lets see your bushcraft knife.

[ubermeister]

You can also get something similar here, Martin. In the States again though so you'd need to import one (or two )

Anthony

[spamel]

You can also get something similar here, Martin. In the States again though so you'd need to import one (or two )

Anthony

Changed my link for a UK supplier, didn't realise at first I'd posted a US link!

[ArkAngel]

Love those knives......

....and not a AW or WS Woodlore in sight....interesting!

[familne]

My favourites at the moment:

Greg Venters bushcrafter with moose antler & curly birch



Alan Wood RWL-34 bushcrafter with elk horn handle



and a Guycep bushcrafter with mallee burl

[zardoz]

I'm trying for a sort of nessie trinity theme here, although I don't own a Nessmuk yet.

GB carving axe (my absolute favourite axe, does everything, I even made a spoon with it! ok..... it was a very big spoon....), a Queen Cattleman, chosen because of the awl, nothing cleans fingernails better than an awl, and my very latest and proudest aquisition, a bushy from Mick. I'm forever bashing and mashing things with a knife's butt and the O2 pommel on this was just perfect for me.



I usually have one of these constantly around my neck if I'm in the trees as I don't like weeing in the dark without something to see off the monsters. Either Bison's Pocket Skinner or a remarkedly non-tactical Perrin.

[munkyman]

doe anyone else find it quite strange that most people's bushcraft knives are quite clean/shiny?- including mine ( with some exceptions )

[Bagheera]

Thanks Bagheera - What are LL Bean like to deal with? Shipping OK etc?

LLBean is OK to deal with, the best would be to have the pack send to a friend in the US who visits the UK or when someone from the UK visists the US have him/her take the pack back.

As I understand the UK customs will always tax you and probably not only over the pack value but also over the postage costs (this happens in the Netherlands )

I don't know what shipping to the UK might be but it could be $30 so you'll end up paying around $130 to LLBean and then the import/customs tax in the UK.

Right now I'm lloking for a Nessmuk pack from Frost River but it will be a lot less sofisticated then the LLBean.

Cheers,

Bagheera

[nick p]

doe anyone else find it quite strange that most people's bushcraft knives are quite clean/shiny?- including mine ( with some exceptions )

Just remember "patina" is just a posh name for rust!! It's place is on a crappy old car from the 70's.

Nick

[mojofilter]

Just remember "patina" is just a posh name for rust!! It's place is on a crappy old car from the 70's.

Nick

Or knives that actually get used.

[Fiskar]

Or knives that actually get used.

[nick p]

With the correct steel you don't get rust every time you slice up a mackeral.

Nick

[imagedude]

doe anyone else find it quite strange that most people's bushcraft knives are quite clean/shiny?- including mine ( with some exceptions )

Some don't seem to have been sharpened, perhaps some just belong to collectors.

[mojofilter]

With the correct steel you don't get rust every time you slice up a mackeral.

Nick

as long as you are careful no to hit the bone, because then, the 'correct steel' will usually chip....

[nick p]

Zackerty's 440F works a treat whether removing heads/gutting or just chopping them up for bait to catch biger stuff. My only complaint is he doesn't use stainless rivets in the sheath.





Sorry I just hate rust!!



Nick

[munkyman]

oh dear, look what i've done now