Merle Seguine

Many of you are probably not familiar with 1960's knife maker Merle Seguine, from Juneau, Alaska. His hand made knives were some of the most sought after, not only as collectors, but as a proven user. He was one of the first custom makers that had a gut hook as well. Over the past 60 years, I have had a couple of his fine knives in my collection, and recently sent a Merle Seguine user to an Alaska trapper friend of mine. He said that some his biggest arguments that he and his wife have, is over who get the Seguine knife.

I say all this to let you all know that I found a mint 1960's Merle Seguine listed on the latest Nordic web list. Not only the one I purchased, but they have 4 more on their list. If you want to purchase a true early custom knife maker at a very reasonable price, I highly recommend you check out Nordic's list by knife maker Merle Seguine, as a collector piece or as a great user.

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In the 1960s, I read Ken Warner's article in Gun Digest listing the 8 best knife makers: Randall, Moran, Seguine, Ruana, Olsen, Buck, Morseth, and Gerber.
I decided to buy knives by Randall, Seguine, Buck, and Morseth. (I still have the first three, but the Morseth is long gone.)
Here's the Seguine:

If you are interested, here's a short excerpt from that article:

...and here are a couple of articles about Merle:

My son (some of you may have met him with me at BLADE) told me that the knife pictured above fit his hand more perfectly than any other knife he had ever held.

Yes, I read about Merle Seguine in the early 80's, when I purchased a copy of the book " Knives and Knifemakers" by Sid Latham. On page 55 there was a photo of a group of hunting knives. Here's a part of that picture. The one with the narrow guard is a Seguine.
Beautiful knives for sure.
Sorry for the low quality photo.