I been thinking a lot lately about knives ( duh! ) and things I want, and decided I found something I wanted but had never seen made.....odd.....did I just miss it?
Let me explain.....
Was thinking about my current Bushcraft setup....I tend to run a 3 knife rig, depending on where I'm headed to for the weekend... Usually a BK9, BK16, and Silky Gomboy saw if I plan on having to process much wood....if not its usually a BK9, BK16, and SAK 1h NS Trekker....
I carry the Trekker for the can and bottle opener, super sharp thin slicing blade and more than anything, the little wood saw which is FAR better than a lot of folks give em credit for...I use the snot out of that little saw for notching pegs and trap work...things that require a VERY clean cut.
This got me to thinking....and to the point of my post.
Why has no one ever put a folding knife built into a fixed blade knife handle?.....
Lets take the near perfect BK16....remove the handle scales, cut away a very slight section of the tang....and install a SAK saw blade that would unfold and be usable out the back of the knife when held by the handle with the sheath on..... Kinda like a saw back, but that actually works and would be FAIRLY easily replaceable.....now put the BK scales back on, and they come up to cover the folding blade perfectly as though it were still a simple single blade fixed knife.
Hell I guess one could go to extreme with the idea and do the same thing with a folding BK16 blade on a BK9 for the perfect single woods knife?...yea, I know that's pushing it.... but the idea is solid.
Fixed knives, especially some of the larger chopper style blades have a TON of unused real estate in the handle area....and it would not be hard to design the folding blades to eliminate hotspots so they" felt invisible "
has anyone ever seen anything like what I'm talking about?...keeping all the robust parts of the fixed blade that make it worth having, but adding some utility by having a folding item designed and built into the handle?
Million dollar idea?
hell I'd buy one....seems like a natural progression step that for some reason has never been taken.
and yes, I understand trying to use a smaller blade with a BK16 as a handle is less than ideal....but to be honest, I'd rather have a SAK folding saw on my 16 than not have a saw at all...as long as you understood it's limitations and how to use it safely
/head scratch
Let me explain.....
Was thinking about my current Bushcraft setup....I tend to run a 3 knife rig, depending on where I'm headed to for the weekend... Usually a BK9, BK16, and Silky Gomboy saw if I plan on having to process much wood....if not its usually a BK9, BK16, and SAK 1h NS Trekker....
I carry the Trekker for the can and bottle opener, super sharp thin slicing blade and more than anything, the little wood saw which is FAR better than a lot of folks give em credit for...I use the snot out of that little saw for notching pegs and trap work...things that require a VERY clean cut.
This got me to thinking....and to the point of my post.
Why has no one ever put a folding knife built into a fixed blade knife handle?.....
Lets take the near perfect BK16....remove the handle scales, cut away a very slight section of the tang....and install a SAK saw blade that would unfold and be usable out the back of the knife when held by the handle with the sheath on..... Kinda like a saw back, but that actually works and would be FAIRLY easily replaceable.....now put the BK scales back on, and they come up to cover the folding blade perfectly as though it were still a simple single blade fixed knife.
Hell I guess one could go to extreme with the idea and do the same thing with a folding BK16 blade on a BK9 for the perfect single woods knife?...yea, I know that's pushing it.... but the idea is solid.
Fixed knives, especially some of the larger chopper style blades have a TON of unused real estate in the handle area....and it would not be hard to design the folding blades to eliminate hotspots so they" felt invisible "
has anyone ever seen anything like what I'm talking about?...keeping all the robust parts of the fixed blade that make it worth having, but adding some utility by having a folding item designed and built into the handle?
Million dollar idea?
hell I'd buy one....seems like a natural progression step that for some reason has never been taken.
and yes, I understand trying to use a smaller blade with a BK16 as a handle is less than ideal....but to be honest, I'd rather have a SAK folding saw on my 16 than not have a saw at all...as long as you understood it's limitations and how to use it safely
/head scratch