Right! Desert Island Folder - Choose Your Blade!

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Blake the Blade

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You're about to be dropped on a desert island. You have the choice of one folding knife from your own current collection to take with you. Which one's it gonna be? You will have nothing else with you so it's gonna have to do everything; Help you to build your shelter, kill and prepare your food, help prepare your fire, provide personal protection against cannibals, and cut your toe-nails. choose carefully now!

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Either one of these two. A Vic Huntsman or a Wenger Handyman, both have spear point main blades, saw, punch, scissors, tweezers, toothpick, screwdrivers, cap lifter, can opener. I prefer the Vic, but the Wenger is great too.

 
Quick work Blake! :D :thumbup:

I'm not going to ponder very long, but plump for my tried and tested Vic Mauser :) Spear point, clip, saw, screwdriver, can-opener, punch/awl, and there's even a corkscrew in case a few crates of claret get washed ashore ;) I carried this one for ten years, and I know it works :thumbup:

 
What the hell do you guys want with your tin openers, there's no shops! Jack! time to get real mate, that claret's just wishful thinking. And Rex, that is cheating but I like your style. I'll post mine up tomorrow, I need to mull this over.
 
Blake the Blade said:
What the hell do you guys want with your tin openers, there's no shops! Jack! time to get real mate, that claret's just wishful thinking. And Rex, that is cheating but I like your style. I'll post mine up tomorrow, I need to mull this over.
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Tin openers make good scrapers saving your main blade.
 
btmccutcheon said:
Either one of these two. A Vic Huntsman or a Wenger Handyman, both have spear point main blades, saw, punch, scissors, tweezers, toothpick, screwdrivers, cap lifter, can opener. I prefer the Vic, but the Wenger is great too.

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What he said plus 50!:thumb up:

I'd want the saw and scissors on hand as well as two blades.
 
First, fix the short-wave radio that I brought with me. Second, open a very large bottle of beer (also conveniently packed with me). After I cleared the dust outta' my throat, I tune in the short wave and radio for help!:D:D:D Aaaaaah, the island life is good!

 
Blake the Blade said:
Jack! time to get real mate, that claret's just wishful thinking.
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Hey, you choose your desert island, I'll choose mine! ;) :D

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Of course I WILL expect a better barber! ;)
 
RexRazorX said:
OK OK - on second thought I'll take a SAK. Toe nail grooming would be right out with the Ka-Bar.

Victorinox pioneer by tens339, on Flickr

primal instinct still says take the Ka-Bar - only rules of nature apply.
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:D :thumbup:

coolio said:
First, fix the short-wave radio that I brought with me. Second, open a very large bottle of beer (also conveniently packed with me). After I cleared the dust outta' my throat, I tune in the short wave and radio for help!:D:D:D Aaaaaah, the island life is good!

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LOL! A man after me own heart! :D :thumbup:
 
For everything listed, build shelter, firewood, kill game (and presumably clean it) I think I would take eitger my Buck 110 or Schrade LB7. Along with my cold steel blowgun/hiking stick and darts. Oh, and a two blade slipjoint that lives in my right front pocket, usually a Canoe or Sunfish. Hopefully the sunfish was the secondary EDC blade when the boat sprung a leak.
 
Same thing I carry every day. Remington R-4 scout knife. It has a spear for the hard work, and a wicked sharp sheepsfoot for detail cuts. Plus the much needed wood saw. I'm sure that a resourceful person could repurpose the cap lifter and bottle opener. The bail means never losing your knife.

I'm also highly in favor of using a knife that you know well in a survival situation. Muscle memory is everything under stressful conditions

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Blake the Blade said:
You're about to be dropped on a desert island.
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Oh no! Why does this always happen to me?!

Blake the Blade said:
You have the choice of one folding knife from your own current collection to take with you. Which one's it gonna be? You will have nothing else with you so it's gonna have to do everything; Help you to build your shelter, kill and prepare your food, help prepare your fire, provide personal protection against cannibals, and cut your toe-nails. choose carefully now!
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I would take an Opinel no 13

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My common sense says to pack my Victorinox SwissChamp, that of the 32 tools.

Given that I neither hunt, fish, nor peck, I think I'll just hold my most-beloved TC Barlow and wait for a survivalist or helicopter to come along.

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Or die happy.

~ P.
 
I usually tackle my coconuts by using a corkscrew to help me get to the milk ;)



:D
 
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