A tough hypothetical

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Apologies to those who are getting tired of hypotheticals, but I like them so here goes:

For the next 10 years, you are allowed to use one and only one knife. You may not touch any other knife. This knife will be used for every knife related task that you perform, including spreading butter on your toast, cutting up food in the kitchen, general tasks around the house, camping, hunting and anything else you may do. If your knife breaks at any point, you must make do with the broken parts for the remainder of the ten years. You may choose any type of production knife (ie. no customs mades), but if you choose a SAK or multitool you will only be allowed to use the main blade.

What knife do you choose?
 
It`ll be CS recon scout with the back of the blade and handle junction annealed and custom micarta grips.Without this customization i`d settle for the Ontario Rtak or Beckers (also annealed back and handles).
 
This one:








My Ranger custom, the AUCK. It performs excellently both in the kitchen and in the field. Fits my hand like a glove, I can quite easily see myself using only this knife for ten years.
 
Scrapyard Knives scrapper 6 Satin finish with zero degree edge. I would have to get a few differnt sheaths for it to make it better for edc but i could make it work.


The closest i ever had to this was moving into my first apartment and having all of my knives packed for the first few weeks, except for My Delica and Leatherman. These two tools performed kitchen duties as well as maintenance and operning boxes as well as being used as edc at work.
 
that condition on the sak sucks. now it has to be a beefed out folder like the manix. i'm still allowed an axe, right?
 
Well, since there is no stipulation that my canoe went over the falls, and I am trapped in a frozen wasteland, I'll assume this is simply EDC type of normal life.

Mora Clipper in Stainless. Stainless???? :eek:

"But, but , but" you say, "Skunker?? not one of your favorite High Carbon blades? What gives?" :confused:

Well, since I have to cut meat, do food prep, etc. I'm not going to out batonning through Oak with it. Maybe cutting a little cordage, or a fuzz stick, that would be about it. I'd be more comfortable doing food prep with the Stainless model and not ever being real attentive to any sort of corrosion.

Then there is the part about carrying it for the next 10 years....
The Clipper is still a fixed blade, but light , concealable, and carry-able.

OR, else, I'd have to wrestle KypDegal to the ground and take that beee-yuu-tiful AUCK from him! ;) Damm that is one fine knife.

But, I must say, the original scenario called for nothing Custom.
Sorry Kyp, your blade must be confiscated by the SkunkWerX knife police. :D
 
Some interesting choices there folks. Personally I'd go with a Fallkniven S1 - stainless to resist corrosion over the long period, big and strong enough for fieldwork but not so big that its unweildy in the kitchen.
 
jh205 said:
Some interesting choices there folks. Personally I'd go with a Fallkniven S1 - stainless to resist corrosion over the long period, big and strong enough for fieldwork but not so big that its unweildy in the kitchen.
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Me too, S1 or NL2.
 
I would go with my BRKT Northstar. Full tang and convex grind make for a stronger blade that's much easier to keep sharp. Upkeep would be more than a stainless Mora, which would be my second choice, but the situation doesn't limit the ability to maintain the blade.

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I think I would choose my Buck 110. It's a tough as nails knife- mine was made in 06 but sdome of them have been working for decades. It's got a reasonable sixed blade for almost everything. Being a folder it's a lot easier to tote around (EDC) than a fixed blade with an equal blade length.
 
longbow50 said:
I would go with my BRKT Northstar. Full tang and convex grind make for a stronger blade that's much easier to keep sharp. Upkeep would be more than a stainless Mora, which would be my second choice, but the situation doesn't limit the ability to maintain the blade.

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Longbow, that is a beauty! if I had that, I think it would also be my first choice, as would a Falkniven S1 if I had one of those.

So many knives to choose from, such little cash! ;)
 
I will describe the type of knife I would want:

4"-6" fixed blade

good quality stainless steel

no serrations or spine-top saw blade, etc

flat ground

drop point

comfortable grips that won't blister my hands with extended use

field-sharpenable -- you didn't mention sharpening systems, so I have to assume that I may need to sharpen it with a fine-grained rock

rot-proof sheath

able to withstand mild batoning

Makes that come to mind, with compromises to length, blade grind, and steel, but all usble:

Moras

BM Griptilian fixed blade or Rant

RAT-3 or RAT-5

Entrek Badger or Javalina

Short Ka-Bar or Next Generation

Busse Game Warden

Becker BK-2, BK-10

Buck 119, 103, Strider Solution, Vanguard, Alpha Hunter

I thing you can see the circle I'm making-- just good ultiity knives. There's something for every taste and budget. If you dropped me in the middle of nowhere with a kit that had one of these knives, I would be gettin' busy and not crying over what knife I had to work with.

Now, the real acid test-- what do I own? Mora, Entrek Javalina, SAK Trekker/Camper/Classic, Becker Necker, Buck Mayo, Boker Subcom folder (just got that one yesterday).

And you can carve a great peanut butter spreader in a few minutes :)
 
SkunkWerX said:
Longbow, that is a beauty! if I had that, I think it would also be my first choice, as would a Falkniven S1 if I had one of those.

So many knives to choose from, such little cash! ;)
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Yeah, it's a purdy knife, but not as grippy as the Mora M2K and the lack of a finger guard makes me more careful with the blade. It's a good user, good thickness, good steel, canvas micarta handles, but I love the full convexing of the blade. It's so sharp that the animals run for cover when I take it out.:D We got a new TV and I used it to cut up the box the TV arrived in and it was like putting a hot knife through butter. There was literally no felt resistance. Yeah, as an only knife over a ten year period, this is the knife I own that will last and no matter how much I sharpen it, it will remain just as sharp at the end of the tenth year, as it was when I started.

I agree about the Fallkniven knives. I havn't had the opportunity to own one, YET, but if I did, I think it would be my first choice for the only knife I could use in a ten year period.
 
I would choose an extremely tough folder with about a 3 1/2 inch blade, something like a Sebenza or Strider. My reason would be if I could only have one knife, then it would have to be something I could carry on me wherever I go. This eliminates all fixed blades.
 
Boy, most of these hypotheticals are hard, but this one is easy -

Case XX USA era 1965-1969 stag handled TRAPPER. I watched my dad use one for 10 years, so I know it can hang.
 
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