Although this should be maybe under folders, this knife pairs to the MOD, as one of two original bushcraft knives.

SM Wiseman, SAS, was of the opinion there was only one folding knife in the world worthy of trust as a bushcraft/survival knife, and people listened. In the 1970s/80s, this knife was immensely popular with the SAS, Royal Marines, and our own troops who frequently needed such.....the knives of Swedish firm, EKA.

Their simple design was revolutionary in using barrel nuts/screws now copied by everyone (but copied by everyone with cool looking, fancier/no-tool-with-me! heads, rather than common sense coin slots) in modern "tactical" knives. The EKA one of those predating that misused "strategic" word.

The ones at that time had black nylon scales with brass barrel nuts (this one has stainless), and some of you might recall them marketed in the USA by the Normark group under some silly names such as Big Swede or Super Swede. The combination tail lock/lanyard ring is sprung immensely strong, and would be near impossible to depress if a mid lock. The blade/handle design one cuttin'sumbee as any hunter here would intuit by looking at its continuous curve, curved blade/handle angle, and high grind....a near clipped puukko design rather than Scandinavian grind, very unusual for a Swede knife, and good, tough, bend-before-it-breaks 57-58 Rc Sandvik stainless razor steel for the blade.

Near always paired with a MOD knife and issue clasp multitool knife. The original folding bushcraft knife, and still about the only folder up to those tasks. Videos of Wiseman are on youtube showing him doing EVERYthing with one.

My German pal demos one in und deutsch video....you can see he is enthused as well, over how well it plain works...and works...and works....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCmPq9rFWBo

A man was well prepared with a MOD, EKA and SAK.







(ps- cannot BELIEVE I posted the photo without the SAK in it, too! getting old! will fix when I return to town.)

Ah...here we go....bushcraft at the old school, where new school is everything that is old, and is new, again.