Survival Lilly knife.

I really don't know why people are talking about Busse in this tread . There is only one that is available in size and price range. Ratmandu sr101 and then 4 to 14 week wait. Infini steel is only available through there custom shop atm price will not even be close. And is backed up not taking orders right now. Our US made knives coast a lot more over seas. Taxes, shipping, customs. Even her knife will cost more to bring it in the US. Better off buying our knives made here.

I would stay with the testing comparisons.

Rich K.
 
I can’t get past the abusing an s1 (which we could see little of)
The two minute later she comes out with her own design.
Can’t be arsed with the YouTube culture and influences to be honest
 
I take the Dutch boys and their circus act as seriously as I do S Lilly.
Easily digestible fodder for the entertainment hungry masses.
Watching the vids for entertainment value is fine, if you are so inclined, just dont consider them all sage advice.
 
It seems the most irksome feature of the knife to us in the states is the price vs:value, while abroad this knife is half the price of knives we know to have better value HERE because of import taxes there. I wonder if the knives would have been a lot cheaper to make had she gone to Maniango to get them made(for both US and Europe—yet we in the US are used to buying exceptional knives made in Taiwan for $35-60) I assume fallkniven is more expensive everywhere(except during cyber Monday big river deals), but imo the s-1 is everything her knife is not. Strange considering she posted a multipart video bashing the knife hers has the most in common with dimension-wise. If the argument is one based on what continent one happens to live, it isn’t worth having, IMO. I will say the Finland made skrama would be my apo knife if I lived elsewhere, along with a mora and a few opinel.
 
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fielder said:
I guess my point is that, certainly in the UK I'm never further than a mile from a road, and not much further from civilisation
If we are being realistic, survival knives are a hobby, not a necessity. It's a fun game to play, but it wouldn't be possible to survive in the woods here. There are too few areas of woodland and too many people.
We enjoy talking about it and playing the game, but ultimately that's all it is.
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I've been thinking the same thing for a good long while.
 
Disclaimer: While I too am a veteran it bears no gravitas on my opinion . I have however actually been in 'survival situations' with prior training that made them more an inconvenient time to have fun in retrospect. My knife was a plain vanilla Ontario 499 service issue which I still possess and use. I have a simple challenge. Lily and her APO1
in company with Tom Brown/Tracker, Bear Grylls / knife along with Mors Kochanski and his MORA #1 are all dropped off with said knife and MINIMAL gear each has been associated with for 72 hours in some resource rich environment with inclement weather for a little contest. I once joked with Mors about investing in a wood burning kit and market #1 Moras with his signature on the red birch handle. I know I would buy one- or 10 for the price of an APO1.
 
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I think the biggest problem with this knife is it being billed as the Armageddon blade she would grab, above all others, as the planet descends into a post-apocalyptic nightmare world of conflict and struggle. That's BS...or should be, because there are better for end of the world use. Had she said she designed the knife she had always wanted for general woods use and bushcraft, there would be critiquing, but not at this level.
 
jdk1 said:
I think the biggest problem with this knife is it being billed as the Armageddon blade she would grab, above all others, as the planet descends into a post-apocalyptic nightmare world of conflict and struggle. That's BS...or should be, because there are better for end of the world use. Had she said she designed the knife she had always wanted for general woods use and bushcraft, there would be critiquing, but not at this level.
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Yes. She is marketing something that is so very easily proven untrue.

Just make a knife and sell it! I've got plenty of knives like this that work just fine. We don't need the smoke blowing up our rear.
 
I don't spend any time of consequence in deep angst over Survival Lily. The internet in it's still brief history is littered with digital celebrities, websites, forums and YOUBOOB posters as forgotten as a 50s Saturday cowboy teevee show. There are to many GOOD people online deserving our admiration for their elder mentorship.
 
So the APO-1 would be the "One Knife" she would have strapped to her side in a SHTF scenario? I can personally say without a shadow of a doubt say that my life means more then a 130 dollar Taiwan Knife with hit/miss quality control issues. Personally, I would have to spend a great deal more to have full confidence in my tool. I like to use my stuff for it's intended use though. I don't shame people that baton with their knives, but if I ONLY had one knife I think I wouldn't risk it. I would be making wood wedges and stuff to take the abuse instead.
 
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