Steps wrote: Goddards...(Green River brand) went to stainless a long time back.. then produced Green River and Victory..And only in the last couple yrs, obsoleted the near century old Green River and replaced with Victory.. same knife.
I think it had to do with an American 'green river 'brand (??) |
Steps wrote: The Secret in that and other videos.. the clove. Without the clove one just bangs ones head against a wall. Its only a $9 on special stainless weave elcheapo...and works better than the expensive chain mail gloves |
The Tamure Kid wrote:
Hi Steps, You're right, big US knife maker Dexter Russell (still made in the US) uses the Green River name for some of its knives. Dexter Russell do hickory wooden handled Green River carbon steel filleting knives which are stocked in some knife shops in Australia. Quite a narrow, flexible blade, though. BUT, you'll be pleased to know that according to the Victory Knives 2020 catalog, they still make Green River carbon steel knives. They just don't do a filleting one. See p61 and p64. "... Very well known with the older generations in the
New Zealand rural community, Green River was the only
knife you needed." E Goddard has used the Victory label for a long time (since 1945), as you know. It's always sobering when I see the memorial rock at Howick Beach to his son Roy's two young sons (13 and 11) who drowned there along with a friend one winter evening 1956 - went fishing in a dinghy and never came home. Roy carried on the business for many years. Any of the Victory knife models starting with 1-xxxx are carbon steel, and the ones starting with 2-xxxx are stainless. I think they have stopped making the filleting knives in carbon steel, hence me going to the shop to ask. I was stoked when they dug around and found one. They still do lots of the butchers and skinning knives in high carbon steel. |
sbeehre wrote: great video's smudge! I've been trying the method where you cut off the top spikey fins, break the back bone and pull the head, guts and skin off in one go but i will give this a try next time. |
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smudge wrote: Thanks for posting the video Shaneg, looks like a sharp knife. Everyone has their own style - there is no right or wrong way and you have clearly filleted a few |
Fishb8 wrote:
I'll fry the skins up by themselves.....nice! |
Muppet wrote: Haha just ribbing ya Shane God just posted on facebook a video of this morning, still sound like Tommy Shelby after over 22 years here. |
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