Paoul,The Mears site is refreshing.The Grizzly Adams and Rambo personaes do get wearisome!The crooked knife can be cheaply fabricated out of a farriers hoof knife.The magazine Wilderness Ways vol6#2 has an article on building the birchbark canoe and shows the knife.This is a useful tool for many woodcrafts.www.wwmag.net<br><br>