knife and a very unique & great knife. I don't think I've ever had a Green River knife but I've had a few Ontario Old Hickory knives, those knives are everywhere, and I've even found a few in my day. Great job on the knife, it's looks so awesome, especially with that G10 scales & those liners. Great video by the way.
I had never heard of Green River, as a newer hunter. They look awesome and everything you said makes sense, practical, affordable and reliable! My first hunting knife is a Mora carbon and while it does the job the blade is chunky and the bevel seems too steep. I'll be looking at a Green River next!
Thank you for that history lessen . I will have a closer look at a knife I have that I always called a Green River that came with short sharping steel when bought in Australia in the 1970s . I must claim it back from my son 😀
I grew up in Wyoming. I have these and use them regularly. I always thought they were named after OUR Green River too!!🤣 PS I use a hunter and a Sheepskinner every hunting season!👍Thanks for all the great information on a couple of my favorite possessions!
You have obviously researched your subjects to a great extent very very impressive amazing videos showing much more than just simple reviews you know your history. I also liked your video on mora knives as well. Thankyou ! Regards Dave aka (trog)
I consider myself a knife person. I have some cool stuff. I've gone to Blade Show West the last couple years. I somehow never knew about Green River Knives until just recently. I just ordered a few different styles from a kitchen supply company. Knifecenter also had them, but not as big of a variety. Nice to buy something affordable and awesome. Super cool history. I'm excited to use them whenever they get here!
Yep I was just checking them out in NZ and wondered if they were the same company (Edit: Not sure if the NZ ones are full tang like these in the vid though. The rubberised grip type?)
The genuine Green River knife was very popular in NZ and OZ among sheep ranchers. eventually, a copy using the same name sprung up in NZ and took over that market.
Thanks for the history. Been using a Green River carbon butcher in my kitchen for 30+ years; have a larger 10" version for about 20 years and used it today to quarter a pizza. I got the hunter version but have not made a sheath for it yet. I have owned skinners in the past but found less use for them in the kitchen.
Excellent video, brother. All your stuff is top notch. I've been on a mountain man kick lately. My dad taught me the virtues of a Green River knife. I bought a hunter and made a primitive style sheath for it and I recently bought several butcher knives and Old Hickory knives to make mountain man style sheaths for. Keep up the great work.
Very nice video and nice collection. I don’t have any “historical” Green Rivers, but have been using them to process game as well as “groceries” for quite some time.
I’ve got a Green River Hunter sitting in front of me right now. I bought it as an assemble-it-yourself kit, when I was a teenager, back in the mid 1970’s. It was a mail order kit, probably from the back pages of Fur-Fish-And Game magazine. Don’t remember what it cost. Just slapped it together, sanded the scales for maybe 6 minutes, and off we went to my Ohio trapline and hunting, etc. Sometime in the late 1990’s I contoured the clunky handle down to a more bird knife type grip, and replaced the scales with ebony on oak liners. This time with epoxy and no rivets or pins. A cool looking quality knife that I treasure. Thanks for an interesting excellent video.
I bought the same kit for my nephew 12 years ago, when we visited the Daniel Boone home in MO. He gave me the kit back this last thanksgiving. I have it ready to put it together this weekend. I may wait a long while to get it back to him.!? He probably wants a nice sheath back as well.
My great-great grandfather made a knife with a Green River blade in 1891. The handle was antler from an elk he killed, the sheath was beef leather. I still have it, as well as a scrapbook he kept.
Very cool.
What an awesome family heirloom.
Cool.
Frickin sweet.
I admire and appreciate the amount of work and passion that went into the
making of this video. Thanks for sharing your interest !
Just when you think how can this guys videos get any better, he rocks this one!
Interesting content here. The Louisiana Purchase opened up vast new territory, followed by westward migration along trails like the Oregon Trail and the California Trail, leading to conflicts with indigenous populations and ultimately the Mexican-American War. Settlers moving west faced challenges including building shelters, farming in difficult terrain, dealing with harsh weather, and relying on self-sufficiency.
The westward expansion significantly impacted Native American tribes, leading to forced relocations and conflicts with settlers. Many settlers sought land to farm, prospect for gold (like in California), or raise livestock. Frontier communities often developed a strong sense of community, with shared hardships and reliance on neighbors. Trade knife blanks were in high demand with the settler migration into the western frontier. A solid knife was a necessity and these trade knives became a trade commodity on the frontier. Thank you Desert Dog Outdoors for presenting this historical account of the Green River knife brand. Clearly, you have researched the history of these knives well. I appreciate your effort. Best wishes - Tennessee Smoky
I have the butcher, buffalo skinner, Dadley, and a boning knife from Russel green river. As a former mountain man reenactor, I love these knives. I used the butcher knife to skin, debone and process a buffalo. It worked great. Perfect tool for the job. Love your channel! Great content 👍🏼
Hi DD
I befriended an American hunter years ago and he gave me a Russell Green River skinning knife as a gift. The wooden scales eventually split ,so l made up some horn scales , it has served me well as a skinning blade , the quality carbon steel blade holds it's edge nicely.
I enjoyed the presentation.
Fantastic video, I love green river knives
Junkyard Fox, love the channel, you guys got me onto these knives, i watched this vid coz of your channel. Good stuff 👍👍
Sweet to see you here!
I just came from watching your New Orleans EDC video.
It's a pleasure to hear it. I've been forging knives in Argentina for more than 20 years. I always tell the same thing to people. The American West was conquered with shotguns and kitchen knives!! After the movies and the marketing, they put the Wuinchester to the Colt and the Bowie. The settlers did not have the money to indulge in expensive weapons and knives. In my country the Creole knife is born from the tips of swords that were broken, they made a tang and a Creole knife came out from there, the shape of the tip, in short, many times the story differs quite a bit from what they later sell to us. It happens in all of them. the areas, a dear pleasure your videos are show the reality that what was in the past
I have read a wonderful essay on the knives of the Gauchos. The pics were beautiful and showed the knives as art. This was at the same time the Bowie knife was so popular in the U.S.
Thanks again DD,
What a cool tutorial on this American icon company & its products. Appreciate the walk through history on something I should have looked more into myself by now. The folks on/at eBay will be thanking you shortly. Love the fact you incorporated the “Green River” lingo from historical times into the learning. So much jargon we’ve heard from our older generations now past is forgotten. We don’t even know what so many sayings mean and where they came from. Appreciate your contribution to reconnecting the links from the past to the present. Only way we can continue to carry it CORRECTLY into the future. Great tool work, by the way, on your new knife setup. Very cool!! Well done!!
JD
In the days of my youth, 40 years ago, I carried a green River Boner in a leather sheath I had made as my belt knife through many bushwalks and Camping trips in the Northern Territory of Australia . Around Alice Springs and Katherine. Loved that knife!
@@sinkhole777 Interesting ! I collect stone age tools ( arrowheads ) and I have a flint knife from Alice Springs.
im in new zealand my father gave me a green river butcher knife and have treasured it for almost 20 years ive had it my father pointed out the pressed trim around the edge of the wooden handle on mine and held sentimental value and meaning to me so glad to of found this video on the green river knife and the history
I found some old knives in an old house when I was a kid and have kept them as well. Now I got a pretty good collection so I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing
Sir i must say this is one of the best videos i have seen on here in ages. You are such a wealth of knowledge about Green River Knives. I loved especially the historical part, your knife collection and the beautful craftsmanship you showed. Thank you very much again for this video. Greetings from a new subscriber from Bali, Indonesia.
That was amazing bit of history. I really enjoyed the informative video. Thanks for sharing.
I was gifted a modern Green River knife in a 4 3/4 butcher blade configuration by a close friend. I dipped it in vinegar to force patina and really like the blade color now. Thanks for dropping this information on Green River knives.
Thanks DD for the history on the Green river knives🙌 when I was a kid my dad had a set of Green river knives that he got from his mom before she died that she used and he used as a kid during the depression to cut up the wild game such as deer and elk to survive and to sell to miners and loggers where they lived. When my father died my uncle from Idaho got a lot of his keepsake things which included the knives. My best friend who lives in Idaho as a kid and is in his late 80’s still has some of these and is now a custom knife maker and I sent him this video and know he is going to enjoy going down his childhood past as much as I did. He is very fortunate to have lived by some pillars of the gun community in the 50’s and 60’s and I was fortunate to have lived by some great gun writers and makes like Zane Grey which my grand parents live next to on the Rogue River back when he was writing his western novels and my fathers best friend who was gunsmith and reloader as friend with John and his brother Bob when they were just getting started out in Ashland making the Nosler bullets and have used them ever since.
The best I've seen about Green River Knives so far... and my guess is, this vid will be hard to top! You did an excellent job on your knife there, congratulations! Stunning! I have a blank blade and two pieces of beautiful, stabilized wood for the scales... and now I can't wait to put it all together...
Nice knife and enjoyed the history thank you
Wow! What an excellent, high quality video and then icing on the cake was your custom build! Thank you!
Been using Green river on moose caribou and seals here in canada for years. Really enjoy your videos
Outstanding video. This is the gold-standard video on RUclips for understanding the allure of Green River Knives. I carry a Dadley with Texas Honey Mesquite scales and brass pins. Nothing slices better. Thank you for this.
In my experience the best way to learn about something is to own one.
I have one of these that came in an old D bag I picked up to go with my PA rifle collection.
Now I have to find out WTF I have ! Ha Ha
My property is the site of a Civil War battlefield. (Second Battle of Corinth) I have dug up a lot of relics with a metal detector. While detecting, I found a sawmill cut oak board with square nails in it.
It was solid black from the minerals in the soil and still rock hard.
I made handle scales for my Dadley blank and used three brass pins. With linseed oil it now looks like Ebony wood. I now have 160 year oil scales on a Green River!
I have seen videos of oak taken from the swamps and was turned into some beautiful, pricey lumber.
Very nice tribute to such a historic US knife series! THANKS!
Before I started forging my own, I made many many Knives with Green River blanks from several "Fur Trade" supply sources ie. Dixie Gun Works. Log Cabin Shop. Basically anywhere I could order from. I was stationed in Germany and would shoot with Germans who loved living history. I made them knives and Knives for guys in my unit. I have no idea how many are out there masquerading as authentic Green River knives.😊
Tradition, Sir. well done !
thats whats makes us all collectors, Many of us, coveted the item before we even knew what it exactly was.... we were drawn to it :D
Very interesting and great correction of a American icon. Thank you for sharing I have been collecting knives since I been a child.Very interesting history.
Just found your channel. So good to hear logic on RUclips! 😁 I've been practising bushcraft since I was a child. We called it living back then. If we didn't catch fish or rabbits, we didn't eat. The term bushcraft, as you said, is now a marketing buzz word to sell needless equipment to gullible people. Was also nice to see a still of an Imperial Stag knife, being a local company to me in Ireland, all my skining knives were Imperial and I still have two today. Unfortunately, the company closed down twenty years ago but their knives still shave hairs and will skin a rabbit as effectively today as they did when I bought them thirty plus years ago. Really liked this video, looking forward to going through your back catalogue and seeing more.
Top-shelf work, D.D.!! Top-shelf!
I am blown away by the level of quality of production, information and demonstration that went into this video.
I’m a fan of knives and have a small collection myself and recently discovered Green River knives My first dive into the history of Green River knives was by chance this video. I feel very fortunate to have stumbled upon your channel and this video just days after it was uploaded. Thank you so much for your passion and the effort that went into this.🙏🔪
Love your videos. You’re knowledgeable on each item. I still have a few patterns like these from OKC. I’ve got so many Dexter Russels it’s crazy.
Anywhere Green River knives have been used they have received kudos! They are excellent for the purpose,imo
Extremely nice collection.
I’m 70 and have ALWAYS been interested in that brand. I have one now that I keep in my backpack.
I really enjoyed your video , very informative and interesting ... well done Sir ... I learned a lot . From Santiago - Chile
This was another great presentation. I'll just say, it was "Up to Green River". Thanks for sharing!
My parents used to own a farm that was over 150 years old from just one family in the 1980's.
Downstairs against the back of the sink was a whole bunch of those knives they used for butchering animals.
My dad kept one of them when they sold the farm and keeps it out in their camper for use when they go out camping in the summer.
If I had been into knives back then I would have snagged a few of them myself.
We still had the foundation from the original log cabin still standing in the back yard. They used rocks from when they picked them out of the field
The lady my parents bought the farm from had a whole bunch of old arrowheads. The farm was at an old Native American summer campsite so they had them piled up in a scrap pile.
The 6 inch butcher is my favorite kitchen knife. Good steel for the price.
Outstanding video, Desert Dog! Thank you for all the historical information and details. I was going to skim thru this video, but the extensive historical information and stories were too fascinating to skim past. So I watched the complete video at normal speed! Again an outstanding, well produced video, just loading with information. Thank you, and best wishes!
Excellent video and shop work. Thanks
Hey bud,
I just happened upon your channel/ video today for the first time and I enjoyed it very much so. You have inspired me to try my hand at my first self made knife. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, really cool.
I have my great great grandfather's bowie knife from around 1880-1890's I believe. Has the original sheath also. Thx for the video amazing knowledge of the history.
Hearing my home city of Sheffield England mentioned made me smile. Fascinating history of trade, copying and industrial development. I hope that’s not one of your good lady’s best dinner plates that you’re using to mix epoxy. Nice knife DD. 🇬🇧
Hahahaha. I was mixing epoxy on a disposable paper plate! My wife would kill me for using a real plate.
@ Thought so but had to check for your wellbeing.
💛 great share. Axe heads please. Probably the most notable distinction I've observed working backward to early steel tempers is the workability.
Excellent video DD! I enjoy your history lessons, your handy is great as well! 👍🏻👍🏻
Another great video. I'll be sharing this, so you may get an uptick in views.
I bought a few Green River knife blanks about 7 years ago. I put nice handle scales on them with liners and brass pins. I soon got into blacksmithing. I got the hunter and a butcher. I still have a fillet blank that I need to put a handle on.
I see you done the exact thing😅. The video wasn't finished when I first commented. I bet you burt up a few drill bits 😅. I blackened my blanks since they weren't without a couple scratches. I used leopard wood on one and Hickory other. I never thought of using micarta or g10. Ive used it on other knives. Maybe I wasn't at the point of using such things yet. I do have some blocks of desert ironwood. That stuff is hard to work with though heavy and toxic. Wear a respirator 😅 good video. I'm gonna dig my Green River knives out of the closet now.
Right on great video 👍👍👍👍👍
D.D. A genuine Renaissance Man!
Excelente. Uma viagem pela história das facas comerciais nos EUA.
Very interesting. And EXCELLENT job on that handle.
I have a good collection of Russel ,Green River knives. My favorite is the skinner , great value and great at what it does ….skinning.
That’s for doing this video
I love the pictures of the factories. Especially the half buried one. Thanks for sharing this history
This is a true story, I was full time in the sangre de Cristo mnts of northern NM for 3 years when I was young. One day, sitting on a mountain side, praying, Lord how would I do up here if I had only the shirt on my back up here, digging around in the dust at my side I pulled out an original green river knife. Would still take an edge, just needed the grips changed.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you so very much. Great great job.
Hello Desert dog that was a butcher for many years the Green River Dexter Russell was my favorite. I used to be able to wear one out in a year or two and then it got designated to a different job other than skinning my family owned a slaughterhouse and these were a utilitarian knife and best suited for butchering. I have most of the knives you have there. I wish I could find the hunting knife I don't have that thanks for another informative video
Glad that you pointed out that Green Rivers were actually a rarity among the beaver hunters, because of the late introduction from the East.
That being said, I have a number of Green Rivers, one of my butchers was produced in the 19th Century. A collectible.
I particularly like the 'Hunter' model. Still great knives for a backwoodsman.
Just as in the 19th Century, I make sheaths for my knives, often using copper tack rivets and artificial sinew, with stout leather, or rawhide materials.
Great video on an American icon!! I became interested in these amazing blades about 15-20 years ago, and have since become a believer in them. I currently own 2 of the hunters and one of the small butchers. I have used these blades in the woods on many occasions, including survival trips and such, and I will say that they have become some of my favorites, very good blades imo!!
Both companies are still in business today. I recently bought a Ministry of Defence Survival knife made by Sheffield and it's a beast of a knife and a very unique & great knife. I don't think I've ever had a Green River knife but I've had a few Ontario Old Hickory knives, those knives are everywhere, and I've even found a few in my day. Great job on the knife, it's looks so awesome, especially with that G10 scales & those liners. Great video by the way.
sweet video! ive made handles for and loved green river knives since i was a kid.
I had never heard of Green River, as a newer hunter. They look awesome and everything you said makes sense, practical, affordable and reliable!
My first hunting knife is a Mora carbon and while it does the job the blade is chunky and the bevel seems too steep. I'll be looking at a Green River next!
@dimensionsofearth Moras are good for a lot of things, but don't make great hunting knives. I'm releasing my Mora video next Friday.
Thank you for that history lessen . I will have a closer look at a knife I have that I always called a Green River that came with short sharping steel when bought in Australia in the 1970s . I must claim it back from my son 😀
Very interesting! I would love to see more sheaths from the 1800s.
Great job!! I really admire your skills and work!!
Ed from Lynchburg
I grew up in Wyoming. I have these and use them regularly. I always thought they were named after OUR Green River too!!🤣 PS I use a hunter and a Sheepskinner every hunting season!👍Thanks for all the great information on a couple of my favorite possessions!
Very interesting history and a lot of useful info, thank you.
Best working knife i found. Used them on my station for 50 years. At one stage they made left handed knife.
Hi. I really enjoyed your vid. I’m not American, but I enjoyed the history and thought your custom knife turned out fantastic.
You have obviously researched your subjects to a great extent very very impressive amazing videos showing much more than just simple reviews you know your history. I also liked your video on mora knives as well. Thankyou !
Regards
Dave aka (trog)
Those knives you found in that cabin are awesome. Great videos, super interesting stuff,subscribed !
Loved the video DD. I too thought they were named for the river out west. Best part was-here, I'll make one. haha produces a world class custom knife.
Love your history videos and always learn something new.
That was a really peasant video to watch and listen to. 😊
Nice one!👍❤️✌️
I did not realise that I actually own 3 of them!😳
Love this ! I have 5 Green River knives , two I believe are early 1800s
Well done
Thanks for the video. Very enjoyable.
Great video! I have loved Green River knives for years.
totally absorbing video. Thankyou.
I consider myself a knife person. I have some cool stuff. I've gone to Blade Show West the last couple years. I somehow never knew about Green River Knives until just recently. I just ordered a few different styles from a kitchen supply company. Knifecenter also had them, but not as big of a variety. Nice to buy something affordable and awesome. Super cool history. I'm excited to use them whenever they get here!
Love the green river knifes I have many thanks
Thoroughly enjoyed this, cheers from Aus 👍
New Zealander here. We use green river a lot over here. They’ve been made in nz for nearly 100 years.
Yep I was just checking them out in NZ and wondered if they were the same company (Edit: Not sure if the NZ ones are full tang like these in the vid though. The rubberised grip type?)
@@snesleywipessqueegeeservices yep correct I think they used to be I may be wrong though. I’m sure my gdad had old wooden full tang ones.
The genuine Green River knife was very popular in NZ and OZ among sheep ranchers. eventually, a copy using the same name sprung up in NZ and took over that market.
@@desertdogoutdoors1113 and hunters. (Deer cullers)
What an enjoyable video. Amazing job on that knife blank, that handle came out perfect.
I will undoubtably be subscribing. Thank you.
Tapered tangs. Nice to see. Thanks for the video!
very beautiful handle thank you for showing it
Nice knife kit, those handles turn out great!
Thank You Desert Dog, I appreciate this Knowledge You share with Us!
Excellent video!
Very interesting and entertaining video, DD!! Thank you!
Thanks for the history. Been using a Green River carbon butcher in my kitchen for 30+ years; have a larger 10" version for about 20 years and used it today to quarter a pizza. I got the hunter version but have not made a sheath for it yet. I have owned skinners in the past but found less use for them in the kitchen.
Excellent video, brother. All your stuff is top notch. I've been on a mountain man kick lately. My dad taught me the virtues of a Green River knife. I bought a hunter and made a primitive style sheath for it and I recently bought several butcher knives and Old Hickory knives to make mountain man style sheaths for. Keep up the great work.
This was a great video .new sub here
Very nice video and nice collection. I don’t have any “historical” Green Rivers, but have been using them to process game as well as “groceries” for quite some time.
Outstanding!
That was a great video
Very inspirational, thanks for making this
Hope you are all safe Desert Dog during the fires over there in California. Our thoughts are with you from Australia 🇦🇺
@@ThreeEyeGypsy30 Fortunately, I am far away from Los Angeles and everything that happens there.
Interesting video and a very nicely made handle, well done!
Excellent presentation!!!
Great video, thank you for the information.