What knife(knives) do you use bushcrafting?

[dwardo]

I use a Scandi ground blade until food prep where I tire of seeing half my veggies sent shrapnel like to the woodland floor. Or till I have to true the blade profile with a big stone and a lot of time and elbow grease.

I use a high or flat ground blade until I get tire of having to find another knife to do a little whittling.

I use a small folding knife until it hurts my hand and remember why a full size blade is better.

I use a modern G10 handled knife with a more tac type loo such as my Spyderco Mule until I tire of the clinical feel. I then drift back to a traditional warm wood with a traditional design. Don't get me wrong great for food prep or opening some packaging but anything else its limited or soulless.
But easy and quick to sharpen!...

So basically no help Sorry!

 

[Furbles]

I own a few, but most of the time I have one fixed blade that I use. Here’s me making a Kochanski bucksaw with it. 50 Gryffindor points to anyone who can identify it…

 

[Chris]

I own a few, but most of the time I have one fixed blade that I use. Here’s me making a Kochanski bucksaw with it. 50 Gryffindor points to anyone who can identify it…

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There it is. I’ll take my points to go, thank you.

 

[hughtrimble]

I own a few, but most of the time I have one fixed blade that I use. Here’s me making a Kochanski bucksaw with it. 50 Gryffindor points to anyone who can identify it…

Looks like it's not a full exposed tang, reflection looks like a scandi grind, and given the light shade of the wood maybe birch, so I'd wager something from the Helle stable. But model...

 

[hughtrimble]

Looks like it's not a full exposed tang, reflection looks like a scandi grind, and given the light shade of the wood maybe birch, so I'd wager something from the Helle stable. But model...

I'll go Helle Temagami

 

[Laurentius]

I don't bushcraft, but when I craft bushes I use something sharp. I have only recently got round to one of these new fangled thingies with a scandy grind or whatchemacallit, too early to say if it is superior to a regular bowie or an opinel. I tell a lie I have had a Martinii puuko for long enough to acquire a few nicks in the blade.

 

[Furbles]

Looks like it's not a full exposed tang, reflection looks like a scandi grind, and given the light shade of the wood maybe birch, so I'd wager something from the Helle stable. But model...

It’s a good guess but it’s not right! It’s not a Helle.

Another clue: it is actually an exposed full tang. Must be my fat fingers in the way…

 

[stonepark]

I own a few, but most of the time I have one fixed blade that I use. Here’s me making a Kochanski bucksaw with it. 50 Gryffindor points to anyone who can identify it…

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Woodlore Edge on?

 

[Springchicken]

I use an SAK Farmer for food prep. and little bits and bobs around the camp; then, I usually have an Orford Woodlander and Pixie for pretty much everything else though, of late, I've enjoyed using a PK2 and one of the Peltonen Sissipuukos.

It's bizarre that I have quite a selection of cutting tools but the above are the ones I use. I think the time has come to reduce my surplus...

 

[Furbles]

Woodlore Edge on?

Well done! She’s 24 years old, and well used, but I do take pretty good care of her.

 

[Ozmundo]

A generic super market kitchen devil for food prep (or disposable wire cutter).

Victorinox Spartan for most small utility tasks.

Mora companion, stainless steel as this gets heavily abused and left with damp kit, occasionally being dropped in the bilge of a boat…. This is all round workhorse, I do use it to batten stuff for kindling, cutting rope and gardening.

Todd/English cutler various blades for pretending to be a medieval peasant. I have a brass handled 14th century folding knife as my other pocket knife.

Jimmy Pie custom field knife. I should use it more but it’s an art object I got as a wedding present. So mainly used for looking at!

 

[HillBill]

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Well done! She’s 24 years old, and well used, but I do take pretty good care of her.

Good call Stonepark. I looked and looked and couldn't see the tang in the first pic.

@Furbles, That handle shape/profile make me cringe. I can still feel the pain from using them. Not for me. Lovely knife, painful for hard work.

 

[Brizzlebush]

Whether in the woods or not, I've always got an sak alox farmer x in my pocket. It'll do so much, I don't see the need for a locking folder and having to carry more than I need.
Fixed blade-wise my go-to is an Orford Woodlander.
If I'm teaching scouts, or anyone else, it's a Companion HD, or, when I've got jobs that might be a bit more abusive. (I really don't like batonning with a knife if I can help it, that's what axes are for).
Foul wet weather, or on the water (canoe etc) it's a Garberg stainless. It's a bit of a brute, but it can take it, and dish it out. Surprisingly nimble and versatile, cheap enough/available enough, to not cry over if I lose it too.
I'll reach for my puuko when there's carving on the cards.
Actually, I might carve some cards.
No, that's a silly idea.
I'll carve a card holder, much more sensible.

I've various others, but those are the main users that I reach for.

 

[Pattree]

(I really don't like batonning with a knife if I can help it, that's what axes are for).

Hear hear.

 

[Furbles]

Good call Stonepark. I looked and looked and couldn't see the tang in the first pic.

@Furbles, That handle shape/profile make me cringe. I can still feel the pain from using them. Not for me. Lovely knife, painful for hard work.

I suppose this confirms that knives are a really individual thing - this profile is by far the comfiest I have ever used! It feels like an extension of my hand. Other Woodlores I have held are different, which is one of the problems - Alan Wood was never that consistent in the geometry of the handle, as @JonathanD can demonstrate with his Woodlore collection. The ‘bulky’ ones I find horrible to use.

 

[Chris]

I suppose this confirms that knives are a really individual thing - this profile is by far the comfiest I have ever used! It feels like an extension of my hand. Other Woodlores I have held are different, which is one of the problems - Alan Wood was never that consistent in the geometry of the handle, as @JonathanD can demonstrate with his Woodlore collection. The ‘bulky’ ones I find horrible to use.

I find the SWC Woodlore very comfy to hold/use.