Fixed Blades

[sm2]

Well, this is the Traditional Folders and Fixed Blades sub forum,

I dunno whut we are going to about Blues since he has not reminded anyone. Maybe send him back to Moderator Skool or better yet, send him out for Pizza...

Fixed.
What do you have?


One of my buddies , a member here on BFC, and other forums, made me a Custom fixed blade.

-Classic Hunting knife pattern.
-Steel from a Bastard File (W1), 3 1/2" blade from brass guard to tip. Just a classic geometry, with a swedge.
- Elk or Sambar handle. (he cannot recall, which of the two)
-Total length is 7 3/4"

-Leather Sheath is home made as well. Just a nice, simple heavy, work sheath.

Sharp as could be upon receipt, holds an edge, easy to maintain, and this knife will flat cut!

The handle fits my hand, is very comfortable, and gives great purchase in all kinds of conditions.

I have used this knife for all sorts of tasks, including food prep, cutting ribs, (and I do mean a box each of pork and beef as a butcher gets in), rope, breaking down cardboard boxes, cutting garden and vehicle hoses, fire starting with a magnesium starter...etc.


Your turn.

*smile*

 

[cortopar]

My son likes to play with his orange plastic sheath knife. 8" OAL with a nice purple plastic sheath.

Most of our sheath knives are Moras of one type or another.

 

[popedandy]

In the more traditional looking fixed blades, I have a Marbles Trailmaker and a Marbles Sport that I carry in a home made double sheath.

 

[jim preston]

My sheath knives are a Mora Swedish Army Knife, a KaBar Heavy Bowie, and a CRKT M60. The CRKT I bought because I got a good deal on it. It's not a bad knife, just don't fit me right. The KaBar is nice, big n heavy but surprisingly sharp. The Mora does most of what I do with a fixed blade- which isn't that much. It sits on my desk, ready to do any cutting chore. I take whenever I might cook at a friends house, or on vacation because you don't know what kind of kitchen cutlery a condo will have. I really dig the Scandi grind for resharpening.

I with SM on this- I don't really like very long blades for most thing. 3.5-5" is plenty, if you ask me. My Mora fits into this catagory. My favorite kitchen knives right now are paring knives. I need to get an OH paring knife- will order one when I place my next order to knifecenter. Moore Maker also has two models- the Drop Point Hunter and the Small Game Hunter, that looks just about right.

Of course, at some point in time I'm going to get me one of these, probably the top one.

SM, that image was taken from ragweed forge. You really should go there and pick yourself up a stainless Mora.

 

[Bob W]

I have a good selection of fixed-blade traditional knives. Marble's, Buck, Blackjack, Schrade, Helle, Karesuando, Frosts, Erikkson, Ahti, Grohmann, Bark River, Canal Street, a few customs, and others that slip my mind.

Traditional, meaning traditional patterns in natural handle materials, are my favorite type of knife to buy, for aesthetic reasons. Unfortunately I've never had a reason to carry or use one...

Here's my most recent selection:

One of the custom knives in my collection, by Don Hanson III:

My next may be a Queen, or...

I'd love to buy one of the Case fixed blades, if they were carbon steel.

 

[sm2]

A blade no longer than 3 1/2 " , takes care of all my tasks, for woodscraft and hunting.

I grew up with traditional pocket knives and fixed blades. This custom, is a traditional pattern.

Yes, I really do use traditional Old Hickory, and Case paring, utility and steak knives, for woodscraft, hunting and fishing. This is what Mentors & Elders did, and it worked then, and it works now.

Now I had a few old Case small fixed blades, I and mine called them
Bird & Trout knives.

The one I really liked, was the Western Cutlery small fixed like it.
I was reading Field & Stream one day and Ted Trueblood was in the ad for Western Cutlery.
Later a Mentor, commented Trueblood, in something he read, used the small fixed like we did.

I have one more custom, and is made of 01. This maker, normally does stainless steel, but I wanted 01.
He does great knife designs, and we discussed how traditional this knife and his other designs are.

I prefer carbon, tool steels, especially for a fixed blade. Many folks I know, that live in saltwater areas, may carry a stainless pocket knife, still they too only use carbon, tool steel fixed.

Re: Ragweed Forge

I had, and lost due to weather events, one of the Viking Stones.
I want another.
Talk about tradition!

Viking Whetstone

In Viking times small whetstones were often worn as pendants. These are reproductions of whetstone pendants found in a Viking Age ship wreck at Kalåstad, Norway. Similar pendants have been found in York, Birka, and Gotland. They are cut from Jasper, and seem somewhere between the hard black and translucent Arkansas stones. That means they are super fine, quite a bit finer than the stones shown below. They are suitable for the final edge and polish, rather than removing nicks and general sharpening.

 

[sm2]

Bob W,

Very Nice!
This custom I have, is very similar to yours made by Don Hanson III.

I like using a fixed, and one reason is I pass forward as passed to me. As some know, I run with a group very special to me. So I will use traditional pocket knives and fixed blades.
We do all sorts of things, as they get to learn by my doing.

Then again if a kid wants to spread peanut butter and jelly, or fix a hot dawg with one, and spread the mustard, fine by me.

This is what folks did with traditional knives, I did it, and it needs to be passed forward.

Oh, fixed blades work well for dishing out a yellow handled pocket knife, that gets dropped into a big jar of mustard.

Yellow handles are not always a guarantee one cannot lose a knife.
Red SAKs are not either. Drop one in ketchup.

I was sharing how one should not rely solely on "colors" or anything else to keep up with things.

Yes, my W1 blade has a neat patina. *smile*

 

[Bob W]

This custom I have, is very similar to yours made by Don Hanson III.

Here's another similar knife, by Daniel Prentice:

 

[RescueRiley]

I used tohave alot of fixed blades but the collection has dwindled down a bit..I have a bark river fox river, a buck 102 woodsman, a few moras, and a becker bk-7 and a filliet knife nowadays the filletknife sees more action than the rest...come late september the Buck might take over for a while..

 

[bacman99]

My sheath knives are a Mora Swedish Army Knife, a KaBar Heavy Bowie, and a CRKT M60. The CRKT I bought because I got a good deal on it. It's not a bad knife, just don't fit me right. The KaBar is nice, big n heavy but surprisingly sharp. The Mora does most of what I do with a fixed blade- which isn't that much. It sits on my desk, ready to do any cutting chore. I take whenever I might cook at a friends house, or on vacation because you don't know what kind of kitchen cutlery a condo will have. I really dig the Scandi grind for resharpening.

I with SM on this- I don't really like very long blades for most thing. 3.5-5" is plenty, if you ask me. My Mora fits into this catagory. My favorite kitchen knives right now are paring knives. I need to get an OH paring knife- will order one when I place my next order to knifecenter. Moore Maker also has two models- the Drop Point Hunter and the Small Game Hunter, that looks just about right.

Of course, at some point in time I'm going to get me one of these, probably the top one.


SM, that image was taken from ragweed forge. You really should go there and pick yourself up a stainless Mora.

I have the TR-SW and its sharp as a razor, I love it. The only thing I would change is the the grip. I have big hands and the "Pomell" (I guess is whats you call it) makes the grip seem small and Im thinking about removing it and making the grip straight.

I also have the TR-FS Patch knife not shown. It makes a great neck knife and its also razor sharp.

 

[jim preston]

Ahh, I just realized I said stainless Mora in my reccomendation to SM. Of course, I meant carbon

I could really dig a fixed blade, a 4" drop point 1095 blade, with brown Micarta handle scale, a brass half-guard, and a brass pommel. With a very big grip- I got large hands.

SM, I came across this, and thought you might like it. It's a woodcarving knife, but should be good for general use, as well.

 

[Andrew Colglazier]

Here is a Stroming/Brusletto leuku I got from Ragnar and just finished putting a stacked leather handle on. The blade is carbon steel and is 8" in length, but is nice and thin for good cutting and slicing. I think a larger blade can be useful if not TOO large, and if the blade is thin enough.

Here's another scandi blade from Brusletto with a stacked leather and osage orange handle. The blade is a bit under 5" but is fairly stout. I think it falls into the "traditional" niche!

Andy

 

[jackknife]

I ain't never had to fix a blade in my life, just treat em right.

Now I do have some sheath knives.

Way back when I was young, I had a old Puma Bowie. 6 1/2 inch clip point blade, great stag handles. But it was sold off when I got my Randall 14. That lasted a few years, then I got rid of the Randall and got a nice little Buck 102 woodsman. The Randall was just too big and I never really found a need for it. That woodsman served me for over 25 years, and was worn down to a 4 inch tothpick. The better half bought me a new one about 12 years ago, and I still wear it on woodswalks. A very handy trout and bird knife, and general camping chores knife.

I have a second sheath knife, a wood handle mora with a laminated blade. Very sharp cutter.

I have another little number I've been experimenting with, a Buck Hartsook. It was a gift a year and a half ago, and its been seeing duty as an unfolding pocket knife. Not a bad knife at all, very handy.

Those knives are my only sheath knives. My pocket knives do most of what I need to do.

If I need something bigger, then that's what hatchets and saws are for. I love folding saws for woods and camping use. Very often I just take my pocket knife, my Buck woodsman sheath knife, and a Gerber sliding blade saw that weighs only a few onces but goes through wood like a crazed beaver. Safer too.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

I actually prefer a fixed blade in many applications. I see a folder as a way of having "a" knife with you, but if you have a real job to do a fixed is often the better choice.

I've got several Bowies from various makers, a Bark River (nice, well made), a BK&T BK6 "Patrol Machete", a kuhkri, a Queen 4" hunter, and a nice little 3" custom w/micarta I picked up in Colorado, by a maker whose name I've lost (and whose knife is not stamped). I've also got a custom Ranger RD-7 that was made to my specs, as well as serial #001 of Eddie White's Shadow Knives model XI:

(Sorry for the size, it's not my image.)

Not to mention a bunch of little knives I've picked up over the years that I use in the shop and garden.

-- Sam

 

[Andrew Colglazier]

I actually prefer a fixed blade in many applications. I see a folder as a way of having "a" knife with you, but if you have a real job to do a fixed is often the better choice.

I've got several Bowies from various makers, a Bark River (nice, well made), a BK&T BK6 "Patrol Machete", a kuhkri, a Queen 4" hunter, and a nice little 3" custom w/micarta I picked up in Colorado, by a maker whose name I've lost (and whose knife is not stamped). I've also got a custom Ranger RD-7 that was made to my specs, as well as serial #001 of Eddie White's Shadow Knives model XI:

(Sorry for the size, it's not my image.)

Not to mention a bunch of little knives I've picked up over the years that I use in the shop and garden.

-- Sam

Nice little wharnie! :thumbup:

Andy

 

[Will Power]

Fixed blades/sheath knives?? Yes, I've got a few but nothing old unfortunately.

MORAS laminate&stainless
MARTTIINI Skinner (well underrated,fantastic grip and sharp too)
BÖKER Stag 420
CANAL STREET as shown earlier on in this thread but not very struck on it,not useful or ergonomic.
BARK RIVERS: Mikro Slither, PSK, Classic Lite Hunter( Red Maple&Nat linen),Nebula(Antique Ivory,Green Canvas)Woodland,North Star(favourite)Blackwater Boot Knife,Colonial Patch.
KIZLYAR (hefty Russians in Walnut) Sterkh, Sobol
RAT 3 in Ram's Horn a nice light cutter with power.

Might have to sell some off as I only really use 2-3 of them. A SAK Farmer,one Sheath Knife,a Traditional slippie and a Fiskars Mini Hatchet will tackle ALL cutting tasks you need anywhere outdoors or in.But then, you can't have too many knives.....

 

[Yosemite Sam]

How could I have forgotten my KA-BAR USMC Fighting-Utility! Everybody should have one.

-- Sam

 

[VCM3]

Here's a Charles May Bird & Trout in S30V/Ironwood/mosaic pins

This is a knife designed by George Herron,for Wayne Hendrix.It is based on the Grohmann Canadian Belt knife,Wayne & George named it the "S" knife

 

[sunnyd]

A blade no longer than 3 1/2 " , takes care of all my tasks, for woodscraft and hunting.

I grew up with traditional pocket knives and fixed blades. This custom, is a traditional pattern..

Hey there Steve,

I wholeheartedly agree with you there!.

I cannot seem to put this one down. Dag-on thing stays on my belt no matter how many times I've changed my drawers during the last month or so.

I was fortunate enough to have received her in a trade from a very fine member here on the Trad forum and a helluva nice fella as it turned out, and I recon that makes it even more fun to use. She is a handmade David Farmer custom knife built on a full tang with blood wood scales. She has a very thinly and superbly convex ground 3 1/4 inch cutting blade made of hi-carbon 1095 with just the right amount of belly. She is exactly 7 inches overall with a plain little thin leather sheath that when worn cannot be felt but when needed is right their for me. She may not be the best looking, but what a performer. Perfect little cutter, just perfect!.:thumbup:

Best,

Anthony

 

[Rivit]

I actually only have about 15 fixed bade knives, and I don't have pics of most of them. These are the only two that I have scanned so far, but I may get around to it tomorrow. Top is a WWII theatre made knife. Bottom is a premium from the Jimmie Allen Air Aces radio show made by Robeson.