Favorite blade thickness
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robin wood
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2.5mm-3mm anything thicker is decreasing efficiency in order for folk to be able to abuse the knife.
okenest:
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6mm currently 
but im makin one out of 7.3mm
but my 4.75mm mini necker is quite good to
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Duncan
but im makin one out of 7.3mm
but my 4.75mm mini necker is quite good to
ATB
Duncan
robin wood
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
6mm currently
but im makin one out of 7.3mm
but my 4.75mm mini necker is quite good to
ATB
Duncan
well that's got both ends of the spectrum covered.
I like 4mm, with a high grind it eliminates the splitting you usually get with 4mm scandis. 3mm is slightly too thin for me as it makes choking up on the blade less comfortable. I can do anything with my 4mm thick bushy that I can do with a Mora.
I'm guessing you haven't got a mini neck, then?
To my way of thinking the question is a bit like asking what's my favourite screwdriver blade. I have different tools for different jobs, and what I like most and what I use most are two different things. I have a favourite 3mm screwdriver for electrical work and a favourite 7mm screwdriver for joinery. But I tend to use Pozidriv screws more than anything else so I use those crummy disposable bits in a bit driver more than I use my dad's old cabinet screwdriver. Where I want fine control of a knife I'll use a small blade, probably quite a thin one like on a multi-tool or SAK. I have several multi-tools that I use a lot. If I'm going camping I usually use nothing more than a multi-tool and a folder. I have a favourite machete which is a flat blade 3mm thick but I don't usually take it camping. I might take a sizeable camp knife made of 4mm stock but most often it will stay in my pack and go home unused. If I were going to use it at all most likely it would only be for chopping a few bits of firewood for my Ghillie, and very few places that I go won't have enough fuel lying around on the ground. I suppose the blade on my Normark Super Swede is my all time favourite, it's about 2.75mm stock ground from about the middle both to the cutting edge and down to about 2.5mm at the back. But it's not the one I use the most which is by a very long way the serrated blade on my Victorinox Swiss Tool. That's a more or less flat blade about 2mm thick. Serrations aside I might prefer deeply hollow ground 2.5mm blades like on the Leatherman Super Tool and one of the two Gerbers I have (whose name escapes me at the moment) but both of them are rather inconvenient to open so I tend to use them much less. I don't own a 'bushcraft style' knife at all, and the first time I picked one up (one of Martink9's collection) it felt a bit unwieldy to me.
Then there are the steel grades -- another can of worms.
I really like 4mm thickness, not too thick, not too thin - Kind of like an Angelina Joilie of knives
4mm with high grinds 22-25deg, why?
more control, splits easier, more strength and thus more confidence in the tool, easier to choke on the blade, great cutter, better for light chopping, asphetics and i find it more comfortable.
i used to use 3mm, but now i find a well thought out 4mm with decent grinds preferable. 3mm still gets the (lightweight, veg and meat cutter role, aswell as some fine carving)
more control, splits easier, more strength and thus more confidence in the tool, easier to choke on the blade, great cutter, better for light chopping, asphetics and i find it more comfortable.
i used to use 3mm, but now i find a well thought out 4mm with decent grinds preferable. 3mm still gets the (lightweight, veg and meat cutter role, aswell as some fine carving)
I have been making mine 6mm its fine for everything, but I do think a thin blade makes for a better kitchen knife..
2 - 3mm.
Knives, billhook and parang are are all 2mm or 3mm. Above that it is a crowbar with and edge
Knives, billhook and parang are are all 2mm or 3mm. Above that it is a crowbar with and edge
Horses for Courses, they all feel comfortable to me.
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