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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
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personally, I have no problem with practical redundancy when it comes to spending time in the woods and carrying more than one knife. My question is why wouldn't anyone carry more than one knife outdoors? Especially a knife knut
(SAS book says to carry three)
For my uses a large knife is more practical than an axe most, but not all, of the time. However, for bushcrafty reasons, I like to have a little knife, too. A purpose built hunter will usually have such a fine hollow ground edge that durability is an issue, hence the scandi grind and convexed flats on bushcraft oriented designs. A bushcraft specific design is really the most versatile, in my opinion, because it is still maneouverable enough to part out an animal carcass, while at the same time can be batoned or dig holes in wood without the edge chipping out.
A big chopper just does not do finesse well when it comes to little things, at least not without the same margin of safety, at least for me.
Chopper type knives are my favourite genre of knife, because, besides an edc, they're the only kind of knife I really use- and man are they fun to use!
Thanks for the great thread Hans!
(SAS book says to carry three)For my uses a large knife is more practical than an axe most, but not all, of the time. However, for bushcrafty reasons, I like to have a little knife, too. A purpose built hunter will usually have such a fine hollow ground edge that durability is an issue, hence the scandi grind and convexed flats on bushcraft oriented designs. A bushcraft specific design is really the most versatile, in my opinion, because it is still maneouverable enough to part out an animal carcass, while at the same time can be batoned or dig holes in wood without the edge chipping out.
A big chopper just does not do finesse well when it comes to little things, at least not without the same margin of safety, at least for me.
Chopper type knives are my favourite genre of knife, because, besides an edc, they're the only kind of knife I really use- and man are they fun to use!
Thanks for the great thread Hans!
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good lord! I have never been tempted to spend $2500 on a knife until now;
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=650051
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=650051
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personally, I have no problem with practical redundancy when it comes to spending time in the woods and carrying more than one knife. My question is why wouldn't anyone carry more than one knife outdoors? Especially a knife knut
Thanks for the great thread Hans!
I seconded that!
What makes a chopper?...
... Its the distribution of mass/weight, Geometry and heat treating play the fundamental roles. Im not going to attempt to do the math or the metallurgy, but, I think one intuitively knows a chopper, when one sees it!
