Koyote Knives Custom Knives by Christof

This is a completely different type of wilderness knife than the Model 1. The focus of the evolution of this blade started out with general camping. 90% of camping is food prep for most people. As I kept making the precursors to these, the usefulness of the blade design for skinning and game preparation was pointed out several times. So I've developed what I feel is a very good general purpose field knife for camp/kitchen/game processing.

The blades on these knives tend towards a lot of length - 5.5 to 7 inches generally speaking. The knives are still very light, as I make them 3/32 to 1/8 inch thick. The blade is very broad, with a drop from the handle to the cutting edge of around an inch. This gives a good stopping point to prevent hand slippage, and a broad enough blade that you can hold onto the spine and flat of the blade for doing fine slicing, scraping, or tip carving. Handles are in the 5 inch range, with a narrow vertical profile and a well rounded and thick cross section. They are very easy to hold onto, even when covered with vegetable or animal juices. Since these knives are often used for food prep or inside an animal, I usually leave out the lanyard tube and go for a fully pinned handle.

The two main styles for this are a long clip point or a nessmuk style hump. This is mostly a matter of preference, the nessmuk style has a bit more blade weight and balances further forward for chopping, and the clip has a finer point.

This is a knife that grows on you, and gets used for everything eventually. From dressing an elk to making stew - making fuzz sticks, notching wood, even chopping.

Sheath options on these vary, I prefer a ranger sheath, but we can do them with an expedition sheath, explorer sheath or outback style sheath.