Recommendation? (NOT custom) survival knife without budget limit

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ondrej2m

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Hi, I am looking for tips. I decided to finally buy THE knife :)
- drop point
- full tang
- 15-20 cm blade (I carry SAK for finer work)
- no serration
- stainless
- handle comfy without gloves (sorry falkniven)
- I have rather large hands, thus handle should accomodate them
- comfortable fingers protection against slipping into blade (I need to stab/pierce plastic barrels time to time etc.)
- I do NOT want a custom knife, I wanna see it before I buy it and I believe more in quality control of more established processes
- no gold, emeralds, diamonds or fancy carvings, but no budget limit

- should serve most of the time as camping/bushcraft knife
- but I will take it to the Carpathian mountains and the knife may turn into survival knife on any trip there
- the knife should cut bread as well as do some light chopping

I am new here so I appologise if messed in some way with any rules or customs here. Thank you for any tips!!!!
Ondrej
 
Since you are new here, whenever someone asks about a "survival knife," you will be questioned on the validity of the whole concept. And then folks will ask you, "what are you trying to survive," and post a tongue-in-cheek photo of a Rambo knife. Or someone will insist that you will only have a pocket knife on you when you are actually in a survival situation, so that will be your survival knife. Also, you mentioned the word "Bushcraft" and some will try to convince you that Bushcraft is not real, that it was just invented to sell knives. Welcome to BF.

For those who wish to play, 15-20cm is 6-8 inches.
 
If you had to stay dancing with Nathan?...... Me personally, I would choose the Kephart. I think it is overall more of a better/useful design.
 
I'd personally go for 3v ("semi" stainless) for your needs but if it must be stainless then perhaps a TCR apocalypse or Viper Fate?

Perhaps not the best for cutting bread but imo you'll probably have to compromise on that part.

I've used my M7 (sleipner) in the UK in the winter and have had no issues with rust. A strong blade decent chopper, the choil (which I like on this knife) allows you to choke up for finer work and its a decent slicer. For the money fnf and what you get provides great value.
 
If you are set on stainless, Dawson knives has some great options in MagnaCut, which is amazing. Maybe the Big Bear.
 
Bradford Guardian5.5 fixed blade. It comes in 3V (my recommendation) or if you really want stainless they have some N690 versions. Should work fine for camping/bushcraft/etc.

https://www.bladehq.com/item--Bradford-Knives-Guardian5-Fixed--102138

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kafolarbear said:
Do they make any knives without that little bit protruding between the handle and the blade? I find it really makes food prep a pain and really doesn't provide much benefit in terms of protection.
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Then again, it is easier to remove steel than to add steel...man your Dremel! BTDT.
 
kafolarbear said:
Do they make any knives without that little bit protruding between the handle and the blade? I find it really makes food prep a pain and really doesn't provide much benefit in terms of protection.
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You can't have your cake and cut it too :cool: #dadjoke
Besides the aforementioned bread cutting, OP didn't seem to have food prep as a high priority.
 
dogstar said:
Since you are new here, whenever someone asks about a "survival knife," you will be questioned on the validity of the whole concept. And then folks will ask you, "what are you trying to survive," and post a tongue-in-cheek photo of a Rambo knife. Or someone will insist that you will only have a pocket knife on you when you are actually in a survival situation, so that will be your survival knife. Also, you mentioned the word "Bushcraft" and some will try to convince you that Bushcraft is not real, that it was just invented to sell knives. Welcome to BF.

For those who wish to play, 15-20cm is 6-8 inches.
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Thank you for introducing me to the nuances :)
By “survival” knife I mean the sturdiest knife I have on me when 7 days trip with full equipment turns into 12 days trip with demaged/lost equipment in the mountains. So more chopping and less patience, some improvizations. No zombies expected, but couple of shephard dogs could get very opinionated about the terriotory (the knife in this case helps to defend against fear, against the dogs its useless of course :) )
By “bushcraft” I mean all the things knife is used to in the nature when you have the luxury of choosing the right tool for each task.
 
jmgruber said:
You can't have your cake and cut it too :cool: #dadjoke
Besides the aforementioned bread cutting, OP didn't seem to have food prep as a high priority.
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I know, I was wondering for my own curiosity, I've heard great things about CPK but have yet to see one of their designs that stood out to me
 
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