>>674683>you want a knife that can chop logs AND skin?there is a workaround for that one, actually. Far from perfect, and I'm not a skinner, but it works like a charm when separating hide from a side of pork (euro-bacon if you will).
Remember that kukri I posted earlier? Well, as it happens, the point of balance is right about here (pic related, knife at neutral balance the way i'm holding it), so you can use this grip, and the belly, which this one has more pronounced (rather than being a bit more pointy and leaf-shaped).
Far from perfect, but it does work (until you get blood all over it and things get slippery - it's more for vegetables).
Speaking of skill at handling a knife:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHGlhFJH0gAs for the price of the TBT/WSK - considering you can get most of the HI and Tora blades line for less than that... well... yeah.
And if you've never watched Alone, the contestants were limited to just 10 items off a list (their own items), so "cheating" several tools in as a knife made sense, at least on paper.
Likewise - the tracker made sense on paper - the whole point of that interrupted edge was to protect the secondary edge from impact when chopping with the primary (tops should have made it a hollow grind though, since it's ONLY used for carving sticks, so it would make sense to have it sharper, rather than stronger - Beck didn't make that mistake). The sawback on the tracker is good though (but it's not exclusive, it's just the regular tops sawback) - not for sawing through stuff, but for making easy square notches. And you can use the flat of the blade to hammer stakes into the ground (hey, I've done it, and it makes up for what, 0.001% use of the knife? :P )
