You live in an Arid climate....

[sevenedges]

And you only get one knife for the rest of your life. Sure you can always carry a folder but what about the times that you are in the bush and need a little something more?
What do you do? carry a small fixed blade all the time or a folder into the bush? I personally would choose a chris reeve shadow iv. or project 1 or maybe even a busse steel heart. what would you do? scenario #2 Think about you living and depending on your knife. Say one day you decided you've had enough with this modern world and you were going head on to the montana wilderness. by your self. There will be no one to bail you out and you will be hundreds of miles from home. obviosly a knife alone is not going to make you win or fail but what would you have with you? This is road I might soon choose. Later, jeff

 

[Climber]

Greetings! 1st, Re: #2...
This is a scenario some of us "knifers" (or knife-users) often contemplate. Been looking for thirty years to the answer to that question: so far, my answer is not one, but three: small, mid-size, & large. Forest survival would require excellent upkeep on your bladeS + U wouldn't want to be completely helpless if you were without your "one knife!"
Just acquired a Busse Steel Heart: truly a treasure, worthy of the "one-knife" award. But: Still good to have a smaller blade for finer work. i carry a thin-bladed-seriously sharp cutter & a thicker knife for general use which might include prying. Currently experimenting with "what really works in the forest / without hype". Been carrying a Boye Dendritic Basic #3 for well over a decade: since the eighties when they first came out; it doesn't do everything WELL, but it can DO everything... i Put a leather under-wrap & a black-cord overwrap on it 4 security/comfort.
Bouncing b'twn my Busse #3 (hard to sharpen) & my Ka-bar-1095 steel 3.25" hunter- (easy to sharpen to SCARY-SHARP

) for a small knife: food prep, snare-making, etc. Tom Brown Jr. forest-survived for a year with a Buck folding knife; he also did so 4 longer with a knife of his own making: fixed-blade, "midsize."
Perfection will be found only when harnessed Energy (light-saber knives) take the place of Matter, which can & will always dull.
Until then, may U carve your niche with what you've been given, & learn to survive all the challenges Life throws at you, forested or urban...

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Clif

"Percival... I never knew how empty was my soul until it was filled."
Arthur the King upon sipping from the Grail.


[This message has been edited by Climber (edited 05-21-2001).]

 

[lambertiana]

#2 -

You would contemplate heading for the mountains with only one knife? I don't even do that in town. I would take a small one for fine work, a medium sized one for general chores, and a large blade for heavy duty work, although this could be replaced with a hatchet.

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Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu - R.J.E. Clausius

 

[Darkjedi]

I second the hope that some day man will be able to make a lightsaber for all of us knife nuts, but till then my first choice would be my Basic #9. I have taken it on many camping trips and it has always made my life easier in the wild. I abused it to the point that other knives would kill themselves, but the Busse just smiled and said "BRING IT ON WIMP!"

Darkjedi - "May the Busse, be with you."