Warncliff for camp and bushcraft use?

[FortyTwoBlades]

I think Wharncliffes are one of the best blade shapes for general utility, they'll outperform a drop or clip point in a lot of tasks. I just don't like the way most Wharncliffe production knives look, which is why I don't own any. There're some great looking customs out there, though...

Yeah is it just me or do a lot of wharncliffe production knives seem to be designed to be sold to folks that don't quite get the concept of the blade pattern? There are some nice ones out there, though, like the Case swayback jack. I carry one whenever I'm not carrying an Opinel.

 

[plumberroy]

Funny to find this thead I found an old hickory 8" slicing knife in the draw the wife wasn't using . So I decided To see what I could make from it Still need to dress it up but here is the shape I ended up with (my cell phone camera sucks)

 

[Mistwalker]

Years ago, 1978, I found myself dragged from the TN hills by my mother and plopped down in North Dallas. At the age of 13 I was one of only a handful of Caucasians attending a mostly Hispanic middle school with a major tendency toward violent behavior. My parents were divorced and I had been to a few different school systems by this point, but this was the only school I had ever been to where an ambulance showed up two or three times a month to haul off people who had been sliced up. Once a teacher was shot over a bad grade. I hated that school, and being raised to be color blind I hated the racism that existed there. The walk home through gang controlled "turf" was a nightmare. However I had few choices in the matter at the time, my father was in a hospital in Tampa recovering from a fall at work that severely damaged three of his lower vertebrae, and he would be there for nearly a year. I ended up modifying an antique bayonet; cutting off the guard and barrel ring, and shorting the blade to 5 inches using a hack saw, a file, an old whet stone, and some sand paper. Because of the limited tooling I went with a very acute Wharncliffe tip, even though I didn't know the name for it at the time, that was extremely sharp. I had gotten the idea from some old Norse designs I had seen. I removed all excess metal and smoothed all of the surfaces and outside angles, made a special leg sheath, modified the seems of my pants with velcro, and carried that knife on my calf inside my boot, and even with tennis shoes, everywhere I went for the year and a half that I lived there. I found it to be a very utilitarian design that handled everything I needed it to do just fine once I got the edge squared away. Everything from whittling, to cutting rope and string, cutting vinyl flooring, on to cutting up meats and vegetables, and the tip achieved excellent penetration in various materials. I knew it wouldn't have been the greatest at skinning large game, but not like I was be doing much of that in North Dallas. For food prep I just moved my cutting board to the edge of the table

 

[Gossman Knives]

My favorite all around design, the modified sheepsfoot blade. My favorite as a hunting knife.
Scott

 

[lightleak]

I drew something up for the JK design contest with something very close to a wharncliffe blade design, still think it would make a fantastic knife.