Theres a bad joke about razor blades in even badder kits being used to commit suicide with when all the cheap contents fail <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Obviously nobody is going to split firewood billets with a scalpel blade. But lets play 'what if. ' I have just crashed and all I have is the Ritter Kit my G/F gave me for Christmas (wink, wink-nudge,nudge) What will I use for fuel beyond those SPARKLITE tinders? Well lets get a small stick, split one end carefully with that blade and make an improvised handle either duct taping or lashing it secure. Now I can break off small pencil size branches, but to make a feather or fuzz stick this blade is JUST ENOUGH to get a squaw fire going to dry out and burn increasingly large bits of wood. Lets see, I didn't wear nearly enough clothing. There are upholstered seats in the wreckage. This little knife is JUST ENOUGH to carefully remove some panels to cut into mukluks and a rain cape. Hey! theres a tree over there and if I carefully inscribe the bark I can get some decent sized panels to supplement my shelter, stitch up a pot for boiling water and making up a nourishing tea. Hey! theres a river nearby and I can trim this springy branch into a pole, attach my safety pin eyes and maybe land a trout or two. I'll need to groove a slot for my gill hook so I don't lose them during landing. Finally I cleanly gut them, saving the entrails in the bark basket to bait the deadfalls and snares I also built with my knife. It's getting dark now, I've got my shelter built with fine grooves to help secure my lashings. Think I'll keep my knife close at hand in case Bart smells those trout entrails <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />