Singular and Useful Knives for EDC and Wilderness....

[stingray4540]

Oh, in that case it would be Scandi and Puuko knives. And two bladed jacks. Pretty much what I already posted, but there general genre is what speak to me. I don't really have a specific brand preference though.

 

[sicily02]

Hi all,

Marion These 2 knives I guess you could say speak to me LOL. When mistwalker sent me a drawing for a knife design that he wanted made. I swear my heart skipped a beat. I was like just in awe and knew that I was going to be making one or more LOL for my next EDC type knives . The smaller knife on the bottom is on my belt every day. The bigger one I keep with my hiking pack and carry it when I head to the timber which is pretty much every day LOL.

I had to check one of the electric fences today and so both Warthorns came with me. In this pic I am cutting a small thorn tree from under the electic fence. on my right hip is my smaller orange handle Warthorn knife I keep on my belt.

and then in this pic, on my left side is how I carrt my MEGA Warthorn knife
in the baldric style and slung over my shoulder

As soon as I made mistwalkers knife ( Warthorn is the name that he wanted to call it) like the drawing that he sent I made up a my green handle one

then my orange handled one and then made up the bigger MEGA Warthorn with orange handle to and have started on another one that I am am going to put tan handles on that one and inbtween knife orders comming up, I plan to make up a few more ( different handle colors and blade lengths) just to have and put away in some other kits that I have made up. I just love this design and look. It just takes my breat away.

Great thread it really is cool to see what other carry or think is cool.

Bryan

 

[Joezilla]

I've been enjoying a simple Henckles kitchen knife for quite a while. The design is for the single purpose of peeling but I find it much more useful than that. In common with a lot of German kitchen knives the steel isn't up to much and it has only mediocre hardness but the design works brilliantly for me because it is just so aggressive.

1] Obviously it's good for peeling but the attacking angle makes it great for small scale food prep in the field.

2] That same attacking angle makes it great for opening up quite resistant materials such as leather. [Just for the sake of notes – whilst this isn't going to compete very well with a Spyderco Civilian at close quarters this is one that'll go clean through a pair of jeans and make a wonderful blue blood stripe behind the knee or whatever. In fact, it utterly outperforms my serrated Spyderco Police slashing].

3] The thinness and the curvature of the blade makes a Mora just look like another Chinese knock off in my hand. The picture below isn't a great example because of the properties of the wood, but it will make extremely good fuzzies but also, and this is the important bit, does well at carving. Due to the tip forming a very sharp and flexible triangle that is up close to my hand it will take good long concave slices from a bit of wood. I'm not disposed to make spoons but if I were to this is the Mora slayer.

4] Works great sunny side up for unzipping critters. It is my favorite rabbit opener bar none.

5] As it is of ho hum steel and quite soft I can't expect it to cut though yards and yards of rope without needing a bit of a touch up. However, I do use it to cut quite a lot of net and light rope when cutting down onto a board [or whatever] isn't an option or isn't desirable because of speed. Cuts on the pull are trapped inside the curvature harnessing more power than is the case with a straight edge let alone a knife dominated by belly.

In sum, love it. It's very slow to corrode and cuts a wide variety of things usually great deal better than dedicated utility patterns. I keep it at a very fine convex to a high finish. Provided I don't do dumb shit with it the advantages are enormous.

Holy Crap. I'm so glad someone posted this knife up. The other guide uses it all the time at the hunting plantation for unzipping quail and whatever else is shot.