whats your favourite fixed blade

Everyday. BRT Ogregonto .125" blade stock.

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Favorite? It depends on what I'm doing....

For getting a fire going, like we did to roast hot dogs for lunch today, I always grab one of the Moras I have to create feather sticks and tender. I have other options, but it does the job and does it well.
View media item 3426My daughter likes the A.G.Russell Woodswalker for making feather sticks, and I like it as a blade I can teach her how to sharpen. It is nice when you want a fixed blade in your back pocket instead of on your belt, but the steel requires a bit more TLC.

If I am clearing brush or limbing branches, I'll grab my 'el cheapo' machete. It is nothing special, but it works well for the job. (sorry - no pics of it)
However, most of the time, I have a Bradford Guardian 3 on my belt. It is a fantastic knife.
View media item 3427I've been carrying a Street Beat instead of the Guardian a bit recently (no pics). It is growing on me, but I like the aesthetics and the feel of the Guardian in my hand a lot more. I can't explain why, but when I grab the Guardian, it just feels right in my hand and makes me want to do a happy dance. :cool: I am looking forward to Christmas though, because I think Santa will bring me a Guardian 3.5 this year. :-)

Enjoy.
 
Lapedog said:
Umm isn’t the huntsman a folder?
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Yes the Huntsman is a folder but I mentioned it because it's my favourite for legal EDC.

The Trapper I take to work with me, I'm a live in carer and I'm away from home for a month at a time. The kitchen knives are usually not very good so I use it for cutting meat and the huntsman for paring veg. They make a complimentary pair

I'd also like to get a Condor eco parang, or the eco machete, for sorting out the old folks overgrown gardens. I had a Kabar cutlass but didn't really like the hollow grind.
 
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These are my favorites. The Whiteriver knife and tool Caper which apart from steel excels in pretty much all categories (Really slicey grind, ergos are on point, best sharpness out of the box I ever had, sheath with great retention) and the Roselli Wootz UHC S Carpenter for the harder tasks because a handle that really fills the hand just is better for harder work
 
It really depends on the environment. For the past couple decades plus, I've carried a fixed blade for duty and combat. My favorite has been my Mad Dog PATAK:



A close second is my Martin Knives Bushcraft Tactical:



A simple, but long time staple has been the ESEE 3 (and previous RAT 3).

Over the past year, I've been carrying and using the TOPS CUT 4.0. For what it is, design-wise, it's bee a great EDC blade in my current environment.



I like bigger blades, but just can't carry them very well here in A'Stan. Of course, I have my favorite bushcraft blades, backpacking fixed blades, hunting knives, swamp knives, self-defensive fixed blades, etc. etc...

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No one favorite. I am rather fond of the
Ontario 499 "Jet Pilot Survival Knife"**
Ontario 498 "Marine Fighting Knife" and the KaBar of the same pattern**
Onatario RAT 3
Buck 119*
Buck 877*
Western L66*
Marbles Ideal
Condor Nessmuk
Condor Kephart
Mora Number 1 and Number 2
Mora 612*
Rapalla 4 inch Fillet knife*
Old Hickory "Buffalo Skinner"
Old Timer "Sharp Finger"**

*Currently own.
** Previously owned.
 
Favourite fixed blade has been a tough one for me, I'm down to basically two knives that I love both almost equally,

This D2 German steel from Manly USA made in Bulgaria, called Drugar is very nice, blade at 4 1/4" and handle at 4 3/4" I added my bobtail fob on both knives and on this Drugar I did a whipped knot in the middle to provide a little more traction, more a personal thing as it is nicely contoured and would be just fine without, but, it's me so what can I say :)

IMG_7154 by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

and the other fixed blade is by Nathan Carothers and Lorien Arnold, their EDC in cpm3v steel and I asked for unbuffed micarta scales, this one is really nice, blade at 3 1/8" and handle about 4 1/4" it is overall smaller than the Drugar but quite sharp and the handle contours really locks your hand in place securely.

Nathan_Carothers_EDC by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

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Since it came out (now discontinued) I have carried the Spyderco Moran drop point in the field. The light weight and cutting design is very good for all types of field dressing and chores around the camp.


 
If I'm being honest, probably my Fujiwara Teruyasu Nashiji 150mm petty (photo from ages ago when I took it out of the box):

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The steel is white #1 clad in stainless and it's a thin knife with a nice distal taper. Edge holding on the white #1 carbon steel isn't spectacular but it takes a screaming edge and is easy enough to quickly touch up. It is my far and away most used cooking knife, with just enough heel for a bit of board work but small and nimble enough to double as an over-sized paring knife.

I own lots of other, very nice kitchen knives, but more often than not this little petty gets used and misused for everything.

I do also totally love this Buck 197 Yellow Jacket that is more in line with what BF folks are into, so here's a snapshot of that pretty knife too (mirror polished blade is CPM-S90V core clad in 154CM, handle is a combination of Honey Jasper, Ironwood and black G-10):

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GatorFlash1 said:
Since it came out (now discontinued) I have carried the Spyderco Moran drop point in the field. The light weight and cutting design is very good for all types of field dressing and chores around the camp.
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I agree. The Moran is quite a useful little fixed blade and highly under-rated. Knife knuts will say.... I like it, but it doesn't have a full tang. But just how often does it really matter anyway for normal usage?
 
22-rimfire said:
I like it, but it doesn't have a full tang. But just how often does it really matter anyway for normal usage?
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Agreed--whenever someone touts their super-thick-bladed full-tang monstrosity as being an indestructible woods knife I think of the criminally stupid things I've done to cheap, flimsy, thin-bladed stick-tanged Moras without breaking them and want to laugh.

The industry has moved too far towards extreme durability at the expense of utility, I think.

If you compare a Mora Companion to something like a Bradford Guardian 4, the Mora is lighter, a couple of hundred dollars cheaper, cuts better, is more comfortable to carry, etc.--but every time you mention Moras there's always that one guy who has to point out that "it's not full tang" as if that means it will implode the first time you cut anything.
 
22-rimfire said:
I agree. The Moran is quite a useful little fixed blade and highly under-rated. Knife knuts will say.... I like it, but it doesn't have a full tang. But just how often does it really matter anyway for normal usage?
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It has enough of a tang to field dress most game. For the quartering you really can't beat a good bone saw. But for general hunting tasks it excels in my opinion.


 
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