Knife Chats Dec 1, 2024

[@bdh3949]

The blade shape on the new bullfrog is a very usable one for many shop tasks also. Great post today. I came in about half-way through and had to rerun the first half. Thanks again.

[@KnifeChatswithTobias]

SMKW/Rough Ryder has once again opted to call it a Cleaver Blade. I have a hard time accepting that name. I think is is just one of my many personal biases.

[@oldphartsknives]

My take on Bird & Trout knives. I got a Western 648 at age 13 ... It was the only knife I took to camp, fish, and hunt. It is about the size of a Bird & trout knife and has been used for everything I did including skinning deer. After I went into the Military my mother used it to cut up chickens in the kitchen. At 74 I still carry it when fishing. 1 knife all jobs!!!!!!

[@KnifeChatswithTobias]

I have a Western L48 Boy Scout knife which is very similar to the 648. It is just about the perfect knife for camping fishing. A little big for the typical B&T yet at the same time more versatile. Small, light weight and at around 8 inches over all, just very handy.

[@kevinx7015]

I was checking to see what is on the scales on the Victorinox.

[@rockets4kids]

31:12 That is a problem I see with nearly all modern knives sold as "bird and trout" knives. If the blade isn't too broad, it is too long or too thick. Or sometimes, all three. Finding a proper new bird and trout knife these days is surprisingly difficult.

[@KnifeChatswithTobias]

I will give Ontario credit for having a more useful Bird & Trout than the Gerber. It might just be a Kitchen Paring Knife, but it still makes a better B&T than the Gerber and several other so called Bird knives. I like small knives of all types. That Gerber would make a decent bait knife or small chore knife for the camp. It is not the first knife I would grab to process small game birds or trout.

[@richardmcginnis5344]

the smaller ka-bar knives are nice, but i noticed they are kabar not ka-bar, i tried to find out why the space isn't there and they were japan made in the late 70s

[@KnifeChatswithTobias]

I have heard similar accounts of this. Today's KA-BAR is not very forthcoming about the validity but I think you are correct. If not late 70s, then early 80s and made in Japan. The various owners of the KA-BAR Trademark have been all over the place with the way the name is displayed.

[@RobertAdams-wd6pt]

Just got my civili yonder yesterday the one designed by zak Whitmore

[@richardmcginnis5344]

i always wondered if the schrade sharp finger knives could be considered bird and trout knives, i know they're more like skinners but who knows?

[@KnifeChatswithTobias]

I think the Sharpfinger could be used to process small birds and fish but I would still consider it a more general purpose skinner. By that I mean, I think Skinning a deer or with a Sharpfinger would be much easier than using That little Ka-Bar. But I also think a person who skilled with the knife on his hip, will find away to use that knife efficiently. I think the popularity of the Sharpfinger is that it is a multi-purpose skinner, that with practice, can be used for a variety of game and variety of tasks from gutting, scraping/scaling, and caping. This is why it was copied by so many companies and remains popular today. (that said, it sucks at field craft but then it wasn't designed to chop down a tree!)

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