Survival Knives
SURVIVAL KNIVES.jpg){kind=small} Survival knives should be chosen with care. Educate yourself on the different types of survival knives and their uses. Survival knives are among one of the most important and versatile pieces of equipment to have, either in your kit or on your person, when venturing into the wilderness. Survival knives can be used for cutting cordage, making kindling for a fire, cutting materials for a shelter or a myriad of other uses for both course and fine work. A good multi function tool to have would be a Tool Logic - SL Pro 2
 which, as well as being a good survival knife, comes with a firesteel and light.What are survival knives? Anything from the sharpened edge of a soldiers dog tags to a machete can work to your benefit in a survival situation. A tommy hawk or a camp ax will do if that is all you have. One of my personal favorites is the Swiss army knife. Yes, that’s the one MacGyver had on the popular TV show. It comes in a variety of sizes, some with so many blades that they become cumbersome and unwieldy. A good choice should have two blades, an awl, a can and bottle opener, a small saw and a cork screw. One really nice feature on these is the tweezers that slide into the handle. Sure beats finger nails for removing foreign objects from your skin. This type of knife is easy to carry in a pocket or a purse and they work very well as survival knives. In larger survival knives, something with at least a six to eight inch, fairly thick, blade and a full tang works well for those heavier jobs cutting branches or blazing a trail whether for yourself or would-be rescuers, or making kindling, skinning and quartering animals and a host of other jobs. We have found a SURVIVAL KNIFE W/GEAR that would handle most, if not all, of these tasks.
Some advertisers claim their knife will chisel off the head of a bolt. Not something I would want to do and definitely not good for any survival knives, besides the fact that a glancing blow is likely to damage or break the blade. Such a knife is difficult to sharpen in the wilderness because the steel is too hard. Your blade should hold a good edge when using it for what it was designed for and be relatively easy to sharpen on a stone.
How to put a good edge on your survival knives using a sharpening stone:
Put a few drops of oil or water on your sharpening stone and lay your blade flat on it. For a pocket knife, raise the back of the blade about one eighth inch off the stone (for a broad-bladed sheath knife, about one quarter inch) and, keeping the blade at this angle, grind the edge using a circular motion with medium pressure on the blade. To sharpen the point of the knife, tilt the blade a little. When you finish grinding, the blade will have a feather edge. Remove this by pushing the edge of the knife blade straight forward across the stone several times then turn it over and press the other side forward. Although your knife will then be sharp enough for most purposes, finish by stropping it on the leather of your boot top or the back side of a leather belt, especially if you want to shave with it! A diamond dual grit folding knife sharpenerYour survival knives will take good care of you if you take good care of your survival knives.    |
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works great in the field for keeping that edge, and you can use it dry or with water.