When a bit younger, I always wanted a knife that pretty much fit my hand (for power cuts). This has changed as I see few instances any more where I really have to do "power cuts". Those happen more than anything in the woods.
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Yeah, the old specter of power cuts.
When I was young, or at least much younger than I am now, I used to worry about being prepared for the power cut. For years and years I carried a larger knife just in case I needed to 'power cut.' But since most times I did need to, and I was in the woods, Had a much better tool on hand. It was called a sheath knife. An old stacked leather handle little Finn, or my old Buck 102 woodsman. As I aged, I learned to cheat and carried a folding saw or a SAK with a saw blade. It took me a very long time to learn that my old man was right about most stuff he tried to get into my hard head.
Around the house I keep an old Stanley 99 in the kitchen drawer for breaking down a box for the recycle bin, or other dirty work. My EDC since last July, the 74mm executive is used much like my old Case peanut or Victorinox classic, the light duty cutting that is 99% of most pocket knife jobs. Opening a package, opening my mail, cutting twine for the garden, opening a bag of mulch or potting soil. And since the executive has a good nail file, it cleans up my nails after a session in the garden. To me, the executive is a peanut with some tool capacity but in.
Being a devout minimalist for most my life, I've always subscribed to the theory of "Don't go overboard, just enough will do." I watched my dad go through his life with a Colt .22 Woodsman and a Case peanut in his pocket. I've managed to make it to a depressingly old age with a Smith and Wesson .22 kit gun and a SAK of some sort. Of late the smaller SAK of 74mm. It seems to be working out. If I need a power cut, then I've definitely lost my mind and forget all about the notch and break cutting that Mr. Van pounded into our young minds. Finesse over power. Cut a notched stress ring and just break it off. May take an extra minute, but it's way easier on an old farts arthritis.