Different types of bushcraft knives

[Thomas Linton]

Sounds like a new category has been created: Bushparer.
Got any pics, paul'ie?

At paper-thin and 6" long, more like a feeler gauge than a knife.

 

[mtangent]

Yes. I suspect he means 1/4, but that wouldn't be a parer either.

 

[Brisket]

The AG Russell Woodswalker is the closest thing I have seen to a Bushparer.

Please excuse the photo quaility.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Yes. I suspect he means 1/4, but that wouldn't be a parer either.

Good point. 1/44" is more likely 1/4"

I would not want to pare potatoes with that.

 

[upnorth]

What about the Argentine criollo? Think kitchen knife, but more sturdily built. Carried by the gauchos (i.e., Argentine cowboys) they were do-it-all knives for men who spent months in the field.

Here's a recent interpretation by Ray Laconico. Per my request he made it shorter than most examples of the type.

It is easy to see themes through the centuries.