What knives are you thinking of buying next?

Doc,
I was waiting on someone else to say it, I think I will concentrate on using the ones I have. Chris
 
runningboar said:
Doc,
I was waiting on someone else to say it, I think I will concentrate on using the ones I have. Chris
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I'm with the two of you. I don't have sights set on anything.
The ones I have work fine. I probably have a few too many.
Since making a few of my own, I'm a lot less enamoured by standard production knives.

I'm thinking more of skills, like firemaking, and such. You can lose a knife, but not the skills & knowledge you've gained.

We must remember, a knife doesn't make the man, the man makes the knife. The knife is but an end to a means.

I may have crossed a threshold.
 
Skunkwerx and runningboar,

I respect where you guys are coming from.

I find that when I get a new knife and I am not floating in the dough. I really get excited to get out and try my skills with that new knife in comparison with my others. I see it as motivation to build my skills. Admittedly, my life is crazy busy and sitting around building a trap is tough to shedule. If I get a new knife building something with it is the best way to take it for a spin.
 
Busse HOGFSH
Busse Game warden
CR Sebenza
CR green beret
Benchmade Nim
Bm710
becker BK7
RAT 3 in d2
Rat 7 in 1095
Kershaw Black Blur
Lonewolf d2 double duty

Bill
 
Doesn't always have to be an expensive knife to get excited over. I was thrilled to get my 1st Mora (Mora 2000) last week.
 
runningboar said:
Doc,
I was waiting on someone else to say it, I think I will concentrate on using the ones I have. Chris
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Did I forget my Vic Swiss Spirit?

Anyway, while I really like knives, my focus is and always has been on the skills, not the tools.

Chris, I meant to tell you there is a book called Wild Flowers of North Carolina, William S. Justice / C. Ritchie Bell, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, ISBN# 0-8078-4192-7 I don't know if it's still available but it would be a good aid in learning native plants. I picked my copy up at some book sale or other and it's not a bad little book.

Skunk: "I'm thinking more of skills, like firemaking,........."
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I hope that means you're practising :)

Doc
 
DOC-CANADA said:
I hope that means you're practising :)

Doc
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Doc, of course! I'd never let you down. And when i am not practicing, I'm thinking about it! :D

Actually, I was cutting firewood yesterday, and grabbed some fine looking pieces for another bow, drill and hearth. The poplar wood is working out quite well as the hearth, it has a fairly low ignition temperature, and, as long as it's not green it tends to be quite dry. It's weight and density is along the lines of cedar.

I'm getting a good ember about 75% of the time on the first try.
After that, it's all about the tinder. Which hasn't been a real challenge as we have been in a summer-long drought.

I'm more concerned with being able to do it, with an acceptable % rate of success, under less-than-ideal conditions.
 
SkunkWerX said:
Doc, of course! I'd never let you down. And when i am not practicing, I'm thinking about it! :D

Actually, I was cutting firewood yesterday, and grabbed some fine looking pieces for another bow, drill and hearth. The poplar wood is working out quite well as the hearth, it has a fairly low ignition temperature, and, as long as it's not green it tends to be quite dry. It's weight and density is along the lines of cedar.

I'm getting a good ember about 75% of the time on the first try.
After that, it's all about the tinder. Which hasn't been a real challenge as we have been in a summer-long drought.

I'm more concerned with being able to do it, with an acceptable % rate of success, under less-than-ideal conditions.
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And don't forget a coal enhancer such as True Tinder Fungus (Inonotus obliquus), False Tinder Fungus (Fomes fomentarius) or some punky woods. Poplar (Populus spp.) makes for a relatively crumbly coal so you need a little 'fire insurance' before you try transferring it to your tinder bundle. You don't want to go through all that work and have the coal fall apart on you. :(

Doc
 
I just recently started trying to work a bow drill, without success. I was really just trying to get used to the whole thing, so I used the only wood I had around for a hearth (some 2x4 scraps!). I don't know much, but I didn't figure that treated wood would be worth too much.

I'm crap at plant/tree ID in general, but can recognize cedar when I smell it! How does this wood perform as a hearth? Does one need a different material for the drill than the hearth?

Also, when making the divot in the hearth for the drill, do you want it more flat/blunt or angled, and more deep or more shallow?
 
Spooky, if you want, email me and I'll send you some instructions I worked up for JackBauer24 and Coldwood (both of whom I think are in work-to-rule mode :eek:). You can try them and see if they help.

Yes cedar works for both bow and drill.

As far as the divot goes, you only make a small indent and let the drill shape the depression for you.

Doc
 
I hate to admit this, but I figure if you guys didn't understand, no one would:)
But I'm really liking the looks of that Cold Steel Black Sable. I know it's not practical for anything, including carrying around anywhere, or using , but I already own over two dozen practical knives for any eventuality I could ever foresee.
Lust is a hard thing to pin down. When one has lust for a material thing, sometimes there's no explaining it, especially when one already has so much:D
 
DOC-CANADA said:
Spooky, if you want, email me and I'll send you some instructions I worked up for JackBauer24 and Coldwood (both of whom I think are in work-to-rule mode :eek:). You can try them and see if they help.

Yes cedar works for both bow and drill.

As far as the divot goes, you only make a small indent and let the drill shape the depression for you.

Doc
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I'm still trying!! lol. I haven't had any time though. I have all your tutorials in my PDA, so I'm ready whenever I get an hour or two. I should have worked on it satuday, I went to a gun show instead. Nothing but a bunch of stuff I can't afford there.
 
I heard that Fallkniven is scheduled for a new release in March about maybe an F1 in some "newer" (3G?) "rocket-science" steel. I might have to check that out.
AND, when Diamondblades comes out with their FFD2 tactical model, I'm definitely going to have to grab one of those. (No more piggy bank... and college money for the kids.)
 
this one:

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Doc,
Thanks for the book recommendation I will have to see if I can track it down.

JB,
Yes, I recently, a couple of months ago, got a RAT 3 however that was probably the only knife I have bought in the last 5 years. Before the Rat, the knife I used the most was given to me by my grandfather when I was about 13. Chris
 
runningboar said:
Doc,
Thanks for the book recommendation I will have to see if I can track it down.

JB,
Yes, I recently, a couple of months ago, got a RAT 3 however that was probably the only knife I have bought in the last 5 years. Before the Rat, the knife I used the most was given to me by my grandfather when I was about 13. Chris
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cool. I'm just giving you a hard time anyway.
 
JackBauer24 said:
cool. I'm just giving you a hard time anyway.
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It's all good, now that I think about it I told a little fib, I bought my blackhawk calista a couple of years ago, it is around my neck in my avatar and about any other time you see me. Man I love that little knife I wonder why it doesn't get more press? Chris
 
SkunkWerX said:
I may have crossed a threshold.
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I crossed the threshold long ago. I've given away most of my knives to family and kept some pocket knives and a few mora's and my 2 Ontario 12 inch machetes.

I deceided to concentrate on survival technques instead of gear hording. Fire building, debri huts with available materials, use of sharp stone flakes if need be. Like one poster said, you can't loose knowledge in you head.

Any gear more than you can carry at one time is just overkill.
 
jackknife said:
I crossed the threshold long ago. I've given away most of my knives to family and kept some pocket knives and a few mora's and my 2 Ontario 12 inch machetes.

I deceided to concentrate on survival technques instead of gear hording. Fire building, debri huts with available materials, use of sharp stone flakes if need be. Like one poster said, you can't loose knowledge in you head.

Any gear more than you can carry at one time is just overkill.
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I'm not saying you should want a million things. But I like knives, all types, I make them, I buy them, I mod them, I sharpen them, hell I even play with them while I watch TV. Such a simple tool that has beauty and function. And just because someone has eleventy knives, it doesn't mean they take them out every trip. I don't have that many, I can't afford them. But I don't see any problem with people who like to collect them. It's better than collecting Girl friends and STD's.
 
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