Stuart Mitchell "Survival Knife" Prototype (Pic Heavy)

[Stuart Mitchell]

Cheers Jon, very interesting, thank you....

Now we know that the opposite of what you like is something you wouldn't like

[MeetTheGeeks]

Send it here for some testing

[Stuart Mitchell]

Send it here for some testing

I have even taught my 4 year old to say please....

[MeetTheGeeks]

Sorry daddy..


If you would like to send it here for some testing Im more than happy to help out. Ive got a few odd weekends free so can give it my time no problems. If you would like some additional feedback it would be a pleasure. Please send it here

[JonathanD]

Hehehe. I do like the knife. I just need more bulk at the choil area to allow me to grip it firmly there. I didn't dislike that part of the knife design, It just wasn't comfortable for me after coming from prolonged use of a much thicker handle.

As you know, I really wanted to test the knife out to its limits, but that wasn't possible, so I had to do some other stuff with it. Not what I'd really be using a survival knife for to be honest. It performed all tasks perfectly and very well, but it was fine work, so the grip became more imortant to me while I was sitting in comfort on a sunny bank one hot afternoon. No doubt it would have been less of an issue had I been using the knife in the extreme. But that lanyard hole crippled me. I should have taken pics of that. I think it needs to be half the width and bevelled/ highly polished, to stop it abrading the fleshy part of the palm.

[Stuart Mitchell]

Sorry daddy..


If you would like to send it here for some testing Im more than happy to help out. Ive got a few odd weekends free so can give it my time no problems. If you would like some additional feedback it would be a pleasure. Please send it here

See, better, and you even feel better don't you, go on, admit it.....

I'll let you know, thank you

[Jayex]

Beautiful work Stu,

much more geared towards my younger taste. I prefer modern looking knives. Love the orange liner, looks great with that handle, but would also look great with a thinner more symmetrical handle with a normal choil.

Do tell me, if I wanted that knife how much would it cost me? Beautiful indeed.

[Stuart Mitchell]

Beautiful work Stu,

much more geared towards my younger taste. I prefer modern looking knives. Love the orange liner, looks great with that handle, but would also look great with a thinner more symmetrical handle with a normal choil.

Do tell me, if I wanted that knife how much would it cost me? Beautiful indeed.

Thank you...

As in that very one? Sorry, that knife is spoken for mate, hence the reason I can't commit to new testers etc, it's not mine any longer....

[Jayex]

Not that very one buddy,

just one like it. Curious to see if one day I could afford it.

Thank you...

As in that very one? Sorry, that knife is spoken for mate, hence the reason I can't commit to new testers etc, it's not mine any longer....

[Stuart Mitchell]

Not that very one buddy,

just one like it. Curious to see if one day I could afford it.

I sent you a pm moments ago...

[neil1970]

Great seeing a knife being used for what it was designed.
Lovely photos and great looking knife.

[essexmirage]

I'm really liking that, love the orange contrast and the way it can be lashed !

[Nightfly]

Good to read your impressions Jonathan. I own a Stu Mitchell knife with a very similar handle to the prototype, so I suppose you could say I am used to a handle like that and find it very comfortable.
Handle shape is ofcourse a very personal choice. The lashing tubes did not bother me, but it couldn't hurt to slightly recess them perhaps.
I too am looking forward to seeing the MkII version of this knife.

[Stuart Mitchell]

In the words of Highlander... "There can be only, ermmmm, two...!?"

[Winter]

I really like the looks of this knife. Being that my outdoor knives require a small handle for use with gloves, I think I'd get on quite well with it.