Packable Draw Knife and a Simple Vise for the Woodland Projects

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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 folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder schooling this morning I just want to show you a couple quick tip or tricks to clamp and work wood and also to improve the performance of your Pathfinder knife and tool packable draw knife stay with me okay so first of all in case you're not familiar with it this is the Pathfinder forging tool packable draw knife and the packable draw knife was really designed to just give you a small blade that you could manipulate fine carving fine shaving planing work with in the woods should you choose to go out to the woods with the intent of working wood this is not necessarily something you'd carry in your pack every day it's not a survival item it's a woodworking item but it's a small packable item and an option beyond the large heavy bulky draw knife and it's basically made from 1095 steel it's been forged and ground by hand here at the Pathfinder school and it's set up to be used with just your hands over the top as a small drawing type blade and most draw knives are used actually blade down and there are single bevel grind on one side these are 35 degrees ok so what I do to cover my blade is a pretty simple sheathing I just have a rectangle piece of pigskin here that I roll the blade into just like this and on the corner I've punched a hole in it for a piece of leather tie and I just wrap that around like this and on the last one I put a half hitch in it and now my blade is nice and safe if it's in my backpack or in my bag that I'm carrying into the woods ok one good trick with this draw knife if you're going to use it very much in the woods and you want to get some really really fine control not that you can't get it with your hands as you can but you can make it more comfortable by utilizing these holes where the tangs have been turned over to put toggles inside just like this and cut yourself just a couple sticks of green wood and because the edges inside there are 90 degrees they lock pretty well and then you can adjust those handles to where they feel most comfortable for you you can put your thumbs on top or you can wrap them around and then you have more

to maintain angle on that draw knife when you're using it for a long period of time and when you're done you can just take the toggles out and you can leave them in the woods if you choose okay this is a simple example of a woodland vise a small miniature shaved horse if you will and it's simply two rebar staples of different links that have been driven into a human surface on a log one a little higher than the next and the witnessed thing set up is set up as a teaching aid right now so that I can carry with me but this surface represents the huge surface of a longer piece of material like a downfall tree or a tree that you have taken down on purpose to harvest green wood from you hew a surface of that tree so that's flat you drive these two staples in and then you have and on the fly makeshift vice or Schafer's especially for working smaller wood components or thinner wood components like a bow stave and the way this thing works is very simple you would take your flat or your stave and you would slide it in wherever you decide you want it so that you can work it it doesn't matter the reason this thing is at an angle is so that you can manipulate it around a little bit like this if you want to and then you're only going to take another wedge that you can cut from Greenwood slide it underneath the first staple just take a shard of wood and a mallet and Hammer it in and now this piece of wood is locked and I can pull my draw knife out and I can begin to work that piece of wood okay folks that was just a couple quick tip or tricks on working wood in a woodland environment and again we don't always go out to the woods to enjoy camping tramping hiking trucking whatever you want to call it in survival mode lots of times I go to the woods with the intent of working on a project using materials from the landscape and having the proper tools to manipulate that material is very very important it also conserves the resources of things like your belt life that you may use for carving or your axe or your hatchet to use the correct tools in the correct application to manipulate that material to achieve a better result for a project that you truly care about I appreciate your views I appreciate your support and thank you for everything you do for school for our family for our business all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends and I'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys