The anatomy of the best bushcraft knife

Been over this, but I HATE "the BEST IS THE ONE YOU HAVE"...I mean, if the option is to do a task with NOTHING is the only option, you are usually better off using what you have to hand...

a big HOWEVER is "which "" is better" is a question for the Planning Phase, and a VIABLE question to be asking.

That said, you want to see some beat up blades to prove I am using them, I have plenty of those.

 

Still nothing wrong with a GR, and I still sell them for bushcraft blades.

I mean, I'd say the first bushcraft blade was a hand ax (Stone Age Hand-axes), but that is REALLY arguing semantics, no? HAHAHA.

My historical training throws a lot of hats into that ring, but the point I was trying to make is some things are better in certain AO and scenarios, and some things are just better for their general size/design (randal beats cold steel, cold steel beats a butter knife, butter knife beats a gas station special half the time). That is my opinion as a user, but I do get where you are trying to come from.

 

If you can't afford to loose it ,it's too expensive .
You've taken your favorite knife fishing in a boat , and during some anomaly the knife falls into the lake for a swim .
1.do you go after it ?
2. do you hire some one to go after it ?
3. does the event ruin your whole day./fishing trip and post the tragedy on SM ?
4.do you curse the event and grumble at the whole world after word?
5. do you look at the situation and say now that was dumb , I should have brought a different knife ?
6. Do you reach into your tackle box and get another knife and continue fishing ,not letting the loss bother you ?

Most knives I cary are good, but I can afford to loose them too, and ruin my day .
There are some I might feel bad about but not to lose my temper over . I always cary spares too .

 

This is a good point, when a knife becomes too expensive to use (to you), holds too much sentimental value to use it and potentially loose it then you should either retire it (yes I have knives which now hold great sentimental value so are now away), sell it or just accept it is not a practical tool anymore and be happy just owning it. I have knives in all the categories and am VERY happy doing so.

 

I can happily say that using a $150 knife as an impromptu ladder rung to climb a claybank is something I am happy to be comfortable with. Never understood paying hundreds of bucks permanently look at a knife. I mean, I've broken several hundred dollar swords and other blades...learned to get what I payed for, and how to get my monies worth. Most people ain;t worth a green river, much less a diving sparrow or a full custom.

 

Now I'm a bit of a newcomer here, but "The one you have with you at the time" sounds allot like a survival knife description. The original description that I found for a bushcraft knife was in chapter 3 KNIFECRAFT of Mors Kochanski's BUSH CRAFT. Using those guidelines, (and my preference for clip points) I chose the BK 17 over the BK 16. But isn't the best bush craft knife determined by each individual's own hand?