Bushcraft Skills | Sharpen your knife in the field.

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#bushcraftskills Sharpen your #knife in the feildIn this video we take a close look at how to get a razor sharp edge on your knife whilst out in the field. The equipment used in this tutorial is minimal, lightweight and very very affordable. the whole process takes around 15 minuites for a very badly worn blade and significantly less for a knife that just needs a little touch up.

CC4 Sharpening stone:

http://www.tamarackoutdoors.co.uk/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=17779512

Wet & dry paper :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wet-Dry-Sandpaper-Mixed-Grits/dp/B00CCBRA62/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475436135&sr=8-1&keywords=matador+wet+and+dry+paper+5000+-+7000+grit

Honing compund:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-107879-Blue-Polishing-Compound/dp/B002QRUGJK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475436041&sr=8-1&keywords=silverline+blue+compound

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Video Transcription

hello everybody and welcome to another video in today's video I'm going to be teaching you how to get a razor sharp edge on your life when you're out in the field without the use of bench stones are going to be using a very very simple book thora and effective tool maintenance kit for this now before I get into it it is definitely important for me to say a huge thank you to my friend Josh over at Bushman outdoors whose channel should be appearing here or here any moment now definitely over and check out his channel it was him who showed me how to do this before he taught me this method i was spending a lot of time at home always using bench stones and i didn't really have a method for sharpening in the outdoors so thank you very much to josh Josh for showing me this let's have a look at the kit we're going to be using so the kit that i'm using stays in my tinder pouch which you will have seen some of my other videos if you watch some of my other videos the reason i keep it in here is that my possibles pouch which is always on my belt is it simply because i use this kit less than my possibles pouch and always taking my gloves and one note but notebook and food and stuff out with my fossils pouch the last thing i want to do is to lose the kit so it just stays in with my fire stuff it just makes sense for it to be in there and this last little pop it over here this is the kit we're going to be using that is everything that you're going to need for this method so let's have a quick look to it I'm not going to dwell too much on the specifics of each item i will post links in the bottom of the video in the description here I've were to get all this stuff and those websites will be able to give you a much more thorough description and definition of what everything is that's just not my thing I know it works I'm not really that interest in the specifics so I keep it all bundled up with a couple of her bubbles obviously I've got long her so it makes more sense me to use them thin elastic bands and much more practical to me and everything in this is actually kind of arranged backwards so on the outside which got a strop which is pre pre what's the word preloaded with howling paste which I have I have done this press this morning for the purses the video we have got two pieces of wet and dry sandpaper so we have some 5,000 grip and we have some 7,000 grit sandpaper wet and dry according to this it is waterproof I've never actually tested that but it does the job it lasts ages again this is new for the purpose of this video and my last lock was starting to look a little bit sorry and finally the first thing we've used in this tutorial is a CC for sharpening stone by foul nivin so it's got a fine side which is made from I believe synthetic sapphire and we've got a super fine ceramic side the ceramic side when you get it will be completely white maintenance of this before I forget to say really really simple just every now and then just give it a wash with some soapy water and it'll take all this metal off that's what this crazed of it we don't need any lubrication for that but if you really want to you can just spit on it a wee bit and that all that'll do the job for you so let's get into the tutorial so in terms of what I've decided to actually do this and to sharpen my knife what I've done is I've chosen this nice fall and birch tree here which is going to be absolutely ideal because what it means it I've got a nice comfortable space to send me comfortable space to sit on and then I can use a rest of log as a work surface yeah and I'm going to be working sort of between my knees here but my hands are gonna be out in front of me so there's no risk of me cutting myself and it's all small movements anyway so it's not something I really need to worry about so what I need to do now is just using my so I'm gonna cut a small notch into this birch tree it's all a log just to set the stone in and what's going to happen is that's going to sit in there it's just stop it moving around and the curve of the log means that my knife handle isn't going to be like hitting the hitting anything constantly as I found like quite often trying to use this small stone on a fixed table or something also I've got space here for all my stuff that I'm gonna need a my belt obviously my knife obviously is on my belt so I'm going to be working just here so as you can see my knife is very deliberately in a bad condition for the purpose of this video it is belong as anything that won't show it'll barely cut it really does need to sharpen so I'm going to do is we use this little mark here in the birch bark as my first mark and I'm going to take my Laplander saw i'm just going to small group here and a small groove just here then i'm going to scrape that out using my already blood nice enough to worry about damaging the knife at this point what is that twig now that grows in I'm ready to place my sharpening stone just in that groove there's a little bit of movement in there you can see unless I really push on that it's not going to go anywhere so I've got a nice working service here I'm sorry about the slightly wonky angle on the camera there I'm having to angle the camera around the the truth tensing you can really see what I'm doing so I do apologize for that so really simply now what we're going to do is gonna start working on this will start on the darker side which is a slightly coarse side then I'm going to move over to the finer side and now you've seen a lot of videos that people talk about doing the same number of passes on each side basically I don't bother with that I don't really see the need to do so so we're just going to work this so we think it's ready and it's it takes a bit of getting used to it it takes a bit of practice but it's pretty easy so what I'm going to do is I'm going to place the blade on there now this is a scandi grind blade and I'm going to help place my fingers just on the tip of the blade there and on the pushing movement which is this one I'm going to place I'm going to put a little bit of pressure on so pressure on off on off on off I'm working this side now but then we want to start doing a start just really working that Blaine out a lot the time I'll do the tip separately I'm going to be careful to really keep that that angle correct and that's where I find using these fallen stumps works brilliantly a lot the time this at this stage here my handles gonna be hitting my work surface but I'm really not getting that here and we pay real attention to this section of the blade here that's the section we tend to use the most a little bit more on the tip there okay so that side is now done so we need to repeat that process on the other side coming towards us so again on that cut movement now I tend to find this side to be the easier side it's going to move that stone down so it's not a widdle everywhere you are so this stage now hopefully I just get to try focus she'll be able to see those scratches on the blade there that means we've done it just right for watching the camera readers want to focus on Naxos so bright we just look at the Sun reflects in there you should be able to see those scratches the next stage we're going to move over to the finer side of the stone which you can see it's already got some metal on there but that shouldn't cause an issue and again it's really just the same process i'm going to start with this side so pressure up on on that cutting movement and I'm kind of bringing the knife around a little bit ignoring the tip for now it's just easy to do that separately we're trying to use the full length of that Starla it's really you've got to be really careful not to roll back on it because you're aiming to just take metal off the blade edge and not the flat of the blade back there so again just spending the same amount of time on each side

cut into the end of the blade there now you really need to spend a couple of minutes on each side of the blade dependence on how bad it is mine's pretty bad today like I said for the stake of the video I let it get into a bad condition and then that's that kind of scratch miss he's already starting to disappear the a nice shiny fine edge on that side now spit on there to get the sum up excess metal just give it a bit of white down so we'll start to clog it up after a while and you'll start to lose some of that kind of metal removing quality of it it's probably a technical term for that but I don't know what it is now with that section done you can see here that a lot of them scratches of started sort of disappear so if it's slightly out of focus i'm a bit tall with a light in today as usual so now what we're ready to do is to move on to our sandpaper so I'm going to start with a lower grit which is the five thousand quit sandpaper and all I'm going to do is I'm going to effectively let's wait to do this I'm going to fold the Sun paper around the sharpening stone just like so and i'm going to use this like a strokes the first time I've uses paper so it's a bit stiff once you've used it a few times it really starts to just kind of mold for shape of that and I'm going to use this like a strop since they've going forwards I'm going to come backwards on it and this is where we start to get that really fine edge and that mirrored look to that blade it's all point bit of pressure on that drawing it across and already those fine scratches are disappearing on this side now let's put a bit a minute on each side for this being very very careful not to roll that edge the last thing I want to do is be putting pressure on and bringing this up because it will effectively put me back a stage with this this son paper yeah really lasts a long time as well and the more you use it the kind of finer it seems to get once we're done with one piece I'm going to move on to the really fine stuff now to be quite honest with you a second very very fine piece is a little unnecessary or I like to do it just to get that extra nice mirror kind of edge on the unfolding for me there we go really simply spine a paper we just repeat that stropping process it's as simple as that really it's not it's not a difficult thing to do for a long time being able to get a razor edge in the field kinda like the Holy Grail to me there we go starting at that nice mirror ledger now on to the final stage so final I'm probably one of the most key stages is the proper stropping stage so that's like a priest drop that's what I like to think of that as the sunpapers like a priest drop so all that still can go away now fight and leave sandpaper in there for the time being and then move on to the strop now the stroke I've got here it's just a bit of old leather belt what I've done is I've left some of the holes in the top there in case I ever need to tack it down and having tax with me today but I pre-loaded the inside there with compound it's going to take a bit of work today just because I better get that compound worked in just like when we were using the sandpaper they're all doing it's just bringing this back and I let it kind of bytes in slightly remove it to where that groove is actually I'm just know it's a bit lumpy there we already want that just till the edge there and starts dropping it again same way I'm putting quite a bit of pressure on that to really work it in and this will really bring that edge up really make it fine and I don't have any of the compound with me today the stuff that I use is from silver line tools and it comes the 500 gram block so I tend not to carry it with me I'll provide a link to the stuff in the description to this video

but what I'm going to do here is I'm going to put this from the meters to raise it up slightly in to help it stick on I'm struggling a bit with this edge because a knife is hitting that log yeah that's coming up beautifully now you really want to pay attention to this stage it's what gives you that real fine edge the more you use your strop the better it becomes please just becomes a finer and finer down here I've got a sectional leather belt with this compound is going to move into overtime so I've actually essentially got two stops as josh says move that up slightly to use bit with us all s compound and then into word is basically non so that's fine as you can get yeah I can see this is already razor-sharp I just lick the strop slightly there and cut straight into it then again turn the strop around and do the other side so folks that is the whole process for sharpen your knife so this is what we've ended pop quiz and we're still with the camera a little bit here but I'll do my best to show you it so you can see we've got really really nice of mirror edged actually see the reflection in the camera there and that's how fine that edges so look at the state of what the knife was in before which is still going to flap the blade here and now look at what we have ended up with really really really good process now I'm a word that there is a test for this and that is to see if I can shave some hairs off my arm so I haven't tested this already go see if it works or doesn't work I do apologize so let's see if I get this camera to focus in correctly come on easy lass that's what it's done out of a bald arm of a lot of hairs there come on focus camera there we go so that's how sharp this process can get you very very simple in total from today if I hadn't been filming this were taken me probably around 15 minutes all eating me a little bit longer cuz I've been filming it for the video one hot shot but yes very very quick very very simple to do you can get all this equipment for probably under 30 pounds as I said I will provide links in the description below of everything that I've used the knife that I've used it to bhk bushcrafter there will be a link to the review of that up here somewhere and there we go thank you all for watching I hope you've got something from this video please do get out and give it a try it's very very simple very very easy to carry this kit around with you and thank you all for watching please like share subscribe comment all that kind of stuff and I will see you in the next video thanks guys