knives

[Steve]

For the kitchen Global stainless knives and Kyocera ceramics, for general outside utility Frosts Mora in carbon steel and Morakniv Craftline in stainless. Pocket knife is a S&W badged "Homeland Security" model, which came with a mixed bag of shooting bits and surprised me by taking and holding a good edge.

My silly buy is a SOG Revolver - the blade pivots into the handle to turn it into a log / bone saw. It was used and cheap, but in hindsight not a very sensible option as it wouldn't be tough enough to take abuse.

I have a couple of budget Cold Steel kukri machetes, the shorter one is well balanced and works well in the woods, the longer one just feels wrong and I don't use it. Both needed a lot of work to get a decent edge shape but are good steel and hold it well.

There is only one knife on my shopping list, it would accompany the Mora in a bug-out, and that's a Ka-Bar USMC model:

http://www.kabar.com/most-famous-knife