Survival Knife?

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Richard Graves gave us Bushcrafting, Mors gave us the definition of the Bushcraft Knife, Yet what defines a Survival Knife? If I knew how to attach a photo I would add a picture.
 
Guess it depends on your definition of survival... Are we talking about off grid or urban?

Whatever knife you have on your person when you find yourself elbow deep in some sort of mess would be my working definition.

Or a Smatchet, but that's the generic answer
 
Well the PSK attached to my Old SV2 was a Survival Knife, and I'd add the photo of I could figure out how? What is the attachment symbol?
 
I think of bushcraft knives as knives that excel at carving wood. A good bushcraft knife should be light, thin and small. A survival knife on the other hand needs to be able to handle any situation it might find itself in. It should be able to chop, baton and pry in addition to regular knife tasks, a jack of all trades master of none sort of knife.
 
Survival knives and bushcraft knives don't have set definitions. I looked up the Mors definition of a bushcraft knife and found that the one knife in my collection explicitly marketed as a bush knife breaks almost every one of those rules (Halfbreed Blades Large Bush Knife). I think a lot of it is just clarifying the intended purpose of the knife, but different knife designers can have very different approaches to filling the same need.

The only things I could say are very closely associated with "survival" knives are hollow handles and sawbacks. Not every survival knife has those features, but pretty much every knife with those features is going to be sold as a survival knife.
 
Tsujigiri said:
Survival knives and bushcraft knives don't have set definitions. I looked up the Mors definition of a bushcraft knife and found that the one knife in my collection explicitly marketed as a bush knife breaks almost every one of those rules (Halfbreed Blades Large Bush Knife). I think a lot of it is just clarifying the intended purpose of the knife, but different knife designers can have very different approaches to filling the same need.

The only things I could say are very closely associated with "survival" knives are hollow handles and sawbacks. Not every survival knife has those features, but pretty much every knife with those features is going to be sold as a survival knife.
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Haha.... Yes, id agree with you IF we were in 1983

I like K kafolarbear wording
Bush/woods Crafting



I'll add....
I'd stab someone with a survival knife
 
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