Hi,
Looking at a few different knives for a Scout Troop to use and abuse.
I have a few choices and need help whittling down to one.
A few assumptions will be made for criteria:
All knives will be handed back at the end of a camp or evening to central stores for maintenance.
Scouts with the best will in the world do not respect kit and abuse/use it (safely) so I'll get them to do an initial clean and get some of them sharpening but in all likelyhood most of it will fall to me.
I'd like the knives to be their primary sharp tool at camp so will need to perform as many functions as possible.
So, stainless or carbon?
Thicker blade or thinner?
Bright garish handle for locating the occasional dropped one (I'm hoping for non but being realistic) or dull muted black/green so they don't glare.
The ones I'm currently considering are:
http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/p1015005/Hultafors_Craftmans_Knife_Heavy-duty_GK/product_info.html
http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/p1015009/Hultafors_Craftmans_Knife_Stainless_RFR/product_info.html
http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/p1015004/Hultafors_Craftmans_Knife_HVK/product_info.html
As you can see all fairly cheap but as looking at buying 30 of them I want to make the right choice.
Thanks in advance for any advice,
Tim
Looking at a few different knives for a Scout Troop to use and abuse.
I have a few choices and need help whittling down to one.
A few assumptions will be made for criteria:
All knives will be handed back at the end of a camp or evening to central stores for maintenance.
Scouts with the best will in the world do not respect kit and abuse/use it (safely) so I'll get them to do an initial clean and get some of them sharpening but in all likelyhood most of it will fall to me.
I'd like the knives to be their primary sharp tool at camp so will need to perform as many functions as possible.
So, stainless or carbon?
Thicker blade or thinner?
Bright garish handle for locating the occasional dropped one (I'm hoping for non but being realistic) or dull muted black/green so they don't glare.
The ones I'm currently considering are:
http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/p1015005/Hultafors_Craftmans_Knife_Heavy-duty_GK/product_info.html
http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/p1015009/Hultafors_Craftmans_Knife_Stainless_RFR/product_info.html
http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/p1015004/Hultafors_Craftmans_Knife_HVK/product_info.html
As you can see all fairly cheap but as looking at buying 30 of them I want to make the right choice.
Thanks in advance for any advice,
Tim