A Review of 3 Pocket Tools

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Tags: Dave Canterbury,Case,Flexicut,Swiss Army,Pocket Knife,Survival,Bushcraft

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morning guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school out here on the Pathfinder school property about a mile or so from the cabin I live in this is we're going to do our advanced class base camp one so I'm going to go ahead and set up for that ahead of time it's not for three weeks but I'm going to be out of town the next two weekends in West Virginia one at the pricketts fort school of the long hunter and I have to do a keynote speaking event for the West Virginia EMS conference that's in West Virginia weekend after that and then we have an advanced class out here so I thought I'd set this camp up real quick and then I wanted to go over with you guys three pocket tools that I'm pretty fond of and I don't mean multi tools nor do I mean pocket knives I mean pocket tools we'll talk about those in a few minutes stay with me guys okay guys I promised you a look at three different pocket tools first one I want to show you I'm looking at Kephart's book and people like that you know they mentioned the hobo type tool with the spoon knife and fork and I've looked at a lot of these tools on the internet most of them are made in China this one is a case and it's made in the USA guaranteed pretty much forever the thing I like about the case is not necessarily the price but it's the fact that it actually becomes three separate pieces most of them do not most of them are a knife fork on one piece and then a spoon on the other piece this one is set up so that when you open the tool it releases a lock mechanism as you can see closes over right there when you close that tool to lock that pin down as soon as you open the tool that comes apart so you can open the knife and it will come excuse me you can open the fork and it will release the locking mechanisms to become separate from the knife and then the knife is a separate tool so you have three separate tools right there instead of just two I really like that I also like the fact that cases made in the USA I haven't had a chance to use these too much very very sharp obviously probably stainless but it's got a can opener here and here as well that you can use a bottle opener type situation on both the spoon and the fork the spoons got a nice curvature to it if you're right-handed for me it's not so good because I'm left-handed but if you're right-handed it's got a nice curvature to it to work really good for right-handed people on the same thing with the fork the fork is also set up to be a right-handed fork but if you turn it upside down it's not too bad for a lefty either can't do that with a spoon obviously and then a knife is just a straight knife with about a three and a half inch blade on it really good small carving knife for your meal so I'm kind of fond of that tool again you know it's a classic that hobo type tool is a classic from people like Horace Kephart that have written about it and also case is a classic knife so it just makes a really nice small tool that you can put your kit now it's not going to be lightweight as titanium obviously but for traditionalism it's got nice tag handles on it I think it's a beautiful tool the next tool I want to talk to you about is one I just started using actually I keep this in my pocket all the time now and this is the Swiss Army hunter it's called and there's a couple of things that I don't like about it it does not have a file and I do not like that but it does have several good tools it's got two different size knife blades on it pin knife type blades that you can use for cutting things or small carving tasks it has a very nice pair of scissors in it and most of the scissors on multi tools to be honest with you are junk especially the Gerber's but these seem to be really nice scissors they're really really sharp came in real handy for me yesterday when I working on the net you have a screwdriver here with a can opener here not a bottle top opener but a can opener and then on the other side of that you have another screwdriver and a bottle opener on the back side of this tool you have this is pretty silly you have a corkscrew I guess unless you're a wine connoisseur you're carrying wine through the woods I don't know why you'd want that thing very possible you can wrap steel wool around that thing and maybe use it to clean out the breach of your firearm or something but other than that I can't think of much of a use for it it does have a fairly nice saw on this tool I don't have my glasses on guys have to excuse me there's a saw pretty nice flexible saw it's got a really nice sharp edge on it which would be really good for scraping and ferrocerium rod and then on the backside it has an awl which i think is very very important that all tools like this having all with an eye in it so that you can actually sew with this thing and do repairs and it has one more thing on here this kind of interesting the company obviously doesn't really understand how to market their product very well because they're calling this thing a parcel carrier like you would take this hook and hook it under a parcel to carry the parcel but it really works well as a t-handle for tightening lashings you can just wrap your bank line around that and really give it a good yank and it works really good for tightening the lashings which would be much more useful in the woods than carrying packages in my opinion so it does have some flaws silly corkscrew no file but as far as the tool goes and of course you got the classic toothpick and tweezers and tweezers always come in handy especially in areas where you have ticks and thorns and things like that so it's got all the classic designs this one's got wooden handles on it with the scales I should say so I like that really well for traditionalism not real expensive 50 $60 range but I think it's a really nice pocket tool if you're going to carry something that's more traditional than a multi-tool ok the last tool I want to show you is one that was loaned to me by one of my students and this is called the carving jack and it's by a company called flexi cut it is a very expensive tool as far as that goes it's over $100 but it is made to carry all the tools you would need to do wood carving in your pocket and it has some very very interesting tools on it it has a straight chisel or gouge and how every one of them block on the back side when you open them up they all lock and I like that real well the only problem with some of them is some of are a little hard to get out without taking another one out first you have a knife on here very good for you no hogging big chunks of material off that thing's really really sharp you can see that that thing will really take off material quick you can see the giant chunks I'm taking off with that and then again it'll also do the fine the fine stuff as well you can see that feather stick got things making so those things are handy for a lot more than just carving obviously it also has on the same side it has another tool on here that is just a small routing tool type gouge that will carve and again this is for hobby carving things like that but if you were making a net needle or something like that we needed to carve a channel a deep channel out so that you could get that net needle right that thing will definitely do that for you or put fluting on something as decoration whatever the case may be that is what that's for like I said these are made for wood carvers hobby wood carvers but I thought it was a real interesting tool because it does so many other things it has a straight curved type gouge in here for taking out larger channels you can see again you know if your carving utensils or carving camp tools things like that man this carving net needles this stuff can really really come in handy much better than just carrying one more spoon carving knife in my opinion I mean that thing is just taking out a perfect channel in that piece of tulip poplar then it has kind of a side gouge like this for taking out small chunks really really good for spoon carving and things like that but what I found this really good for is taken to start your hole in your bow drill or your hand drill you can take that just cut out almost a perfectly round divot in there you can see where I've cut that out and think it's just razor sharp that just cuts a perfect Vivat in there for you to seat your Bodo in so that you can marry it up and then it's got one more tool on it's got six tools total on the other tool is just a side knife again it's very good for spoon carving it just hogs out chunks dishing it out real good you can see what that does that thing with this hog off the material right down into a bowl would take hardly anything to make a spoon with this tool you can do it very very quickly I would say without much trouble at all you can see I've almost got a dish carved for spoon right there just a few just a few strokes on each side so again you know this is a tool that every tool locks everything locks in place made in America by flex a cut and it will do a whole lot of tool things for you in the woods you know to help you with your primitive skills or your bushcraft like I said it is expensive it's about 115 bucks off Amazon about 140 bucks direct from their website but it's a lifetime tool put that thing in your package you got six carving tools in there and it comes with a sharpening stone I believe a leather case and some oil or something like that when you buy it the only thing I got when I was loaned by one of my students Bobby Moody loaned it to me after a class and it just had a leather sheath with it when he gave it to me but I looked up on the website and it does come with a couple other things when you buy it so I want to show you that one as well so those are three tools that I think are pretty nifty to carry you know one of them more for traditionalism than anything else with the hobo tool but these two tools right here I could carry those everyday no doubt I keep this into my pocket this one came out of my haversack so those two tools are going to go with me just about everywhere I go this is just kind of a novelty item unless you're into traditionalism real heavy like myself and Derrick fair ER then you could use something like this okay guys well I'm Dave Canterbury from the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me for this quick a little review on three pocket tools went out a little scout before this and set up our shelter out here for the advanced class making a little home for myself for a couple days here I appreciate everything you do for me for my school for my family for all my affiliate friends and sponsors I'll be back the other video since I can't guys thanks

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