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

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The thing I find most amusing is that we all know that scandi grind knives have been in existence long before the term “bushcraft” was created to try make camping and woodcarving seem more glamorous, which means that no, “bushcraft knives” aren’t a thing. After all, if you can do an activity with any knife, then the knives you’ve labeled aren’t special, unique, or “just for bushcraft”, which kind of invalidates the entire concept. It’s just like we’ve been saying, some marketing geniuses decided to use their made up term to label those knives, making them a total non-thing. A shame the marketing term label defender isn’t getting it.

Keep tilting at those windmills, champ! 🤣🤣
 
Baseball bat: a specialized piece of equipment needed to play a specific sport, which isn’t used for any other sporting purpose.

Bushcraft knife: a sharp knife that doesn’t do anything that any other knife can’t do, and thus isn’t special, or a specialized piece of equipment.
 
I think Bushcraft looks like fun and it is also presents lots of opportunities to test the practicality of any knife. I would not berate anyone for their choice of blade but I would be willing to share how my knife performed and fared doing different tasks. In turn I would expect not to be called an idiot for not using an ax and a bic lighter to start a fire because I used my knife to practice and experience batoning wood and starting a fire.
 
How can you be two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?
 
Houlahound said:
Surprisingly people can post for 20+ pages on knives and activities they don't believe exist.
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People have been going on about deities they haven't seen for thousands of years, and you're going to complain about this?

(No particular system of belief intended. Simply an observation.)
 
Blues said:
People have been going on about deities they haven't seen for thousands of years, and you're going to complain about this?

(No particular system of belief intended. Simply an observation.)
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The difference is they "go on about" things they believe in, folks here are "going on about" things they don't even believe exist.
 
Houlahound said:
The difference is they "go on about" things they believe in, folks here are "going on about" things they don't even believe exist.
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Nope. There is no "they". People on every side of the subject of religion discuss and debate the matter...not only believers. People who are agnostic and / or atheists can be just as passionate about their "beliefs", even when they don't "believe".
 
I like the ESEE 5. I know it's big and heavy. That is what makes it a great wood splitter and it is the specific reason I like it. Batoning sounds like so much fun it's what I anticipate I would do a lot of for fun if I ever went out Bushcrafting. ESEE 5 is not a Bushcrafter favorite in the Bushcraft forums I have read and I can understand their reasoning but they do point out it splits wood very well.

I find that bushcrafters pretty much know what knives perform best for WHAT THEY WANT TO DO and they generally understand the advantages and disadvantages of most knife designs and blade steels in general.

I would agree in the wilderness a good wood saw and ax is a game changer but using an ESEE 5 is also fun.

I don't find anything wrong with a Scandi grind either.

I think that little kid in the pictures above can probably teach most of us proper Bushcraft.
 
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Houlahound said:
Surprisingly people can post for 20+ pages on knives and activities they don't believe exist.
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This would have been over in 5 pages or less if people like you could comprehend what we are saying.

The activities exist. They have always existed since man has been on this Earth. Bushcraft is simply a new marketing name and ploy to suck you into thinking that you need something that already exists. Those things are called knives and have existed for a long time, and playing in the woods which has also been around for a few years.

What are you not understanding???
 
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