Tagged! My Three Favorite Bushcraft Knives

Oh, caught me on my coffee break there anyway, welcome back to another exciting edition with Dave, so I was marked for enough survival to show off my

three

favorite

Bushcraft

knives

. Well, now it's a very difficult decision for me because I have so many

knives

that I love you, you know, everyone knows me as a machete guy, but yeah, I love knives too. The knives are great. I love them. I love sharpening knives for my Bushcraft knives. The longer I've been into this stuff, the more I hate weed. tender package because sometimes it has moisture sometimes it doesn't, but I have learned that if you have a good sharpening knife you can make feather sticks, you can make curls, you can make shavings and they will never fail you on your Ferro Rod, enough is enough.

That's okay, what I'm going to do now is show you my

favorite

knives, my

three

favorites, and then I'll show you the finalists, which I give as an honorable mention. Okay, now to get started. I must safely say that any MOA knife from Sweden could be pronounced MOA. I'm not sure, but I'm from the south. Sorry, any MOA knife is fantastic, that's my number one choice. I love blackberries. I love them. I love them, I love them, I can't say enough about them, okay, if you don't have a MOA, buy one, there's no excuse not to have one or 10, okay, my favorite of all the moas is the black Bushcraft, okay, comes in a kidex. sheath I have it permanently attached with paracord to my favorite machete, my Ontario sp53, okay, because this is just my, this is the ultimate pairing as far as I'm concerned, okay, it has my favorite machete with my favorite blade, now the black Mora Bushcraft.

It's a eh, it has excellent sharpness. It is a carbon steel blade. It has a medium soft plastic handle. Very good grip. I love it. I love it. I love it. I can't say enough about him. Black

bushcraft

. You can also buy this version with Ferro. Rod attached to Kidex sheath, okay, now, one thing about this black Bushcraft, uh, some of the other blackberries, a lot of the other blackberries, the back of them is as polished as the blade, okay, I do it which does not require a Ferro Rod personally. It's like using a striker for my Pharaoh Rod, but this is already sharpened on the back.

Okay, isn't that okay? That's my number one choice. Well, where are you there? Okay, that's my number one pick, Mora. Black crack bush, okay, that's my first choice, now my second choice, let me tell you this real quick, the Condor Bush tradition. I know you've all seen them, okay, there are a million of them out there, okay, you can tell it has a really ergonomic looking handle, very comfortable, very comfortable. handle handle good carbon steel blade has a nice belly uh that used to be my favorite until I tried the Condor wood base well the Condor wood base that I have combined comes in a black leather sheath and I have combined it with my warlock Condor, okay, the nice thing about this is that it has a Micarta handle, just like my warlock, okay, so let's take a closer look at this now.

I will say that was when I first saw this. I felt a bit taken aback because the handle is so straight, I mean there's nothing ergonomic IC about it, it's okay, but after using it I don't know what it is, I just love it, it's okay, you can see there's a big difference in the ergonomics of the handles between the bushings. lower and the bushl has a larger belly on the blade, it basically has a straight straight handle on the spine of the knife, it is carbon steel and has a Scandinavian sharpening. I love it if you ever get a chance to buy one of these and use it I promise you will love it too this is a great knife okay so that's number two and like I said I have it paired with my warlock .

I love my witcher. It's good. It's a heavy chopper. a good, good machete, okay, as I was thinking before, there are different reasons for me to like different Bushcraft knives, one could be the same price because, as some people have done, if they are personalized, they could be traditional, they could have a sentimental value. For number three, mine will be my traditional Norwegian somi knife. Okay, I used to think it was pronounced Sammy knife, but it's not. I'm pretty sure it's pronounced Sami knife. Okay, and it is the traditional knife of the Sami people. Hunters, Scandinavian fishermen and, uh, tougher reindeer and possibly trappers, this was the knife they carried, okay, and it comes in a reindeer sheath, okay, so let's lean over here and take a closer look, actually a little closer, okay? here, there's the sheath, okay, the way you pull it out, the whole knife is the way they told me it's like you give it a squeeze to get it out and then you press on the back of the blade to avoid cutting the holster, okay, I had it backwards, that's not good, shows you how often I get it out right.

I feel like an idiot, okay, this knife has a hardwood handle, it has a brass knob and a brass hilt, okay. no finger guard eh, that's the traditional Sami knife style, okay, this is made in northern Norway, let's see if I can get a name that I previously thought I didn't know how to pronounce. but that is pronounced kesm straming okay kesm straming now the straming family from what they have told me from what they have told me that family there are several generations that have been making this knife in Norway it is in the family there is a lot of tradition a lot of history, many background on this knife, okay, the gentleman I got this from who lives in Norway, said that the traditional Scandinavian reindeer hunter, herer fishermen, many of them didn't carry an axe, yes.

They weren't carrying a machete, they weren't carrying a small knife. They carried a knife like this and it's a pretty big knife and it's not that heavy, but it was. They were so skilled. They did everything with this. They were able to put this length. It's an advantage to cut with it and yet it was also his knife, it was like it was his heavy Chopper and his knife and it has a Scandinavian sharpness and it's a carbon steel blade. Well, now to show you where I was wrong before. pressure on the back as you reholster it and that is what prevents you from cutting the reindeer holster.

One thing about these SMI knees that I have never understood is that they have this thing on the bottom where the leather is. It is cut, inserted and left like that, okay, it is a four-real somi knife made in northern Norway. Now I want to show you something else here, this is a somi knife, but it comes in a leather sheath, not a reindeer sheath, which it is not. Well, it's not traditional and the other thing is, it has the brass knob and the brass grip and the hardwood handle, it has the Scandinavian polish, but what happens is that it has a finger guard, well, never before They had the finger guard. the finger guard is not traditional, okay, this is a good knife, but it's not traditional, okay, now let me go through a couple of the finalists for your favorite Bushcraft knife real quick because I showed you my three favorites, the decoy Condor Bush, of course, and me.

Recently I have never had a martini knife until recently I bought two Martini knives because I found out that they are made in Finland, you know very well, anything made in Finland is of good quality, it is of good quality, like anything else. made in Sweden will probably make some people angry saying that, but they are good quality. I have the Big Game Hunter martini, okay, it has a blood groove, okay, it has a finger guard, but it has an outrageous grind, it has a beautiful, beautiful, Scandinavian grind. this is a fantastic carver, this thing will make feathers stick like a dream, okay, right here, this is the basic little knife, very, very small.

I bought this because I was going to attach it to a machete, each one is named after a martini. the handle you can see the difference in them, okay, I'll show you real quick the difference on the inside, let's see, uh, this is just a common MOA, here I show you the difference in the size of these two. a little smaller, a very small knife, good knife, okay, now one more, one more finisher, uh, Condor used to make, uh, that basic Bushcraft that they used to make a small, medium and large, okay, the small, the small one, they stopped making the small one, it comes in a small leather case and has more blade than this little gem handles.

You can control it a lot and put your thumb behind everything you have. You make fantastic feather sticks. You can combine it with a Ferro rod and that is wonderful. backup fire equipment, okay we're at 11 minutes, what I'm going to do now, I'm not going to spend the rest of the day here in the equipment room with you, what we're going to do is I'm going to grab my two favorite machetes with my two favorite knives and I'm going to grab the somi knife and we're going to run out into the woods and spend a little time in the woods and I'm going to do something that I mentioned a long time ago in a video is a type of cooking game called Wishbone by dovetail, okay, I'll show some close-ups of these knives carving, carving, notching and things like that, okay, let's do it.

I'm going to pack all this up and we'll head to the forest. Well, finally we're going to walk through the forest and what we're going to do is have some fun with our knives and our machetes and uh, what I'm going to do is show you a really cool cooking set and uh, I've never shown it before and it's really a fun Bushcraft project and uh what's it called I mentioned it in a previous video and what's it called is Dovetail Wishbone uh yeah it's a stupid name but I didn't name it uh now this setup is really fun it's a Bushcraft project fun it's cool uh it's going to be great for carving and weeding tasks and the kids find it fun so it won't make much sense while I cut it and carve it, but every part of the time I'll try to explain how it's carved. and like I said, some of the time it's not going to make any sense, but once I've carved it and everything goes together, you'll completely understand, so let's find a place and carve and carve.

Alright, this right here looks like this tree will do pretty well, so what I'm going to do is like I always do because I don't like my stuff on the ground. If I can, I'll tie myself here to the tree. What I like about these Alice packs is that they have these places here where you can tie yourself that way my stuff won't be on the floor, there we go, no good, now get this out, get rid of these gloves. Gloves are good for keeping out mosquitoes, poison ivy, thorns, and all that kind of stuff. Okay, this is my new coyote Alice pack, it's not genuine military, but I wanted to try it, sometimes you just have to look good. your clothes, okay, what do we have here?, okay, Bushcraft, the black Condor wood law and my somi knife.

I'll take turns with everyone, let's start with the law of wood, the witcher and me. You might need a saw so I'll bring my saw too, yes I brought my Pocket Boy silky in case I need it, because actually if the label wasn't my three favorite BR Bushcraft knives it would actually be my if it were my three favorites. Bushcraft blades, so it would be a knife, a machete and a folding saw. I rarely mind carrying an ax because most of your accidents happen with an ax, so okay, let's find a place. I found a good spot here, right behind me, what is it?

The woods here are very thick, so I'm trying to do the best I can, but what it is is a stick, it's a stick that's leaning against a tree there, okay, so what you want to do is what you want. to find an area where you go down to the ground and you want to stand in front of it and you want to measure which you will be allowed to move over what you want to do is the intended location where the fire will be located. be your measurement and right here this measures up to just below my pocket okay so for now I'll leave it like this and we'll cut a piece that's the height of my pocket and then I'll show it.

Do you know what I'm going to do? I'm starting with the uh Warlock and the law of wood has him tied up so let's find a tree and get this thing going that doesn't make sense so far but the rest of it will make sense as it goes on I think I found what I need here, this long stick that is right here because it is raised from the ground, it is dry, it is a piece of hard wood and it has a crack in it. This is the key, you'll see why in a minute. Now I have this piece here that I think will work well.

I'm going to measure it to the bottom of my pocket and cut it here. Okay, come up here now. I have this piece of wood. Well, a normal piece of wood and as you can see, it's dry. It has a crack in the middle, which is the key. I'll show you why in a minute. Alright. I have it where it is right under my pocket because that's where I measured to where the tree is, so let's find a big Stout tree and I'll show you the next step. Well, I already have it. I had to go back and Understand, this is my third piece of wood because the first two were rotten, so this is a pretty solid piece, but it has a lot of small branches coming off of it and they have to be removed first before I can show them to you. .

To do? Well, this is the kind of thing that happens in real life. All the wood you find in the forest is not necessarily always the best, that's fine, but anyway what you do is you find a piece of wood and ifIt has a split down the middle, it's even better if it doesn't have a split, but I'm going to try to make it work anyway. I think I'm going to start from the bottom, yeah, there's a split anywhere you see a natural split, you want to try to find it and you want to use it and you want to start that split with your machete, okay?

What you want to do is put your machete inside that split or if you have or if you have an ax and then you hit it against the tree to try to get it started right now once you've started with your machete, lean down. Basically what you are trying to do is try to get the wood cut in half without splitting it. This is not an easy task, so instead of using a cane, what you want to do is try to try to move it as best you can, you can get to a knot, you can get to a point where it doesn't, so that you can hear it part, okay, which is okay, I didn't want to do it. but I'm going to end up having to beat this piece because sometimes it breaks and let's try it and see if we can split this thing in half okay look now it started to split sideways which is not good so what maybe What I have to do is just carve every bit, carve every bit up to where I got half a stick.

I hate to do that, but you know I had good materials at home, but I didn't want to just show a finished setup. I wanted to show how it is built in the forest. Yes, I think this will work fine. You don't have to cut to the end. I can stop right there. It is perfect. The stick won't have knots, but I'll have to use what I found, you know, to make the video, but basically what you want is half a stick and at the ends it doesn't matter if it's round or I didn't find it before I beat them from one end to the other. another one completely perfectly flat then and what you want to do with this what you want to do is if you haven't if it didn't turn out fair, you're going to want to carve it until it's perfectly flat and it's like half a stick, okay, and then down, on the bottom, here you want to cut it into a point as best you can, okay, take the other end. look what I'm doing here, smooth this out a little more and then when you want to carve the other end into a point, it can be a rough point, we'll carve it later with a smaller knife, we're nice. to cut it right now, okay, since this has knots, since this has knots, the next thing you want to do is pick a side and cut it at an angle, okay?

So what am I doing? What I'm going to do is rough it up with my machete and then cut it nice and sharp with my smallest knife, making a mess, but that's okay, you'll get the idea when I get there, okay. I've hacked this up a bit and it really doesn't look anything like what it's supposed to be, but it's half a stick and I started carving the relatively flat back side. to a point now at the ends take the old law of the wood put my thumb behind sometimes I will sometimes I use the other thumb and what I'm going to do now yes, no I don't need the thumb, what I need What I'm going What to do now is just carve this into a point and then I'll turn it around and carve the other end into a nice point, so it's nice to have a knife on a machete because you have a lot more control over a knife.

Now look, this is a very good hardwood. It's not rotten here like those other pieces. The other pieces were full of ants. So look, now I have a nice sharp point. What I'm going to do is sharpen the other end next, okay, I've got both ends to a sharp point, nice and sharp, okay, the next thing you want to do on the back half of the log you don't do anything to it, okay overall. that will work, we may have to record on the front what you want to do, see if I can put this on the camera on the front, what you do.

I've already hacked it a bit, but what do you want to do. What you see me you want to carve an acute angle all the way down. Now this is a very sloppy version, but I wanted to try building one here on site so you can see how it's done. I have a better one in my truck and if this really turns out to be a lousy job, I'll show you the other one as it's done. Well, now let's see if I can show you that what you have here now is that you have a floor in this one. side, okay, this is a flat part and then I have an angle carved into this side, okay, and then I'll take it there to that log and show you what we're going to do next, oh. wait, I missed a step, wait there a minute, let me take something else, okay, there was one more step that I had forgotten before I went to the record, what you want to do is you want to take the part that had been taken away well and what What you want to do is put a dimple right there, just turn it over and over hard to pay attention not to cut me and put it on camera, once you've made the dimple. the dimple is the dimple is the bottom pivot for this part.

Okay, now I'm going to take the whole thing to that registry and show you how this part was set up. once this is set up correctly there's only one part left and that's actually the hardest part to carve so I found a perfect one - it's shaped like a wishbone. A fork stick is where the name Wishbone Dove tail comes from. This is the dovetail, which is the wishbone. Well, there's actually a Dov's tail cut off in the wishbone, enough talk, let's set this up now for filming purposes. I actually found a much better tree that has a slightly lighter opening, so let's work on that.

Here, okay, the first thing you need to do is take your stick, okay, I have to determine the top and bottom, most of the floor will be the top and you want to put it here on your tree and you want to try to find a place where it's reasonably level, okay, what you want to do is mark a spot up here, okay, and once that point is marked, you want to cut some sort of split into it, a sort of floor. Right now you have, maybe I have to show you the different way. Yes, I'm going to change the camera angle.

As you can see, what I did is I cut a shot and I go towards the camera. up so you can see what I'm going to do next, okay, we're under this tree that's lined up and I'm on my divot, okay, so what I'm going to show you next is what you want to do, to see if I can see what I'm doing, yeah, I can see you want to take your knife, see what I'm doing here and you want to split it at the top, okay, what you're going to do with this thing is this is going to rotate inside of it. , okay, let me put you in a different camera angle and I'll show you how this all works, okay, I've got you backed away from me now what you want to do is the pointy part that's completely flat the bottom part has a little round to it you have this stick that has a dimple in it, so what you do now is you glue this part and split it under the tree and then shim it Come in with this and see it's absolutely perfect right there because what you have now is you have your flat stick that has to be split. up at the top and down at the bottom, it's on that segment on that board and this will just spin and spin.

It's exactly how it's supposed to work, as long as it doesn't ruin the other part, we'll be fine. What I found here is that I have a tree that is dead and lying here and in the air it has a fork sticking out of the At the end, look how it has a fork that is absolutely perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect. Now sometimes these things work better in green. You can cut and carve with them, but this is dead and dry, so I'm going to try it now. I've changed I've changed to my uh my um Bushcraft black my machete Ontario give it some air time because after all, the name of the video was, you know, uh, my favorite Bushcraft knives, let me clear some of this up and then I'm going to take a closer look at you because this is very important, but before you remove this strong stick from your main branch, there are things you should do that will make life much easier.

Okay, I took out the branches. Now what we're going to do to avoid messing this up. I'm going to go ahead and break out the saw and show you the first part. The first part is what they want to do. I think you want to take the you want to take the thinner of the two, okay, save the thicker one for this other part, the thinner of the two, what you want to do is take the saw, okay and let's say you go parallel . you want to take the saw and you want to aim it, tilt it back at a 45 degree angle, okay, the sun is hitting everything, okay, you want to cut halfway, okay, and I'm going to go this other way and I'm going to Vi about halfway up W, okay, since you can see too many things on the way, okay, I can get you a little closer, yeah, let me get a little closer so you can see some details about this while I clean it up.

I'm going to clean this up with a saw a little bit, okay, can you see it has a V now? If this were green wood, I could, I could carve it, clean it with my knife. I will, I will unfortunately, I will end up having to use one more saw on this, this is the fork, okay, what you want to do is move up and all the way back. diameter of the stud that you cut okay, you want to do this you want to take your saw, tilt it back and start sawing you want to cut in half, okay, so you want to make a series of cuts that are about halfway in, okay, take your knife and just start pulling them out, okay, look how I say it's easier to work with it like this, ah, okay, now comes the hard part that you want to stick in your pigeon tail, wait a minute, something's in the way, there it is have. the old black Bushcraft, you want to place this inside here and there, so what you're going to want to do now is carve inside here and what I think I'm going to do is from I already have the base for this made.

I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and cut out the entire piece. Do you want to come back here? In good ways, can you? Look where I am, you want to go back a good way from your pigeon tail, you have some length here and then when you get there, let's look over here, so you want to cut this and cut it. I think I ruined it. I cut the dovetail too far back because look how it has the V on the bottom and the dovetail on the top. I cut it too far back, you'll see why in a minute when I put this up.

Here look how it hangs, it's not supposed to hang, it's supposed to hang straight, look how something is missing back here, but I mean it's still going to work, but what you have to do now is what you have to do. carve this part here to match it a little bit better because you never saw it perfectly okay so what I have to do is cut a little bit of the top and some of the back on this V. I have to cut a little bit of the front of this side and the back of this side all right, the front here and the back here, I'll carve it here, okay, now in this V notch here, you don't necessarily always line it up when you're smooth with this and As you can see , this is at an angle and that's a good way to look at it when you do this.

Okay, so what you want to do, let's see if I can record this on camera. What you want to do is cut. It's a little difficult to record all of this on film and watch it without clipping, but you're just cropping your V so it's in line. Okay, I've got that part now, let's go to the back here and cut this out. man this is fantastic, it's hard enough to cut it without looking at the camera because when all those guys on that show alone talk about surviving and filming it all, I believe them when they talk about how hard it was to get it right.

Now that I've got it right here on this part, look at the dovetail part I cut off about an inch too far back. Sorry, but you'll get the basic idea of ​​what you want to do with This is what you're going to want to just carve into it, okay, because you can't, you can't see the right depth every time, so that's when you fine tune it with a knife and I'd be afraid to do any kind of fine tuning with a machete because it's dry wood and you can break it. It already has a big crack, but you want to put a nice V on it.

I'm not going to put much effort into it. because like I said, this is not right, it's not set up correctly. I have a mini version that I'll show you quickly to show you how it should look properly since I have a smaller working model of this thing so I'm going to go ahead and try to fix this because it's supposed to be standing out so what I'm going to do is What to do is cut another notch here and I'm going to cut this part out so that this is straight so you know what the idea is supposed to be, you have your Pigeon tail here and you have your v-n here, so I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to Bring everything forward and try to crop this so I can show you how it's going to look properly.

Okay, like I said, this is real life. I ruined it. I'm leaving it on the film. You can see I went ahead and got lucky and had room for an extra notch so what I'm doing now is cutting this shorter and I hope it works, it's a nice thing I cut it extra long to start because I really like to show you how it's supposed to be done correctly. Okay, put another V notch on it. Now let's get back to our stick, let's see if I'm successful. You can ignore it. All that stuff in the back, yeah I think it worked, yeah it worked fine, that's how it's supposed toit works there, well, as you can see, the dovetail fasteners on the v-notch come down and then you have this hanging now.

What you want to do at the top is put a small notch so the panel will fit. Now I'm going to carve a little bit more into that to make sure it fits perfectly before I turn it around and Show it to you, I pulled out the uh somi knife, we're going to use it for our notch, okay, what I'm going to do is put a notch here at the end, you I will let this tree go around. Here, where will Notch be? Here, now, another thing I wanted to do is remove a little bit of the bottom of this Pigeon tail.

Here let's see. I think it's a bottom. Yes that's fine. Can you see what? I'm doing here I'm going to remove a little bit of the background. Okay, that should do it. Now let's hang it up again. I'm going to take my pot out of the bag. I'm almost out of battery. part here I added the van while I was gone okay this is my smaller version this is one I had made up before this was a backup in case it broke but as you can see the top here cut off at a CU angle then the bottom part hasn't had anything done to it there's a v in it I mean there's a dovetail cut there's a v okay now the way this part works continues here and this here is okay and you set this thing up the same way and it turns and turns and look, you can lift it up, you can adjust it wherever you want, okay, now let me get my pot out of this bag here, I'll move this thing down where you can see, let's see how good.

It works, put it on well and you'll see. It will hang there. You can adjust it down very easily down. Place it anywhere you want. Okay, and then I have this notch on the end right here here now. uh, little word. at the end of the video I'm going to tag some people and the people I tag the people I tag uh if you want to make a video go ahead and make a video showing us your three favorite Bushcraft knives okay if you want. make a video that's amazing and if you don't do it, no problem, it's just YouTube, no big deal, okay, so I have my pot hanging here and this is how you do it: you hang your pot on top, okay?

The fire is going to be down, so what you're going to do then is when you use this, you can adjust it down on the fire by just lifting the lever. Okay, now if you want to move it. out of the way of the fire you don't grab this part you never grab this part you grab this part and you turn it well, you can have it here over the fire or you can turn it there away from the fire Okay, isn't that cool? It's a lot of fun to set that thing up. There are many carving skills in it.

All that kind of stuff. Alright. I'm going to show some names on the screen and if you've been.

tagged

make a video showing your three favorite Bushcraft knives if you don't want it's no big deal I'll see you in the next one