If You Could Take Just One, or Two, or Three...

Recently, I was reading Professional Hunter recommendations on what rifles to take on a one, two, or three rifle African safari and I thought "How about finding out what one, two or three knives (or any cutting implement) my fellow forumites would take, if they could, to the survival situation of their choice?" Well, how about it? Here's my list, and reasoning:

Just one - Fox Cutlery Survival Knife.
A solid, 6 inch fixed blade with a
saw back, good all-arounder.

OK, two - The Fox along with my trusty
old Sargent Bolo machete.
The machete adds greater chopping,
prying and digging capabilities.

Now three - The Fox stays home, but the
machete comes along, as does
a Gerber exchange-a-blade with
the general purpose blade and
a saw blade (cheating?) and a
Wenger Esquire SAK with built-in
Photon light.
This combo provides all the
cutting power I could need, while
remaining light in weight and
providing illumination, too.

OK, what would you folks bring? I got pretty specific, but that makes it fun. If you want to keep it to general comments and knife style choices, that would still be informative.
 
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MichLee

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Only three? Oh my.......

Ok, I will try. My first choice is assuming we are calling UPTs cutlery items.

1. Gerber Multipliers (second generation non-pinch version) if we are not calling this cutlery replace it with a Newt Livesay Little Peck** neck knife

2. Large Two blade Camillus Trapper with dual locks. (This model is discontinued and is about 8 years old, if anyone knows how to get the rest of the models in this line please let me know as I have always wanted to get them, but could not afford them at the time I know there was a copperhead. BTW it has derlin fake bone scales).

3. Newt Livesays Recon Combat Machete

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Lee

LIfe is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
 
I can't answer what I would take with only one, 'cause you will never see me with less than two knives unless you've been peeking in my shower.

As for two knives, I would take a medium/large folder (can anyone say BM730, arriving tomorrow?
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) and a medium fixed blade (how about a BM140, arriving Monday?
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If I was taking three, I would also add in a CRKT Stiff K.I.S.S (also arriving Monday), since it's cheap enough to put at risk.

I don't plan on sawing or digging with nay knife. That's why they make pocket chainsaws and folding shovels.

--JB

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e_utopia@hotmail.com
 
#1 Battle Mistress
#2 Mean Street
#3 SAK Hunter
Maybe it's not original, but they're the best! BM for chopping, digging, defense etc.
Mean Street for all general cutting, skinning, whittling. SAK for all the small stuff, and it comes with a saw. I'm set!

 
My Leatherman, any one of the various sheath knives I have, and a short axe.

Jimbo
 
4" Mora, 18" khukri,Leatherman wave. If that don't cover everything you need help.
 
I like Germansgt's answer!
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1) a good fixed bladed sheath knife
2) either a good SAK or multitool
3) an e-tool or survival shovel like Cold Steel's-Lee has bragged it up pretty good, he even chopped a tree with it just to prove it would do it!
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You'd have the best of all three worlds!

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Plainsman
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primitiveguy@hotmail.com

You use what you have on you, then you improvise!
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[This message has been edited by Plainsman (edited 03-31-2000).]
 
If I could only choose one I would have to go with a well designed versitile axe.

2: axe and small fixed blade.

3:Axe, Small FB, Machete.

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Louis Buccellato
http://www.themartialway.com
Knives, Weapons and equipment. Best prices anywhere.
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"only the paranoid will survive":)


 
The Cold Steel Shovel is a great little piece of equipment. The only reason I didnt add it was I dont consider it cutlery, but if I had to it would be included. I have yet to destroy mine, though I have tried. I have cut more than one tree with it. It wont replace my ax or chainsaw, but it is very versatile.

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Lee

LIfe is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
 
The only ones I really need for backpacking / backwoods adventures are a Strider MT w/ Leatherman wave and a 15" H.I. Ang Khola.
 
Only one knife, SwissTool

Two blades, 4"-6" skinner, and axe

Three blades, 4"-6" skinner, Bow saw, Axe


These depend somewhat on location. The swisstool is useless if it is too cold to strip to the bottom layer of your gloves, and the axe could easily be traded for a machete in heavy/mostly small brush areas. A snow saw would be a priority in a few select places, and I'd gladly trade any of the above for a pot and a firestarter.


Stryver
 
1 knife) SAK, Wave, or similar multitool.
2 knives) add a 3/4" axe
3 knives) this is a tough choice: If I take the wave, I already have scissors and a knife blade so I don't need either. But I like the convenience of a quick and ready fixed blade that is also tough so I would vote for either a ChrisReeves Project 1, a Busse Mean Street, or perhaps a Becker Companion.

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Hoodoo

The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone—the light-press’d blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.

Walt Whitman

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1: <a href="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/fallkniven/fallkniven_f1.html"><img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/fallkniven/_f1_side.jpg" align=right>Fällkniven F1</a>. Or perhaps the <a href="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/fallkniven/fallkniven_s1.html">S1</a>.<br clear=all>
2: <a href="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/fallkniven/fallkniven_wm1.html"><img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/fallkniven/_wm1_side.jpg" align=right>Fällkniven WM1</a> (to keep the total weight down, otherwise the F1 is still OK) and a <a href="http://www.gransfors.com/htm_eng/htm_prod/vildm_yx.htm">small axe from Gränsfors</a>.<br clear=all>
3: <a href="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/moki/moki_hana.html"><img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/moki/_hana-2.jpg" align=right>Moki Hana</a>, F1 and axe.

[This message has been edited by Griffon (edited 04-04-2000).]
 
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