Ever thought about this? Fire Tricks

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school I'm going to make a real informal video today I'm going to clip a couple segments together that I have shot for a group page on Facebook and I do a lot of short videos or some live stuff for Facebook only that never goes to YouTube and I did a couple segments for the more a knife group that I'm going to piece together and make a video for you guys today hopefully you'll enjoy these couple tips and tricks that have to do with more knives stay with me so let's have a quick discussion about sharpening stones for a second I want to tell you why I prefer to carry a small pocket stone versus carrying some type of a car that's got diamond grit on it or something like that that you see often nowadays when I'm at home I prefer to use more of a Japanese whetstone to sharpen my tools and my knives wood but in the field I carry some type of a small pocket stone similar to any of these or the one that I have on my neck which is made by wazoo survival which is basically a copy of a viking style pendant whetstone and you can carry something like this just as easy but the key is to use water on these and not oil because in the field water is going to be much easier to come by and you really can't go back once you put oil on one of your stones you can't really go back to water but if you use water on it all the time you can always go to oil if that's what you choose to do now the one that I like the best for field use is the one that I carry on my website and I carry very few sharpening stones on my website I think this is the only one I carry that's a pocket stone the reason it's the only one I carry is because I think it's the best it has multiple surfaces on it from around for sharpening the inside bevel of a hook knife to flat and different types of angles here where I can sharpen knife blades or axes and things like that it also has a fishhook groove in it here to sharpen fish hooks with and it's not real big doesn't take up a lot of room it's got a lanyard hole drilled through it so it's easy to hang on a pack or hang on a piece of equipment when I'm not using it and it works well that way now here's the reason that I say stones are better all of my mentality when it comes to bushcraft and survival revolves around multi-functionality

and if we are going to use our knife again going back to that high carbon steel argument to start a fire and we can't find a hard stone but we have to be carrying a sharpening stone that is in effect a hard stone it's got to be harder than the knife or it wouldn't sharpen or hone the blade so we can take one of these small pocket stones and I'll use one here that I don't care too much about in case I damage it because you may chip out this stone but in an emergency that doesn't matter but now if I have a good high carbon steel blade like this bushcraft black I should be able to effectively take my charred material pin it down like this and use the edge of this stone here to drive sparks onto my charred material lots of people ask me they say Dave why do you prefer your knife to have a 90 degree spine and the reason for that is really twofold number one it's for conservation of my blade resource because if I'm going to create fine shavings of some kind to use for fire material I can do it with the blade of my knife and that's going to dull the edge eventually if I have a 90 degree spine I can use this knife very similar to a spokeshave to create those fine shavings with that spine and just by turning a piece of fat wood corner to corner like this and rotating it I can't create those fine shavings and then just use the blade if I get one that's hanging up on there I can run that ship off and then go back to pulling those fine shavings off again and putting them in a pile now that's the first reason for that 90 degree spine is so that I have a fine shaving and shaping device and it's not only good for fire making but it's also good for things like making primitive arrows for doing woodworking and smoothing any rough cuts that I make with my knife just like you would with a cabinet scraper or a spokeshave inquiry once I've scraped myself a pile of the shavings now I have something viable to use for fire starting but again we'll go back to that 90 degree spine again because most people that I see using their blade to scrape a ferrocerium rod will use very close to the knife handle to scrape that rod and this first 1/3 of the blade is the major part of the blade you're going to use for fine carving tasks so why would you want to dull that with your Ferro rod if you want to conserve that resource with that 90 degree spine I can't clean any residue off that spine from the shaving process and then I can use that to scrape the back of my ferrocerium rod to effectively start my fire just like that okay so we talked about spine attributes of this blade to use it as a spokeshave Anor cabinet scraping type device the garber also has an exposed tang on the backside where the full Tang runs through the handle and that also has a good sharp 90-degree edge on it for me the advantage of this is not for doing this necessarily because you don't have much surface area like you do here to work a larger piece of wood or manipulate it around to get a good hard edge you have a very short surface area here but the advantage that this comes in with things like bark and what I have here is just tulip poplar bark you could do the same thing with cedar bark you could do the same thing with birch bark and a lot of guys that I see processing bark in this manner will take their knife and they'll scrape it with the blade they'll scrape that bark with the blade the advantage to this garber of having that hard butt on the butt sticking out I guess of the spine here on the backside is that I can use that to drag across barks try to get this so you can see it in the camera I'm left-handed so it's a little bit difficult but you can drag down across to expose and bring up those fine fibers within the inner bark where it connects to the outer bark just like this and I can bring that material up very easily to create those fine feathered shavings that I want for fire starting so I can go from both directions here so I'm catching on camera get myself a pile of that material and now again I can use the spine of my knife for fire starting to scrape down and remove material from that rod into that bark material and again if I have a bigger pile I'm going to have a better chance of success but you saw it flame up right away alright so again that's just another attribute of the GAR burg that makes it effective as a bushcraft tool okay guys well I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance offers in the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me today for this quick video couple tips or tricks to do with more knives

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