Cheap Knife vs Expensive Custom

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(3 May 2013, 22:14)Steve Wrote: I like the Frosts Mora, it's cheap, sharp and strong enough. If you need more chopping power then a Gransfors hatchet is excellent and will actually take an edge close to a good knife, you can use the back as a makeshift hammer, although they say you shouldn't.

I reckon a smallish knife and a quality hatchet are better than trying to use one big knife for both.

V.much agreed...

the native Indians of America coveted the new metal axes of the foreign paleface settlers. The Tomahawk is actually a mass produced & traded European camp axe, of a design originating in the medieval period. It had a long projecting blade for efficient chopping and a pronounced hammer at the back for woodworking. Smaller versions were favoured by the Indians for combat. The same design is shown in medieval line drawings and paintings.