1 Knife

RescueRiley said:
If you had to pick 1 knife to use exclusively for 1 year for any "knifetask" what would it be...you would be allowed other tool such as saws, axes etc, but only 1 knife..
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Are you including kitchen work in this? If not, I'd go with my Old Timer Middleman Jack. But if I gotta use this one knife in the kitchen too, I'll have to re-think it.
 
If I had to use it in the kitchen, eat with it and EDC it then it would probably be a mini trapper. If it was not for kitchen duty or eating then it would be my Vic Huntsman.
 
Well assuming I dont have to already own it I'd like one of those "mountainman" that I've seen pics of lately. Any of those old-timerish big clipblade folders would be good too, as I find them easy for cooking.
 
Since you said I could still use other tools...I would probably pick my Case Yellowhandle medium stockman or Yellowhandle Sodbuster. I've used both for food and game chores and all the big cutting stuff I do with work.
 
I could manage on a stock 110 or 112 if I had the benefit of a few other tools, such as a sharp, well balanced double bit axe and then my 18 inch Ontario. The SAK might also fit the bill here or my Normark Super-Swede. The Sodbuster is another great choice.

The amusing/interesting thing here is that some of us are starting to understand that we don't need a drawer full of knives to make it. But searching and collecting can be so much sheer fun, and then again, it can be a horrible, expensive time-wasting addiction.

The entire globe lives in two tents: discontent and content.
 
tent quote I like it....collecting is fun but my ultimate goal is function...My quest is to find the 3 knives that work best for me, and stock up on several of each than everything else I got along the way..will get given away or traded....I'll save that for another thread though...Cheers
 
Stubai said:
The amusing/interesting thing here is that some of us are starting to understand that we don't need a drawer full of knives to make it. But searching and collecting can be so much sheer fun, and then again, it can be a horrible, expensive time-wasting addiction.
Yes, I have noticed an increasing amount of posts on the search to cut back on the edc knives, and perhaps more. Maybe people get to a point that they start to realize that too many possesions will own you, rather than the other way around.

The entire globe lives in two tents: discontent and content.
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I noticed this on many occasions, and it has given me food for thought. I was fortunate to have worked with some very good people who came from third world countries to the U.S. for a better life. Working side by side with a man, you can't help but to become friends, and from some of these friends I got an insight into some things.

I watched Jonas from Kenya, dress out and prosses a goat he had bought at the Frederick livestock auction, with what looked like an old pitted dark bladed butcher knife that would not have brought 2 dollars at a yard sale. But he had shapened it up and it sliced right through whatever part of the goat he was working on. Including the part where he cut its throat right there in the parking lot before loading it in the trunk of his old Ford Falcon. It would have been a good lesson to some of the mall ninja's who think they need a super duper 300 dollar blade to do some damage. I wouldn't want to be on the receiveing end of that old butcher knife Jonas has sharpened up so well. That Maasai lad knew what he was doing with that knife.

From a co-worker from El Salvadore who became a friend that went fishing with us after work, we learned how handy a 12 inch Tramontina is. Americo used just that and a beat up old dark bladed barlow as his only knives in all theyears we knew him. It was enlighting to see him clean panfish in 30 seconds with that Tram, and the cutting board he had glued to the top of his Little Oscar cooler.

When you see how well the rest of the world gets by with some pretty rough cutlery, it made me feel a bit foolish to be pulling out a custom Randall trout and bird knife. When Jonas asked how much was a knife like that and I told him, he was shocked. His only comment on it was "Oh man, you can support a family on that for a year back home!"
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one knife eh?hmmmmm i would have to cheat myself, but if i realy had too my old rigid apache would get the nod. hell for stout and a nice point for digging splinters out of my hide
 
I'd pick New Graham Knives if I had to only pick one....
wait a minute, you said knife, not knife store, that does
make it harder ;)

Probably this equal ended cattlemen knife, just can't stop
showing her off, she's such a little ham...hmm I mean cattle :)

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oh man...for this one I have to go away from traditional and would nominate my Fallkniven U2
 
Growing up, the local hardware store only carried 1 model of knife, a Case yellow carbon soddy.I carried it from 3rd grade to the Navy. Bought a new 1 before I went to Boot-Camp, & still have it. In the Guard I was given a Vic Soldier. & now carry a Vic Cadet to work, & will start to carry a Buck Cadet (I have small hands) when it comes in. all you really need is a blade length = your pointer finger really. Any extra blades just add to its utility.
You know if my neighbors in PA heard Iwill have 2 soddies, 2 Vics, & 2 Bucks, they'd think I had some sort of disease:eek:.
 
No doubt in my mind it'd be this,tuff as nails,sharp as heck,perfect size,and lightweight,too
-Vince
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