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Eat Your Heart Out Bear Grylls

Knife Forums, after a year of deliberation and testing of various prototypes have announced their Hunting & Camping Knife 2009…First run is for only 50 knives for a blade 3.9 inches of A2 steel @ 58rc .140 thick and comes with a Brown Bushcraft Style leather pouch with a Firesteel Loop and choice of handle materials: Black Canvas Micarta, Green Canvas Micarta, Natural Canvas Micarta, Blaze Orange G-109 or Antique Ivory Micarta...Overall Length is 8.6 Inches and weighs 5 oz.


Knife Forum H & C Knife 2009 4”


Knife Forum H & C Knife 2009 Sheath

It can be obtained direct from them at this link:
http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showt ... id/840962/

Oh, I forgot to mention the price!
$169.00 + $15.00 shipping CONUS $20.00 elsewhere

Also the knife is made for them by Mike Stewart of Bark River Knife and Tools (BRK&T) and comes with a lifetime guarantee that they back up…I’ve just started collecting Bark River knives and they are well made, sturdy, priced very well, excellent steels (A2 & O1) and offer choice of handle materials for all knives in some cases 30+ different scales from moose or sheep, micarta or ironwood etc. and offered in around 60 models…

That’s right, $169.95 for a Bark River, limited edition, all-a-round knife… Eat Your Heart Out Bear Grylls

Bark River Knives are excellent. I have a bunch. In fact I sold off most other knives including Cold Steel Trailmasters to buy more Bark River knives.

Mike Stewart (head of Bark River) has been making knives in the industry for years and years. He knows knives. He has made knives for some of the big names including Blackjack and Ek.

Oops, minor error on my part:

Here are the Specs:

Overall Length: 8.6 Inches
Blade Length: 3.9 Inches - - - - not 4"
Blade Steel: A-2 @ 58rc
Blade Thickness: .140 Inch - - - not .170
weight: 5 Ounces

Each One comes with a Brown Bushcraft Style pouch with a Firesteel Loop.

Those came from the prototype Nbr.3 that was in the original design thread...

Chris, at least they didn't half & half the blade with serrations—serrate the spine not the belly, but if it was ½" or 1" longer the price would go up considerably...Actually. I like my working blades no bigger the 3.75" but of thicker stock and if I was designing it as a one blade do everything knife then I would go up to 4.5" but then it is going into the realms of the now "Tactical/Survival" (Damn but I hate that term as they’re totally different) and this wasn't designed for that but as an everyday carry, does everything relatively well and is economical Hiking & Camping knife...

Then again my two favourite one blade knives are my Bob Dozier (I’m kinda partial to his work, 14 now) Pro Guide KS-3 Knife (D2 4¾" at 60-61 Rc. .170) which I've had for years and the Wilderness KS-7 Knife (D2 5" but at .200) that I just got a couple of years ago...Can’t decide which I like best!

CByrneIV wrote:I should note, my palm is about 4.5" across, I have an almost 7" fistmele, a 9" keyspan, and 8.5" from wrist crease to middle finger tip.

A 4.5" to 5.5" blade and 5" hilt work out just about right to me.

I have trouble getting gloves and tools to fit as I've also got large hands...My crease to tip is 7.6" (cause I've got stubby fingers), palm width is 4.2", from thumb pad to pinkie pad (Keyspan?) is 9.5" and I don't know what a fistmele is...Which is why I like the Dozier's as they usually have longer then normal (for blade size) handles.

I have to write with big, fat pens as they're the only ones that feel comfortable to write with...It also doesn't help that every finger on both hands have been broken twice, one thumb three times and the other four as well as the fist knuckles twice for both hands...bit of a rounder in my youth and played football, baseball, basketball and lots of lacrosse but couldn't skate worth shit to play ice hockey, except street style...

Had trouble finding a blade when I fenced foil or epee so I gravitated toward the sabre for its bigger grip and then to broadsword and katanas which I wish I had studied far more of but family and work curtailed it…I’ll be getting back into Japanese Archery and probably a little kendo sword play after my forthcoming repeat stomach surgery….

I was taught this ditty by a great uncle:
Big hands, big handles
Big blades, big mistakes
(meaning that more errors—skin piercing or meat damage would occur)
Little blades is what it takes…

He’d skin out a deer with a 2½” clip blade on his Case folder…

Speaking of Mr. Grylls, his new episode shows on Discovery tonight at 10pm. So he can tells us exactly what's going to get us killed/maimed/impaled, then show us exactly how to do it.

If you want a utilitarian and affordable camp knife you can't beat one of these from Cold steel.
I bought several and I throw them in every toolbox and bag I own for outdoors. At this price if you lose one so what. They have a flat grind simple handle and the blade design is superb.

Cheaper than Dirt has them for 11.00 a piece. Certainly they are not in the same league as the beauty that Seekher posted but they are great little knives.

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/48440-1.html#Reviews