>>118377It's a pretty good list though.
It's only missing a kephart and it'd be perfect.
A 4" or 5" fixed blade with a strong tang is really what you should want in a knife. I do think the Kephart is superior to these though. It's also a 100+ year old design straight from the Appalachian mountains.
>A camper has use for a common-sense sheath-knife, sometimes for dressing big game, but oftener for such homely work as cutting sticks, slicing bacon, and frying “spuds.” For such purposes a rather thin, broadpointed blade is required, and it need not be over four or five inches long. Nothing is gained by a longer blade, and it would be in one’s way every time he sat down. Such a knife, bearing the marks of hard usage, lies before me. Its blade and handle are each 4 1/2 inches long, the blade being 1 inch wide, 1/8th inch thick on the back, broad pointed, and continued through the handle as a hasp and riveted to it. It is tempered hard enough to cut green hardwood sticks, but soft enough so that when it strikes a knot or bone it will, if anything, turn rather than nick; then a whetstone soon puts it in order. The Abyssinians have a saying, “If a sword bends, we can straighten it; but if it breaks, who can mend it? ” So with a knife or hatchet.The reason I think it's superior is strictly for batoning small sticks. The flat ground side and the spear point is a little stronger. They're basically the same as in that picture though.
