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Merry Christmas! I'm a knife knut and a shroomer. I've got a bunch of knives, so as I got more into foraging wild mushrooms I employed many of my different knives, including one I bought on a whim and didn't use for years previously (the hori hori).
I naturally looked for "mushroom knives" to add to my collection but they all seemed like silly, inferior combinations of a proper knife and a proper brush. I still think this way. My current "mushroom knife" is 4 knives:
https://postimg.cc/YL74LF94
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1.) I always have a dedicated woods knife/Puukko of some sort. This is my slicer and wood carver as needed. When I need to slice off specimens carefully so that they will grow back, I use this. I sometimes use it to carve small location marks on trees as I explore new territory.
2.) folding pruner (multipurpose blade). This sees the most use because it's cheap, ready, and sharp enough for most situations.
3.) Hori Hori knife. This is the true workhorse, the "shroomslayer" to rule them all! Well, there are some species that require one to dig them up for a correct identification or else you might die. So yeah, a blade meant to dig is a great thing. Also, in nature there's a lot of weird unexpected obstacles, so this tool with its plain and serrated edge designed for rooting around is kind of my main blade.
4.) Small machete for handling vines and such. This Ontario knives machete has seen little use, but it's a solid piece of kit. I love how the tip is sharpened so it can be used as a palm-driven chisel.
If I could only have one for shrooming it would be the hori hori ShroomSlayer. Yes it's a gardening tool, arguably not even a "knife" (even though it comes with a sharpening stone).
Your thoughts? Any other secret shroomers around here?
I naturally looked for "mushroom knives" to add to my collection but they all seemed like silly, inferior combinations of a proper knife and a proper brush. I still think this way. My current "mushroom knife" is 4 knives:
https://postimg.cc/YL74LF94
Top to bottom:
1.) I always have a dedicated woods knife/Puukko of some sort. This is my slicer and wood carver as needed. When I need to slice off specimens carefully so that they will grow back, I use this. I sometimes use it to carve small location marks on trees as I explore new territory.
2.) folding pruner (multipurpose blade). This sees the most use because it's cheap, ready, and sharp enough for most situations.
3.) Hori Hori knife. This is the true workhorse, the "shroomslayer" to rule them all! Well, there are some species that require one to dig them up for a correct identification or else you might die. So yeah, a blade meant to dig is a great thing. Also, in nature there's a lot of weird unexpected obstacles, so this tool with its plain and serrated edge designed for rooting around is kind of my main blade.
4.) Small machete for handling vines and such. This Ontario knives machete has seen little use, but it's a solid piece of kit. I love how the tip is sharpened so it can be used as a palm-driven chisel.
If I could only have one for shrooming it would be the hori hori ShroomSlayer. Yes it's a gardening tool, arguably not even a "knife" (even though it comes with a sharpening stone).
Your thoughts? Any other secret shroomers around here?
