Lets see them knives!

Sorry for the blurry pic.
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Depends on my mood really.
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Okay, you asked for it. My survival knives would be a CS Master Hunter or a Frosts Clipper, or a Kabar, or AF survival knife. But here's one I made for myself this past summer:

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The blade started out as a 9x1 inch wood planer blade that I picked up at a yard sale for pocket change. I believe it is M2 steel. I couldn't touch it with my drills, had to take it to a machine shop to drill the tang holes, they spent 1/2 hour at it, $20. I didn't forge it, but shaped it, my grinding sucks. The blade is 4-3/4 in, handle 4-5/8.

The handles are what I believe to be axis stag, not Sambar stag, another yard sale find. I slabbed them off with a radial arm saw.

I'll be the first to say it, the sheath has all the charm and beauty of a corn cob. But it works. The outer cover is raw hide, the inner-liner is a piece of folded, wettened and molded chromed leather.

Rawhide is interesting stuff to work with. I got this stuff at a pet store, a big honkin chewy bone. Soaked it in hot water in the bath tub, then cut out this piece. When it's wet, it is like rubber, can be cut with scissors. After it dries a couple of days, it is as hard as Kydex. The belt fastener is a simple 3-inch tab on the back, it has all the snap and strength of plastic.

Will I carry this in the field? Absolutely. Would I consider this a survival knife? No. After about 5-10 minutes immersed in water, the sheath will become flabby. However, the knife will still be good ;)
 
Man, I cannot get pictures down to a reasonable size. Sorry about that. I'll try again.

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These are some that I've used this year. When I resharpen on the belt grinder the blades get cleaned up too. :D

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Scott
 
Here are a few that I carry into the woods....

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Some of my hunting knives.

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One of my skinning knives.
 
Well, I don't have any pictures of all mine together handy, I'll have to get some this weekend. But here's my main outside working knife, my Ranger RD7:

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Josh
 
The red one is a model no longer in production. Called the Champion.
replaced by the Champ, Scamp, or Clamp..one of them names.

Check over at the Multi-tool forum, they got all the dope on SwissKnives.
There are so many models, pick the tools you would liek to have, then try to match to a model.

If you are talking about the green one it is the Trekker model, they also have one called the one-handed Trekker.
Any knife store that stocks Swiss knives is likely to have them.

good luck. you will find one.
 
Razorback, is that a SAK?! It took me a couple of looks to scope it out. How many blades does that thing have?
 
These are the ones that have seen the outdoor cycle over the years.
I forgot the Sven saw, multi tools and fillet knives.
Any way I mostly canoe camp so the Swamp Rat RW, hatchet, Sven saw, a multi tool, and a folder or smaller fixed blade, and of course a fillet knife are the usual when I'm in the field.

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