Most popular style of bushcraft knife

[Siberianfury]

i thought it would be interesting to start a poll to find out the most popular style of knife used in bushcraft, so whatever your favorite style is let it be known here

these are what i find are the most popular styles i see people using:

Woodlore Variants- Woodlore clones, customised bushies- It full tang and a drop point blade, scandi grind or similar, usualy hand made.

Scandinavian made knives, I.E puukkos- Helle's, Karesuandos, Finnish knives or leuku's. all stick tang's.

Survival type knives- fallkniven, Boker, Kbar ect

America trade style knives- Nessmuk's, canadian belt knives.

Full tang scandinavian type knives- skookum bushtool, BG B&T, Enzo's.


can somone please help me add a poll, i cant find a way to add it to this thread?


All the best

Josh

 

[JonathanD]

To add a poll there is a box below the post content in which you can do it. Use the Go Advanced option. No idea if you can add it in as an edit though, so you may need a mods help or close this one down and start a new thread.

 

[Siberianfury]

hopefully a mod can help

 

[John Fenna]

Any or all - depending on if they fit me/thejob/my mood and are sharp!

 

[jdlenton]

does that help ?

 

[Wallenstein]

Mora all the way for me

 

[Radix lecti]

Marttiinni knife (puukko)at the moment,fits my grip perfect.

 

[Peter_t]

moras or similar for me

i don't agree with the full tang being stronger theory, leukus, kukris and bill hooks take massive amounts of abuse compared to small knives and they never break!

woodlore clones are way too cumbersome and too expensive. spending £150 on a knife seems like madness to me when a £10 mora does the same job.

most survival type knives tend to be too big for fine work yet too small for heavy work.

i have no experience of american trade knives but don't really get the nessmuk knife, from what i can gather the original was designed for butchering not carving wood.

Pete

 

[Bush_Man]

I've been using a Tora Camping Kukri for almost everything but if a need to do a task that involves carving it tends to be easier (faster) to do it with my mora clipper.

 

[JDO330]

Mora for me - more accurately the Allround at the moment but historically a Clipper. Just keep coming back to them time & time again...

 

[SouthernCross]

G'day Josh

I haven't voted, because I don't know where my favourite would fit.

It's a hunting knife :yikes:

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Now, if there was an option for "other" then I would know what to choose in the poll



Kind regards
Mick

 

[Tadpole]

Mora all the way for me

Me too, I just have not found a knife that does all i want from a knife, but the clipper comes pretty close

 

[eraaij]

A Joonas Kallioniemi Puukko, a simple Mora or SBT, depending on the mood - so I'll vote scandi. If the SBT would not have such a great handle and be such a joy to use, it would be dropped from the selection.

Woodlores and other fulltangs are nice, but for me only for collecting. I'm always amazed at the weight difference. A Mora + spare + firekit + sandpaper sharpening kit weights about as much as one Fulltang, 4 mm blade. Go figure, calory-wise.

 

[MartinK9]

mmm, let me think.....

 

[Kotteman]

Right now a Mora, but I want a fulltang one(much more good looking), but they are expensive and I don’t know sharpen knifes, a expensive knife that isn’t sharp is just as good as a Mora that isn’t sharp. But I have been thinking of buying a couple of Mora’s and try to make them sharp, just so I can throw them down in the ground to make them dull, sharpen them again and so on until there’s no metal left

 

[JonathanD]

mmm, let me think.....

There should be a seperate box for the "bleedin' obvious" for us

 

[MartinK9]

There should be a seperate box for the "bleedin' obvious" for us

Yep.:werd:

 

[jojo]

I think there should be another 2 categories:

1) I ain't bovered as long as it cuts

2) The Celebrity knife... ie running down the side of a mountain with a knife between your teeth, sort of celebrity!

Failling that, I vote for the American Trade Knife Style.

 

[FGYT]

mmm, let me think.....

you cant vote it says Woodlore variant not Woodlore

 

[MartinK9]

you cant vote it says Woodlore variant not Woodlore

I haven't