The Elitist's War on Bushcraft: Part III !!!Bear Grylls Knife!!!

Carbon1 said:
I only split whole trees with tanto folders. Not enough of a challenge for a fixed blade. I got up on the wrong side of the bed today, but this video always makes me feel better.
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The mosquito sounds in that video drive me mad! Makes me start feeling buggy! :D
 
Mannlicher said:
that or I just don't have the faith up front to try one, or to believe what I read. Either way, I won't be buying one. ;)
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Fair enough. To be honest I doubt I'll ever buy one, not because I lack faith in it, I already have Becker, Fallkniven & Busse fixed blades to meet my demands.

I just get a little irked at the negative by default due to the Bear Grylls association.
 
Jaytaylor said:
... I just get a little irked at the negative by default due to the Bear Grylls association.
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There are a lot of products I won't buy because of the company's choice of spokesperson or political activism. We all make choices based upon biases as well as facts. Doesn't irk me at all. One might as well be irked because people DO buy the knives simply because of the BG name on them.
 
Jaytaylor said:
Fair enough. To be honest I doubt I'll ever buy one, not because I lack faith in it, I already have Becker, Fallkniven & Busse fixed blades to meet my demands.

I just get a little irked at the negative by default due to the Bear Grylls association.
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But it isn't just that. I clearly remember a review of that very knife with a broken pommel on Blade forums. Also remember some recalls for other BG/Gerber products. I still use a Gerber stainless folder from the mid 80's but don't buy from them anymore after getting some lemons once the production moved over to China. I bet other people walked down the same road. The negativity wasn't created in a vacuum.
 
That's a shame too, because there was a time just a few short years ago when the Gerber BMF and LMF were highly sought after, and were regarded as some of the best production survival knives around. Gerber used to make a great large bowie, also. Never had one, but always wanted it.
 
Codger_64 said:
There are a lot of products I won't buy because of the company's choice of spokesperson or political activism. We all make choices based upon biases as well as facts. Doesn't irk me at all. One might as well be irked because people DO buy the knives simply because of the BG name on them.
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Technically speaking, I don't think that's a bias. A bias would be if you unreasonably assume that a knife is no good because BG is promoting it. You are just including an extra factor in your purchasing decision.
 
I well remember a time when Gerber was synonomous with quality knives. Some of the knives from that period still bring handsome prices on the secondary market. I forget how many times the company has changed hands since then though.
 
Woods Walker said:
During a winter camping trip I was talking with a buddy about doing a video mocking Bushcraft daytrips. Take video/pics of 10 feet worth of knives and axes stuck within a fallen log all in a row. A massive pile of split wood, 10 foot high log fire reflector, A crazy complex pot hook, 3 bucket of shavings all to cook a frozen jimmy dean breakfast sandwich. Maybe a back shot of a person with a 150 dollar double bit axe lashed on to a daypack no bigger than the axe's head. Arms flared out looking into the woods. Yea know those 3 hundred dollar bushcraft knives polished like a mirror without a single scratch? Maybe rather than reflecting the face of a scruffy guy the reflection would show the head of a life sized blowup women. LOL! Probably won't ever do it as sometimes people just can't take a joke. I think it is all good and enjoy reading all the trip reports. On the other hand if I was a guy wearing a wide brimmed hat?
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Yes please. This is a video that must be made. Be careful though, there is a certain segment of the bushcraft community that would most definitely NOT see the humor in the 5 foot high kindling pile to warm up coffee and a biscuit. That would be viewed the same way Christians see Mapplethorpe's placing of a crucified Jesus into a jar of urine.

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