How many carry non PC or HC knives......

[Art Caputo]

Bottom knife was made from an old file. Usually carry the top knife for patch cutting and dressing game.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

If you can tell by sight a blade was forged, it will also tell you it was poorly done, unless it in such a style that it could not have made otherwise.

Indeed.
I have had a couple hand forged 'hawks, and one was I believe deliberately made to show trace hammer marks to give it that "look", as was I think my small skinning knife, but alas that's with a modern market where a lot of the buyers don't know how the tools really should appear, eh? So the buyers want something to look "hand forged".

I have also found with expensive knives, that they tend to walk away from me. No, not somebody else doing a five-finger-discount, but they simply get lost. I stopped buying them a few years into my living history path, because it became too costly, and I hope whomever found each of them in the woods was happy to have found a "treasure". My inexpensive but quite serviceable factory carbon steel knives with reworked handles and sometimes a reworked blade have been with me for many years for all sorts of adventures. After all that real application, they are looking pretty "aged", but they are in good condition.

LD

 

[Eterry]

Years ago an artist friend gave my dad a hand forged knife with an elk handle. Dad kept it, like all his knives razor sharp. I think he dressed one deer with it just to say he did. He preferred his Buck 110, which was his daily carry in his right front pocket, a large tractor trailer tire weight rode in his left front pocket. He was not to be trifled with.

About 15 years ago I read an article on the Best Skinning knife ever made, according to the author. It was the Grohman Canadian Belt Knife. I tracked one down and it was being made by Russel.

I thought it was a bit much for a rookie cop, but mentioned it to the wife. That Christmas under the tree was a small box, which I still have.

The knife took a razor edge using an Arkansas stone, and is kept in shape during the season with a pocket diamond hone.

Twice the leather sheath has caught the attention of house dogs, and it shows it. But the knife will dress, skin and quarter almost an entire large Texas Buck (around 100 pounds of meat and bones) without losing its edge.

THAT'S why it's my hunting knife.
I have over 25 knives, this is the one I won't go hunting without. PC/HC, I dont care. It works and that's all that

matters to me.

 

[Ben Meyer]

Ive yet to go hunting in all out period correct gear. Mainly because I dont have the attire and I really don't see myself walking miles where I hunt in any kind of moccasins. But if I did, id use my PC knife.

I have at least 30 knives, and this may be blasphemy but, I REALLY prefer my Havalon Piranta for gutting and skinning. Its orange, has replaceable blades, is as UN traditional as a knife can be. But it kicks butt!

 

[Runewolf1973]

I try to make both historically correct (as close as I can at least) and also non-historically correct knives with an old world appeal. I know everyone has their own style/preference, so my aim is to accomodate that.

 

[Gypsybladesmith]

I try to make both historically correct (as close as I can at least) and also non-historically correct knives with an old world appeal. I know everyone has their own style/preference, so my aim is to accomodate that."



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