Beginning Bushcraft - Which Knife To Choose?
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Looking to get involved in bushcraft? One of the key things you need to start learning many important bushcraft skills is a suitable bushcraft knife.
In this video I look at what is required to get started on your bushcraft journey.
I also explain why you really don't need to spend a lot of money on an expensive bushcraft knife.
I point out the features of a bushcraft knife to look for and some tips on how you might want to progress over time - both in terms of your use of the knife as well as some considerations for looking after it.
If you are beginning bushcraft, then I hope my advice in this video serves you well.
This video forms part of a series of 20 FREE videos I've made to help people with wilderness bushcraft, survival skills and general outdoor life.
To get the other free videos right now, please visit
http://paulkirtley.co.uk/free-tips-and-advice/
Additional update:
I've received questions about the knife in the video. It's a Mora Companion 840 MG Knife. This is the version we give out for free on the Frontier Bushcraft 2-day, 3-day and 6-day courses.
There is also a Heavy Duty version which sells for about £5 more and is well worth considering too.
My company, Frontier Bushcraft, does sell the knives online but we give away many more for free on our courses. But if you do want more info or to pick up an extra knife, the links are below:
http://shop.frontierbushcraft.com/Mora-Companion-Knife-840-MG-p/11863.htm
http://shop.frontierbushcraft.com/Mora-Companion-Heavy-Duty-MG-Knife-p/11746.htm
And for more information on Frontier Bushcraft courses, you can navigate to each course description from the following page:
http://frontierbushcraft.com/courses/
And if you have questions, I'm always happy to hear from people. Just drop me an email or tweet or what have you. All the contact details are on the website...
You might also like to read the following article I wrote about all that you really need (in addition to some outdoor clothing) to get started with learning bushcraft skills:
http://frontierbushcraft.com/2012/06/08/getting-started-bushcraft-equipment/
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Video Transcription
hi there poor Kelly here author of Paul Kelly's blog the leading source of wilderness bushcraft advice and information on the net and founder a Frontier bushcraft the award-winning bushcraft school now one of the questions I get asked a lot is and I won't want to get involved in bushcraft I want to start learning some skills what knife should I get there's loads of expensive bushcraft knives around and I don't know which one to choose I don't know where to start I wouldn't know how to look after it I don't know how to sharpen a knife my advice is simply don't worry about getting an expensive knife to start off with the reason why a lot of knives are expensive are that they're handmade it's not that they're necessarily made of much finer materials the quality of the steel is what you're interested in and you can get good quality steel knives for very little money very inexpensive and they will suit anybody's budget and also if you're just learning how to use a knife you certainly you're learning how to sharpen it you don't necessarily want to get a handcrafted bespoke tool to start off with because you may will damage it if you if you're if you're just practicing your sharpening technique so I would say get something relatively inexpensive but also extremely usable and then get used to using that get used to looking after it get used to sharpening it and then when you know what you really like in a knife and you know maybe what you don't like in a knife as well from having used a couple of cheaper ones then you can go for a more expensive knife and what I would say initially is just go for one of these little Morrow's it's very very difficult to beat these particularly for the money they're about ten twelve pounds similar amount in dollars and they really really are impossible to beat for the money the yet the quality the steel is extremely good and because they're mass-produced and the standard is very high for the cost and we hand these out to to to all of our students on our courses and they provide a very very good training knife they've got a comfortable handle and the handle is symmetrical so that you can feel which way around it is in your hand without looking which is quite safe it's got a nice even curve on the on the edge so you're not going to just come off the end of a piece of work when you're carving it's a nice all-round knife to use it has a flat bevel or what some people call a Scandi grind which is both very very suitable for the sort of wood craft and wood carving that we do in bushcraft but also it's very easy to sharpen both on bench stones at home and on smaller stones in the field so it's a good all-round knife and as I say extremely difficult to beat for the money so this will be my number one choice for a beginner getting interested in bushcraft it suits everybody's budget it's not expensive it's one of the most important tools you can buy and yet you don't need to spend a lot of money this is the one to go for I hope you find that useful and particularly if you're starting out and bushcraft it's a fantastic journey to take down the path of learning about nature and all the resources that you can use and with one of these knives you can go an awful long way down that path so if you find this useful please go to my website called curtly cote UK where you'll find many more useful tips and tricks and articles and videos about bushcraft and outdoor life and if you sign up for my emails and I send out a regular newsletter with extra tips and advice and you I'll send you 23 videos just like this one straight away that's a pull correctly co uk thanks for watching the video and I'll see you on the next one
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Paul Kirtley
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