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Essential Gear For The New Bushcrafter Part 2 - Cutting Tools Some examples of knifes that I use outdoors. Cutting tools For bushcraft use cutting tools are most often a fixed blade knife (maybe a secondary knife like a smaller fixed blade knife, a folder or a multi tool containing a blade), an axe or hatchet and a saw of some type. It is at least at a bare minimum a knife. The Knife A cutting tool is a knife for most of us and few tools can accomplish so much in the outdoors. I recommend getting a fixed blade where the blade is about 10 cm (4 inch:ish) long with a Scandinavian grind (also called a "V" grind which is a variation on a sabre grind, have a look here for an explanation on basic grind types ). This type of grind is good for general tasks as for example woodworking and is, in my opinion, a bit easier to sharpen. One manufacturer that most can recommend is Morakniv   which has several models which are suitable. In my opinion the entry level kni...