You are never going to go hunting but you want a simple to maintain knife, this could be your answer!

 You are never going to go hunting but you want a simple to maintain knife, this could be your answer!

So how does one choose a knife?

By watching Bear Grylls?

Certainly NOT

If hunting is not your thing and neither fishing too but you feel you must have a fixed blade knife for your outdoor pursuits, then let me recommend the following style of knife:

You may consider the following:

It is just an opinion.

THE WESTERN STYLED TANTO

Wanger/Linder SuperEdge 8 Worker

Here's why:

Because they are just simply the easiest type of blade shape to maintain. The reason being is that all edges are basically straight and thus require the least amount of hand sharpening skills. End of story.

Many will buy a drop point style knife

LionSteel M7

 or even a knife which features possibly two different sections of blade such as a belly and a recurved (concave) edge, 

FKMD Fox Knives Parus

Cudeman Boina verde

only to find when it comes to sharpening they simply make a mess of it and either stop using that knife once it is blunt and buy another one, or send it out and pay someone else to sharpen it. Or whilst being able to sharpen it, never being able to restore the edge to what it was like from the factory or even close to what it was like, OR BETTER!

 Assuming one likes camping and hiking there may be an interest in maintaining that knife of yours but not to the extent of buying some fancy pants knife sharpening device which costs tens times the price of your new knife, unless you are chasing that cosmic sharp edge, then read no further. 

I suspect some manufacturers really put super high Rockwell ratings on their knives as having nothing to do with the end applications but rather as a marketing thing, in that the person who buys such knives, may not even go camping or hiking, for example but not limited to: the person who wears diving watches but never even goes swimming let alone goes diving. Ok we will call them collectors and this is fine. So a collector probably won't be using that knife all of the time so it would remain sharper for a longer period due to it's high HRC, all things being equal and thus they would be very satisfied with their purchase/s.

But if you like camping 

I like camping and doing extreme stuff like taking the palm heart (where legal LOL)

and would like to at least prepare your own food and have a feeling for days of past in the wilderness then you will want to carry a fixed blade knife and actually use it for something other than cutting A4 printer paper! 

The Western styled tanto 

Halfbreed Blades MIK-05P

is by  far the easiest type of blade to maintain. The easiest blade to maintain is also going to be the easiest knife to actually want to use.

BCT