You got me, Vic.

Please publish the recipe for Hush Grapies.

Or should that be Grape Puppies?

I could live with 3 really good production knives, in an elevator, taxicab, or while wearing a parachute. Oh, wait, you meant only HAVE 3? uhm.. like, I was traveling.. out and about in the great north woods or where ever.. 3. Hmph.

Yeah, 3 is doable, 4" folder, 5.5" utility, 10" semi-chopper. BUT..

I'm a hatchet guy and a bowsaw guy, and treasure both of 'em. And by hatchet I mean 'half-axe', 1.5 lb head and 19-20" handle, and my bow saw is a 30" bow saw with a Sandvik blade on it, sharpened with a triangular ceramic stick. Which is a lot more discreet than a chopper, suppose you like to cut firewood the first hour after sun up.

The hatchet has been more useful less often, basically cutting tee pee poles, driving wedges and pegs, kindling sometimes. Knives cut. They aren't best to pry, chop, hammer, chisel, or play the fiddle. They are best to cut. Cutting is what they're good at.. and if they don't, won't or can't, they oughta be called something else.

Given the fact of todays quality steel, and tools to work it, the vast majority of commercial knives can be induced to cut something.. only the rarest trash nowdays is so bad it's comparable to the pretend-buck lockback pakistani junkers.. even CHEAP knives will actually take an edge for a little while. So, GOOD knives are a lot better than they've ever been in history. Amazing quality is possible, and then some..

I've got a folding Case XX 4" blade 'Big Coke Bottle' style knife i've carried now for almost 20 years. Off and on, but it's a regular. It's a 70's version, has been in semi-regular use for at least 30 years. It's not hurt. It'll walk and talk, pick a splinter or dress out small game or shave your face if you want to bother to strop it. That's a quality of manufacture I'd not expect, then or now. Lifetime good.. and nothing special for steel, just got a good batch and a perfect heat treat on that CV ..

Heck yes you could get by with 3, and wouldn't it be LOTS of fun picking 'em out.. take me months, it would. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I'm already drooling on myself at the prospect of having to fondle dozens of good blades and compare them directly. That was what you meant, right?

Mitch - Howdy and Welcome to the ScrapYard! Glad to see you wander over here from GlockTalk S&P - another great forum! Feel free to share your wit and wisdom, and get ready for some great knives!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Tom

Hi Mitch, welcome to the Yard. I'm sure when you get your hands on a Bussekin knive you will see/feel the difference.

Welcome to the Yard! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Yeah that's not too hard. ATM I'm doing just that. 338, 7mm-08 & .22.

After thinking about it some. ATM it goes like this for me.
I always carry 2 knives in my pack & one on my hip. So = S6, FAT GW(with my YKLE & MFS sharing. Depending what mood I'm in, & the task in hand). And my SnG.

Welcome Mitch and great post. So your from Glocktalk ,then you should definitly check out our Gecko 45 thread.

I noticed that a lot of people have been neglecting a good kitchen knife when really that is the most important knife of the set because you use it the most.
I bet lots of people here have several good folders a dozen choppers and camp knives and use a 5$ chinese knife to prepare food every day. The women in my family used to be terrible for paying 300$ for a pair of shoes they used twice a year for 5 years but would not pay more than 10$ for a kitchen knife they used every day for 40 years. I ended up buying them all good kitchen knives for XMass etc.

Now they are true believers though. Having a nice knife makes cooking much less of a chore and much more like playing with a nice knife.

If I had to pick 1 nice knife and could only have cheap 5$ knives for everything else I would get a first rate kitchen knife because it can do pretty much everything. It is certainly a heck of a lot nicer to take camping than a camp knife is to make dinner.

My friend actually only has 2 good knives matched set of a small Henkels pearing knife and their chefs knife and he gets by quite fine. They are the really nice double guy Henkels though. The pearing knife would even make a good EDC with a nice sheath and I have been lusting after his big one for a while now.

I can't believe I just said "I have been lusting after his big one for a while now"<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

welcome mitch,

now that nulear fbm could cause some big trouble in the home and I mean big! but the size of that infi is wearing me down and i might buy it.

I have one and it's one of my favorites. It's a 8" blade chefs knife. With the double guys on it. It says made in Spain. If you ping it with your fingernail, it rings like a bell. And I only paid $.79 for it at Goodwill...hehehe.

Welcome Mitch.

Someone read through this thread and now wants a set of Shun Pro kitchen knives. Problem is that someone does not cook and what someone does know how to whip up tastes...gulp...awful <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> .

You're a brave or maybe foolish man to wave blackmail material like that around on a public forum. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />