3 Knives

[jideta]

So you're traveling with your friend Tom Hanks on a FedEx airliner to parts unknown.
Luckily, you saw the movie so you packed three knives from your collection to take along.
What three blades help you and Tom survive?
Moi: one of my 8-9"OAL EDC fixed blades for general use
a large 12" hunter/Bowie just in case I need to pull a Rambo
A freakin large Kukri for heavy work and peace of mind

I thought long and hard about a Swiss Army, or at least my Swisstool, but decided a full sized blade would be more useful. I mean I need a weapon more than I need a little scissors. A saw would be nice but it's only like three inches long and I got the kukri.

What are you packing?(in your possession currently, extra points for pics)

 

[Smiling]

Warcraft Tanto... Pendleton Mini in 3V, and eventually SAK.

 

[CVamberbonehead]

Id trade a knife for an extra volleyball friend. Lol
Id take my Victorinox camper, my Hess Frontiersman and a Tramontina machete for chopping coconuts and making a raft.

 

[JamesofArc]

Iv never seen the movie but i believe he was on an island so i pick a spear to fish with. a goolok to chop coconuts with and a large case (because they are stainless) stockman to clean my ears and pick my teeth.

 

[comis]

My SAK Swisschamp, Gransfors Burk Wildlife Hatchet and OKC 12" machete.

 

[Shorttime]

Estwing Camper's Axe.

Silky folding saw.

ESEE 4, or something like it. The ESEE comes to mind first because they like to take their prototypes to jungle places for testing, so the design has a track record. Some Beckers, Ontario, a few by Cold Steel, would all offer fine service. I would lean toward a tool steel in this case, simply because you can do more to maintain the edge with a rock.

I went off-topic with this one. I know. When it comes to these "for survival scenario X" questions, I'm increasingly of the mind that the right tool for the job isn't always a knife. The problem is that I don't do the stuff (nasty, cold, wet things, adventures: make you late for dinner), so I'm repeating other people's knowledge, here.

 

[Ron Sabbagh]

1. A hatchet for woodwork

2. Brend Model 2 fixed 8” for most everything else

3. Sebenza for small work (easy to carry and to clean)

 

[UmnumMAN]

A spring loaded ballistic knife for shooting fishes

A large survival knife
A small folding knife

 

[Wannabe Rambo Guy]

Does a folding saw count? If so, one of those.. my bk 10, and I'm rolling the dice with a folder and going with the Benchmade Grizzly Creek drop point. Could tom and the likes of myself make other knives as well with whatever we find amongst the island? Now I have to see this flick

 

[justjed]

Don't really matter much. TRY getting on an aircraft with unsecured weapons these days. EVEN FED-EX!!! And even if you could, you'd likely lose at least one in the crash.

BUT, a SOG S1 bowie(really tough all-arounder), a Livesay RTAK(big medium-weight chopper), and a White River Sendero Classic(thin handy slicer). No folders in a wet sandy environment. Carbon steel is ok if you're careful enough about drying it after use, and is easier to sharpen in a field-expedient mode....

 

[jideta]

 

[Lee D]

F1
Pioneer X
Condor K&T machete

Not that I’ll be able to find them after the crash

 

[UmnumMAN]

How about one of them cold steel bushmans? Got that nice hollow handle for spear attachment: make fishing a hellofalot easier

 

[Peter Hartwig]

Does anyone make a knife with a lighter? otherwise firesteel on Med sheath
Kukri
med. fixed blade
and SAK-the more tools the better

 

[jideta]

Does anyone make a knife with a lighter? otherwise firesteel on Med sheath
Kukri
med. fixed blade
and SAK-the more tools the better

I'm gonna redo/alter some of my sheaths to add a FireSteel holder!

 

[marsturm]

I will limit myself to what I have, not what I'd like to have. I'd take my Ontario RD7 Bush knife(chopping, batoning, + it has a diamond sharpener in the accessory pouch on the sheath), Enzo 5" Camp Knife(general and finer knife work + it has a ferro rod and cordage on the sheath), and my Leatherman Wave.

 

[bigsurbob]

SAK with the saw
Cold Steel Trailmaster San Mai
Council Velvicut Boy's Axe

 

[JeremiahWeaver09]

i would take 1996 carmen electra with me

 

[bdmicarta]

There are too many possibilities for me to make good selections. I recall when the movie came out I was in the middle of my phase of buying custom hunting knives on ebay and I was occasionally getting these nice packages in the mail. When the various packages were washing up on shore all I could think of was how lucky he would be if a package containing a nice custom hunting knife floated on shore.

 

[3fifty7]

Playing by the rules of “in your possession currently” :


HI Tin Chirra

Joe Hoover

Spyderco Autonomy 2
Being LC200N has to be a bonus stranded on an island.