Favourite, NON scandi knife

[Robbi]

 

[Hoodoo]

This is my firm favourite (along side an SAK that never leaves my pocket)

Knife by Stuart Mitchell, sheath by me




Apologies for the lousy picture quality!!

Very nice! How thin is the blade?

 

[MikeLA]

My Chris Caine Survival knife (Convex blade)

 

[Toots]

A fraction over 3mm at its thickest with tapered tang.

Nice and slicey .

 

[bikebum1975]

Don't have one at the moment but the old buck 110. Pretty much my Swiss army farmer is always with me. Fixed blade that's a tough one just about all mine are scandi

 

[Tommyd345]

Got some lovely knives! I do like that Stuart mitchel!

Come on chaps keep them coming!

 

[marcelxl]

My Barkies, Izula II, SAK's and my Spydie Natives all in my hands as much as any of my scandi "bushcraft" knives

Love the Bark river convex for all round use and just got a American Knife Company Forest knife on order based on that (and my love of the Skookum!)

Can't take anything away from a good scandi but it is not the definitive grind

 

[oldtimer]

William Rodgers "Bushman's Friend" my wife bought me in 1966. But most use is the whichever is the current SAK I have had in my pocket at all times as EDC since I was a boy.

 

[21st century pict]

Any Dirk "Biodag" by Vince Evens, but WAY out o my price range, maybe an Extrema Ratio MK2.1 or more probably a Landi CT5.

 

[Amon81]

Easy answer for me. The one that's normally in my pocket. The Opinel No.8 with years of abuse.



In fact using it now to have a few radishes (and Irn-Brw).

I love how thin it is and the fact that anything will get it very sharp, from a nice Japanese waterstone to a but of cardboard.

It's also my goto food prep knife when out and about or just manning the BBQ.

 

[Silverback 1]

Phil Wilson Smoke Creek

 

[ged]

Yes, a tough question to answer. Probably the Victorinox Fieldmaster at the moment.

 

[Tommyd345]

I like that smoke creek, is it convex??

 

[santaman2000]

Pretty much any good hunting knife. Especially hollow ground. Scandi would rank below those.

 

[superc0ntra]

My Benchmade CQC7, although it's useless as a knife but the coolness factor is 100%

 

[Klenchblaize]

For some reason I mistakenly took this to be for production knives only so here's mine updated:

Or is it?

Perhaps you might like to decide:

Cheers


K

 

[Silverback 1]

I like that smoke creek, is it convex??

Hi Tommy, thanks, Phil's knives are unique IMO, and he grinds all his blades full flat with a pronounced distal taper, and to an extremely thin edge which is easy to maintain because very little metal needs to be removed when it needs to be touched up.
I use the 'little and often' approach with a strop & compound, so the edge on the above knife is definitely becoming more convexed with use.

 

[Tommyd345]

Wow klench they don't look real on the pics, look like drawings! I prefer the one on the right in the last pic

 

[Klenchblaize]

Alan Wood/Klench take on the Nessmuk in Damascus and ramshorn with bolster.

I like bolsters and probably because they so exercise the UK Bushcraft experts!

 

[lathe dog]

Most likely this one for me.