What's your knife's purpose?

Shotgun said:
Nice photo. What kind of knife is that?


PS If that's what you serve up while camping, got room for another?:D
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Thanks. It's ancestor to one of the below. Ground a bit differently from the off and with a different sheath, and now convexed by me. I have had it for many years and love it.

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I had that Arbolito for a while, it was a good knife, but the blade was too wide for my tastes. So I traded it off.

I've had my woodjewel for a couple of years, and I've been carrying it pretty frequently since I got it. I would guess maybe 60 or 70% at least. The balance is a mora #1 or 510. I've also carried an Opinel #7 as a utility knife quite a bit in addition to the belt knife.

Most of my tasks are making feather sticks, and carving spoons. I also carve tool handles, trim saw cuts, etc. Whatever needs cutting. I rounded off the spine because I frequently use a grip where sharp corners aggravate my finger, and it's much more comfortable now. I figure if I really manage to end up with a firesteel, having lost the dedicated striker I keep tethered to it, I can just use a rock.

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My primary knife, and my moras, all work great for the tasks I typically undertake.
 
Well to be perfectly honest and break it down, it should go roughly like this. I have folders that range from pretty dandy to fairly common. I generally switch out wearing different folders now and then for daily carry. I tend to peel potatoes etc. with an Endura or some such just because I like to use\handle the knives. My bigger stuff, 5-9 inch FB's are 90% for bush use and 10% self defense. Self defense as in a wild animal. I am fully cognizant that animal attacks are rare, but they do happen and I sold off all my firearms years ago. I simply feel safer in the bush packing SOMETHING, even if it's just a hawk. I am in the Boreal forest and bears, Coyote are common, Cougars, wolves less so, but are sighted now and then. We have had blackies walk into town and close schools down until trapped out. The odds are low of any attack, but I don't stand under trees during a lightning storm either. I have also been metal detecting in the bush as I often do, and run into groups of party drunks (and quietly go around them out of sight). Out here you generally don't want to party with the locals as it often gets violent. I keep my eyes\ears open, pack a decent sized FB, mind my own bees wax and life is good. I fish, hunt, camp, metal detect and just walk the woods some days. It enriches my day and fills my spirit with peace\serenity that I lose in town. My cutting tools tend to be utilitarian as opposed to pretty safe queens, but I can also appreciate fine craftsmanship and respect an aesthetically beautiful knife, that goes unused.
 
I have to slice a lot of cheese when I'm out in the bush and that calls for a real mans knife. Nothing less than 1/3" stock, saber ground blades with a full tang will do for me. You never know when the chips are down and you will have a tough piece of cheese that needs slicing. That's not a time you want your knife to break.

...But seriously, I use my mora for batoning, making pegs, a lot of food prep and a fair bit of carving.
 
I'm probably more picky about kitchen knives than outdoors. There, I'm usually using either a very slim parer, a 6" or 8" chef, or a Japanese vegetable knife. None of those are great in the woods, but they'd all be better than nothing in a pinch.

Outdoors, any well-made ~4" fixed blade with good (but not too thick) blade geometry will work. I strongly prefer one of a handful of convex Bark Rivers, but unlike in the kitchen, outdoors I'm more concerned about its durability and suitability for multiple purposes. In the kitchen, fitness for the chosen purpose is most important.
 
beef said:
I have to slice a lot of cheese when I'm out in the bush and that calls for a real mans knife. Nothing less than 1/3" stock, saber ground blades with a full tang will do for me. You never know when the chips are down and you will have a tough piece of cheese that needs slicing. That's not a time you want your knife to break.

...But seriously, I use my mora for batoning, making pegs, a lot of food prep and a fair bit of carving.
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Hey man, cutting the cheese in the woods is no joke.
It's a developed art that takes many years of practice to perfect!
 
my knife's purpose is to prep food, make fires and clean small game/fish- all in the lightest possible package- thus far the Fallkniven WM1 has filled that role pretty well

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general bushcrafting tasks and whittling, and my EDC for opening packs of chips, and so on :D Plus great to have a knife and a branch if you dont have corkscrew , you just push the cork in :D ( came in really handy one time)
 
I mostly use my knives for preparing fires. That is followed by food prep and the mundane tasks of setting up a campsite.

Since virtually any knife of any quality is suitable for such things, another purpose for my knives - which is not to be underestimated - is to please me aesthetically.
 
Its a lucky man that can narrow it down to 3. I am constantly on that search. The perfect combo has eluded me. There is always something new that I think is it but alas, the search continues. I have owned several choppers but always kept this Basic 9 for some reason. Here are some of my current choices depending on what I am doing. Some show more use than others but none are safe queens. I would love to find a 3 knife combo in different lenghts but with the same style, color combo, and handle material. I thought it was going to be the Busse SAR line but didn't care for the 4" version. Still looking!

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I cannot believe no one has mentioned zombie deanimation. :confused:

I've moved toward 3" to 4" thinner blades lately as they are most efficient at slicing zombie jugular.
 
Guyon said:
I cannot believe no one has mentioned zombie deanimation. :confused:

I've moved toward 3" to 4" thinner blades lately as they are most efficient at slicing zombie jugular.
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Zombie deanimation? dude, I carry my longbow for that, dont want to let them get close.
 
Wait... is this thread about my "special purpose"? :D

Seriously... more often than not, just general camp duty and that usage can be minimal. I may have backpacking trips where it's little more than cutting a piece of paracord. With a combination of catalyst, fatwood, and small twigs/branches, I may not even use a knife for fire prep. If I'm carrying Mountain House freeze dried, I don't need a knife for food prep. Oftentimes, when hiking or backpacking, I'm carrying a knife more for piece of mind than anything else. That dynamic is quite different on a hunting or fishing trip, where I hope and expect to use a knife.
 
OK, i'll bite.

1) CS Trailmaster - for "big" bush-crafty tasks
2) Buck Paklite Skinner - food prep and smaller bush-crafty tasks
3) Leatherman Wave - for all the rest
4) CS American Lawman - 'cause it'll be my EDC and will use it for general-purpose stuff
 
to help me survive through the gates of hell and whatever else comes my way!!!!! including oak trees =)








okay thats all bs. mainly its really to prepare food, gut fish, and for personal enjoyment( maybe shelter)
 
i usually use mine to scare people i mug....



JK...i use most of my knives for box cutting, plant trimming, and kitchen duty....as well as bushcrafty type things.
 
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