Wood Craft on a Budget Part 3 Sheath Knives Continued

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okay so let's discuss a few different knives today and talk about the different types of knives that were used by wood crafters and how to get them or find them on a budget the first one we'll talk about is the standard to put your knife and everybody knows what an Old Hickory butcher knife looks like this knife happens to be a hand forged butcher knife that I bought at a yard sale for three dollars you can see that it's fairly thin and blade it has a little bit of curvature here it has that typical hump on the front of it of a butcher knife here it has one solid V grind on it or Scandinavian grind if that's the term you choose to use but it is a V grind full tang with handles pin to both sides and walnut three dollars at a yard sale yard sales estate sales flea markets goodwill thrift stores Salvation Army all good candidates for places to find a decent knife that you can use in the woods or you can just buy a brand new Old Hickory for less than $20 things like this do not come around every day this is the only knife I've ever found like this in the 7 to 10 years of looking for a good knife on the cheap this is the only one I found like it so let's talk about Old Hickory for a minute because you can take an Old Hickory knife like this one and this was an Old Hickory butcher knife that has been reprofiling reground into a Kephart design and this knife is more of an original type Kephart knife that I traded for and this one is a Glenbrook version of the Kephart knife and it's very close a very close facsimile to the knife that he advertised in his ad in magazines when he started selling the knife with his name on it he offered this in a four inch and a five inch blade model so this is that spear point design of the Kephart with a bit of a convex grind on it except it has round handles and doesn't have that slight guard on the front or choil in the front of it right there but it's a very similar blade design and blade profile though it's a little bit thinner than the Glenbrook is because it's the same thickness as an old hickory butcher knife which is what it was a knife like this can be traded for I traded for this knife so I can't tell you exactly what I paid for it but I traded for it and I traded equipment for it not another knife a knife like this Old Hickory could be bought brand new and then re profiled and re handled at any given time if you are into do-it-yourself and sometimes when you're doing budget wood crafts you have to do things yourself to create your gear now if you want a Kephart style design knife and you don't want to pay a lot for it you can get the Condor cap part and Condor makes a cut part and they make a nest m'q they're both good facts emily's of the originals they both have nice thin blades they are only made out of 1075 steel if that's a problem to you to me it's not really a problem it doesn't throw as good as sparks off the spine as my 1095 does it's probably not heat treated near as hard but it's going to be easier to sharpen in the field it has a nice pretty much a full flat grind on this knife it's very very sharp it's nice and robust it feels good in the hand and these things are like 30 bucks

brand new if you want to go with the French style knife this is a Jeff white trade knife and again it's got that thin material blade made out of high carbon steel with the hammer forged finish here very very sharp again it looks like a steak knife or a dinner knife and that's what a French trade knife looked like and the sprint's trade knife and it's just a regular old butcher pattern knife like this were the two absolute most popular knives of any woodsman from the 1750s probably all the way through the 1950s so these are very popular very good to understand and experiment with as far as what a wood crafter would have had on his belt to skin game take care of furs and process me this is a nest m'q that's by jeff white and i'm just showing this more for blade profile than anything else because it's way too thick to be something that would have been carried by a wood craft it's more of a 3/16 design so it's a heavy blade more of a modern tool but it has that Ness m'q profile to it and a convex grind I'm going to show you this knife real quick and this is just for examples sake more than anything else early on marbles came out with a knife and this is not a marbles but it's very similar to their design marbles came out with what they call the ultimate with a perfect hunting knife and it was basically a leather and stag handled knife that had pretty much a French style trade knife profile on the blade this one's got a little bit of a groove up here as well to make it Pierce better I assume but it was generally believed or generally spoken by most woodsmen at the time that this knife was not near as good as a butcher knife to have on your boat so the plain old butcher knife still once the ultimate hunting knife was introduced the butcher knife was still the standby at that point this is in my private collection that I traded for I don't use this knife I keep it as an example because like the woodsman of the past I think a butcher knife does everything I needed to do I don't need a hunting style knife like this okay guys well that was just a real quick look at synopsis at some of the blades that would have been used by wood crafters from the early 1900s period and that's what I'm trying to emulate that's what I'm trying to experiment with as understanding what tools they had what function is they use those tools for and how well they performed in that time for the given tasks and that's where I'm differentiating the wood craft from the bushcraft so if you go to Amazon you go to their book section you type in wood craft you'll see four or five different books there from the early nineteen hundred's from people like Daniel Baird people like Thomas Sutton people like Nesmith Horace Kephart all of those people wrote books called wood crafts and something or something and wood crafts you can find them very easy you can buy modern editions of those books for anywhere from probably sick

to $13 and I would encourage you to go to Amazon pick those books up if you want to research this time period and actual wood trap in the US I hope I've given you some fairly budget-minded examples and told you places to look for these type knives again you're looking for a butcher knife a trade knife an S mcknight for basically a spear point design knife those would have been what was popular the butcher knife being the most popular and the trade knife or french roche belly trade knife after that there are places you can buy them for less than $30 on the internet and you can find them in yard sales flea markets estate sales and things like that much cheaper if you are patient and look around I'll be back with episode 3 in this series as soon as I can guys I appreciate join me for this video I thank you for anything you do for our school for our family for our business for our instructors associate sponsors and friends I'll be back with another video soon as I can thanks guys

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