Spydercos for bushcrafting

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While we're waiting for the Spyderco Bushcraft knife, what other Spydies would make a good outdoors knife? What do you do with yours outside?

Been playing around with my Military.
 
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I think the Manix is the best outdoor folder. With a great flatgrind and very sharp tip it can do all sorts of bushcrafty things. And it's super rugged and feels good in the hand.
 
They call the para military a survival knife. I just dont get that.

IMO the woodlander is alright.
 
My E4 P/S Is fantastic outdoors. Being as light as it is, with all my other gear to haul around, its perfect.

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I like the Military for just about everything. I'd also agree that the Manix is pretty much the "tank" of the spyderco lineup.

I used to have a combo edge large Manix......I miss that knife :yawn:
 
The Aqua Salt has already been mentioned. Tough, fixed, rust free, with a great handle.

The Military works great as a slicer, and it's really a tough knife, even if it feels so light in the hand.

If you can find a Manix, I'd get that if you're looking for a folder. Otherwise, Rock Salt for a fixed. Everything the Aqua Salt has, but it's a bit bigger.

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Bill Morans (FB01 & FB02) are described as being a bushcrafty knife in "The Spyderco Story". I use the FB01 for hunting and would not be shy to put it to use as a bushcraft knife. I thing the FB02 is more traditionally shaped though. I will try to edit this post with a page # and direct quote.

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Okay, my memory was a bit fuzzy.

The book is "Master of the Forge" by Hughes & Price documenting the life of Bill Moran.

On pages 95 Mr. Moran is quoted "These were designed as feather-weight knives and they are extremely light, weighing about three ounces. The blads are about 4 3/4 inches long. They are forged out of 1/8 inch stock 1085 steel and are based on the Norwegian puukko style... This design is the knife that Spyderco is going to make a commercial copy of"

and on 107 Mr. Moran is quoted saying "This is one of a group of knives I designed as feather-weight knives. They are extremely light weight and are forged from 1/8 inch steel. They are based on the Norwegian Puukko design although they do not look exactly like that".

On page 191 is the collaboration detail with Spyderco and references back to the previously mentioned pages 95 and 107 by the "featherweight" model.

I would still use mine for bushcrafting.
 
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The Moran is a beautiful very functional design, evolved over many many years of use in Bill's shop.

It isn't flashy, but we have many that swear by it. The sheath is a custom Boltaron sheath made locally.

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I've used at least 20 different Spyderco folders out in the woods for making fuzz sticks, carving tools from wood, cutting vegetation to clear trails or make bedding for a shelter, do food prep etc. All of them worked fine for this, except a few needed some reprofiling before they carved wood well. Others cut wood very well with their factory grind, like my Mini Manix and BG42 Military.

LatelyI've been using an Aqua Salt outside. I like it a lot so far. The sheath lets you mount it many different ways, the blade length is about what I consider ideal for a bushcraft style knife, and not having to ever be concerned with rust is nice.
 
full sized perrin for sure. or maybe one of those big forrester ones that ive never seen or heard of being used
 
I love my salt 1 PE and pacific salt PE for outdoors carry. My normal EDC is a scorpius PE, but whenever I'm doing stuff outdoors it gets replaced by one of the salts. I like the salt series blade shape a little more for bushcraft type stuff, and the H1 is great for conditions where it might be hard to keep the knife clean and dry.
 
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