I will only going to speak to the "regular" blades available to a poor boy growing up decades ago in the USA - sans wealth, pre-computer - AND (then) as a non-hunter. Most of them - I don't care for at all. I used folders mostly because I always wanted a functional fixed blade but couldn't find one that really made any sense to me. The Schrades with the fingergrooves looked cool - but never fit my hand well. BUt mainly - those upswept tips and huge blades - including the famed Buck 119 - I could never understand. They have no interest for me at all.
After I did some serious training nearly two decades ago and used my old trusty Buck 110 everyday for hard use and what is now referred to as "primitive skills" - I knew that I had to find something way better and seriously functional. And SAFE. I don't trust folders - especially for woodcraft.
Though seriously weenie looking - and not remotely "macho" - the very FIRST time I saw a Mora wood-handled knife in the back of a catalog and sold then for about six bucks - I said - "TAHT'S IT"! So I have been using them long before the Web and the now trendy "bushcraft" craze. So - God bless Moras. And I think they qualify as TRUE "old school woods knives." Even if I didn't grow up in Sweden.
After I did some serious training nearly two decades ago and used my old trusty Buck 110 everyday for hard use and what is now referred to as "primitive skills" - I knew that I had to find something way better and seriously functional. And SAFE. I don't trust folders - especially for woodcraft.
Though seriously weenie looking - and not remotely "macho" - the very FIRST time I saw a Mora wood-handled knife in the back of a catalog and sold then for about six bucks - I said - "TAHT'S IT"! So I have been using them long before the Web and the now trendy "bushcraft" craze. So - God bless Moras. And I think they qualify as TRUE "old school woods knives." Even if I didn't grow up in Sweden.