Need a Bushcraft knife.suggestions?

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DillonJ3k

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Hey,I'm into bushcraft an need a knife to accompany on my adventures lol.
I have an esee izula an love it.have beat it to death an it does good.but its to small for the task I do an will continue to ask of my knife. So the criteria of the knife I'm looking for is this..

Has to be full tang
Any where from 4 to 6 inches of cutting edge
No blade coating,can be stone washed an etc but can't have a coating on blade
Strong enough to use for batoning an processing wood
Also be used for fine carving for making feather sticks, etc
Under 150$, don't like paying more then that for knives.
Needs good rust resistance preferred

That's about it. A knife that can do all that will be perfect for me an my needs.
Gonna be using this knife for survival an bushcraft. Its gonna be put to the test hard lol. So yea,what's your alls suggestions.please an thank you.
 
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At $150, there's the Fallkniven S1 bladeblank, in laminated stainless VG-10 and 420j2 .

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It's a high-end knife for home completion.
Get a set of scales and Corby screws and make Your own handle.

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I did this and used the S1 in the Mountains, as a camping & fishing knife.
It copes with batoning, feathersticks, cleaning a fish and whatever in the outdoors.

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There are finished Custom S1's availible on-line, but then the S1 is way out of Your pricerange.
So the blank is a way to get a really High Q knife, meeting the asked propertie's within Your budget!


Regards
Mikael
 
Look up Don Shipley, he makes a woods knife big and small, extremely heavy duty, very very reasonable, forged of 5160. No frills, inexpensive and razor sharp flat ground. I've both a hunter and camp knife by him and have to say if I wasn't so into getting a Winkler Field Knife just to have around I just might think my knife buying days are over for fixed blades with these two Shipleys. keepem sharp
 
I have a Blind Horse Bushcraft and it is a great knife. O1 tool steel. One of the better "production" knives I own.

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Both the TOPS Dragonfly and the Ontario Blackbird fit what you are looking for in every way . As already mentioned , Blind Horse made some very good bushcraft knives as well .


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Hey, what part of Ky are you?

For $150 you could look at customs ($175 for a better one) James Terrio, and Big Chris are good budget makers, and Chris lives in KY......

For production knives I'd look at Fallkniven, BHK, and especially, Bark river knives, many of there models would work incredible.

Good Luck!

The Kid
 
For something less expensive but very practical, consider the Condor Bushlore. Mine is the old version (1st gen) with .25" steel and its a tank. I ordered the current one which has slightly thinner blade stock.

ESEE has some new models coming out in the next few months that might appeal to you. I suspect they will be available after the Blade Show in early June. There are some uncoated ESEE knives now that might appeal to you and they certainly are within your price range.

You could buy a Kabar Becker and strip the black blade coating. The BK-16/BK-17 or the BK-10 should should work. The BK-16 and BK-17's are real work horse knives that are very cost effective.

I believe the Survive 5.11 (model #....I think?) would work well and be close to your budget figure in terms of cost.

The Fallkniven knives are very good, but they tend to be fairly expensive. My favorite is the F1.

If you like the style, the Blackjack 125 would work well with A2 steel. They are really nice knives and one of the knives I choose for general woods duty.
 
Take a look at anything from Bark River and Fallkniven.

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If you like the style, the Blackjack 125 would work well with A2 steel. They are really nice knives and one of the knives I choose for general woods duty.
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I second the Blackjack 125, or even the Model 5 Saber if you want a 100% micarta handle.

These do not have exposed tangs, so you don't have to worry about the tang rusting from your hand sweat (why I like them so much).

If you like leather sheaths, they come with good ones.

The Blackjack knives are beautiful, and it's really nice go pick up a handful of micarta instead of micarta with rusting steel sandwiched between. Even the models with dual handguards are still comfortable to choke up on for fine work. Here's the Model 5 (micarta saber handle) I just got:

 
A lot of people just have not been exposed to the Blackjack Classics. I have the 1-7 also, but do not recommend it for woods duty. It is kind of a scarey knife. Bark River makes these for Blackjack by the way.
 
22-rimfire said:
A lot of people just have not been exposed to the Blackjack Classics. I have the 1-7 also, but do not recommend it for woods duty. It is kind of a scarey knife. Bark River makes these for Blackjack by the way.
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So if you would not recommend it for woods duty then why bring it up for a bushcraft tool?:confused:
 
The Benchmade Bushcrafter is a great buy for the money. If you look around a little, you can probably find it within your budget. The Fallkniven line is fantastic. I have an F1 and love it. BHK's GNS knife is also a fantastic bushcraft blade. There are a lot of great choices out there. Good luck and enjoy the search.
 
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