I have to totally agree with this.:thumb up:
Any good pocket knife will handle most of what you need, and if it does not, then you need a fixed blade or another tool. I know there is a trend these days to see the folding knife as an overbuilt do-all cutting tool, capable of prying open car doors. But I truly believe this is a hyped mind set put out by the manufacturers and the knife magazines that are their lackeys, to sell a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
But it all became a crystal clear epiphany on a trip to Costa Rica that my better half and I took some years ago. Our oldest boy, John, had been sent to San Jose for business, and we had made plans for a trip down to visit our son. Unknown to us, John, knowing what animal and bird watchers we were, arranged for us to have hiking/camping trip in the rain forrest. For the better part of a week, we hiked, nature watched, and camped out in the Costa Rica jungle with a wonderful guided trip. Being the knife knut I am, I of course took careful note of what they all were using. Ev try guide carried a 12 inch machete in a nee leather scabbard, and used that machete for everything. The guy in the lead position carried a much longer machete for trail clearing when things were a bit over grown. But on each guides belt was a nylon and velcro pouch, that contained a SAK and a Bic lighter. Around camp, where each late afternoon we arrived to find tents already set up and dinner being prepared, the guides found much use for the SAK's. Small cutting jobs, doing some maintenance on a camp stove, opening a can, whatever. It seemed that the 12 inch machete and a SAK was the go-to set up. Small jobs and big are covered by two tools. Even on the last night, when we were given a pig roast as our last meal in the rainforest, the guide doing the carving was using his 12 inch machete to serve up delicious steaming hot roast pork.
I remember my dad using pretty much the same set-up with his peanut and the cut down English machete that he called his bushwhacker. With a two inch bladed pocket knife and a 9 1/2 inch chopper/slicer, all bases were covered. I even recall him using the machete to slice a ham and loaf of bread on a picnic when mom forgot to pack the kitchen knife. It worked well. Two tools, many uses. If a pocket knife doesn't do it, it's time for a bigger tool. A sturdy SAK will go a long way before needed that bigger tool.
Carl.
Tomorrow I might get a suspicious look if 3 pr 4 packages show up and wife of Wolf known as Ms. Kitteh is the one checking the mail or sees me strolling in with a handful of packages, and none for her. 
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