CE980 CHEVAUDIER DIT LÉPINE

OVERVIEW

Tough - Functional - Elegant, your CANADA Enduring - CE980 CHEVAUDIER DIT LÉPINE is fundamentally the knife that you should carry in your pocket, everywhere, at all times. Handmade in Canada and holding a revolutionary locking system, there is nothing to compare it to. Your CANADA Enduring - CE980 CHEVAUDIER DIT LÉPINE pocket knife is so unique, no other knife operate or look quite like it. Its unique look comes from the innovative mechanisms it carries. Those inventions dictate the final result.

The quality of the material and the simplicity of the design are what makes your CANADA Enduring knife solid and reliable.

Your CE knife is the result of countless crafting hours on our family ranch located on the Cowboy Trail between the beautiful villages of Pincher Creek and Waterton, Alberta Canada. It can take up to 2 weeks from start to finish for a single knife to be crafted. If you would like to purchase one of these exclusive knives in person, you can find them at the Tamarack Outdoors outlet in Waterton.

All components of your knife (from the blade, handle, pins, rivets to the pocket clip) are individually made, shaped, and/or adjusted to fit your unique CE knife.

For durability, the blade is hand-crafted from the best knife grade stainless steel.

All CANADA Enduring knife handles are made of hard Chokecherry or Saskatoon wood (Depending on resource availability). Both woods carefully harvested, by hand in the wild, at the foot of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

The first part of the model name CE980 comes from the blade length 98.0mm / 4". The second part of the model name CHEVAUDIER DIT LÉPINE is in honour of my ancestor Pierre Chevaudier dit Lépine 1711-1787 and his colleagues Voyageurs. The Voyageurs were 18th- and 19th-century mostly French Canadians who transported furs by canoe at the peak of the North American fur trade. The Voyageurs would transport goods from a merchant-supplier to the Pays d'en Haut (“upper country” up the Saint-Laurence river and across the Great Lakes) to trading posts and then bring furs back to Montreal. These canoe expeditions could take weeks to months living in the wild. Many young men from the region and areas surrounding Montreal worked in the trade each year. Their life was full of perilous adventure, gruelling work and cheerful camaraderie. The voyageurs' strength and endurance was regarded as legendary. They were celebrated in folklore and music. For reasons of promised celebrity status and wealth, this position was coveted. Despite their fame, their lives were arduous and not nearly as glamorous as folk tales made out. For example, they had to be able to carry two 90-pound (41 kg) bundles of fur over portages. Some carried four or five. Canoes flipping over in rapids and injuries during the portages were common and a frequent cause of death.

Creating your CANADA Enduring knife, we were inspired by true heroes of our Canadian history. Professional voyagers, translators, trappers, hunters, Coureur de bois, fur traders... All Indigenous, Metis, Canadiens, and settlers’ extraordinary beings. True legends of this unforgivably hard, but incredibly beautiful land. Therefore, the traditional look of your knife. It feels like you traded furs for it, at Fort Kaministiquia, in the 1700. A lasting contemporary message... from another time.

Many years from now, when the time comes, we are hoping you will pass down this amazing knife to your descendants... because this is just how tough we made it

We warranty every CANADA Enduring knife, for the life of the knife - See our Lifetime Enduring Warranty.

*Please take note that the wood grain and colour of your knife handle will be different from the above pictures since all CANADA Enduring knives are made from individual tree collected in the wild.

**Our Canadian knives are famous around the world and they leave our ranch almost as soon as they are crafted. If a knife shows SOLD OUT contact us and we will arrange for your knife to be crafted on our next availability.