slippies for survival

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ok i think i saw a thread about this somewhere but cant seem to find it so here we go. i know most of you guys carry saks when you go hiking/camping. but how many of you would feel safe if a slippie is all you had with you? be it a sak, a trapper, a stockman, a sodbuster...you get my point. and if you could choose any one slippie, which one would it be, custom or factory. i know i myself rotate, beetween taking my farmer, my 34OT and my case amber bone trapper.
 
i dont typically concider an SAK a slippie, it is a different class of tool really. but my primary outdoor folders are 2 slippies and an opinel

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well by slippie i mean a folding knife that doesnt come with a lock. but beautiful knives you got there man.
 
These 2 slippys are always on me. The case in my bag, and the GEC in my pocket or on my hip.....

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j,
how do you like your sea horse whittler? i have been eyeing them for a while as i like to do alot of carving. what do you use yours for and are you satisfied with it ( the steel especially)?
 
Dude its awesome, I scored it of my man brett, I only use it for whittling, and wood carvng, which it does wonderfully. Its one of my favorite folders, and the steel holds an edge great.......:thumbup:

AND...who doesnt like orange?:)
 
i would feel fine if all i had was a slipjoint.

just last night i was in the mood for a fire lounging on a river bank with some friends, so out came my Buck stockman to make shavings enough to get a fire started with a bic lighter. it got the fire going fine, and even though we didn't build it up too big, it would have been easy enough. the fellow with the lockback couldn't cut warm butter his knife was so dull, and i'm not sure he would have known what to do with a sharp knife (not that my skills are the best, but you get the point)

i think it really comes down to what you know how to do, like alot of people around here say. a slipjoint in the hands of the experienced is better than an axe and a bark river in the hands of a novice, in my opinion.

i love slipjoints, and they are so easy to carry i know that i will always have one on me.

i can't wait for my Case stockman to arrive, a very kind gift from a very generous friend on the boards here...
 
I agree that The SAK is in another class from slippies. I am ashamed to say that I don't even own what I would call a good quality slip joint. I have a Small Case that I have carried for many years but have sold all my other slips. I really don't ever use them. That said, if I did have a good one, I wouldn't feel under knifed in the wild if thats all I had.
 
I'd feel fine with a slipjoint...My grandad did and he was 10x the woodsman I am...I've played around with them alot lately I find the edge geometry on a few of mine to be less than stellar for carving but I've made traps and fuzz sticks and the usual with them...If I had to pick a slippy it's be a vic farmer...(almost a traditional scout pattern) I just upped my supply of opinels so I'll be giving them a whirl for a bit...when it comes down to it if you can get it sharp you can make it wirk you just have to change your strategy
 
i'm good to go with just a slippie, either my large case stockman or my medium stockman. if you use it to cut no problem now if i get an urge to baton through a crosstie then i have a problem but for most stuff it's okay.
 
good points yall. thanks for the infor and for suggesting some more knives i should get. now the only thing more of you need to do is carry traditional knived for woods work. 3 blades is better than one IMHO
 
Way back when I was in the scouts, we had a scout master who insisted we learn to do most everything with our typical boy scout knives. That included building a shelter like a leanto or debris hut, getting a fire going with fuzz sticks, the whole enchilada. He even tought us to notch around the base of a sappling and break it off at the stress line. Only after we mastered the pocket knife would he let us use a hatchet.

To this day more than 50 years later, the techniques still work. A good pocket knife and a hatchet or folding saw should be all one needs to get by. Maybe a Mora or puuko if you want a fixed blade. It's whats in your head thats going to get you by, not all the new knives and other toys survivalists are obsessive about.

A sak with a saw like a farmer or hiker is gravy. A basic stockman will do nicely.
 
good story jackknife. i always wished i woulda been able to do boy scouts. and i agree 100%. a small slippie and a hatchet is all you need.
 
I like my Brazilian Zebu slipjoints for the bush.

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Any of these and a machete and I'm good to go. Mac
 
Slipjoints were just fading from fashon when I joined scouts But I had my older brothers scout knife and an old camillus electricians that I carried for years in the woods, I never found a problem with them if they were used propperly.

I still sometimes Carry A Schrade Trapper as part of my gear
 
I always carry some type of pocketknife when in the wood !!! it is usually a stockman of some type. with all three blades i can handle most small tasks. I wish i had one of those ZEBU's. can anyone tell me where i can get one ?
 
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