Love the JG scales. For wooded terrain that’s about a much combo as you’d ever need. I feel about big knives the same as you about axes. Marginal use and heavy…I just don’t want to carry the weight.
My combos would probably be a little farther away from each other on the spectrum of sharp things. Unless of course the task at hand called for two heavy duty fixed blades of different sizes... LOL! Do you strop that 6? It is very shiny. I've taken the coating back a ways on some of my coated knives. But they just have a satin finish from whatever the highest grit sandpaper I had laying around. The polish is sharp, probably not just figuratively.
Yes sir… sort of. Files then diamond files and then strop. Learned it from James Gibson. I think esee has a video on it.
Here's another one with a successful 20+ year run. I've actually went swimming with this in a SAS drop leg rig. If we were talking Castaway/Tom Hanks or Alone type scenarios this would probably be my pick. (Props to CS for this black coating. It's thin, slick/not textured, and freaking durable! This one has chopped roots and clay soil to make drainage ditches and it's still there. )
Thats one knife style ive not tried. Ill bet it chops like a dream. Big picture is another big knife little knife combo. I think that is a sweet spot for weight and versatility as long as you dont need to fell trees. I do like a saw. I need to try a junglas 2 or an ESEE 6 as a one knife with a saw and see how i get long with it.
Usually it's been the ESEE 6 and ESEE 3. I don't chop down trees or really anything that I need a huge blade for or even an axe. I do have the X7 but it's only seen use once. It's just camping or a short hike so the 6 and 3 covers anything I need to do, although the condor moonshiner is a beast when it comes to batoning wood and its pretty fun to play with. For indoor i use the izula and now the candiru for opening packages and things, but the 3 gets used for food.
Definitely! Most of our woods are stone hard when dry, it just takes way too much of a time and effort to process them with a knife. For something smaller - the 6 and 4 work fine for kindling. For bigger pieces of wood - Fiskars axe / hatchet and a Silky saw. I have a few, depending on the type of work Also Silky + Esee 6, awesome combo for wood up to wrist size. Knife combo is a 6 and 3HM for me. The full combo would be Fiskars X7/10 , Silky 170 / 210 , 6, 3 and a Leatherman ST300. For hiking - 4HM and ST300. EDC combo would be the Izzy 2 that I still haven't got because of MTB parts and a LM Surge. Soon it will be jn the collection.
As Bozho points out, a lot of our choices are tempered by geographical type. Today it was 100f with around 90% humidity here. Working outside was a sweat drench cardio adventure. Grams add up to ounces and pounds real fast.
Just because @Strigidae is being so needy about picture.... .....when I hunt (deer/hogs/goats) those three are with me all the time. The little Buck (a gift from an old working stockman, hunter and gunsmith who was a bit of a mentor to me back in the 80s) and the Busse B4 are on my belt (normally with the leather cartridge fold I have used since 1984 (also a gift) and the Izula II (one of the first ESEEs I ever got) would have been in my pack till this year. If Strig keeps begging I will pull out the end of times blades
As I said earlier though. The Izzy2 has been all but replaced in my pack by the Xancudo not much more weight but a bit more versatile. And S35V so you know it will shatter just as I need it !!
I love the oem flat scales on the 3-4 knives. ( I just can’t bring myself to add the ounces to my load!)
Candiru 1.7oz Izula 2.0oz Cr 2.5 2.5oz Izula 2 3.2oz Xancudo 3.8oz JG3 4.5oz AGK 5.1oz E3 5.2oz JG5 5.3oz RB3 6.0oz PR4 6.3oz E4 8.0oz LS 9.5oz E5 16oz E6 12oz Junglas II 19.8oz Junglas 23oz Wanted to see what the weights of some of the knives looked like all together. These are knife only weights.
Just for you... Candiru 1.7oz 48g Izula 2.0oz 50g Cr 2.5 2.5oz 70g Izula 2 3.2oz 90g Xancudo 3.8oz 107g JG3 4.5oz 127g AGK 5.1oz 144g E3 5.2oz 147g JG5 5.3oz 150g RB3 6.0oz 170g PR4 6.3oz 178g E4 8.0oz 226g LS 9.5oz 269g E5 16oz 453g E6 12oz 340g Junglas II 19.8oz 561g Junglas 23oz 652g
Finally you are moving into the light and out of the dark ages.... you will thank me one day....!!!!!!
