View Full Version : New Folder Advice?
sandbender
16-01-2005, 20:01
I'd like to purchase a new folding knife, something to use alongside my AW woodlore. Ideally I'd like a folding version of the AW, but sadly he doesn't make one.
What does everybody use/recommend? and is there someone producing a folder with a flat grind?
I can highly recommend Doug Ritter's RSK! :biggthump
I use a spyderco calypso jr. A light, flat grid knife that takes a good edge and holds it
Think about the spyderco para military, the original and much larger military, and perhaps the manix. The military is a classic flat grind. For a VERY strong knife, something like the chinook is a massively engineered lockback but the blade shape is more specialist.
Benchmade AFCK or the McHenry Williams model axis locks ? - good but not flat grind.
At the other end, how about an EKA folder - thin but nice blade, wooden handled lockbacks suggest bushcraft rather than military / LEO by their appearance.
Cheers.
Rhapsody
16-01-2005, 21:10
I remember once seeing a Gerber Gator with a drop-point blade that looked as good a folder as any for Bushcraft, but I have no idea what the grind was on that thing.
Svord folder? Not a flat grind but it will certainly slice (being convex)...
I remember once seeing a Gerber Gator with a drop-point blade that looked as good a folder as any for Bushcraft, but I have no idea what the grind was on that thing.
I like the Gerber Gator, I had one for a long time, a very good knife, I also like the Normark Super Swede which is also very good for the money.
In the end though in a lot of ways you would be hard pressed to beat an Opinel (which they now do as a drop point).
Ah, thats the one, should've thought of it. Opinel is what i'd recomend...absolutely superb knives...
I think you'd be hard pressed to beat an Opinel in terms of value for money, edge and ease of sharpening. That said, I also have a clip-point Fox (again an excellent edge) but my current favourite is a 16 year old EKA to which Shing fitted a replacement blade in O1 steel. None have a blade larger than 2.5 inches and fit comfortably in the trouser pocket for 000's of light tasks. Anything heavy use your fixed blade or it's pointless having it IMO.
MagiKelly
17-01-2005, 09:55
I think this is what you are looking for. It is very like a folding woodlore. See this thread (http://www.bushcraftuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=3749&highlight=bushman) or go to the website of BushmanUK at http://www.bushmanuk.co.uk and look up Folding Bushman.
Opinel.
Great knife. Safe. Tough as old boots. Very reliable. Durable. The praise goes on.
what about bushmanuk's hideaway bushcraft folder? (do a search)
thats probably as close to a folding woodlore as you will get!
MagiKelly
17-01-2005, 12:50
what about bushmanuk's hideaway bushcraft folder? (do a search)
thats probably as close to a folding woodlore as you will get!
Like the one I mentioned two posts up :wink:
Benchmade AFCK or the McHenry Williams model axis locks ? - good but not flat grind.
?? Thought they were. My old AFCK and my 705 are.
if money is no object I would agree with hoodoo the Doug Ritter RSK is the best folding knife I have ever seen
I'd have to say the Al Mar SERE 2000 - rugged, bombproof, easy to maintain, keeps an excellent edge.
bambodoggy
17-01-2005, 13:24
I've got two or three Spyderco's and think they are very good but I have to be totally honest that if there's one knife I use more than any other....can legally carry almost anywhere and always slip into my pocket before I go out...even just to walk the dog (did it yesterday with the wife in the woods...) it has to be the British Army Issue Clasp knife.
Mine's had the black plastic handle removed and is the model without that massive marlin spike on it....has the tin opener that looks like a fork instead.
The blade has been reground to be flatter (they are fairly flat to begin with) and I simply can't fault it or for that matter break it!
I've got two or three Spyderco's and think they are very good but I have to be totally honest that if there's one knife I use more than any other....can legally carry almost anywhere and always slip into my pocket before I go out...even just to walk the dog (did it yesterday with the wife in the woods...) it has to be the British Army Issue Clasp knife.
Mine's had the black plastic handle removed and is the model without that massive marlin spike on it....has the tin opener that looks like a fork instread.
The blade has been reground to be flatter (they are fairly flat to begin with) and I simply can't fault it or for that matter break it!
Good blades those. Very robust and cheap too!
bambodoggy
17-01-2005, 13:35
Indeed...picked mine up from a car boot sale for 50p and to say they are bombproof doesn't come close!!!
No doubt somebody on here has but I've never met anyone who's managed to break one :o):
I had my grandad's old issue one while in cubs and scouts but lost it in a river crossing....I was gutted but then I should have had it tied on :roll: live and learn :wink:
I found one buried in the garden ... no idea how long it had been there but some WD40 got it going again.
Yeah, someone's probably broken one but then again I know some people who could break iron bars!
I've seen em broken, Goodness knows what they did with it. I'm not all that keen on them myself but they do have their place. Some makers are better then others though.
The Rodgers ones don't seem up to much, maybe the adams ones are a bit better but I'm not sure
Like the one I mentioned two posts up :wink:
yup thats the one :rolmao:
I thought i'd give you some experience of an opinel i own...
I went away for a weekend new year 2003-4. The company i had really wasn't great, i won't say who it was...:wink: But thats not the point, this is how i got onto my story of the opinel...
I got a medium log, the fire-type...and carved...and carved...and carved...and carved...until it was the size of a golf tee. I can say, that this was a far greater challenge than the opinel should have been faced with, but it coped, very well.
A few strokes across a steel and it was sharp. It wasn't razor as i didn't know how to get a razor edge then (i hadn't found BCUK or BB ;) ).
It was boring, but as you can imagine, better than the converstation :shock:
:biggthump
What you need is a Tønne Kniv (http://forums.outdoors-magazine.com/viewtopic.php?t=2383).
It's probably the most secure folding knife I've seen and a great find by Senad.
sandbender
17-01-2005, 18:48
Thanks everybody, I'm tabbing and googling as I write this...
Lots of ideas here and quite a few names I had not considered or even heard of.
Thanks again.
The company i had really wasn't great, i won't say who it was...:wink:
I don't think Andy snogs on a first date Jake, it probably wasn't your fault.
:nono:
Danzo
mojofilter
18-01-2005, 05:28
I don't think Andy snogs on a first date Jake, it probably wasn't your fault.
:nono:
Danzo
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