Choose Wisely (One Knife)

CanadaKnifeGuy said:
My BK-14 fits in a pocket sheath that doubles as my wallet (with some bike inner tube sections stretched across it) and at 7" OAL, comes with me everywhere and in jeans, casual attire and even a suit, unnoticed.

A drop point is an awesome all-around shave and FFG makes it a decent slicer.

It can do most utility and outdoors tastes, as well.

If I could only have one food knife, I'd choose a 7" Dexter Russel fillet knife.

For both uses, I guess a cold steel Canadian belt knife or the original Gronholm Canadian knife in FFG could work well.

For DGAF public wearing and / or end of the world... Kershaw Camp 10 is an amazing blade.
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I pocket carry a Gronholm bird & trout that my father gave me 30+ years ago. I didn’t know they do them now with the option of FFG. I’m going to have to take a look.
 
Hmm, must be a fixed one then. Might go for the new F1 in elmax, but that is a furture purchase.

So for the ones I know I think I would go for either the buschcrafter or its little sister:

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I prefer a fixed blade for many reasons but I would have to choose a folder if I could only touch one from now on so I could easily carry it everywhere everyday. Fixed blades are just too hard to carry IMHO and the larger they are, the worse it gets. You can skin a deer with a pocket knife for sure and I could get other tools to do anything I felt the folder wouldn’t handle (hatchet, saw, pry bar, and on). I’m just not Jeremiah Johnson and accept that.
Large Sebenza is my today choice. I edc a small one but would go up a size for the scenario listed.
 
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The small Anchor from Otter Messer is the One. The Opinel 7 is for comparison. Is it the most versatile, durable depandable, pocketable, nicier, classier knife? Not in a long shot. But I just like it a lot. And, I think, even though a clip point or spear point blade is more versatile, for the most coomon cutting tasks the Anchor will perform better.
 
After careful consideration, for me it has to be a CRK Small Sebenza. I’d go with my 2002 PJ drop point because of my history with it.

I can’t carry a fixed blade into a company office or a folder with a blade larger than 3”, so it makes the decision easier. Even without the work limitation, it’s the right size for my one knife solution, largely because it’s small and discrete enough to carry on almost all occasions (really any place I would go except where knives are banned, like in a plane). I’ve carried it before as a sole knife on a two week stint in the wilderness and while wearing a suit.

I’ve really never needed more knife.

All that said, I do usually carry a fixed blade (small for EDC), medium in the woods.
 
In any Filipino house, there could be a number of small blades for kitchen, or general dry use. But the really indispensible blade, the one wherein you'll howl if you don't have it at the crucial time, is the machete.
 
Realizing most knife use happens in the kitchen, I must choose a fixed blade - I know folders can be used for food prep just fine, but keeping them clean could be a bit of a chore... So I'll go with the 3V Aurora 2. It already proved itself. It's big, but not too big, I love it equally both in the kitchen and outdoors. Handle big enough for gloved hands/winter use. And very pointy for the grizzly :-)

But hopefully I'll have a BRKT 3V 4" Kephart soon. I think that will be the new king of the hill with its nice, thin blade.
 
If the legal regulations here didn't apply then I'd probably choose my Bradford Guardian 5.5 in Magnacut. If I had to stick to legal requirements it would have to be my Victorinox Huntsman since we can only carry a sub 3 inch non locking folder without good reason.
 
Remember, two is one and one is none :)
Taking your question more seriously, if indeed it is one knife only, it then must be a folder. It must be slicing easily, but sturdy and capable of anything in the wilderness as well as easily maintainable. I have many and the one which fits the requirements the best is my custom fatty Hinderer xm18
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JC972 said:
Easy. A red bone handled Henckles 4 blade congress. Carbon steel. I know it’d handle all my knife chores with ease. I know this because I watched it handle all knife chores by itself for nearly 10 years before it got mothballed for a new Kissing Crane copperhead on Father’s Day 2001. Maybe a year or two before he passed away he gave me his congress. I reckon if it went to work with a career ironworker every day and cut stuff on the job and then it had to keep up with the knife chores that came with raising an energetic but meaner lookalike of Dennis the Menace (me), as well as do all the homeowner type stuff for all those years it’s good enough for me. Best part is he only sharpened it on a fine stone so the blades have only very very minimal steel missing If any.

If I didn’t have that one I’d pick a three spring Buck 301. Also an easy choice because I’ve yet to own one I couldn’t open easily and the darn things are just a good tough knife.
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