Knife/Survival Knife Info.

[Catfish]

What are you talking about? That's not what I meant! Hang on, let me go see what I wrote. Oh.

[davef]

I'm new to this forum, and thought I'd show my little collection.

My collection
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In addition to these, I have a fold down Swede Saw.

At the top is my new $9.00 Fiskars
Left hand side:

• Swamp Rat Ratweiler
• Sog Daggert II
• Fallkniven A1
• Rat Tak D2
• Koster Bushcraft
• Golok Petok
• Benchmade 710 D2
• Leatherman

Middle:

• Schrade Little Finger
• Leatherman Charge

Right Side:

• Becker BK9
• Swamp Rat Ratmandu
• Scrapyard S6
• Scrapyard DMDC
• Koster Nessmuk
• Nick Allen NWA 5"
• Busse Active Duty
• Swamprat Hairy Carry
• Spyderco Gunting
• Spyderco Delica

[Rick]

Hey, you're all right. I'll take the Rat. You don't have to wrap it or anything just drop it in a box. And thanks!!!

[crashdive123]

Nice collection. Thanks for letting us take a look.

[davef]

My every day carry knife alternates between the BM710 and the Spyderco
Delica with the Leatherman c303 in there sometimes.
(The green handled knife is a Bram Frank Lapu Lapu Corto)

• Leatherman Charge (top)
• Benchmade 710 (middle left)
• Leatherman c303 (bottom right)
• Spyderco Delica (bottom left

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What I use the most:

• Becker BK9 (top right)
• Scrapyard Scrapper 6 (top left under Fiskars)
• Koster Bushcraft (3rd down on right)
• Leatherman Charge
• Nick Allen NWA 5" (under the Leatherman Charge)

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[flandersander]

I was thinking of getting some woodworking knives. Anybody have some? I was thinking "crooked" knife. Not sure if thats what its called, but its for carving out the concave in something like a bowl. Anybody reccomend a good set?

[Proud American]

Just in case anybody bought one of these back in the 1980's I apologize in advance for laughing. I don't recall ever seeing the commercial on TV, but was LMAO when I saw the You Tube vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gj9CMvwfv4

O that was Priceless the "best selling knife we ever sold"

O I have a knife blog so if you want somthin to be put on there or want to look at it. This is just a remminder that its there.

[Deer Sniper]

Depends on my wardrobe. I try to act toward knives the way a lot of women do with their shoes, one for whatever outfit I happen to have on. Since about 95% of the time that involves jeans or khakis, it ain't that tough, but one should maintain a fashion sense. Takes me a longer time to get ready when I'm leaving the house in the morning because I'll narrow it down to about a half dozen, but then it's like ....decisions decisions....what to do...

Oh thank God im not the only one!!!!!

[RangerXanatos]

Wow! You have a little fortune right there in steel.

[Gray Wolf]

Nice collection Dave!

[davef]

Thanks for the comments everyone.
Lots of research went into the collecting. I learned early on, to ask
questions, and to listen to the advice of those who know.
That and being lucky to get some good deals has allowed me to score some
good knives.

Now, I have to figure out which ones to put into my kit.
I've been trying to go by the rule of 3's, but when it comes to knives, it's
pretty difficult. I like them all, too much

In addition to the collection of knifes, I've got one of those break down
Swede Saws to add into the mix somewhere.

For the kit I'm putting together, I'm thinking:
Saw (the breakdown Swede, or a folding Buck or Gerbers pruning type saw)
Chopper (Hatchet or Chopping knife)
Medium size knife (General duty)
Small knife and/or Leatherman

Being new to this, any and all suggestions are welcome.
Critique and commentary will get a guaranteed read.

I'm going to be posting pictures of my kit, such as it is, in a separate post,
sometime this weekend for everyone to check out and give suggestions on.

Thanks again for the comments on my small knife collection.

Cheers.
Dave

[crashdive123]

As far as which to chose to put in your kit - just remember that the knives are tools (it's been said elsewhere and many times). Choose the right tools for the jobs that you may need to do out of your kit (sounds like that's what you're doing).

[Ole WV Coot]

Koster Nessmuk without a doubt. Just my personal opinion but you wouldn't believe the uses and punishment mine take. I don't plan on chopping with one, have other things for that.

[Atomic]

I carry a lighter and a pocket knife with me at all times. Just a "what if" kind of thing mostly but they are both still tools I do use a lot. Anyway if I were going out in the woods for a camping trip or just to test my skills I'd take that and a larger fixed blade. It's just smart.

The real question is: Machete or hatchet? I say a machete is very useful and could be used to take down small trees or cut up fallen wood for fire but since we already have a large fixed blade a hatchet would be better. Hammer on one end and bone breaking tree cutting blade on the other.

[danmc]

I carry a lighter and a pocket knife with me at all times.

I almost always carry a pocket knife with me. A big exception is if I visit a school where there are often times zero tolerance "do not pass go, go directly to jail for a long time" laws in place. Wonder how many folks have violated that by leaving some fishing stuff with a fillet knife as part of it in the trunk.

[RobertRogers]

Ask 1000 guys about knives and expect 2000 answers. Likely more.

[Blood Groove]

IMO you can get just about the same ammout of cutting power with a good kukri as you can witha machete. PLus they're smaller and fit on your belt. There wicked effective, and you really get a deep appreciation for them when you read about their history. FOr a chopper I'll almost always recommend a kukri, but that's just because they've worked so well for me. I'm getting a new one from Nepal, but it takes FOREVER to ship it.

[SurvivalkitsUSA]

There sure are a lot of post here, but I will have to say, CRKT is the Best! I love to collect them. I want to get as many as I can.

[Blood Groove]

CRKT seems to make good knives. I've been looking at the First Strike for a long time. I like the Japanese style they use, I'm just not too sure about the steel. I'ts 440 A. I've read some negative stuff about that steel, but I have to think that if they used it in that knife it'd have to work well. I don't acatually won one of their knives though.

[HaroldB]

A knife for survival means your life, buy the BEST you can afford. Benchmade, RAT survival or Falkniven all make great sheath knives.

A smaller super-sharp folder is very useful, like Spyderco's Caly Jr or Sage too.