Edelweiss, excellent idea to start such a post on working knives.

Nitrox, you may consider moving this post into “Bow hunting, spears & knives” so that others can contribute at a later stage as it will soon be lost in this section.

My working knives, from top to below:

• Buck – Purchased 1979 in Alexandria (Va); 17cm./7in. thick blade. Probably one of my oldest knives; went with me into desert, jungle, mountain, etc. and is parachute operations trained. Quite heavy hence used as a camp knife.

• Purdey – Purchased c. 10 years ago in London; 11 cm./4,5in. Damascus blade. I use it as a skinning/gutting knife, but not when mountain hunting as it is quite heavy due to thick blade and bone handle.

• SOG – Presented to me by my son c. 5 years ago; 9cm./3,5in. surgical steel blade. I use it as a skinning/gutting knife, when mountain hunting as it is much lighter than the Purdey one. Did not had that look initially and came to me with a technical knife look with lots of plastic material; was re-styled at a later stage by Kari (Promokari in Finland, a Forum member) and given a more Scandinavian and classical look.

• Laguiole – Folding knives from the Laguiole town in South-Central France with blades from 09 to 11cm./3,5 to 4,5in.; I always carry one of them, but when travelling by air, even when in a business suit.

Louis