Purpose Made Outdoor and Hunting Knife
OutdoorHub 10.09.12
Bush Crafter is a knife outdoorsmen will appreciate for its design and utility. The Bush Crafter is made of 1095 high-carbon steel (please see carbon steel editorial back grounder below). This aggressive edge holding hard steel gives the Bush Crafter a big cutting advantage over other knives. And this new Camillus knife represents the first in a line of functional fighters, hunters and utility knives that are 100 percent made in America.
The Bush Crafter’s slight drop tip fat belly blade makes it ideal as a highly-functional general purpose camp and hunting knife for cleaning and skinning an animal and yet robust enough for chopping and hard general utility work. The blade profile is an excellent combination of both form and function preferred by many hunters.
A well-formed full-tang 41/2-inch tough-as-nails canvas Micarta handle provides excellent grip for the user. The unique steel lanyard slot (much more robust than the photo indicates) will work with either traditional leather/nylon cord or a nylon strap like those used by climbers.
The quality hand-made leather sheath is attractively stitched and formed. The Camillus Bush Crafter is uniquely (in today’s world) retained with an old world functional traditional pull through leather lanyard.
Blade smiths and master blade smiths and even the makers of Samurai swords exclusively use high-carbon steel in their hand forging of very high-dollar and incredibly tough razor-sharp super edge knives. There are very real reasons for that choice–carbon steel cuts due to the characteristics of a carbon steel edge! Likewise the Bush Crafter is made from high-carbon 1095 tool steel. The Camillus Bush Crafter is a real working knife that will be appreciated by those experienced in the outdoors.
Specifications:
- Blade: Four-inch 1095 high-carbon steel
- Blade thickness: 1/8-inch.
- Edge Profile: Scandia–a short length flat grind–excellent for both cutting and hard chopping
- Hardness: 58 Rockwell C
- Handle: 4 ½ -inch full-tang canvas Micarta scales
- Weight: 8 ounces (10.4 with sheath)
- MSRP: $99.99
- Made in the U.S.A
