If you had to choose just one...

[Tiley]

This is a post for those of us who have more than one knife. If you had to choose just one out of your selection of fixed blade knives, which would you choose and why?

Assume that you need it for the usual range of bushcrafty jobs, dealing with fire, butchery, craft projects like spoons, bowls and camp craft.

Any pictures to illustrate your points would be most welcome and interesting!

 

[Will_]

This is a post for those of us who have more than one knife.

I'm guessing that's 99.9% of the people on this forum then

I'd choose my John Nowill Survival Knife (MOD Survival Knife) because it can do everything that I tend to do in the woods - trap making, shelter building, prizing out fat wood, splitting fire wood, making feather sticks, game prep & skinning (clumsily), fighting bears...

I don't think it would be very good at carving, but I don't really do any carving anyway.
Here's a picture:
https://www.facebook.com/truesurvivor/photos/a.582287131813634.1073741825.391294397579576/582291235146557/?type=3&theater

 

[British Red]

Depends if I'm allowed other tools (axe, saw etc.) or if its my only tool

 

[BigMonster]

After going in circles I have choosen one knife. My mora SS. Knife is a tool, Mora is build like a tool, priced like a tool and designed as a tool. I can use it for everything without a worry.

I would love to be able to cary one of D Budds works of art but then I would'n use it...

 

[santaman2000]

Depends if I'm allowed other tools (axe, saw etc.) or if its my only tool

+1 to this.

 

[Ruud]

My Skookum Bush Tool, small enough to take anywhere, light enough to carry in different ways, easy to sharpen, I can carve for hours without getting blisters, thick enough for battening, thin enough for delicate carving and so on. It is what it is, a Mora on steroids.

 

[dazcon]

I'd choose this knife. Just because it's my latest one.

 

[Man of Tanith]

I Agree with BR.
am I allowed other tools or not?
if I am allowed other tools then its my hill bill m.o.r.a

actually even if I'm not allowed other tools it'd still be the m.o.r.a

 

[Hibrion]

Assuming I'm only allowed one cutting tool, and it has to be a knife, based on what I own I'd have to go with something like my Cold Steel Trailmaster.

It's capable of tackling any of those tasks and sufficiently tough for me not to worry about breaking it. It's also big enough to give me peace of mind in some of the wilder parts of the world. It's too big for small precision tasks, but I can choke up on the spine and make do. It's not ideal, but a one tool option is never going to be good at everything. It's easy to sharpen too.

In reality though, I'm not like to be without an axe, so any fixed blade between about 3 and 6 inches will do just fine.

 

[santaman2000]

This is a post for those of us who have more than one knife. If you had to choose just one out of your selection of fixed blade knives, which would you choose and why?

Assume that you need it for the usual range of bushcrafty jobs, dealing with fire, butchery, craft projects like spoons, bowls and camp craft.....

To be fair, I only use my knife for butchery and assorted camp chores (out of those choices you gave) I don't use one for fire, and I don't carve.

I gotta ask one more question regarding the parameters: Is that one knife for anywhere in the world I might go? Or do I have the option of picking one knife for each specific area?

 

[John Fenna]

Mine would have to be one I made myself from a cut down Cold Steel SRK in Carbon V - great steel and rebuilt to my own specs ... or my Eagle, or my Fieldcrafter, or my Dave Bud ... or one of the others....

 

[kungaryfu]

assuming my knife is my only tool, id have to go for my fallkniven A1, as its just big enough for chopping firewood but small enough for lighter tasks although would be quite hardwork carving with it i expect.

 

[Dreadhead]

For me it would have to be my kukri, it always gets the most use and has never let me down.

6 by HamishOdinson, on Flickr

 

[Tiley]

Depends if I'm allowed other tools (axe, saw etc.) or if its my only tool

Yes, you are allowed other tools; it's the knife I'm interested in.

 

[Tiley]

Or do I have the option of picking one knife for each specific area?

Oh, alright then: give us your geographically inspired choices too!

 

[Tiley]

Mine would have to be one I made myself from a cut down Cold Steel SRK in Carbon V - great steel and rebuilt to my own specs ... or my Eagle, or my Fieldcrafter, or my Dave Bud ... or one of the others....

Tut tut, Mr Fenna: it's only one knife...

 

[British Red]

Yes, you are allowed other tools; it's the knife I'm interested in.

Ahhh then the PFK

PFK by British Red, on Flickr

I would have an axe to chop, and a bucksaw to fell wood. A knife at that point needs to be a precise tool - not a great crude chopping thing.

Plus I have used that particular knife enough to sweat stain the wood

PFK Now by British Red, on Flickr

...which means I know it works.

 

[HillBill]

Eagle for me... so long as i could carry an axe.

 

[Dark Horse Dave]

I'd choose this knife. Just because it's my latest one.

Very nice! What Is it?

 

[Chris the Cat]

Dave Budd Green Man Pro.

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