Pathfinder Product review #4 The Pathfinder Trade Knife.wmv

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Tags: Pathfinder Trade Knife,Pathfinder,Survival,Bushcraft

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back in the wood okay guys what I thought I'd do real quick today is uh just a little stump top review on the new Pathfinder trade knife by habilis boost tools stay with me we're going to take a look at her see how she performs okay guys so I want to do a little stump topper view with you guys today on this new Pathfinder trade knife by habilis Bush tools it is a 1095 high carbon steel blade full tang it's got a scan davecs type grind where it's got a Scandinavian type grind that has a little bit of a convex edge to it and that's to add stability to a thinner blade this is a one-eighth inch thick steel blade the knife itself is designed very much in eighteenth-century fashion it looks like a roach belly trade knife from that era it has a nice comfortable handle on it that comes in both this Tiger orange and black for high visibility as well as a gunmetal gray and black made out of g10 the g10 handles are a little bit more stable as far as protection from water and the elements then the micarta is so we chose to go with the g10 material it has two holes drilled through it that are sleeved so that this thing can be attached as a spear point to a stick if you wanted to and the points very reminiscent of a spear point type implement it also has a divot drilled into the handle here so that you can use it for a hand drill socket for primitive fire in emergency the blade is not coated it's actually blued that's why it's that blackish color which gives it the ability to strike sparks very easily because there's no coating on there stop it it also has a 90-degree spine on it which I like real well because that throws really good Sparks as well let's grab a cheapy Ferro rod over here real quick

and we'll look at how it throws sparks off just a 5-dollar Ferro rod okay so this is just a cheapy Ferro rod it's one off our site we saw for about five bucks probably want to cheapest fire steels on the market let me zoom in on this thing for you guys and we'll just set this thing down the stump here and rub the knife across it I'm not putting a whole lot of pressure on that guys

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so it's really good for use with your Ferro rod that stuff just wipes off your knife but it keeps you from having to use your blade I see a lot of people make that mistake in my classes it does have two logos on the blade it has the Pathfinder logo as well as the havelis Bush tools logo that our embossed laser etched into the blade let's talk about while we're on the knife let's talk about the size of this knife you know I pretty much profess that you need a knife that's at least five inches long this is not designed as a one tool option really

we designed for carry with like a saw an ax or a hatchet or some other implement but it does have a five-inch blade and right here's my scale you can see that's got a five-inch blade on it overall length I like that the handle on it is about another four inches making it nine inches overall or there abouts and you can see that it is a 1/8 inch thick blade now the sheath that we sell with this knife is not an expensive leather sheath it's actually a very cheap leather sheath as far as price goes very common man price but I have a sheath made by the same company it is actually exactly like this that's been on a kay bar for about ten or twelve years and I have yet to wear it out it just stitched down the side and it does have rivets in it as well it's made out of a pretty good quality leather you can see this has been beat up pretty good we do stain this sheath for you we buy them in the raw and stain them before we send them to you with a knife it fits in the sheath real well I'm sure that a lot of people don't like the style of sheath this is an old hunter style sheet from the 70s and things like that but some of the newer leather bushcrafting sheath would fit this really nice but we want to put a sheath with it that we keep the price down on so that we could offer this at a common man price and this is a us-made knife made one at a time not on a production line and the selling price of this knife is 99 bucks with the sheath so that's really a pretty good price and there's a lifetime guarantee on it you can't hardly beat that for 99 bucks I'm really impressed with it I like it really well I already showed you how it throws sparks now let's look at feather sticks with some grease wood real quick

okay so here's a piece of fatwood right here from a pine and so you're going to have a lot of resonance wood it's going to be very thick and gummy feeling so we'll see how we do with this at making a feather stick and again we're cutting right down into the meat of that resin and that's kind of tough to cut into and these are short feathers really but I am getting some pretty good curl to it some of them are chopping off because of all that resin in there it's hard to get an easy cut on that thing but you can see got some pretty good curls on there and this thing it does just fine even with this resin you know I can cut pretty heavy chunks off of this wood if I want to if I were trying to manufacture some tinder I could do that pretty easy and again you're cutting through a lot of resin on this pine because it's just full of resin and it's still taking pretty nice little chunks off of there you can see there's nice spiral chunks and those are real good fire starting material as well you got open flame on that you're in business a lot of times if you get this stuff done enough you can even ignite this with the pharisee Emraan okay so let's talk about batana with this thing I mean I would have no problems driving this thing right into the side of a stump not worried about it you're not going to break that knife all right I'm not going to hurt that thing no question about it okay now let's talk about the qanun let's take this old piece of hard pine plank right here this thing's been sitting out here for a while let's bust this thing down a couple times alright you can see that stuff's not dead by any means and dry I mean it's dead but it still got plenty of life in it plenty of grain we're cutting through beating on that tip really really hard right now not even worried about it prying with it no problem not even worried about it if I had to process wood with this thing I wouldn't have a second thought about doing it there you go guys that's one tough knife for 100 bucks I'd carry that every day all day

okay guys real quick I want to show you a tip or trick in this video that you might appreciate I like to at least put one tip or trick and all of my product review videos for you just to give you just a little bonus for watching the video what this is this is tulip poplar bark okay and this tree is not completely dead yet the bark didn't want to give up release I kind of peel it off a little tougher than normal find good tulip poplar dead bark you can almost shred the bark into a bird's nest but with this you can still use the inner bark all you have to do is take your knife and kind of flatten this stuff out as best you can and scrape it and you see what you get out of that when you do that you get a bundle of real fine hairs that looks like that okay that makes great bird nest material for any kind of a bird nest whether it's a magnifying glass or whether it is flint and steel or any kind of combustion up to and including a fire cm rod that stuff will light right off a pharisee em run now if you can't find a piece of flat bark you know just take your time and be patient with it every little bit counts if I can find something a little flatter here this one looks pretty good and just put your knife blade on it and scrape it as all I'm doing scraping that along there that's not a very big piece of bark but it gave me quite a good little pile of tinder there as you can see I scraped a pretty nice little pile of tinder off right there if I were using that in the bird nest for my ignition point they put my char cloth into or what-have-you

that would be a nice little addition and it stuffs not hard to harvest it doesn't take a lot of energy really you can see all I'm doing is scraping this bark to get in fine hairs and dust off of it the stuffs all bone-dry and I would save every little bit of that into a pile okay so let's get our GP Ferro rod back out here in our Bush tool

there we go that's real fine so that's like center of bird nest material like I said but you can see that flame dried up with just a fair CM rod and the Pathfinder trade knife I throw some real good heavy-duty sparks without a lot of effort guys I appreciate you joining me today for this quick review of the new Pathfinder trade knife by habilis Bush tools I think it's pretty good knife like I said it's not meant to be a one tool option it's meant to be your companion for your axe for your saw whatever the case may be but it is a companion tool stays really nice and sharp you can see we've done a whole lot of stuff with it today including batani before we did this and we were still able to get you know find enough shavings off the back of that inner bark to affect the fire with I appreciate your views guys I appreciate your support I appreciate the support that you give me my family and my store my school I'll be back another video as soon as I can thanks guys you