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A camping knife is one of the most important and indispensable tools on a hike. Without it, you shouldn’t even meddle in the forest, especially if you don’t go for a walk for a couple of hours, enjoying the fresh air and the pine smell and warm breeze, but are going on a multi-day hiking trip.
Types of tourist knives in the Koffer.UA store
Typically, a tourist chooses from five types of knives: an ordinary kitchen knife, a heavy cleaver, a hunting knife, a folding knife, and a penknife.
Kitchen. For cooking: peel vegetables or mushrooms, cut bread, gut fish - ideal. Especially if all this is done on a flat wooden surface. But you can also work on a stone if there is a donkey in one of the pockets of the backpack, with which you can quickly fix the sharpening. However, for larger-scale work, a kitchen knife is not very suitable due to the thinness of the blade.
Cleaver. Usually, a small hatchet is taken on a hiking trip, which successfully replaces a heavy and large cleaver. They can also chop firewood and break up the wood chips for kindling and carry out other actions, the material for which is not very thin branches. One must be able to wield a cleaver, but this is not achieved immediately.
Hunting. A large enough knife to carry around without a sheath. This option is probably the most versatile for traveling, but again, without practice, it will be very inconvenient to do some small work with it.
Folding. Fits well in a pocket, easy to reach and open. Some folding knives look quite impressive when open, but don't be deceived. It often happens that they break with very little effort.
Perochinny. Better yet, it's multi-functional. It has an opener, a can opener, scissors, a saw, tweezers, and in general, what is not there. It happens that a spoon and a fork will be filled there. The thing, however, is not bad, but you can’t always apply it.
To take with you all this gentleman's set is to become like a highwayman. Of course, on a multi-day hiking trip, you need to be prepared for any situation, but this does not mean at all that you need to hang around with tourist knives of different sharpness, length, and configuration. Moreover, this set can be divided among other members of the group.
And for those who go alone, you need to understand that a utility knife is the same bike as a five-meter catfish, a porcini mushroom the size of a truck, and a bigfoot. Choose a pair of knives that are comfortable for you, which together will cover all your needs for cutting, chopping, and planting.
Characteristics of tourist knives
However, before buying, you need to study the knife offered to you, regardless of what type it is. Now, in any hardware store, entire shelves of a variety of knives are on display, ranging from ceramic and souvenir daggers to meter-long machetes. Blinding a knife is not such a big problem: I cut out the plate, attached the handle, polished it beautifully, and put it on the counter. Only such knives, except for a showcase, are no good anywhere else. This means that a buyer who chooses a knife for a hike must definitely ask the seller for documents for the product and carefully study it.
Blade
First, steel. Stainless steel or carbon. Other species are not even worth considering. But here it must be borne in mind that stainless steel perfectly resists corrosion and does not dull for a long time. But if this happened, it is almost impossible to sharpen such a knife in field conditions. Carbon steel, on the contrary, sharpens quite easily, but rusts.
Secondly, the shape of the blade and sharpening should correspond to future work. A double-edged dagger or dagger is absolutely useless. Strongly bent outward, like mushroom pickers, or inward, like gardeners, will also not work. The best option is a clip-point, or in a simple way: Finca.
Lever
Handles for knives are made from different materials, which are divided into natural and artificial. Natural: leather, horn, bone, wood. Artificial: rubber, plastic. The handle should not slip in the palm of your hand and cool your hand - these are two basic rules. The rest, as they say, to taste.
Travel knife case
It is needed not only for straight knives but also for folding and penknives. In the forest, at a halt, after you have used a penknife or a folding knife, specks, needles, blades of grass and other debris can get inside it, so it will not be superfluous to put it in a case or pocket.