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Crooked knives were readily adopted and used by Franco-American, Franco and Anglo Canadian, and Scandinavian woodsmen, who recognized the utility of this knife form, which required no vice to hold the object being worked. In the Maine woods, lumbermen used crooked knives to make ax handles and wooden “folk art” carvings. Crooked knives were also […]https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/wp-content/uploads/sites/275/2012/12/l.boivin.jpeg184255