The "do everything" fixed blade shape.

RX-79G said:
What would your do-everything fixed blade look like?
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Without much more to go on this is an difficult question to answer. I mean, is this one of those end of the world one knife scenarios? One knife to save your life! If not I would have multiple knives for different tasks. Oh well. For me it would be an RMD, Esee 6, or Spartan Difensa.

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craytab said:
Without much more to go on this is an difficult question to answer. I mean, is this one of those end of the world one knife scenarios? One knife to save your life! If not I would have multiple knives for different tasks. Oh well. For me it would be an RMD, Esee 6, or Spartan Difensa.
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There is plenty to go on. You have to read the OP, not just the title.

A "do everything" knife could be used for survival, or hunting, or cooking, or carving. There isn't a real world "need" for such a knife, unless the owner truly wanted to own just a single knife. But, like I said in the OP, people used to live like that.

Some of those you posted with the big guards would be a PITA to make potato salad with.
 
RX-79G said:
There is plenty to go on. You have to read the OP, not just the title.
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I did read the OP. Why Assume I didn't?

This is a hypothetical. A do it all knife that you will never need to do it all with because such a situation will never exist. Got it. Based on this I made my choices!
 
RX-79G said:
Some of those you posted with the big guards would be a PITA to make potato salad with.
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Please speak for yourself. I think they would do fine! Plus, if I gotta do everything with one knife, potato salad isn't my main concern. I mean do we get other tools like axes and saws and stuff? How about a multi tool or a SAK?
 
craytab said:
I did read the OP. Why Assume I didn't?

This is a hypothetical. A do it all knife that you will never need to do it all with because such a situation will never exist. Got it. Based on this I made my choices!
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Well, not really. Many of us use our not-kitchen knives in the kitchen. I have processed deer with my "bushcraft" homemade knife as well as the Cold Steel tanto that also opens coconuts like a champ.

In the age of SUVs, smart phones and Leatherman tools, I don't see why a jack of all trades knife would be comparable to a "zombie knife". It is simply a utility tool that is useful more often than it isn't - just like a SAK. If I was traveling extensively in the third world, this is the kind of knife I would take because it wears many hats - and that isn't a fictional situation. People do things like that all the time.

Fight zombies, not so much.
 
RX-79G said:
There is plenty to go on. You have to read the OP, not just the title.

A "do everything" knife could be used for survival, or hunting, or cooking, or carving. There isn't a real world "need" for such a knife, unless the owner truly wanted to own just a single knife. But, like I said in the OP, people used to live like that.

Some of those you posted with the big guards would be a PITA to make potato salad with.
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You just have to slice with the belly. Plus, it is a tradeoff again. Having no guard at all means a higher chance of injury when doing many tasks. I myself will take the added safety over slightly easier potato chopping:D
 
Being caught with just one knife is not a hypothetical.

Having one at all can be all the luck you can hope for.

For me, the one knife that actually lives up to the all around do everything ideal is a Lile Mission: 0.030" edge that lasts forever, out-chops a Trailmaster nearly 2 to one, weights nothing, easily concealable, saw works, and notching is hugely useful, 2 screwdriver tips, painkillers, 20' of rope, sewing kit, compass, matches and fire starters, 4 X 1" Dia-Sharp sharpener, even a 4" lightstick fits in the handle... I don't like the silly notched clip, but that is about it.

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RX-79G said:
Well, not really. Many of us use our not-kitchen knives in the kitchen. I have processed deer with my "bushcraft" homemade knife as well as the Cold Steel tanto that also opens coconuts like a champ.

In the age of SUVs, smart phones and Leatherman tools, I don't see why a jack of all trades knife would be comparable to a "zombie knife". It is simply a utility tool that is useful more often than it isn't - just like a SAK. If I was traveling extensively in the third world, this is the kind of knife I would take because it wears many hats - and that isn't a fictional situation. People do things like that all the time.

Fight zombies, not so much.
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That is exactly why more to go on with the question would be helpful. As it stand you ask for one knife to do everything. No other perimeters. That right there is fiction. No such situation would exist for me. I would not need one knife to do everything. I'd have other tools available, like a SAK. As the vague question stands I answered it!
 
Tachead7075 said:
You just have to slice with the belly. Plus, it is a tradeoff again. Having no guard at all means a higher chance of injury when doing many tasks. I myself will take the added safety over slightly easier potato chopping:D
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Why wouldn't the guard built into the OP blade shapes, for instance, not also protect you from injury? They don't have less protection, they blade just goes down to the same level.
 
Gaston444 said:
Being caught with just one knife is not a hypothetical.

Having one at all can be all the luck you can hope for.

For me, the one knife that actually lives up to the all around do everything ideal is a Lile Mission: 0.030" edge that lasts forever, out-chops a Trailmaster nearly 2 to one, weights nothing, easily concealable, saw works, and notching is hugely useful, 2 screwdriver tips, painkillers, 20' of rope, sewing kit, compass, matches and fire starters, 4 X 1" Dia-Sharp sharpener, even a 4" lightstick fits in the handle... I don't like the silly notched clip, but that is about it.

Gaston
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The only way that knife is more useful than any other knife is if you are only carrying just the knife, I seriously doubt anybody carries just a knife with no other tools or materials, and if you have even a small belt pouch you can carry plenty more of every material stored in that hollow handle.

I'd carry a BK9 and a small pouch myself, and then I won't have to spend $2200 on a knife.
 
The do it all knife for me is a 4 or 5" clip or drop point. There are so many I like that I will let it go at that. This is not a end of the world as we know it choice, although, I probably would be comfortable with something along this line.
 
Gaston444 said:
Being caught with just one knife is not a hypothetical.

Having one at all can be all the luck you can hope for.
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Again, people need to speak for themselves. As long as it is legal I have at least 2 knives on me (folding and MT). Generally though I will also have a small fixed blade. What is hypothetical here is everything but the knife.
 
My choice for one all around fixed blade would have to be my Nessmuk. I've used it everywhere. It's not a specific use blade, unlike some of my other knives.
 
Something like this...

 
Stone age hominids of limited intelligence figured out long ago that no single tool could "do it all". This primitive understanding predated homo sapiens. I'm struggling to ignore natural instincts that are descendant from 2.6 million year old principles of survival, to choose the one hypothetical "do it all" tool or shape of tool. I'm simply too evolved to limit myself that way.

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History said:
The earliest stone toolmaking developed by at least 2.6 million years ago. The Early Stone Age includes the most basic stone toolkits made by early humans. The Early Stone Age in Africa is equivalent to what is called the Lower Paleolithic in Europe and Asia.

The oldest stone tools, known as the Oldowan toolkit, consist of at least:
• Hammerstones that show battering on their surfaces
• Stone cores that show a series of flake scars along one or more edges
• Sharp stone flakes that were struck from the cores and offer useful cutting edges, along with lots of debris from the process of percussion flaking

By about 1.76 million years ago, early humans began to strike really large flakes and then continue to shape them by striking smaller flakes from around the edges. The resulting implements included a new kind of tool called a handaxe. These tools and other kinds of ‘large cutting tools’ characterize the Acheulean toolkit.

The basic toolkit, including a variety of novel forms of stone core, continued to be made. It and the Acheulean toolkit were made for an immense period of time – ending in different places by around 400,000 to 250,000 years ago.
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Please feel free to refer to me as Baron von Buzzkill for the remainder of this thread.
 
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