Scandinavian-Style General Camp Knife

[Thomas Linton]

None of the links on his site after "tuotteet" are working for me, can you link it to me on an email?

I could if you had enabled email on your account.

 

[cm_bushman]

Sorry about that, didn't realize. It's up now.

 

[ridnovir]

Ridnovir, what's the name of the Bark River machete on the bottom? That knife made me drool in envy. Seriously.

[edit]...and is that a hollow grind?[/edit]

It is Golok up-swept point :thumbup:

 

[awestib]

I must admit that I did not read this thread completely but have you considered how easy or hard it is to maintain your knife? I believe strongly now that a good scandi grind knife has very little if at all advantage over a well made "double bevel" knife, let's say a high saber grind O1 steel in 1/8 thickness with a thin enough edge before sharpening. Just as an example, here is a great blade design:



The scandi excels only in wood shaving/carving since it's made like a plane, a thin high saber grind is almost as good but excels in all other tasks you may need at camp.

 

[cm_bushman]

I have thought about this at length, since I'm not very good at sharpening, I figured a scandi is hardest to mess up, since you have something like a built-in guide in the wide bevel.

This has made me think that a scandi style knife is probably the shortest-lived style after sharpening for a while, since you are grinding most of the blade area when sharpening. Can anyone vouch for this? Any pics of 5+ year old single-bevel scandi users that can give me an idea of the erosion caused by frequent sharpening and use?

Convex grinds seem ideal to me, especially with maintenance, but Bark River were the only makers I knew of using it regularly and those knives are far and away more than I hoped to spend with my first bushcraft knife in the style.