Bushcraft Knives: ESEE 90 Degree Spine

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hi there guys I thought I'd just a short video having a look at a couple of the knives that I use just talked a bit about them and some of the changes that I've made have made a video recently on how to do an SE 6 paracord wrap on the sheath but since then I've made a few changes just to make it a bit more streamline and I thought I'd show you the changes that I made these are the two knives so I generally work with in my videos and obviously when I'm acting bushcraft or any kind of outdoor activity I use an SE 6 which is a very large blade more of a survival knife are very good for splitting large bits of wood and great for kind of heavy work when you're at kind of chopping wood I don't generally carry an axe with me so having a big knife like that really does help give it a bit of diversity in the field but sometimes it's a little bit too big for intricate work maybe I want to do some carving I want to sit around sort of doing a bit of carving I need to make something quite useful for myself and I need to get in close to the edge this is why I've sort of bought myself an SEO Zilla too which has been a good companion the tea together have really served me well and it doesn't seem to be too much I can't handle with them both I mean I'd be happy with just this but this is quite a lightweight blade that you can wear around your neck and it is useful to have a small blade or a secondary blade on you when you're out doing various things and I really like this knife and when I bought it I was very impressed with the edge very sharp knife again 1095 carbon steel so it takes a spark as well but one thing I have done is made a couple of little changes to it because I don't think it's perfect right at the box and this is a change that is also mirrored on the se6 if you look at the back of the knife there you can see it's black but that's not the paint that's on the original lassi that's actually gun blue what I've done is I've just ground off the back of the knife filed a small culvert just above the jimping hopefully that's in focus and then blued it to protect it against the elements and that just means I can put sparks off the back of the blade quite easily and with that culvert there I can actually use the fire steel that I've put on the sheath there just push that down with your thumb you can take some sparks off of it very easily and it directs them very well it gives you a nice amount of sparks and it's actually a bit of a better combination they to carry a nice little fire seal on the sheath there with this knife because if I just take this knife with me and this is the only one I make when I'm on a walk or when I'm at doing something you need some light work it's really useful just to have that as a small combination there but it's a great knife and I've been really happy with it and as far as a neck knife case it's a it's really really useful and obviously it just hangs around your neck under a jacket and you can just go for a walk and use it when you need to but I recently did a video on how to do this paracord wrap and connect a patch to the se6 and I had a Maxpedition kondal and sorry I'm expedition they're barnacle pouch on the small little page and I've used that for some time that set up but I found it just stuck out a bit too much it was a bit too bulky and you know certain times a year and there's plenty of foliage on trees and leaves and you've got lots of brush around and you're navigating through it I found it just clung on and it got a bit too much really it's a bit too big so I've made a few changes to this actual kit here so first of all I'll talk about a few changes of made to the knife very similar to the Azula in terms of just ground off the paint on the back there glued it and put a culvert with a file just above the jimping that just allows me again to scrape sparks off of a ferrocerium rod or firesteel nor say to take sparks off the actual 1095 steel itself I've also made some changes to the handle just to give me a bit more grip which I've quite liked actually just a bit of customization there and I think aesthetically it looks quite nice at the same time it's quite functional as well it gives me a nice bit of grip there so those are really the only changes I've made to the blade and as a result I think it's just made it a little bit more functional a bit more of an all-round blade for me so those you saw the last video you probably see the changes already to the actual sheath itself instead of the actual barnacle patch we've got this till it a patch on there for a multi-tool inside I just keep my DC for sharpening stain and then wrap around side I've got ferrocerium rod there now the ferrous cerium rod I used to carry was the ultimate strike force model and its really really bulky a lot of plastic wrap around it and obviously I appreciate that that's because it has a container on the inside where you can keep some wet light or some tinder but for me I didn't really need that so my traction to it was the 12 mil thick ferrocerium rod

so I basically slid that out by loosening up the glue some heat put a bit of antler on there and it just allows me to have a nice thick ferrocerium rod that will last a very long time I can strike it off the back of my a c6 or missoula and it just goes straight in and wraps around there like that onto this DC for keeps it nice and secure it just makes for a bit more of a sort of neater setup there I have made a few other changes as well I mean my torch still wraps around with a lanyard just goes through the top of that loop there just keeps it on wraps all the way around there like that but on the top here I've put compartment it just velcro's in into this back plate here and inside there I've just got a needle some thread you know like a small repair kit some brass wire some twits um six twist brass wire I've also got a small fishing kit as well so it just makes it a lot more usable and that can just slide in fact it should go the other way because this back here corresponds with some velcro there and it just keeps that in place and stops it sliding out these are just a few sort of simple changes I've made to these two these two knives I think my father the best changes they to make to it to these se knives if you are going to get them it's just a grind off the back of the paint on the actual blade and put some gun blue on there and what the gun blue will do is it will return it to that black finish but it will protect it from the elements a lot like the barrels on a shotgun if they're if they're blued I mean I use just some some Phillips gun blue gel with a board off eBay and you just supply it with a bit of cotton more and it turns black and if you heat up the blade you know to a point where it's going to affect the actual structure of the metal itself but you leave it on a heater and get the blade nice and hot and put that blue on that gun blow on it just makes sure that coating goes in a little deeper and just actually helps you out a bit more for preserving the metal but the thing that will always sort of got me about the essays result thing that sort of bugged me about them is er I think they're fantastic blades they really are the quality of them and the the unconditional lifetime guarantee is just very attractive for them you know you can deliberately break them you can send them back to you know to se and they'll practically give you new ones no question asked I mean you can't really argue with that fantastic guarantee but there's just you know a few things that probably need doing them to them to make them a little bit more functional if you're going to use them as a bushcraft knife and you know you're going to scrape ferrocerium rods and put sparks off the blade you know because you want the blade to be able to do all kinds of different things in serve you in a number of different circumstances so by taking a file and just making kind of a semicircle culvert there and it makes it able to evenly scrape the material away off the fire steel so you don't end up with a flat surface on one side of your fire steel it just gets taken away as a curve if you sort of rotate the steel you know it can be a bit more even and it just preserves it a bit more it's just like using that particular type of material you know a bit more sort of sustainably almost but taking the the metal off you know is it's a good thing to do in my opinion but I certainly wouldn't strip the blade down completely I think the coating is is there for a reason really in a 10-foot 9/5 really does pick up rust and even if you maintain it and look after it I'll always be occasions where you're using it quite heavily and you're in very damp conditions you know I've been out in the the absolute pissing rain for three days and waters just streaming down my kit going onto my knife and stuff look you have to put my jacket over the top of it Venis a big blade and water will get everywhere eventually and by the end of the day you know it's got spot rust all over it so the cating really I would leave on personally if you are going to take the cating off I think the best thing to do is to leave it underneath the actual scales simply because the scales this the micarta material on the scales will absorb water it pretty viciously that's why it's a good you know say grippy the water just goes straight in and it's a really porous material that doesn't get slippy or anything like rubber but obviously a little salt water and underneath those scales the rust will begin so you may want to take precautions if you're going to strip the blade completely to put something underneath those scales you know maybe even seal the underside of the scales and wax then pop them on so you know that the water is it going to go make contact with the metal underneath but these are just a few basic changes I've made to the kit you know kit mentality is always changing all the time the more you use it the more you look at it more things you know progress over time things change and it's just made these knives a bit more usable for me and giving me a complete kit to use with my ac6 just to make it a bit more of a you know sort of jack-of-all-trades on the side of my hip instead of you know sort of hat referring to different areas on myself but this is a yeah just a couple of changes I made I thought I'd share with you but thanks for watching and I hope the videos help that