Best Knife for general bushcraft?

[Andros]

That's right...or a flat grind...or a sabre grind...or a micro convex grind....

Bushcraft is as much about understanding the characteristics of the materials you are working with as the tools you use to work with them. My favorite "bushcraft" knife for an entire decade was a my old SOG Bowie. From what I've seen getting hung up on knife type is a lot like getting hung up on steel type when in reality it is, in the end, the skill sets involved that really make the difference in the outcome.

I couldn't agree with you more! I think this is the essence on the whole issue concerning "bushcraft"!

 

[Marion David Poff]

Bushcraft is as much about understanding the characteristics of the materials you are working with as the tools you use to work with them. My favorite "bushcraft" knife for an entire decade was a my old SOG Bowie. From what I've seen getting hung up on knife type is a lot like getting hung up on steel type when in reality it is, in the end, the skill sets involved that really make the difference in the outcome.

True, so far as it goes, though there is such a thing as arguing the exception.

And, with all due love and respect. To suggest using some knives for bushcraft, would be akin to running a marathon carrying a watermelon.

Not really. Fine design, but not for general bushcrafty stuff. Mostly just wanted to type "Smatchet."

Mad rep, props, big ups, whatever.... Coyote has now entered the building...


Marion

 

[kgd]

I got to a RC3 via a mora, cheap knockoff something (that I foolishly thought was better than the mora) then a camillus pilots knife (now in the hands of a friend),a buck 119 and a SOG Seal Team Elite. All of those blades taught me something, taught me what I wanted, didn't want, and what worked for me in the woods I haunt.

This is the best description I've seen in this thread yet. The best bushcraft knife involves a tortuous path of learning kills and trying out blades, and whittling down (pun) your preferences in a knife through the learning process.

I think everybody goes through an interesting path towards finding knives that they ultimately find works for them best. I almost think that the stories of getting to their preferences are more important than the end results.

 

[OldPhysics]

I think everybody goes through an interesting path towards finding knives that they ultimately find works for them best. I almost think that the stories of getting to their preferences are more important than the end results.

I certainly "resemble" this remark. Not everyone ends up in the same place, and that's just fine.