Bushcraft community hate towards non-bushcraft knives? What's up with this bushcraft craze? 😂

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Quiet said:
Let me tell you. I like bananas. If I wake up tomorrow, and discover that a whole bunch of banana fans are now calling them "ape handfood", guess what? I'm still calling 'em bananas, and I'm going to get a chuckle out of people who get mad that I'm not using their favored terminology.
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This was way funnier to me than it should have been. My wife rolled her eyes at my laughing at “ape handfood”
 
Jiki said:
Back in stock, go get them boys.
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I have an ultra lite. I like it. But the grind is convex so it’s not like it’s useless for anything outside of whittling wood.

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To me bushcrafting is a set of skills and and a knife does not become a bushcraft tool just because a person is using it for that purpose. A knife is still a knife. I do think some knives have some characteristics that bushcraft users look for such as a scandi grind, sharpened spine, etc…..but they are still knives. Ultimately, the right tool for the right job still applies, but the skills of the user plays a big role in how successful a tool does the job at hand.
 
Why does “Bushcraft” even need to be in the woods? Aren’t cities just human “bee hives”? Figuring out ways to survive in an urban environment should count.
 
Jiki said:
Concretecraft?
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Movies like “I Am Legend” or “28 Days Later” come to mind. In a true survival situation, people will need to know how to fight for survival regardless of the environment. Whittling sticks is all well and good but it doesn’t help a family stuck in midtown Manhattan when the power grid is wiped out and water supply becomes compromised.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
Why does “Bushcraft” even need to be in the woods? Aren’t cities just human “bee hives”? Figuring out ways to survive in an urban environment should count.
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Figuring how to survive in any situation or environment is important, but bushcraft does tend to use a different skill set in the “bush” than one would need in an urban environment. As a matter fact, how many programs have been started to help kids get back to nature who are stuck in an urban environment and learn the value of working together as a team? Learning where their food comes from, what life is lIke in a rural environment, or just learn that there are great open areas to explore, just outside a major urban area?
 
Paratrooper06 said:
Movies like “I Am Legend” or “28 Days Later” come to mind. In a true survival situation, people will need to know how to fight for survival regardless of the environment. Whittling sticks is all well and good but it doesn’t help a family stuck in midtown Manhattan when the power grid is wiped out and water supply becomes compromised.
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I don't disagree, one should be situationally prepared for their environment. Skill sets and being prepared will go farther than the perfect tool every time.
 
DocJD said:
Relatively cheap machetes and butcher's knives historically allowed people all over the world to live, and make all or part of their living, in the "bush " ....
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Sure, but they have been doing it all wrong, without any Bush-crafting pazzaz. :oops:

Now if they only had a hollow handled sawback...whoops! That was so 80s. 🤪

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I consider myself pretty easy going, don't get wrapped around the axle over simple things.

For example, my definition of a "bushcraft knife" is the one I'm using to slice up some tomatoes for my ham sandwich - in the kitchen. Who am I to complain about other people's definition? 🤣
 
BUSHCRAFT.
If a particular knife/grind came to mind when you read the above, then there is such a thing as a bushcraft knife, like it or not. I acquired one as part of a trade which I use in the kitchen. It works just as well as any other of my kitchen knifes. It cuts a nicely shaped hole to vent the gourmet delicacies Banquet provides.
 
I’m pretty sure there’s a big difference between debating specific knife designations and being audited.
 
Quiet said:
Also, the argument about scandi grind "bushcraft knives" continues to be misconstrued. The fact of the matter is that everything you can do with a "bushcraft" specific knife (scandi grind, the whole thing) can be done with virtually any other knife. That's the fact of the matter. "Well, they're the best at...." At nothing. You can literally carve wood, start a fire, make a shelter, and do everything else with a knife in virtually any other grind.

In fact, "bushcraft" knives kinda suck at food prep for one, which last I checked, was a HUGE part of bushcra...sorry, camping, wood carving around a campfire, building a shelter, and making neat things outta wood while out in the woods.
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I have a room full of knives, folding, and fixed, from all over the world, all shapes, sizes, makers, some new, many that are nearly 100 years old. Out of all those, there is just one knife that the internet experts tell me is the only acceptable form of bushcraft knife. Ya know what? Its absolutely the last knife I would pick to do pretty much any "bushcraft" task as portrayed on Youtube. Yeah you can get the edge sharp, but its more like a chisel. Cut, yeah, mostly, but slice for food prep? Nope, not at all. Chop? No, not really good at that either, grind is way too thick to bite deep enough . The only thing its really useful for is as a wedge to split small rounds for firewood. Other than that, its really useless in the real world. In fact, the 100 year old Marbles Woodcraft I have is better at pretty much...... everything...
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