The perfect knife?

[muddy42]

No - the convex grind on an F1 seems pretty robust. I have damaged mine attempting to break rabbit legs by hacking at them as you would with a cleaver - clearly this was stupid, and not something you should try. But I routinely use mine to take head and legs off and cut through breast bone, with no real loss in performance.

Great. Yup, I've been there too. Now I like to bone out and butterfly whole roe haunches, but I used to simply shorten the leg bone. I once didn't have a saw, so hammered my mora through with a log. The resulting chips in the steel took me a few hours and a rough stone to remove.

 

[Andrewslater]

I tend to use a Boker integral hunter which is a little shorter than what I can find on that knife (only about 10mm though). If you are after a shorter knife then the Alan wood safari is really good at 6.8cm blade. They are made an distributed by a company called casstrom now.

Blade is much deeper than what you use though.

Casström Safari Black G10 hunting knife 10620, Alan Wood design

Casström Safari Black G10 hunting knife 10620, Alan Wood design: Handle/blade: G10/12C27 Blade length: 6.5 cm Weight: 78 grams

uk.knivesandtools.eu

 

[rem284]

I have various knives from puma white hunter 1 and 2 through to mora. What I find with the cheaper knives is the edge rolls over easily so needs regular honing with a steel. I don't really like the puma design, too much like a chisel. I think my favourite is a brustelo but it does seem a wee bit short

 

[Bowland blades]

I have various knives from puma white hunter 1 and 2 through to mora. What I find with the cheaper knives is the edge rolls over easily so needs regular honing with a steel. I don't really like the puma design, too much like a chisel. I think my favourite is a brustelo but it does seem a wee bit short

Price! the mass producer works on pennies for margin . Energy costs, steel costs , employee pay etc everything cut to the bone . What does anyone expect ? But the pennies add up to lot via volume.

 

[User00035]

As far as mass-produced knives go, Boker fixed blades are very good quality for the price, especially the Argentinian made Arbelitos.
Fallkniven in my view are overpriced.
Maserin are good.