Cast Away Style, All Time, Desert Island Fixed Blade Choice

[VermontEdge]

Okay...a slow day at work so I'm posting this out of curiosity:

Imagine yourself as Tom Hanks in Cast Away (or some similar desert island movie) and you can take one fixed blade with you.

What is it, and why?

Any other desert island considerations are welcome!
(How to sharpen, for example).

I feel like I would lean toward a larger Bravo...like a 2 maybe. In 3V? What would you take?

 

[ebidis]

BK9, I just think a blade that size Would be versatile in that situation, and it's the only one that size that I own. I guess you would have to find a suitable rock, or maybe coral(?) for sharpening.

 

[Noswad0208]

Yep, BK9. I'd rather take a BK9 and a BK15, 14 or SAK.

 

[marcinek]

Hmph...we have never discussed this scenario before...let me think about it for a minute.

Got it.

More than one knife, a ferrocerium rod, gps, a satphone, and some beer.

 

[VermontEdge]

More than one knife, a ferrocerium rod, gps, a satphone, and some beer.

I think you forgot nachos...

 

[22-rimfire]

A Condor El Salvador machete. I guess it depends if the island is tropical or just a "desert" island.

 

[brancron]

Probably some sort of heavy machete that would be good for chopping through soft island trees and lopping coconuts in half.

 

[Noswad0208]

Probably some sort of heavy machete that would be good for chopping through soft island trees and lopping coconuts in half.

That's what I was thinking with the BK9, plenty to chop coconuts but still nimble enough for smaller work and self defense if there were animals on the island.

 

[marcinek]

I think you forgot nachos...

....I also forgot the magic teleportation device that somehow took my knives off me and beamed me to No Knife Island. I'm sure it could beam me back.

Anyhoo, is the island covered in edible mushrooms? If so I'd want an Opinel mushroom knife.

 

[22-rimfire]

Mushroom knife. That's funny and that brush might come in handy for your teeth in a pinch.

 

[Noswad0208]

I need to buy some of those, cut off the brush, then spraypaint it black and sell it as a "tactical marine seal special forces kerambit terrorist killer"

I could make a killing.

 

[Shotgun]

Machete without hesitation. I wouldn't want to sharpen 3v out in the wild.

 

[Cody4x4]

i think ill have to join in on the BK9 vote

 

[ebidis]

....I also forgot the magic teleportation device that somehow took my knives off me and beamed me to No Knife Island. I'm sure it could beam me back.

Anyhoo, is the island covered in edible mushrooms? If so I'd want an Opinel mushroom knife.

Maybe, if so, I hope your there with me. I need someone to test the mushrooms to see if they're edible or not.

 

[marcinek]

Maybe, if so, I hope your there with me. I need someone to test the mushrooms to see if they're edible or not.

No worries, I'm a long standing member of the Mycological Society of America and the North American Mycological Association.

That said, how come its always a desert island? What about the Medvezhyi Islands, an uninhabited group of islands at the western end of the Kolyma Gulf of the East Siberian Sea. Or Ellef Ringnes Island, one of the Sverdrup Islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Nothing on that uninhabited blighted tip but an automated weather station.

 

[VermontEdge]

This is making work a lot more entertaining! Keep them coming!

 

[22-rimfire]

I'd spend my time looking for Ginger or Mary Ann.

 

[marcinek]

This is making work a lot more entertaining! Keep them coming!

It was supposed to make this thread more entertaining. Zing!

 

[grownstar]

Could I take a folding knife if the lock makes it a virtual fixed blade?

 

[Faiaoga]

A Condor El Salvador machete. I guess it depends if the island is tropical or just a "desert" island.

These exotic knife discussions can be interesting, but we will probably find that people who actually live on the islands and clear land for gardens, make fires for cooking and husk coconuts will use an inexpensive machete