Yeah... the pink Izula really is HOT. :oops:
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Yeah... the pink Izula really is HOT. :oops:
I'm becoming partial to the tanto style blade. KaBar makes a nice tanto, actually they make a few tanto style blades. I'll think about it for a while, sleep on it but after some careful consideration, the tanto may be the way to go.
When I am hiking, it will be primarily point a to b, getting there with some stops for fishing prime spots. The overnight will be a minimal campist. I am carrying ultralight gear. Tarp style with a bug screen. A fire will be a great thing for me and I know I can get great service out of the tanto blade vs. Izula. I'm not looking for a hatchet and I know how to make a fire without chopping wood. The Izula is a blade, for cutting but will do service work well. The tanto style blade is, I believe, more servicable, light chopping and such. Because I am ultralight in the woods, the Izula fits more the bill what I want though. I want light and I only want to have a knife, I don't need a skeletool or a light hatchet.
When I think about it, the Izula fits the bill almost to the t but I really like tanto style blades.
I think it's a matter of having a knife along for cutting that is light and the Izula does that and is reviewed well.
Decisions decisions...
:D
While the Tanto is a tough blade for chopping and puncturing, it is, at its heart, a blade purpose-built to be a weapon for cutting/stabbing through light armor. For most field use (city use, too), we'd be better served with thin, flat-ground blades made for easy slicing. Early explorers/pioneers/settlers used thin knives that would look a lot like a modern kitchen knife--for skinning and cutting up game, for preparing food, for a backup weapon. For me, the modern answer is one of several Swiss Army knives, but there are other choices.
If I needed an edged weapon, it might very well be a tanto, but it would be a fixed blade, not a folder, which is too short for a great stabbing/slashing weapon and too stout for the slicing tasks at which folders excel. I've owned a lot of folders of various designs, and flat-ground blades are thinner and slice better without binding in the cut than hollow-ground blades, which are, by necessity and design, thicker than needed for the cutting task--pretty grinds, though. In other words, if a hollow-ground blade isn't getting hung up in the cut, the blade is broader than it needed to be to get the job done--a smaller, lighter tool would have done the same job better.
For light chopping, a lightweight, cheap, very effective alternative is a short machete. I've watched native workers in Central America do amazing things with short machetes that cost a fraction of most knives we consider minimum quality for field work (most of them carried SAK's for regular pocketknife work, btw).
-CC
I'm still a fan of gerbers good knife and affordable.
Like I said, I have knife issues...
This is what's in my pocket at this moment:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...sUSN_3_800.jpg
Today's choice... decided I wanted a fixed blade for the day, so the Mick Strider Custom SLCC went in... This one carries like it's not even there, thus the name Slim Line Concealed Carry...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...harpNov012.jpg
Of course, if anyone asks for a knife, I have a Case Canoe (KY Bluegrass Circle C) in the other pocket...
Basic, but it works.
http://www.swissarmy.com/images/Prod...51_sol_a03.jpg
This is my knife. My friend and scrimshaw knife maker Ulf made it for me and I keep it hanging in the fishing vest.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...ornhelrak1.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...Bjornnara1.jpg
The Leatherman Supertool is my "toolbox" and itīs always in my belt.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c..._Supertool.jpg
WOW Mats,That is one beautiful knife. Just stunning! :shock:
Will