Right! Desert Island Folder - Choose Your Blade!

[pertinux]

I usually tackle my coconuts by using a corkscrew to help me get to the milk

Is it too late to edit my post to read, "And wait for JACK BLACK" to come along?!



~ P.

 

[Jack Black]

Is it too late to edit my post to read, "And wait for JACK BLACK" to come along?!

LOL! :thumbup:

I've forgotten it all now!

 

[screened porch]

Probably my Gerber Gator, if it must be a folder.

The Buck 110 is too heavy, and the compactness of the pictured Camillus won't be needed. I'll take the light weight, comfy grip, and saber-ground blade of the old Portland Gerber.

 

[5K Qs]

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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.

Or die happy.

~ P.

Sarah has a very good idea here! :thumbup::thumbup:
If I had an antique amber saw cut Charlow, especially if it had a pen blade hiding behind that clip, I think I could probably fly on wings of ecstasy to any location more desirable than the desert island.

But I don't have such a knife, and having a photo of same probably doesn't provide sufficient ecstatic lift, so I'll play by the rule that says I have to choose from knives I currently own. In that case, I'd choose a knife that has a saw - my Vic Camper, supplemented by the Vic Classic or Minichamp that I always carry anyway.

If I'm not allowed to have 2 knives (and I currently consider life hardly worth living if I don't carry AT LEAST 2 knives), then I guess I'd go with this "imitation SAK" that has both saw and scissors. When the cannibals finally get me, the loss of that knife is no big deal.

- GT

 

[AreBeeBee]

Hmm — I'd pick one of these models, which in fact have been used in jungles and on islands (though perhaps not desert islands) some 70+ years ago. The U.S. Army Engineer's knife.

(Image thanks to BF's smiling-knife, in this post: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...lus-Mom-and-apple-pie?p=12644743#post12644743)

 

[thawk]

One of these bad Western States big trappers... a 532.

 

[Gevonovich]

Jack
You look too cool in that outfit, my friend!! Great picture!!

I will carry my Rucksack. I need a big blade to lash to my stick, in case any pigs come along

 

[dispatch184]

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.

Or die happy.

~ P.

Ha ha! Love this. I will need to get a picture properly loaded but I think I will use similar reasoning.

 

[dispatch184]

Obviously not as practical as a SAK but I would love to see how the sun would affect the Palo Santo

 

[Sonnemann]

Honestly, for a folding knife in the pure sense it might be the venerable Douk-Douk. They are so thin I can slip one into every bag, a pocket, even the side of my boot if needs be, and always have a few close by. The carbon blade is soft enough to sharpen on a smooth rock yet good for holding a decent edge, and the flat/convex grind will take care of most tasks. The primary advantage overall is that I can open the knife, whack the scales behind the pivot together with a rock, wrap the whole handle with spare cloth or leather, and I have an admirable substitute for a true fixed blade.

 

[RexRazorX]

Honestly, for a folding knife in the pure sense it might be the venerable Douk-Douk...

Dang it - why didn't I pick that one!? That's a great choice. That would have been my second choice, if I'd thought of it in the first place. I hope this desert island is near a resort. My top five albums (CD, mp3, streams from a cloud?) I'd have to have on the desert island are ...
-Rex

 

[Halfneck]

My Victorinox Trekker.

Main Blade - for cutting and making other tools/shelter.
Saw - for sawing, notching, and making other tools/shelter.
Tweezers - for removing splinters while cutting/sawing and making other tools/shelter.

 

[Jake Middleton]

Case large stockman, clip point for any average tasks, sheepsfoot for precision cuts/rope/nylon and a spay blade in case I would actually catch food.

 

[coffeecup]

A sodbuster, probably the Case currently resting in my pocket. Pretty much the same heavy-task knife I carry and use day-to-day, for everything from rough butchering to garden work to . . . whatever else comes up.

 

[knarfeng]

Buck 301. The same knife I take when camping.
3 blades. Don't have to worry about rust. Holds an edge well. Easy to sharpen. And built pretty much bomb proof.

 

[Jack Black]

Jack
You look too cool in that outfit, my friend!! Great picture!!

I will carry my Rucksack. I need a big blade to lash to my stick, in case any pigs come along

LOL! It was a long time ago Gev! Nice choice, I might have taken my Vic Hunter if someone hadn't pinched it :grumpy:

Honestly, for a folding knife in the pure sense it might be the venerable Douk-Douk.

Nice choice :thumbup:

Dang it - why didn't I pick that one!? That's a great choice. That would have been my second choice, if I'd thought of it in the first place. I hope this desert island is near a resort. My top five albums (CD, mp3, streams from a cloud?) I'd have to have on the desert island are ...
-Rex

 

[Blake the Blade]

I've just spent my first night on the island, and I will just say I'm sure those guys could have landed that thing on the shore rather than dumping me out into the sea like that, and why all the laughter. Anyway I'm here now and have with me my desert island blade of choice: The EKA/Normark Big Swede.

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Robust with a large locking blade, it coped admirably with the many tasks called upon it to set me up for the first of what could be many nights at this despicable place; Clearing a site, making a shelter, skinning and gutting that large ratty thing that I had for dinner and preparing a fire. But I must admit, as the night closed in my thoughts began to turn to a certain little someone who I'd left behind and I fell into a long deep sleep........

..........Dream, dream, dream....

Untitled by marksawdust123, on Flickr
Untitled by marksawdust123, on Flickr Untitled by marksawdust123, on Flickr

........I had abandoned my one true companion. Back home we did everything together and achieved so much. It was only now that I realised she had everything and I had forsaken her. Oh Vicky! I've been such a damned fool!.....WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!

I awoke in a sweat to the sight of native leering over me, his necklace of overgrown human toenails dangling uncomfortably close to my contorted face and my Big Swede tethered to the top of his staff forming a spear. Oh no!...CANNIBLES!!!!!

 

[Blake the Blade]

Lovely knife Buzzbait and a wise choice.

 

[mnblade]

Don't have to worry about rust. Holds an edge well. Easy to sharpen. And built pretty much bomb proof.

For those same reasons (and a few more), I'd likely want to have my Victorinox Adventurer:



Good, stout blade with steel I could maintain in less-than-ideal conditions, plus a few extra tools handy when busting open coconuts and oysters.

By the way, guys, if you haven't read about it at all, search around the web for info on Amelia Earhart's crash. One of the items found on the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro -- a tiny desert island between Australia and Hawaii where researchers believe she perished -- was this bone-handled, two-blade jack (right image is just for reference):



Researchers believe it was smashed apart, perhaps to craft a spear from the main blade.

Here is an interesting report. "There is evidence on the island suggesting that a castaway was there for weeks and possibly months," Ric Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), told Discovery News.

-- Mark

 

[Blake the Blade]

Lovely knife Jake, perfect for such a mission.