Primitive Sharpening a Survival Knife with Rocks

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hey its Mitch Nate survival today we're going to talk about sharpening your stone primitively with stones you can find all right so have some stones that I found in my travels and you know whenever I find a stone has a nice flat edge you know just pick it up throw my rock and know that one day will come in handy right you know one of you find a resource in the woods you know don't just walk by and just assuming able to find it again I really like to you know build up my tools as I go you know it's like instead of having to find a flat stone at the time I need it immediately if I happen to find one Wow you know that'd be really nice to sharpen sharpen an iPhone well pick it up you know throw in the bag and when you need it you got it right and it's also good because you now know as you practice using it what you like to find in stones so if you find yourself in a situation without a sharpening stone but you do have a manufactured knife phone you have to sharpen it you know you already have experience with selecting stones and and using them so you know you can find something good you're not going to trash your blade okay so let's just talk about what I have here so I just have three stones and this would be my coarse stone when I would use first you can see I've already already used it has I haven't really washed it since last time I used it has a lot of resins and tannins on and stuff this is a good for axes or for nice any of these can be used for access but I just like using a large stone for an axe this one has a very small flat area right here at the top both of these would be like medium grits you know and a really high fine grit would be a river stone this one has a few flat spots and it's like glassy smooth which is just awesome awesome awesome awesome we're putting that final edge on your blade all right so let's put these things into practice all right so my knife is already pretty sharp so I really don't need to use the rough stone first the medium grip but I use them almost the same way as I do a manufactured stone except I only do circles when manufactured stone I go back and forth the length of the blade I don't do that with natural stone reason being is that I haven't found a stone that's perfectly flat long enough you know it's like nice flat area and then a half inch it like moves you know II mean it goes in or girls will goes out it has a convexity to it rather the cases so you know it's hard to find a long area that you can you can put over probe your edge so I usually just do circles with this because it's much less demanding on the material you know I only need to have a small area that's flat all right so very simple stuff I just lock down my arms as much as I can just like it I knew do with the sharpening stone I find the flattest place I can on the stone kind of study it for a minute get to know it how I want to use it all right then I put it up to my edge and I just watch for the gap just like I do with my axes I could do everything so right there the shadow is gone all right trying to get that in frame for you guys so you turn it and you put it right up to the edge until the shadow disappears and I still light circles my blade out is already extremely sharp right now so I really just have to touch this one up man as I put a wicked edge on it that's wow man I love it alright so I really same the other side all right let's go the whole whole edge of it and it just feels fantastic so I just do that as many times as necessary to

get the knife where I want it I use this edge this time so I really like pressure following the bevel as best I can try to only use the flattest part of a stone you know then go back and check your work

and this thing is absolutely deadly right now

this is actually a new new stone I found recently that works better than any other stone I've ever used for finishing off off my blade really pumped huge improvement my blades always sharp or natural stones but man it's a good one so you know it's just uh just it's just a really nice feeling you know using natural stones knowing that you know I can go out with just my knife and I can keep the most important tool that I own sharp with what I can find around me you know in the rivers you know alongside them streams things like that so it's it just gives a lot of confidence knowing that with this tool I don't even need this tool but with this tool life is a lot easier right with this tool being sharp from using stones it stays easier because once your knife dulls it's not so easy anymore if you're gonna keep using this tool alright thanks for joining me today for using natural stones to sharpen your tools appreciate your views your comments need support see in the next one

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