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Summer - the best time for outdoor activities. Hiking in the woods, the nature is very nice and helpful. It's time to gathering, hunting, fishing or just a tourist marches. In each of these exciting, albeit challenging adventure it is necessary to have at least one tool - Mighty knife. Today, a lot of good knives, but even more "mediocre" and frankly failed. List all the good is not possible, but because we are concerned with the general nuances that are worth paying attention to when choosing a cold tool.
1. Why do I need this knife?
When buying a knife, in the first place is to ask yourself this question. In the knife, as well as any other instrument should be its intended purpose. If you're a hunter, you need to think on any game with this knife would have to go. View animal affects the shape of the blade! But in any case, the knife must be with a fixed blade.
A knife with a straight blade, "classic" is the best choice, if they need to do something else other than skinning production, for example - to cook food. Good hunter and fisherman know that they will eventually need some different knives. Usually tourists just enough for a utility knife, multitool.
2. What is the size of the knife?
Knife - this is the case, when the size, still has value. However, most are not equal better. Large knife looks impressive, but still it can be used (with the case) instead of an ax. However, this is perhaps the biggest advantages of the blade end. Taki knives are heavy and not very comfortable.
Most often with direct functions hunter and fisherman to help cope knives medium and small size. Most importantly, this does not interfere with, was pleasant to use, reliable and durable sitting in your hand and is easily stretched if necessary.
3. Fixed or folding?
Next tourist dilemma, take a knife with a fixed or with a folding blade. And those and others have their pros and cons. Defined herein should be every man for himself, based on the challenges ahead.
The advantages of stationary blades are the high structural strength of all the knife, this is ideal for the toughest jobs. Due to the lack of moving parts of a knife, in general, more reliable and last longer. Finally, this tool is very easy to clean! The disadvantages of such a knife can be attributed only to the size. Very often they are not very comfortable, hold down the host traffic, and therefore need to think in advance about where the sheath must be fixed on the equipment.
The advantages of a folding knife classify small size, ease of storage and high security. The cons boldly writes often laborious cleaning, low efficiency in comparison with the above described blades and not the best reliability in harsh environments.
4. What must be the "right" of the knife?
Compulsory handle and blade must be made of a single piece of steel. Prefabricated knives (it is a knife with a fixed blade) is very unreliable and even dangerous for most tourists. Composite blades have the custom to break down at the most inopportune moment. And you do not want to be eaten by wolves or stray dog, just because the knife broke after the first good blow to the beast?
5. What about the steel?
There are many species and varieties of knife steel. Most often, the blades do or stainless or carbon steel. Each became, it has its pros and cons. There is a third option, a kind of symbiosis of two types of steel, and that's just such knives are an order of magnitude greater. On the other hand, we can safely say that the material is one of the best and most reliable.
Knives of carbon steel are durable, reliable and easy to grind, but are susceptible to corrosion. stainless steel knives sharpening more difficult, but they do not need to too much attention.
By choosing steel, remember that you are, perhaps, not so rich to afford to buy cheap things.
6. What do I choose the handle?
All quite simple here. In the first place on the blade guard must be, strictly speaking, or "stop." Its function is obvious - to protect the hand from slipping on the Gulf during operation. In short copyright video below, the expert actually simply and explain everything about the case.
For the rest, it's easier to say what does not have to handle. In no event should not take the knife leather, wood or bone handle. Such stories become too when wet and it can be dangerous. In addition, all of these materials are too brittle.
Continuing the theme I would like to talk about a fundamentally different form of seasonal leisure, namely the country. It's about 7 the most important tools that should be in every summer resident Without exception, if he does not care about his household.
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