Actually Mike, the two blade styles aren't much alike, though if you glanced quickly at the picture at Idaho Knifeworks it sorta looks that way. It's not a very good photo. The top edge on the Nessmuk is a rounded hump that curves down to the point; what I guess we nowadays call a humpbacked semi-skinner design, whereas the woodcraft has that straight, raised, hide fleshing blade design. About the only factory production knife I've seen recently that resembles the Nessmuk blade is Gil Hibbens's Pro Guide, or Pro Hunter(can't remember what it's called---it's endorsed by the Alaska professional guide's association), although his overall design is totally different. The articles I've read about it refer to it as a modified Loveless design, which is ignorant. Both the Nessmuk and the Woodcraft are great knife designs, made back when a knife was used almost constantly by people who knew how to use one; although I'll never forgive Marbles for starting the "sharpened crowbar" craze with some of their other, later designs. Before that, most knives were ground thin, convex and sharp.
