How to use the Fallkniven DC-4 to Sharpen a Bushcraft Knife Part 1

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hey it's missionary survival and today we're going to talk about sharpening our knives alright so the first thing I like to do is have a seat somewhere stay on a rock and I like to lock down my limbs as much as possible so instead of having to use my arms like this I put my elbows down now I can only move my forearms down okay

it makes the the chances of variables and mistakes much smaller so I lean forward and kind of lock everything in and I only move very small basically with my wrists okay so I'm gonna give you guys a close-up I just want to go over the posture that I use so I'll walk everything down try to minimize my movements so I can get them as small and detail-oriented that's possible okay so I'm going to state parks we might hear some sounds and stuff in the background basically I just get started with the rough side of the stone smooth side all right finish on the side you start on the side and I very gently line up my bevel looking at the shadow right there okay you can see right where it meets a stone so I try to line everything up the best I can and the angle these knives of the handle slopes down a little bit sort of compensate for that I make my stone sloped down a little bit so it kind of matches the handle so I can get all the way to the end of the blade so just line it up and the first thing that I do is I go lengthwise very lightly always aware of my bevel acutely best I can be very lightly very gently I like taking off a very small amount of metal at a time and slowly perfect the edge right now I'm starting at a handle and you can feel when you get to a section of the bevel that gives a little more resistance so you know that you need to stay there for a moment make it match the rest I like doing it this way first because it gets the whole bevel in line because I'm doing it lengthwise not this way

but lengthwise I'm going with with the with the grain of of the cutting edge you're cutting a long part of the blade at once and and you're moving up and down and because you're doing that it it stops the blade from having any wave it really kind of sets it all the same place so I like doing this first because it builds a good foundation for your edge later on you just do this until you feel confident that you did a good job and it feels the same this is how I do my knives and all my knives have scandi Grimes and now looking for speed or anything like that you want perfection and then you slowly move up the bevel up the blade rather the length start heading towards the belly in the tip you be able to feel it grabs in different places so you know like I've seen earlier you have to stay there for a moment then I move back a little bit then I go back through and I feel it if it feels like the resistance is the same and I move on another thing is as I I do this on the stone you see everything builds up around one spot all the resins and the metal and everything else that was on my blade ends up in that one line so as I go I slowly change the location so there's a fresh edge on the stone hitting the bevel because you don't want your I actually cannot see it's already starting to clean right up you can easily tell where I sharpen and where I haven't I haven't gone here yet all right so the blade still needs a lot of work up here which I have even touched

obviously it's getting nice and clean where I've already cut right near the handle is some junk down there I'll try to get rid of that sound like a big with you have to be pretty has to cut good okay so like I was saying I like to move my blade over a little bit on the stone until I find an area that's has less buildup of material that I've taken off my blade so that way the stone is fresh and it's just you know it's like starting all over again it's nice clean stone and once these are both filled up then I clean it I'll show you how to do that in a minute okay so now my stones dirty and easily see that pretty simple just spit on it clean it wipe it on my pants

okay Quinn enough back at it all right besides pretty good you get that nice mirror edge here you know you're you're looking pretty good okay so now I'm going to move over to the other side get to work on here