The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Older "mountain man" knives, were thin, and cut very well. They were the center tool of an outdoorsmans kit, and should still remain so today.
Its an amazing knife, with near limitless possibilities. Jerry explained alot about the knife, why it is what it is, and what it supposed to be....
If a knife is referred to as a "camp" knife, there are some specific details that it is supposed to do. Primarily, the main thing that most woodsmen did and still do at camp, is eat. A camp knife, is mostly going to be used to prep a fire, and prep some food, then, carve up said food for the belly.
In the same respect, a trail knife was intended to be used as a way to clear out your trail, or help you make one. Most trail knives tend to be longer, and thinner, to facilitate the hanging branch snap cut, or the knee level grass swipe. Yeah, I said grass swipe.
Larger bladed knives, with thicker spines, are a relatively new concept. Thin cuts. That's the skinny of it.
Now, the Magnum Camp knife, was designed to fit the needs of all of those things, in one, nice need compact package, that could do everything from cut branches out of your way, to gutting game, big or small, to split that wood for the fire, and carve that meat.
And it does all of that and much more, very, very, very well. Still not a believer?
Moose
Its an amazing knife, with near limitless possibilities. Jerry explained alot about the knife, why it is what it is, and what it supposed to be.
Just a quick history lesson and some hooked on phonics fo' ya azz.
If a knife is referred to as a "camp" knife, there are some specific details that it is supposed to do. Primarily, the main thing that most woodsmen did and still do at camp, is eat. A camp knife, is mostly going to be used to prep a fire, and prep some food, then, carve up said food for the belly.
In the same respect, a trail knife was intended to be used as a way to clear out your trail, or help you make one. Most trail knives tend to be longer, and thinner, to facilitate the hanging branch snap cut, or the knee level grass swipe. Yeah, I said grass swipe.
Larger bladed knives, with thicker spines, are a relatively new concept. Thin cuts. That's the skinny of it.
Now, the Magnum Camp knife, was designed to fit the needs of all of those things, in one, nice need compact package, that could do everything from cut branches out of your way, to gutting game, big or small, to split that wood for the fire, and carve that meat.
And it does all of that and much more, very, very, very well. Still not a believer? Check out the vids, they do back me up.
Now, bushcraft, is a concept not based on anything, but the experience of bushcraft. Its a collection of skills that have been used and passed down through the ages, but the essence of bushcraft, is the craft. It was explained to me one night, by a drunk willis, whilst we were baggin' bushy crafties.
Here's what I learned. Here in the USA and other places, we have the ability to hunt and fish, and what we use bushcraft skills for, are to facilitate our outings. In countries like England, where hunting and fishing is damn near impossible, they have created a way to get out and enjoy their time in the woods, by keeping the skills that used to be there to further the reason FOR the outing, and not just the outing itself.
Here's an example. I'll hit the woods here in a few weeks, and spend 2-3 days out, back country camping. I'll be toting a shotgun, shells, and other things that will let me down a deer. Once that deer is down, my knife will dump its guts, but I will still have to transport it outta the woods, and back to my camp. So, using skills of taking a knife and making me something (a litter) to help me get that deer out. Back at camp, I'll build me a riser, to hang my deer from. As well as my camp will have tables, and chairs, things I didn't pack in, but made there, once I got there.
Now, if you weren't going hunting, and you just went to the woods, but made the same stuff, you would be bushcrafting for the sake of bushcrafting, as opposed to being out hunting, and needing stuff.
Or at least that my take on it.
Moose
