Axxe55
Retiretgtshit stirrer
A good general purpose knife relegated as being a knife for all jobs, will need to balance all of it's qualities and features.
It will be a fine line to balance a knife capable of chopping and splitting wood, to one that can also field dress and clean a squirrel or rabbit to a fish that you caught.
Blade and spine thickness, and overall length need to be taken into consideration as well.
Now the thread title is "if you could only take one" but how many of us are without a pocketknife in our pockets? If I had to guess, probably very few. So it's quite possible to even maybe end up with two knives. If that be the case, a person could relegate many of the smaller concerns to the pocketknife, like whittling kindling, field dressing a small animal or filleting a fish. And having a heavier and stouter knife for the heavy work, or even choosing a machete, tomahawk, or small hatchet.
It will be a fine line to balance a knife capable of chopping and splitting wood, to one that can also field dress and clean a squirrel or rabbit to a fish that you caught.
Blade and spine thickness, and overall length need to be taken into consideration as well.
Now the thread title is "if you could only take one" but how many of us are without a pocketknife in our pockets? If I had to guess, probably very few. So it's quite possible to even maybe end up with two knives. If that be the case, a person could relegate many of the smaller concerns to the pocketknife, like whittling kindling, field dressing a small animal or filleting a fish. And having a heavier and stouter knife for the heavy work, or even choosing a machete, tomahawk, or small hatchet.