I've been using a Bolen pelting knife lately, I like it and it holds an edge real good, cheap too, about $15.

Chicago Cutlery blue handle like jimbo4 has a link to.

chicago cutlery wood handled paring knife. 3 1/4 inch blade.

5 dollar 6" fillet knife from walmart.

This is my homemade beaver knife. I was gonna change the blade shape but i like it like it is. Its like having a razon for a finger...lol...shane

I could not be without my Bolens but I also like this custom skinner.

Nice looking knife right there...shane

Shane, you and 2 poor both are bragging! Wish I had either one of those knives. My dad sold my grandpa's old knife.

It was something like this, with a homely garden hose and copper rivet handle;

http://www.texasknife.com/vcom/product_info.php?cPath=119_299_381&products_id=623

No need to be fancy to cut, right?...lol..an employee decided to buy a new blade for my pipe cutters i've had for 18 years with nothing wrong with the old one. So i slapped a "temporary" handle on it to see how it woked for skinning and aint put it down since. Growin up about all our butchering and kitchen knives were homemade and somehow i managed to keep up with em all these years. They are made like your grampa's i imagine...made too work and made to last....shane

The handle isn't the business end. That old piece of a pre WWII canvas garden hose and copper rivets were ugly, but comfortable and the knife part did what it was designed to do. I see people pay big bucks for knives that have pretty handles and sheathes and the blade has a shape they like and they don't even know what kind of steel or how it was tempered. Might not hold an edge long enough to skin a mouse, but it sure is pretty!

I have about 6 knives I use in the shed for different stuff. Mostly boning style knives and a couple of 4" skinning knives and I have one beaver knife (don't even know what brand). I don't care what kind of knife you use, as long as it's sharp and you have a good sharpening system. Much more important than the knife you use (except on beaver).

I cant say nothing, i have a few of those myself...lol...Pocket knives are the same way. Im set with old timers though...my dads boss used to buy him a new one for christmas and his birthday every year but he used the same old one for long as i remember. I got a bunch of brand new "old" old timers still in the box....shane

blade is D2 and it will hold an edge long enough to skin a Buffalo. Besides I have spent more on a good drunk in my earlier days !

"cub Bear" made by knives of alaska.

I'm with you . I bought 4 at the 2008 convention at Evart. They were sale priced at $7.00 or (4 @ $20). Mine have black handles ??
An occasional steel and crock-stick on edges, and has worked on everything that goes thru my shed.