Knives JMHO

Good morning friends, Dave Canbury at Pathfinder School, what I wanted to do today was continue our basic series again, but what I wanted to do is talk about

knives

and have a serious discussion about

knives

today. I've recently been involved in quite a few discussions and visual things about knives and I want to put this in the Basic Series so that people understand why I choose the types of knives that I choose, why I think some knives are more favorable than others and then I also want to talk to you about things that you see on the internet about different knives and one thing I want you to understand right away is that if you're looking at a review of any piece of equipment, it doesn't matter if it's a knife or what. is that if you're looking at a review, someone says I'm going to review this equipment, first of all, look at what conditioning equipment is in it, if it's new, chances are they've never used it, how can they review it, number two .

On that person's overall skill level, have you watched any of the other videos of him to see what his skill level is as a lumberjack, craftsman, and survivalist? That would lead you to believe, hey, this guy knows a little bit of what he's talking about. or maybe not so much and that's what you need to understand. I watch a lot of reviews on YouTube and I don't watch a lot of them because I often turn them off. I'll be honest with you if I do. I upload a video, let's take a review of a knife, for example, if I upload a review of a knife on YouTube and the knife looks new, I usually turn off the video if it's on a table and not in the woods or if the guy doesn't do it. is using. to do something and he's just talking about the knife, I usually turn it off, the other thing is I look and see what the guy's skill level is while using that knife, if he's using it, and now I'll tell you that if you take the crappiest BUDK knife on the planet and you put a good edge on it and you take a nice Mora that costs 20 dollars and you put a good edge on it and you take any knife that meets the criteria that we are going to talk about. and you sharpen That Thing Up, it doesn't matter if it costs three or $400, if you put those three knives in Moranski's hands, he will make each one of them look like a knife that you would want to buy because his level of skill and his experience in fine carving and things so they are so precise, so good and so well perfected that it makes it look natural no matter what you use it with, on the other hand, if you take the same set of knives. and you put them in the hands of someone of a lower skill level, much less skill level, no matter how good the knife is, they will make that knife look bad and might look like something you don't want to buy.

Even if it may be a very good thing, I want you to think about those things when you watch knife review videos and things like that, because part of what we're going to do today is talk about knives. Right in front of you, some of us will be, we're going to demonstrate some things with knives, pros and cons of different knives, one thing you'll never see me do with a knife and another thing that I totally flip. As soon as I see it on video, you'll never see me take a five or 6 inch blade and cut with it.

There is absolutely no reason to cut with a knife other than chopping, if you want a chopping knife, get a machete, get a Chris Kane survival tool, get a golock, get a Pang, get a kakari, get something that is made to cut and process wood, vines, bamboo or whatever the case may be, but do not use a six-inch fire knife for striking and testing. to cut and make excuses that the handle isn't long enough or that you need to move it up and choke it and put a cord on it so it doesn't let go and get more leverage on the blade, that's bunk, okay? you never have to cut with a knife that is not made to cut with that knife should be used to cut through the material or to push through it using different types of unbalanced cuts like some kind of ax or machete, that's what you want.

What you buy, that's the next thing we have to talk about in this video is understanding, before you buy a knife, what that knife is going to do for me versus what I want that knife to do for me and I get a lot of questions. Many people know what the best survival knife out there is. The proprietary answer is the one you have with you in a survival scenario, but that brings you back to it's probably the knife you bought in the first place. you buy the right knife and when I look at it what I want to tell you is that I look at any knife that I'm going to hold on my hip on a daily basis as a survival knife because chances are that's the knife that I'm going to get stuck with in an emergency because I put it on my hip every day and I'm not going to lose it, so with that being said, I need to make sure that whatever knife I'm going to select for everyday carry is going to be a multifunctional knife in an emergency scenario, it doesn't necessarily have It has to be a helicopter because a big helicopter is not going to be good at fine carving, it doesn't necessarily have to be good at fine carving because then it's not going to be very good at churning or processing wood necessarily it has to be capable of many things it has to be able to processing game has to be able to process wood it has to be able to do fine carving but it also has to be able to make larger logs and smaller pieces so you can create things like pencil sized sticks from a 4 inch log inches if necessary or splitting things when absolutely necessary so the knife has to do a lot of things.

There are a lot of things for you and you have to cover a lot of bases. If you go back to my video on frontier knives or know the kind of history of knives that have been used over time, you'll see that it really is the most common denominator. it is a blade of about 5 to 6 inches, at least in the United States a blade of about 5 to 6 inches and some type of butcher knife design, either a European butcher knife or an Americanized version of a butcher knife or a French version of a butcher knife and those blade designs lend themselves well to many different things for The Woodsman, that's why they used them, that's why they were available for 2300 years, that's why some of them are still made today, so understand what you want to do with that knife.

If what you are buying is a backup knife that you are going to put in your backpack, then maybe it doesn't have to be that perfect knife that will do everything, maybe you are buying a backup knife just because you know the trick. Line with which you are going to earn money. You cut and you're going to keep that thing sharp and it's going to be a perfect blade for you to make those precision cuts that you have to make to not ruin a coat. an animal or maybe it will be your craft knife that you are going to put in your backpack and you are going to keep that thing with you to do your fine carvings and make feather sticks and make all those little fantasies. things we do in Bushcraft but that lend themselves to a good survival knife maybe yes maybe no depends on if it meets the criteria you decide it should meet for me.

I have certain criteria that I look at in a knife and We'll talk about that right now, okay, so let's start a little bit with our knife discussion here and talk about it. I have a table or bench of knives here, basically, that are all knives that I've personally used over and over again. time and time again none of these knives are new, all of these knives have been thoroughly tested in a wild environment for many different tasks, so I can tell you that I am confident that I can tell you what the pros and cons of this type are.

Knives Now, the first thing you should think about when selecting a knife is again what is that knife going to do for me versus what do I want it to do for me, so for the sake of this discussion because we're talking about basics, let's talk about this is the knife that I'm going to be strapped to my hip and this is the knife that I'm probably going to end up with if everything goes wrong, I lose all my gear, that knife is going to be strapped to my hip and it's going to be my only tool that I'm going to have to use to affect my ability to survive and there is a big difference between that and a Bushcraft knife that you carry in your backpack as a spare and put around your neck. or whatever the case may be, I may be totally against putting knives around my neck, but that's beside the point, then the thickness of the blade, which is its first key element for me, a knife that will be used for a multitude task should be 316 inches thick.

At a minimum, I personally carry knives that are only an eighth of an inch thick. This $3 butcher knife from a garage sale is only a little over an eighth of an inch thick, not exactly 3/16, so if you had to measure it. I know it's right in the middle, but it doesn't meet my minimum standard, although I've used this knife for everything under the sun, so I'm pretty confident in its ability to hold up to me if needed, this butcher knife It's 316. It's the Habis Pathfinder Butcher Knife, it's 316, so 3/16 is a good thickness to start with. Now let's talk about why not an e inch, because generally what you will find is that most knives will be E8 inch 3/16 and then Quol Key, an E8 knife will have a lot of flexibility if the metal is tempered properly and can be bent or break depending again.

The temperament of the knife. I have never broken an Old Hickory butcher knife. and they're an eighth of an inch thick, so an eighth of an inch knife can do the job for you, but it's not going to be as stiff or as good for leverage if you have to do things like 316, so there's a Bit of a trade-off there, I'd go with it, my personal opinion is 36 16 for a starter knife if it's going to be the only knife you buy to keep on your hip and this is where you're going to put all your eggs, okay?

In my opinion again, this is just my opinion: your knife should be the most expensive item in your kit for the most part or you should reserve most of your budget for your knife because that's what you're really going to risk your life for. turned on and with that knife you can do everything else if you need to, as long as you have the skill level. Remember that during this video I am not badmouthing any knife manufacturers. I'm not badmouthing anyone who reviews knives. on TV on YouTube or using knives on TV, all I'm telling you is these are my standards, these are the knives I choose and that's why you can make your own decision from what we're talking about once you let's know. beyond the thickness of the blade, then we have to talk about the Tang, is a Full Tang absolutely necessary, in other words, is it a solid piece of metal to which the scales are screwed on both sides?

Almost all of these knives, all of these knives are Full Tang, the knives I have here are gone. I'll use them again if I'm going to get stuck with this one and don't have any other tools. You may have to do things like leverage and hit hard on the back of the spine with a stick of some kind to process firewood, all that kind of stuff lends itself to a weakness in a rattail Tang knife because it's smaller, it's not like that rat tail is the same thickness as the knife and 3/4 of the way back to the handle generally speaking.

A rat tail Tang knife is exactly that which shrinks down to a rat tail and then returns to the knife, so it is a weak point in the overall structure of that knife that could compromise you in a real emergency situation, so I choose again, I choose. I always carry a Full Tang knife on my hip and that is my personal opinion, so all of these knives are Full Tang. Now a backup knife could definitely be a non-Full Tang knife and most of my backup knives are usually not Full Tang. let's talk about that in a few minutes the next thing I want to know about this knife is and here again this is this some of these things are kind of like no, for me I can live with an inch if I have to.

I'd rather have a 316, but there are certain aspects of that knife that I can't live without or am not willing to do without. One of them is that this knife has a very sharp 90° spine so that it removes material effectively. of a feros serium rod and there's a big misconception about feros serium rods and knives most of the time, if you're having trouble hitting your Ferro Rod, it's not the rod, it's the knife, so what I'm going to say do is I'm going to grab a couple of random knives here for you. I have several different Ferro rods, from cheap $5 Ferro rods to $50 Ferro rods and we're going to hit them with a knife and you're going to Look, for the most part they're the same, so what we have here is we have a variety of fairground rods.

This rod is just a cheap rod, probably taken off our website and had the handle removed and wrapped. duct tape to give me a good sturdy handle, most of the Ferro rods you are going to buy and I mean most, not all, most of the Ferro rods you are going to buy, the handles will come off of them over time before . or later anyway, so I just take mine off on these cheaper ones and wrap them in duct tape to have a fire element around them in caseemergency, plus I have this. This duct tape is not for any other use except the handle or fire I carry duct tape in my kit for other things on this side I have a rod from canteens shop.com Rob Simpsons Ferro Rod I really like these they are good Ferro rods they are a little more expensive rewrapped in leather I think they come from deep wood craftsmanship.

I'm not sure about that and they make a very good stick to stick inside your knife blade. That's what you like to do. It is cheap as a cogins model. Feros serium. Rod. is the gobp brand of firesteel.com. This rod is just a long blank Fair rod that was made by one of my instructors and has a copper end glued or epoxied and pinned and is filled with lead on the back so it can be sewn. Use as a nap bopper, whether for your flint lock or making glass or flint arroe heads, whatever the case may be, it also gives you a good handle to grip and a large striking surface to remove material of your your Tinder package again, the cost difference is a lot here you're talking about this one and this one is probably five dollars or less this is around 2025 this is around 2025 I think these things are around 40 50 dollars so you have a big difference there, but the larger the rod, the longer it will last.

A lot of guys ask me about those magnesium blocks with a little rod on top. Those things are useless, in my opinion, that rod will wear out for a long time. before you get rid of that magnesium and most of your feros serum rods already have a high magnesium content that will burn off if you can remove the material with your blade, that's the important thing, it's usually not the ferro rod that causes the problem is the blade, okay, I'm going to use a couple different knives to do this. The first one I'm going to use is the Pathfinder knife, it's made by Blind Horse Knives, it's called plsk1, it's a Scandinavian sharpener. 360 to an inch, a little over a 5 inch blade, this one has curly maple handles, it has a nice tapered 90° spine, so let's try this one first just with a cheap rod, now just this cheap $ rod 5, here is the cheap one. on my website you can see that it is removing enough materials that are hanging on the back of the knife, even here is the bits part, okay, canteens shop.com, I have to remove the coating, okay, now I will show you what that just happened here. the cover just came off of this the leather cover of the coil just came off of this.

I've never seen that happen to one of these fer rods before, but it goes back to what I was telling you, almost any fer rod you buy, the cap comes off of it, unless it's pinned in place. , it will come off, just wrap it with duct tape and move on, and don't worry if you're looking for something fancy, do yourself a favor and make sure you have duct tape. with you when you're done, here's the big wild stick again, we need to remove the coating once we remove the coating, it shouldn't require much effort when you do this if your knife is It has a good 90° spine, it won't require much effort, so you can see all those Ferro rods will work well with that knife.

Okay, this is the black Mora Bushcraft. We haven't talked about this knife yet. It is not a complete knife. The Tang knife is high carbon steel, meaning it will rust if you don't take care of it, but it will be easier to sharpen in the field than stainless steel. I prefer high carbon and we'll talk about that in a moment. little and why in our next exercise size, but let's see what this will do and again it has that good 90° column, so let's start with our cheap Ferro Rod here pretty good, the other cheap Ferro Rod pretty good Gob Spark very good, the long and heavy duty one is very good, the canteen store is pretty good, so you can see that as long as we have a good 90° spine, it doesn't really matter if the knife costs 30 or 40 dollars like this or close to $300 like the Pathfinder knife.

I'm going to do what you need them to do with a Ferro rod and that's the important feature to understand. Will this knife be good for hitting a Feros Serium rod every time I see someone take their knife and hit their Fer Serium rod with a blade? of his knife I know that person doesn't know what he is doing because I will never sacrifice the blade of my knife to hit a Ferro Rod. I can always use the back of this or find something else if I can. I won't do that, but I will never sacrifice my sword.

This area of ​​your sword from here to here, from this curve back, will do 2/3 of everything you do with this knife, will be done right here, we'll talk. about that in a moment too well, that gives us a good view of one of the things that we want our knife to be able to do, which is hit our Pais serium rod. In my opinion, the feris serium rod is the most reliable fire starter. device that you could possibly have in an emergency scenario matches are one thing lighters run out of fluid and get wet all those types of things you need to focus your efforts on understanding how to use a Ferro Rod with many different offerings because a Ferro Rod It throws a very, very hot spark that will ignite a lot of tender and works even when wet.

Get yourself as big a rod as you can afford in the long run and carry it with you as your main feris serium Rod, okay, moving on to the next thing we want to look at is the steel that this knife is made from. Everything I do with this knife has to be a multifunctional deal, obviously I can do a lot of things. things with this knife in terms of doing other things and that makes it multifunctional, but it also needs to be part of my kit in terms of it being useful for at least three things and I need to be able to shoot with this thing as one of those chores or duties of my knife and scraping that Serium Feros Rod that takes care of that element but I would also like my knife to be able to shoot A Hard Rock Sparks in case I lost my Serium Feros Rod for some reason and the only thing I have left is this knife, If I can make a fire somehow because I made a bodill game with my knife, I don't want to have to go through that hassle the second time, so if I can make charred cloth in that first fire thinking about my next fire and I can find a good hard rock.

I can use it to create an ember to then put in a bird's nest and give up all the bow drill action on the next fire, so I want This knife should be made of high carbon steel so that it throws sparks from the back with a hard rock High Carbon Steel Tool Steel 01 1095 many of the Condor knives are made from 1065 1070, they don't actually contain enough carbon. to throw a good spark you see that there are no Condor knives on this table not because I have never used one but because it is not a knife that I would carry all the time so if you are going to ask me about other knives and I don't see it on this table it is because either I haven't carried it, I don't carry it or I have carried it and I don't like it and I don't carry it anymore, these are the knives I trust, okay, so We talked about hitting Sparks with the back of our knife, so again what we're trying to accomplish here is to turn our knife into an ignition source and we can do that as long as we have that high carbon steel blade, so let's get back to it first of all.

We'll just pick up this butcher knife. What I will do with my knives when I decide to buy one. I'm going to do this first. If that thing is throwing sparks. Now I am a happy camper. I know I have a good high carbon steel blade, even if I have no idea what this thing is made of with a 3 dollar butcher knife that looks like carbon steel, it's rusting, it has some patina on it, let me give it to you a stone, okay? I'm in business now. Does it have a good 90° spine? Yes, I'm in double business now.

Is it the correct thickness? It's pretty close. It has a nice nice 5 to 6 inch blade. Yeah, okay, I want that. knife, those are my factors now, any knife you have that is high carbon steel and actually what we will do is get another type of knife cheaper here, we look at this more Bushcraft black again, does it throw Sparks? If she does. Okay, throwing them away is as good as the butcher knife, not quite, but that could simply be because the blade is blued and hasn't completely worn down yet, but I know this will start and create ignition with a charred cloth because I have done.

So if I have a high carbon steel blade, I'll be able to affect the ignition that way and I'll show you how to do it right now, up close, hold on guys, okay, so I've got a charred can here that has some cloth on it. charred right here, so we're going to take out that piece of charred cloth and that's what we're going to use for this demonstration now, if I try to hit Sparks with my knife, there's a couple of ways you can do this. I can hold the blade of the knife this way and hit it against The Rock exactly like you would with a striker, but I don't really like that method because I have the blade of the knife facing my hand, if something were to slip it could cut me.

If I have to wrap something around the blade, I might not be able to get a good grip on it, so I prefer to hit the blade against the charred material, so we'll take a piece of this charred material out of here and place it. the side really fast like this and what I like to do is position that thing to expose as much surface area as possible to catch my Sparks and then stab it with my knife like this and then I'll lean my knife back a little bit and I'll hit Sparks on the charred cloth like this, okay, take that out now, let's look at the $3 butcher knife, we'll do the same thing, we'll take it out here, we'll set it. down with the blade, we will hold the handle by pushing down, okay we are on fire, now let's look at the Pathfinder Scout larger than the Pathfinder plsk1, larger in blade size and length, this is a 6 inch blade. a little wider, this one is completely flat ground, but it has that 90° spine, it's 3/16, it's just a little bigger, more of a French trade or butcher knife style design, okay, put my Sparks in in the right place here. here we go, okay, we have flaming fish cloth, so you can see that a $40 knife will do, a $3 knife will do, a $200 knife will do, it doesn't matter how much the knife costs, it matters what the physical characteristics are and The capabilities are of that knife, okay, so what I want to do now real quick is go through some knives with you, one at a time, show you the knives that I trust, it doesn't mean there are other knives in the. market that they are not good, but again, if you are going to ask me what I think about this or that, if you didn't see it in this video, that should give you an indication of what I think about it, it means that I won't take it well.

Anything from Blind Horse Knives will be a bomb. Anything from Habous Bush Tools will make a good knife. Anything MOA will be a good knife, but it won't meet all the criteria we talked about. about some of them are not high carbon, they are stainless steel and none of them are Full Tang so let's start with the blackberries, the more Bushcraft black is by far my favorite, it has a nice blueish blade, it has a 3/4 Tang. nice comfortable rubber over plastic handle here high carbon steel blade good 90° spine the blade is almost a little over 4 inches long and for me you know the minimum is around five but again, this it won't be my main knife so it doesn't have to be 5 in this is another MOA this is the companion Moa another good knife about half a little more than Tang maybe 3/4 rubber over plastic handle .

You can see the blades a little less robust than the black Bushcraft, it's a little bit shorter, it's not as wide and it's about the same thickness, so this is a heavier knife than this one, but this knife costs more than this. Both will do the job. A knife I've been carrying a lot. Lately, as a backup or carving knife for Bush making, there's this martini and one of my instructors gave it to me. Molded 3/4 in Tang solid rubber handle. It has a really nice 90° spine. It's nice and thick. it's over eight of an inch, it might be close to 3/16 Scandinavian sharp, it's a very short blade, it's just a little bit, it's a little under 4 inches, I don't think it's going to be a main knife for me, but it's great . backup carving and craft knife for my backpack this is the habis butcher knife and this knife was designed directly after this knife this is a $3 butcher knife from a garage sale this is the habis butcher knife it was designed and made directly to imitate this knife because we knew another one of these would never come so we wanted something that was very close to an 18th century design with 18th century handle materials and scales, this one has 1 2 3 four five six pins to which is more period correct for something along the lines of the 18th century solid wood handles are flat like many ofthem back then it has the pathfinder logo and the habis bush tool logo it is also a good grind scan scand ofex has a little bit of a compound convex sharpening on the bottom of the scandinavian sharpening, it has a good 90° spine and it's made from 1095 so it definitely ticks all the criteria, it's definitely a good sturdy knife, okay now let's get to bhk Blind Horse Knives.

Now, Blind Horse, obviously, I've had a very, very long relationship with Blind Horse Knives. They are absolutely my favorite knife company bar none in the world, their knives have never failed me and everyone I have spoken to says they ever have. Any problem with a knife, that blind horse is replaced without a doubt, so any guarantee like that is the guarantee. I want its fit and finish to be perfect. Their stores are really nice. I've been to their store so I know what it looks like. I know that. The craftsmanship is good American made quality, but again you are going to pay for American made knives.

The Pathfinder Scout is the one I carry probably 95% of the time, not because I don't like the plsk1 but because this one has a little more versatility for what I do every day if I had to choose a knife for in case of emergency, it would be the plsk1, that's what it was designed for. This knife is more of a hunting, skinning and butcher knife. It has a large 6-inch butcher-style blade. European type, uh, French commercial knife, 316 style blade, heavy, heavy spine. Tool 01. Steel Curly Maple Handles. It's a really nice sturdy knife and I carry it quite a bit.

The plsk1 is the original Pathfinder knife that was manufactured by Blind Horse Knives. Scandinavian sharpening blades approximately 5 and 1/4 inches long. It has some twisting. on the top of the blade here curly maple handles on this like I said 01 heavy duty tool steel 90° spine this knife will do anything in the world you want it to do and if you have it if it's in the right hands of The person with the right skill can do anything they want, from fine carving to processing firewood. This is the Muk the Nesic with the Pathfinder logo, made by Blind Horse.

Scandinavian milled nesic style blade. It's basically a short butcher knife. I think that's pretty much what Nesm had in mind when he made this knife. If you compare it to a larger butcher knife, they are more or less the same, it's just shorter and more square than a butcher knife. He has the same hump. the top so that it rides over the bone when you cut with it, it's good for beating. I like this concave area here because it creates a lot of forces, a lot of pressure here in the abdomen where when you're trying to split wood and things like that, so it's a really good knife, but remember that with any knife you're going to use, a lot of Your sheet is where you are going to do 90% of your work, you already know it before.

Getting to the belly up is where you're going to do 90% of your work. When I see guys carving sticks and making points on the sticks here on the sheet, I know those guys don't know what they're doing. what you're doing because that area of ​​your knife should be the most pristine area because that's what you're going to use to process the game, that's what you're going to use for very fine cuts and notches and fine carving tasks that you don't want Use it to remove the pork and material to make points on the sticks, that's what this area of ​​the knife is for.

Okay, just a small detail. The Nesic knife is a really very good and versatile hunting knife. This is the great Blind Horse bushcrafter Kart style design. The blade is a really capart style design knife for the most part it has this indentation in the handle which makes it really comfortable for the finger it has a nice round grip like my instructor J uh Jamie berlay always says it's like a broom handle , no matter how you hold it, it will always be comfortable in your hand and that is one of the advantages of this knife for bush crafting and things like that, it has a four inch blade, like I said, it has an artistically designed spearhead ke. blade on it, this one has a completely flat grind.

I think the ones they sell have a hollow grind. I'm not sure about that, don't quote me on that and this one has curly maple handles. This one is really nice. The little knife that Blind Horse makes, this is the Woodsman Pro. I've used this knife, it's not as extensive as the others, but it's a really nice woodsy style design knife for hunting and trapping and stuff like that, it's just not the all. Big enough that something for me is Beyond a carving knife or a thin knife for a single tool knife, but it's a very good backup knife for the Trap line for hunting, skinning and things like that, and This one is called Trap Line Companion.

Now this knife has a blade of about 4 inches. This was an accidental knife. This was a knife that was made. Another knife was busted and Dan at Blind Horse Knives pulled it out and when he showed it to me. I fell in love with it, the reason I fell in love with it and decided to adopt it as TLC is because it has a nice nice Hollow Grind, which means it will stay sharp and it has a nice little drop point right here for skinning. and making money cuts in hides and hides and things like that and it has that little kitchen knife feel to it which makes it ideal for fine carving tasks and things like that as well as making feather sticks to make fine cuts and notches and all that guy.

In many ways, this thing is like the world of Moa of the Blind Horse, except it's Full Tang and is high carbon steel with a 90° spine, so it does everything for me if needed. There's one thing I want to talk about real quick in this video. I see a lot of people talking about making feather sticks. How good is the knife. Making feather sticks again depends on how well you can handle the knife and what your skill level is. A good sharp knife will make feather sticks obviously a thinner blade. I'm going to make better feather sticks than a thicker blade, so you have to understand the limitations of what you have, but even a blade that is 316 or thick like the Pathfinder knife, which has a great Scandinavian sharpening, which makes it really good. processing wood and things like that and a good sturdy tool is not going to be as good for fine carving tasks as, for example, this TLC or even this Martini or Amora because the blades are thinner, have a sharper Scandinavian bevel and are I'm going to do those fine cuts, this is hollow terrain, so it will definitely make fine cuts, but let's look at these knives and when you're making feather sticks, you're not trying to, you don't want this thing hanging.

You are on a stump between your legs and you are trying to push the knife with both hands. That's not the way to make feather sticks. Feather sticks are a fine and delicate carving task. I'm telling you, no one would complain about that feather stick. /16 inch blade with a heavy, outrageous sharpening which is a nice feather stick that turns on very very quickly and that's the advantage of a feather stick is that it has increased the surface area and made the material be very thin so that it warms up. quickly and it should be consumed faster, well guys, I appreciate you joining me in this video here today.

I wanted to go over my mindset with you or my line of thinking when it comes to knives. I also wanted to talk to you a little bit about understanding. what you're looking at when you see other people handling knives using knives reviewing knives and stuff like that and again, this is not an attack on any Knife Company, it's not an attack on any YouTube reviewer. I just want to educate the people who are watching. my videos on what to look for and make sure that when you see a review of any product, whether it's a knife or a steel pot, that person has used that item and you can't say that they have used an item by taking it into the woods once or for 5 minutes or 5 hours or probably even 5 days, you need to use and abuse that item before you can really say what it's worth having in someone's kit.

I'm Dave Cyber ​​at Pathfind School. I appreciate his opinions. I support everything you do for me. For my school. For my family. I'll be back in another video as soon as I can. Thanks guys.