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Apologies for the slightly irreverent title. In Italy, when a dish calls for sauteed onion, carrot and celery, it is sometimes referred to as the Holy Trinity. In the same way, the Nessmuk trio of hatchet, fixed blade and folding knife might be similarly named.
Next week, I'm off to the woods for a few nights on my own. It will be cold, probably wet, maybe snowing. I'll be taking that trio, detailed below, but I have decided to wrench myself free from tradition and add a plus one to the party, a Spyderco Military in 52100. Why? Because I can. Because Sears and Kephart did not have access to such knives, as they simply did not exist. Because at a pinch it would suffice to do everything, and it is a better kitchen knife than my fixed blade. Because it is remarkably light for what you get. Because it's me that will be carrying the gear and because I want to, so there.
The hatchet is Hultafors, nothing modern about it. The fixed blade knife is a Kephart pattern made by English knife maker, Mark Hill. It is in O1, and this will be its first time in the great outdoors. The little folder is in fact a Victorinox Huntsman, kept with the first aid kit. I'll be bivvying with a tarp shelter, and that corkscrew comes into its own on a Sunday morning, with the knots in the paracord rigging being sodden, cold and stubbornly resistant to being undone. I won't be taking wine though, just a tot or two of whisky.
Anyway, is it only me who feels so wedded to tradition? (To the extent that I had to think quite carefully before deciding on my Spyderco frivolity.) If you were going to add a blasphemous 'plus one', or if you do so already, what is it and why?
Tom
Next week, I'm off to the woods for a few nights on my own. It will be cold, probably wet, maybe snowing. I'll be taking that trio, detailed below, but I have decided to wrench myself free from tradition and add a plus one to the party, a Spyderco Military in 52100. Why? Because I can. Because Sears and Kephart did not have access to such knives, as they simply did not exist. Because at a pinch it would suffice to do everything, and it is a better kitchen knife than my fixed blade. Because it is remarkably light for what you get. Because it's me that will be carrying the gear and because I want to, so there.
The hatchet is Hultafors, nothing modern about it. The fixed blade knife is a Kephart pattern made by English knife maker, Mark Hill. It is in O1, and this will be its first time in the great outdoors. The little folder is in fact a Victorinox Huntsman, kept with the first aid kit. I'll be bivvying with a tarp shelter, and that corkscrew comes into its own on a Sunday morning, with the knots in the paracord rigging being sodden, cold and stubbornly resistant to being undone. I won't be taking wine though, just a tot or two of whisky.
Anyway, is it only me who feels so wedded to tradition? (To the extent that I had to think quite carefully before deciding on my Spyderco frivolity.) If you were going to add a blasphemous 'plus one', or if you do so already, what is it and why?
Tom
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