What’s your favourite three knife set-up?

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Pietje010

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I have a question for a lot of BF users how like to go to 'the great outdoors' for hiking. What’s you favourite three knife set-up for a two-or-more week all-round hiking tour? It has to be good for these three jobs: EDC stuff, fishing/hunting and heavy/quick/dirty chores. And you carry it next to a small saw and axe or machete depending on the terrain.

I think about a SAK/multitool, small fixed hunting knife and a not very expensive field-knife. Like a Leatherman Wave, Buck Woodsman and a Glock78 or Ka-bar. Maybe your combination is a lot different for a very good reason. Let us know!!

What’s your favourite three knife set-up?

But…rather wide known brands then special-home-made ones.
 
My big three are Boye folder (I consider this to be semi-production), leatherman Wave and Kershaw Outcast. This gives me a small machete, detail folder and multitool for all tasks given to knife work. By the way- my wood axe is a 12 inch blade hewing axe- heavy but easier to do any work due to momentum.:)
 
I find that on a day to day basis I reach for a small/mid-sized lockback more often than a SAK/multi-tool or slip joint.

For heavy work I grab a khukuri or a machete. But if I had to pick one it would be the khuk.

The middle of the road is what I'm still searching for. I like the reach and cutting ability of a gaucho knife. A 5" hunter is handier and a 7" C/U is hardier but I guess I'll say "long and lean" for the third class of knives.

So, to recap:
1. small/med lockback (as of late a Native, before that an EKA 88)
2. chopper (usually an 18.5"/ 28oz. WWII)
3. camp/kitchen knife (9" gaucho, essentially a chef's knife, my camping involves more BBQing than trailblazing but it could do that, too, in a pinch)
 
My last serious outdoor adventure was a trip to Africa, climbing kilimanjaro and doing a walking safari. The three blades I took for my own use were:

Spyderco SE para
Busse basic 3

Gerber multilock
my daily carry is also a three blade set up:

SAK compact

Spyderco g10 standard SE or para SE

Nealy/Boker ats34 drop point in custom kydex

on a side note, the blade carried by the massai in Africa is a large *12-14 inch blade) fairly wide with a good point and a very simple wrapped handle. This seemed to be the only blade they carried, unless they happened to be touting a spear.
 
Let's see.....
-a Victorinox Swiss spirit or Farmer,
-a Strider SMF,
-a Fällkniven H1.

...and my axe is a GB wildlife hatchet!

This combination will handle everything and more....,especially in our "Kikkerlandje"!!!
 
Timberline Zambezi 6" fixed
Spyderco Endura
Cold Steel Trailmaster

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Pietje010 said:
What’s you favourite three knife set-up for a two-or-more week all-round hiking tour? It has to be good for these three jobs: EDC stuff, fishing/hunting and heavy/quick/dirty chores. And you carry it next to a small saw and axe or machete depending on the terrain.
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Well, I am rather partial to the ideas of Nessmuk and Kephart of a good folding knife, a mid-size fixed blade and an axe. I think if you have a good fixed blade of 4-5 inched and a small axe or hatchet you don't really need a large knife, but if I had add one I think I might go like this:

  1. Victorinox Swiss Champ I've always had a facination for those multi-purpose tooks known as SAKs and have several in my collection. If I was going on a motorcycle or car trip, I might consider one of the popular multi-tools, but for wilderness trips the SAK is my choice.
  2. D. H. Russell Canadian Belt Knife - I've been fiddling around with a number of mid-sized, fixed blades recently. Their are a lot of good ones, but this unusual little knife just seems to be a great all around blade and I really like it.
  3. Cold Steel Trail Master Bowie I liked the Trailmaster bowie from the first time I saw it. The stereotype "big knife" it should do just about anything you would want a big knife to do.
At least, that would be my choice today. :D
 
I have found that I can almost always get along just fine with less, but since I like things with points and edges, one setup for car or motorcyle camping would be:

LM Surge
Spyderco Native
Becker Crewman

or (and this is my usual setup),

Vic Swisstool Spirit
DH Russell/Grohmann #1
Hatchet
 
Mine would be
1. Leatherman Charge Ti
2. Benchmade Mini Skirmish or Spyderco Delica 4
3. Kershaw Outcast
 
Let´s see:

1.Schanz WSK
2.see above
3.see above

OK, if weight is of no importance:

2. Ek Bowie
3: Leatherman Wave
 
For a real trip into the great outdoors, for an extended period, my top three are:
Case trapper (CV)
Benchmade 710
Järvenpää 4" puukko

For longer trips, I also bring a full-size Cold Steel Bushman (only CS product I'll ever purchase).

Peace.
Alex.
 
Large Classic Sebenza
Bill Buxton EDC
Busse SFNO

I either walk or ride a horse, and carry as little mechanical/sophisticated gear as possible, so a multi tool is no use to me.
 
I would have my;

1. Spyderco Manix
2. Ron Post- Drop Point Skinner
3. Leatherman Wave

And if I wasnt poor I would carry;

1. Leatherman Charge Ti
2. Tridnet Oberland 01 with G-10
3. Large Classic Sebenza
 
I've never been out for more than a week, but this works for me.
1) SRKW Camp Tramp
2) Spyderco Millie
3) SAK
 
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Norlund axe.
(I found it stuck in a stump with no handle)
My Pop's early 60's Colonial Toothpick
PJ Tomes MS Hunter Utility 52100 & bone.

Or the all D2 group
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Queen Canoe
PJ Tomes double bit
Dozier Slim Outdoorsman

Maybe
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GB Mine
Helle Jegermester
And the Queen Canoe

And just incase we're talkin tactical ;)
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Livesay Bowie and Woo
Hardware store prybar
:P

:D
 
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