Thanks a lot for all these answers. Many knives mentioned here I know and, of course, I have checked them. With other knives I´m not so familiar but I find them interesting please apologize my English, I hope it will not lead to misunderstandings.
Regarding the knives named as alternatives to the Trailmaster I´ll try to explain my
opinon and as it´s only mine, I would appreciate your feedback. Because I will not waste your time, I start to answer without having checked all the infos I received.
Svord of Temsky is a knife which has my interest for a long time but: the short and very curved clip point imo isn´t qualified for effective stabbing. That is also the case with the Marine Raider unfortunately, because that´s also a knife I like. As the Svord of Tempsky is now produced with a blade thickness of 6.5 mm it´s twice as heavy as the TM and that´s too much imho for carrying it whole the day.
What is essential for stabbing is a guard to protect the hand from slipping into the blade, and this doesn´t have the Condor Bowie and also not the Kabar heavy Bowie, Busse BK9 etc.. Regarding the Busses I don´t know if they are also stabbers - the point is short and broad.
Not bad seems to be the western bowie and especially the modified variant of Ebbtide (an old German word, by the way) , which looks great.
Mastiff says: The Trailmaster is neither the cheapest, nicest, toughest, nor best cutter/ chopper.
Ok, that´s clear for me, but I do not understand this negative sound.
It´s not cheap in USA, here in Germany I´ll pay (in US dollars) around 350 for the SK5 or 01 version. That´s expensive. But isn´t it a good chopper, stabber, cutter and a good looking solid Bowie? Which knife has this all?
At the end I think people maybe mix up knives like the Bowies and survival knives. In former days bowies were knives for nearly all purposes, but I suppose no body for ex. would have made batoning with his knife he loved and which was so important for him. He couldn´t order next day another one at ebay.
Survival knives of these days are strong enough to cut cars into half but that´s not a Bowie.
As a conclusion by having checked these messages I still would like an allrounder with all these capabilities I mentioned before. It should be like the Trailmaster, maybe instead of 8 mm thickness 6 are strong enough, a full width tang with a handle you can screw off and on, and with I don´t know....
Thanks again so far and hoping of others ideas
a fan of this forum
Thanks a lot for all these answers. Many knives mentioned here I know and, of course, I have checked them. With other knives I´m not so familiar but I find them interesting please apologize my English, I hope it will not lead to misunderstandings.
Regarding the knives named as alternatives to the Trailmaster I´ll try to explain my
opinon and as it´s only mine, I would appreciate your feedback. Because I will not waste your time, I start to answer without having checked all the infos I received.
Svord of Temsky is a knife which has my interest for a long time but: the short and very curved clip point imo isn´t qualified for effective stabbing. That is also the case with the Marine Raider unfortunately, because that´s also a knife I like. As the Svord of Tempsky is now produced with a blade thickness of 6.5 mm it´s twice as heavy as the TM and that´s too much imho for carrying it whole the day.
What is essential for stabbing is a guard to protect the hand from slipping into the blade, and this doesn´t have the Condor Bowie and also not the Kabar heavy Bowie, Busse BK9 etc.. Regarding the Busses I don´t know if they are also stabbers - the point is short and broad.
Not bad seems to be the western bowie and especially the modified variant of Ebbtide (an old German word, by the way) , which looks great.
Mastiff says: The Trailmaster is neither the cheapest, nicest, toughest, nor best cutter/ chopper.
Ok, that´s clear for me, but I do not understand this negative sound?
It´s not cheap in USA, here in Germany I´ll pay (in US dollars) around 350 for the SK5 or 01 version. That´s expenisive. But isn´t it a good chopper, stabber, cutter and a good looking solid Bowie? Which knife has this all?
At the end I think people maybe mix up knives like the Bowies and survival knives. In former days bowies have been knives for nearly all purposes, but I suppose no body for ex. would have made batoning with his knife he loved and which was so important for him. He couldn´t order next day another one at ebay.
Survival knives of these days are strong enough to cut cars into half but that´s not a Bowie.
As a conclusion by having checked these messages I still would like an allrounder with all these capabilities I mentioned before. It should be like the Trailmaster, maybe instead of 8 mm thickness 6 are strong enough, a full width tang with a handle you can screw off and on, and with I don´t know....
Thanks again so far and hoping of others ideas
a fan of this forum
Thanks a lot for all these answers. Many knives mentioned here I know and, of course, I have checked them. With other knives I´m not so familiar but I find them interesting please apologize my English, I hope it will not lead to misunderstandings.
Regarding the knives named as alternatives to the Trailmaster I´ll try to explain my
opinon and as it´s only mine, I would appreciate your feedback. Because I will not waste your time, I start to answer without having checked all the infos I received.
Svord of Temsky is a knife which has my interest for a long time but: the short and very curved clip point imo isn´t qualified for effective stabbing. That is also the case with the Marine Raider unfortunately, because that´s also a knife I like. As the Svord of Tempsky is now produced with a blade thickness of 6.5 mm it´s twice as heavy as the TM and that´s too much imho for carrying it whole the day.
What is essential for stabbing is a guard to protect the hand from slipping into the blade, and this doesn´t have the Condor Bowie and also not the Kabar heavy Bowie, Busse BK9 etc.. Regarding the Busses I don´t know if they are also stabbers - the point is short and broad.
Not bad seems to be the western bowie and especially the modified variant of Ebbtide (an old German word, by the way) , which looks great.
Mastiff says: The Trailmaster is neither the cheapest, nicest, toughest, nor best cutter/ chopper.
Ok, that´s clear for me, but I do not understand this negative sound?
It´s not cheap in USA, here in Germany I´ll pay (in US dollars) around 350 for the SK5 or 01 version. That´s expenisive. But isn´t it a good chopper, stabber, cutter and a good looking solid Bowie? Which knife has this all?
At the end I think people maybe mix up knives like the Bowies and survival knives. In former days bowies have been knives for nearly all purposes, but I suppose no body for ex. would have made batoning with his knife he loved and which was so important for him. He couldn´t order next day another one at ebay.
Survival knives of these days are strong enough to cut cars into half but that´s not a Bowie.
As a conclusion by having checked these messages I still would like an allrounder with all these capabilities I mentioned before. It should be like the Trailmaster, maybe instead of 8 mm thickness 6 are strong enough, a full width tang with a handle you can screw off and on, and with I don´t know....
Thanks again so far and hoping of others ideas
a fan of this forum
