Easy, make your own .... from wood 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQiuVDP33FM
Anybody ever tried this ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQiuVDP33FM
Anybody ever tried this ?
What do you do when you lose your knife ?
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If I were to lose my primary knife, I'd have a choice of my life vest mounted River Shorty and E-Z Out backup, or belt worn Swiss Champ, Supertool, Crunch and Micra.
Or the Spyderco Native in my pocket and GB neck knife.
Then there's my PSK.....
Or the Spyderco Native in my pocket and GB neck knife.
Then there's my PSK.....
Dont you need a "blade" to make a wooden knife...
I made a wooden knife for my son on our last trip out, because I didnt want him to have the real thing (I think he's just a little too young at 7) I made it in the same design as mine, a bayleyknife, it took me a couple of hours, It was sharp but wouldnt hurt... He was well chuffed.
I made a wooden knife for my son on our last trip out, because I didnt want him to have the real thing (I think he's just a little too young at 7) I made it in the same design as mine, a bayleyknife, it took me a couple of hours, It was sharp but wouldnt hurt... He was well chuffed.
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I gave my friends little lad (then about 5 I think) a Leatherman Supertool type multitool (with his parents approval).
He loved helping pruning in the garden using the pliers, and being with his dad when work on the family car needed doing.
Initially, he only used the multitool under parental supervision, but (like his sisters and their Mini Champs and multitools I'd given 'em) quickly proved to be a very responsible edged tool user.
I've since given him a SAK.
Children love to be taught the 'grown up' way of doing things, especially if those things involve tools, edged or otherwise. They enjoy showing that they are doing things right.
He loved helping pruning in the garden using the pliers, and being with his dad when work on the family car needed doing.
Initially, he only used the multitool under parental supervision, but (like his sisters and their Mini Champs and multitools I'd given 'em) quickly proved to be a very responsible edged tool user.
I've since given him a SAK.
Children love to be taught the 'grown up' way of doing things, especially if those things involve tools, edged or otherwise. They enjoy showing that they are doing things right.
Ye gods - what a boring delivery (M'kay - I will keep y'all posted - m'kay)!
Interesting enough info but I lost the will to live half way through!
Interesting enough info but I lost the will to live half way through!
In the spirit of enquiry I just tried this...and it works!
BUT
Yes it cut synthetic cord - but not as fast as loopingsynthetic cord over synthetic cord and "sawing" through allowing friction to do the work and melt its way through....
Yes it de-barked a bit of wood - but would not cut wood or leather.
In the "survival" situation of losing your kit would you have
(a) the energy reserves to waste on collecting resin (I had some prepared) and whitling a wooden knife
(b) the tin can to melt the resin in
If you had a spare tin can why not use that to fashion a blade? - easier, quicker, more effective, longer lasting....
The whole idea seems a fatuous waste of time effort and rescources!
Mind you it was fun, if not a realistic "survival" option IMHO
BUT
Yes it cut synthetic cord - but not as fast as loopingsynthetic cord over synthetic cord and "sawing" through allowing friction to do the work and melt its way through....
Yes it de-barked a bit of wood - but would not cut wood or leather.
In the "survival" situation of losing your kit would you have
(a) the energy reserves to waste on collecting resin (I had some prepared) and whitling a wooden knife
(b) the tin can to melt the resin in
If you had a spare tin can why not use that to fashion a blade? - easier, quicker, more effective, longer lasting....
The whole idea seems a fatuous waste of time effort and rescources!
Mind you it was fun, if not a realistic "survival" option IMHO
I'd cry and curse if I lost my knife - it's practically brand new! Once over that, I'd keep on berating myself for losing such a valuable item (cheap Mora MG840, but valuable for what I can do with it) and swear never to let myself be so foolish again. Oh, and next time, bring 5 of them with me!
I would choose stone over wood any day for a cutting edge. Stone is probably also more widespread than wood.
EDIT: WRT the video. What the heck is that? If you lost your knife, what are you carving the wooden knife with? I don't get it, but then I might just be ultra dense.
I would choose stone over wood any day for a cutting edge. Stone is probably also more widespread than wood.
EDIT: WRT the video. What the heck is that? If you lost your knife, what are you carving the wooden knife with? I don't get it, but then I might just be ultra dense.
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if you loose your knife you wish only one thing.
that you'd bought the one with the luminous handle not the "tactical" Olive Drab one...
that you'd bought the one with the luminous handle not the "tactical" Olive Drab one...
Interesting concept though
Good point about the tin can though John
Also for what you would/could realistically use the tool for you woulnt need to make it look so much like a knife just an edge like a very basic Ulu perhaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulu
Good point about the tin can though John
Also for what you would/could realistically use the tool for you woulnt need to make it look so much like a knife just an edge like a very basic Ulu perhaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulu
I've lost several knives. Most recently, a Spyderco Endura Wave went missing on a firewood foraging expediton. I lost two Syperco Natives at different times in different hotel rooms. And a couple of knives that just aren't here anymore, no idea where they got off to. I have also found several knives, but never as good as the ones I lost. That's why I always carry at least two, as recommended in the sticky on this forum. "Two becomes one, one becomes none."
The greatest irony of the whole exercise is that you need a knife to carve the knife, as it were. It would certainly be a tragedy to lose your knife - I, for one, would be reduced to tears - but if you were carrying a second, as some folk might, would you need to go through the effort of making a wooden version? The lesson learnt from mislaying your first would surely drive you to be incredibly careful with the second.
It's an interesting exercise, though.
It's an interesting exercise, though.
forestwalker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
If you happen to have bamboo handy you could make a knife from that, a bone could make a servicable knife for some tasks, as would various stones (slate being the easiest to work, quartz probably being the hardest. But 80% of the tasks you need to perform in the short term you can do with a random sharpish rock (or do the "Ugh smash!" routine by throwing a rock one onto a bigger one, just be carefull with your eyes). Scrape out the bowdrill notch, etc, not making a new pair of snowshoes.
Get one of Seved's rather nice looking (no link to his product usual disclaimer blah blah blah) flouro handled knives and its less likely that you need to codge something together like a complete spanner.
Never really got the people who buy the cammo handled knives, what are they planning on doing with it? If its in you're hand your hand covers the handle and if you drop it on the deck its nice to be able to spot it a mile off.
Never really got the people who buy the cammo handled knives, what are they planning on doing with it? If its in you're hand your hand covers the handle and if you drop it on the deck its nice to be able to spot it a mile off.
I have made steel (from tins), slate, bamboo, flint (shard), bone and now wood and resin "emergency" knives.....the latter being the poorest!
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