Let's see some Survival knife concepts !!!

pitdog

pitdog

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I know most of us on here have gone all Bushcrafty on here and venture out with our Scandi's, Nessmuks and Kepharts but when I hear the term Survival knife I still picture something a little larger and more robust.
To me a Survival knife is a tool that can do it all to get you by, this could include Chopping branches to make your shelter, battoning through wet logs to get to the dry inners, hacking through a dead deer carcass to see if any can be salvaged, smashing up nuts or shell fish....you get the idea !!!

Anyway I thought it might be fun to see some designs of what you envisage when it comes to a Survival knife, to me it would still be a knife that is practical to carry with you, sure a 1/4" thick 10" long bladed monster would hack through those branches at double speed but who would really hike with that hanging from your waist ( maybe some of you do ? ), so my scenario is that you have somehow become seperated from your backpack which contained your Axe and other equipment and all your left with is your trusty Survival knife that hangs from your belt !!!

Let's see some ideas, here is one of mine.......

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Note how the handle would work when reversed to use the bone chopping section !
 
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Want to hear mine? :D

I cannot draw worth a ****, but I will tell you guys.

A carbon steel blade, probably 3/4 IN thick and 12 1/2 inches long with wood or micarta handles that have been customized to fit my hand, on the spine of the knife have a wood saw built In for small trees.

Also on the blade somewhere have a VERY "shiny" part to act as a signal mirror If one Is needed.

The sheath would be Kydex or leather with a area for a firesteel and cotton.
 
here are some knives I made a few years back that were about the size range that you have in your drawing, All of them are in service with some advid outdoors men and no complaints, I threw the folder in there because it has a similar profile, that little sucker was 5 1/2 open with .90 ti liners and s30v blade, I have batoned it through smaller branches and once hammer is through the 1/8 wire that supports large hydrolic(sp) hose, the rest are A2 , each of the fix blades would do all of what you asked with no problems what so ever, This is my basic ideal of a overall edged tool,

oh and all but one is hollow ground:eek:



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udtjim said:
In that size I would just pick up a new BK-2.
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I'm with Jim on this one. The BK-2 has all the properties needed for that kind of knife. Still, I'm interested in seeing some of the innovative solutions you guys might come up with.
 
one I submitted up on the RAT Cutlery forum:

This one I'd like to have made, and am thinking about having it done as a gift to myself once I graduate college:

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Bow drill divot in the center, lanyard hole on the back. Made of 1095. Full, flat grind. Canvas micarta slabs: orange, green, black. 9" blade, 3/16" thick. The back of the butt, used in conjunction with a lanyard will give you an extra 4" or so of swing.
 
KEmSAT-Survival said:
one I submitted up on the RAT Cutlery forum:

This one I'd like to have made, and am thinking about having it done as a gift to myself once I graduate college:

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Bow drill divot in the center, lanyard hole on the back. Made of 1095. Full, flat grind. Canvas micarta slabs: orange, green, black. 9" blade, 3/16" thick. The back of the butt, used in conjunction with a lanyard will give you an extra 4" or so of swing.
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I like that one buddy, only thing I'd change would be to have the extended tang rounded so it's more comfy when choking back with the lanyard !
 
Pretty cool, KEmSAT. I would never in a million years have thought of a divot to use with a fire drill. :thumbup:
 
I would do something like this. I'll be taking delivery from JK in a week.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Check out his forum. He is doing some cool stuff.


Stomper said:
Here is BushcraftBrainTrust`s Camp Cleaver, It`s 11" overall, with a 6 1/4" cutting edge of 1/4" O1, with orange G10 handles. It still shows forge marks on the blade flats

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This is not to be critical, but why a bow drill divot in a knife handle? I saw tony's RC-5 after he used it for that and it looked like it burnt it up pretty good. A head piece can be made from a piece of wood.

The first knife handle divot I ever saw mentioned was in a knife designed by the late Chris Janowski of the World Survival Institute and it was in an all metal knife.

Doc
 
I drew this one up for a contest that the RAT fourm was holding.

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Based on the RC4, I gave it more of a skinner profile and gave it the RC4-S moniker.

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Well Pitdog for me it is already made and this is it. aknife that can be used for tactical and survival situations.

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Having a smaller fixed blade like in the above pic is just a added perk.

Making notches
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or spliting wood

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or spreading butter on my bread,

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making traps

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cutting food up

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or even to draw blood for those tactical reasons that the Marine or Soldier my have to do.

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Finding a woods knife is easy to do, but finding a a tactical / woods knife is harder to do, But for Mistwalker and my self and some others ( I am in the process of making there Recon knives) I think we have found it. Like you said when you think of a survival knife you think of a knife that is a little more deadicated to both senarios.


Bryan
 
Why does Pitdog have a part of his knife especially made for cutting nuts?

How many people does he find on the trail that need to be eunuchs?

TF
 
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