Since it's summer now I have been looking into more discrete great for minimal carry with less clothing. We all know I'm not exactly a "minimalist" but sometimes what I'd prefer to have on me just isn't practical...so I'm studying options. One knife I'm checking out right now is the Dogfish. It's made by CRKT and it's a krein design. Over-all it's roughly 5.25 inches, the blade is just a hair over 2 inches, it's 1/8 inch thick and made of 3Cr13 stainless steel.
It's a "3 finger" knife, but pretty comfortable to hold.
It comes from the factory with a great edge.
The pommel is a bottle opener and you can use it without cutting your fingers. I know this one would twist off...but I wasn't really in the mood for anything "harder".
Since the subject earlier today was one-handed fire starting I decided to give the dogfish a go while I was at it using the ferro rod I'd be most likely to have on me all the time no matter what...the nanostriker.
I scraped some bamboo shavings and let them dry a bit.
I gathered a few twigs and then after the shavings dried I placed it all on a leaf for a dry base.
Then I pinned the knife down with my foot, placed the ferro rod against it, applied pressure, and quickly pulled back. The first couple of goes I must have moved too slow because all it did was slice off slivers of the ferro rod but then when it threw sparks those slivers just added to the tinder and I had a fire pretty quick.
I know it looks like I burned the knife but it did clean up really well just wiping with a damp bandanna.
All in all, even though it is small, it's not bad at all for a minimalist fixed blade. Here is a size comparison pic most will get. You can see how it will "print" less under thinner shirts.
It's a "3 finger" knife, but pretty comfortable to hold.
It comes from the factory with a great edge.
The pommel is a bottle opener and you can use it without cutting your fingers. I know this one would twist off...but I wasn't really in the mood for anything "harder".
Since the subject earlier today was one-handed fire starting I decided to give the dogfish a go while I was at it using the ferro rod I'd be most likely to have on me all the time no matter what...the nanostriker.
I scraped some bamboo shavings and let them dry a bit.
I gathered a few twigs and then after the shavings dried I placed it all on a leaf for a dry base.
Then I pinned the knife down with my foot, placed the ferro rod against it, applied pressure, and quickly pulled back. The first couple of goes I must have moved too slow because all it did was slice off slivers of the ferro rod but then when it threw sparks those slivers just added to the tinder and I had a fire pretty quick.
I know it looks like I burned the knife but it did clean up really well just wiping with a damp bandanna.
All in all, even though it is small, it's not bad at all for a minimalist fixed blade. Here is a size comparison pic most will get. You can see how it will "print" less under thinner shirts.
