Paul810:

I don't know----------------what with my bad kness pulling out a gun because someone wants to fight me doesn't sound like a bad idea. At the very least I could shoot them in both knees so that it would be a fair fight. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Bountyhunter <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

IMHO, Michaelj, the biggest bang for the buck in Bark River knives are the "Woodland" and "Highland" Specials offered by AG.Russell for $55 and $60 respectively (plus $5.95 S&H). I'm not certain they are still in stock, though. HTH.

Adam, Yes, you missed it. It's on another forum under a thread titled "From Daydream to reality in 7 hours." The knife will be called the Mikro Slither and is still a few months away from production...

M

I do carry larger knives but I have no legal or work restrictions.

If I was in your shoes I would evaluate carefully the tools you ultimately choose. I have a HideAway also, but choose not to carry it at work as I think it is far less friendly than the larger knives I can and do carry. It is a very special purpose defense knife with some utility functions which is not the primary reason I carry any knife.

I can legally carry up to a 4" fixed blade, but tend to carry 2" or 3" blades max on my body.

My primary use is as a utility blade, opening boxes, bags, slicing fruit for lunch etc. So my choices are meant to serve that role and not appear to be a "weapon" or to be some sort of last ditch survival tool. Of course, some people think an Executive SAK is a "weapon".....they can sometimes be shown the utility of a decent knife....sometimes.

Your carry restrictions are somewhat rare and unusual I would think.

There are handmade bamboo scales capable of greater accuracy than most units short of digital. The traditional snowshoe lacing pattern produces @ 30% more elastic bounce than a standard tennis raquet.The finest lithic tools make cuts so fine they are now used in surgery with dramaticly reduced healing times. It is cultural hubris to think all of humanity somehow lived a grim existence before our enlightened age of microwave icecream and cutlery with fancy metallurgy. Depending solely on our technological arrogance leaves us open to fail, which we do with alarming regularity in hostile worlds people using bone and wood think of as their living room.

I know my problem is that I can buy the tech, but I rarely go outside. I wonder what the Ancients
would have done with our toys... in many cases our modern stuff is better, in quantifiable
ways, but we've long since forgotten how to use it properly.

Obviously 'traditional , primative' or whatever other clumsy and often prejudicially named people of the world embrace superior technology as eagerly as anyone else. My point is simple; people just do not wake up nude and shivering and decide to flake a knife, construct a bowdrill and hope a mastadon stumbles by for breakfast every day of their short, miserable lives. For anyone to do so is mere stunt, with the safety net of modern society to (hopefully) send a rescue helicopter when the 3 fires attract the attention of a satellite. It is no less a stunt to venture out with an overloaded backpack of wirling gizmos in imitation of an astonaut's space walk. There is a rational medium of basic kit and extensive knowledge, which includes the inspiration to pick up a shoulder blade, and with THUS SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA booming realise a skinning knife, bone saw, winch and body bag aren't neccessary to butcher the deer we just drove a grizzley off with our zippo <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Someone should go through ETS and collect your posts into one document. It'd make a great
"Notebooks of Lazarus Long" kinda thing. Well said, as always.

WOW just saw the thread - quite an interesting little scalpel.

Adam

what about the following small fixed blades:

Carson F4
from Columbia River
http://www.crkt.com/carsonf4.html

and

Street Scalpel from Tops Knives
http://www.topsknives.com/products/knives/scalpel.html

any opinions of how these compare with Bark River Knives?