Jeff White Bush Knife and a Wet wood Fire

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afternoon guys Dave can bear with Pathfinder school what I thought I'd do today was I've had a lot of questions about this Jeff white bush knife asking me to do reviews on the knife things like that and up until now I haven't done a review on this knife we've had this knife in stock for quite a while and they carried it for quite a while and I've kind of been letting it sell on its own merit from the reviews on the website as well as reviews and testimonials from people on the web but I thought I would go ahead today and shoot a review weather has been kind of foul been raining for the last twelve to fourteen hours on and off pretty heavy got more rain coming in today I thought maybe I'd go ahead and use this to process a fire today it's a really really good design knife and it's quickly becoming my go-to blade so I thought I'd introduce that to you today we'll talk about the specs real quick and then we'll do some work with this knife as well give us a wet weather fire started out here today to pass on your school stay with me guys you've got a 3/16 inch thick heavy duty blade that you can use for any tasks that you would need it to be used for a lot of people talk about the one tool option and the one tool option religious means that in an emergency is that knife going to do everything I needed to do if I don't have an actor of saw and I think this knife would qualify as a good one tool option you've got a blade length that's five inches are better you're 362 inch thick

it's high carbon steel as a sharp 90-degree edge on it for striking a ferrocerium rod and it has no coating on it so you can't drive sparks off the back of your blade in an emergency or a backup fire-starting device okay so let's first talk about the specs on this knife this is 1095 high carbon steel about ten and a half inches overall length it's got six inches of cutting surface it's got a nice area here to choke up on the blade for fine carving it's got a hammered finish on it in a bit of a convex grind curly maple handles we have two models of this knife one is in the hammered finish one is in bead blast the hammered finish comes with the curly maple the bead blast finish comes with a cherry handle on it it comes with a really nice Robert Jones sheath that has the Python your logo on it just a standard bushcraft style hand-sewn leather sheath fits the knife really really well I believe the one on our website comes with a Ferro rod loop my personal one does not have a Ferro rod loop on it if I have to use this knife to baton through some type of wet or marginal material doesn't bother me in the least to do that I may have to get to the dryer inside of the wood especially in a wet weather environment and this is oak this is not some soft wood I see a lot of guys but tawny and carving woods that are soft woods that doesn't tell me anything about a knife because if your knife can't Carver but your soft wood you really got a problem but if you can split oak and hickory and things like that especially when it's wet with that knife with no problem then you got something in a wet weather environment being able to break into wood to get to the dry Center can be a critical task that your knife may have to perform and you want to be sure that your blade is capable of that just by carving off the outsides of this I have a nice dry hardwood center here now I can process this down further to make my kindling for my fire and this stuff will catch flame readily not as readily as a softwood would catch flame but sometimes you got to use what you got and if this is what I got then this is what I'm going to use again guys this is not poplar and this is not pine this is oak it's a very hard dense wood and it's damp on top of that at least on the outside and we are going to use the inner part of this tree the heartwood which has a lot of fibers in it we're going to process those fibers down with the back of our knife like this to go along with the shavings that we made and this is where our combust ability is going to come from with our ferrocerium rod is in these fine shavings everything is in the processing of the material we can't rely on feather sticks with oak it's not a soft enough wood for that it's a hard wood you're going to have to give it something finer with more surface area to catch those initial Sparks and your knife is going to have to be capable of doing this stuff for you because you may not be able to find that soft wood you may not be able to find that tulip poplar or that pine or that aspen or that bass wood or cottonwood or any of that really really soft wood that you really like so you're going to have to be able to get those fine cuts and find shears and all I'm doing now is I'm producing a flat area again so that I can begin to scrape it and fuzz it up because that fuzzing up in the material is the preparation that I need for combustion

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I hope you guys enjoyed this quick review of the jeff white bush knife it was a little bit of review but it was also a lesson and I like to do reviews incorporate it with lessons you really want to practice your fire skills get yourself some wet wood hardwood oak hickory something like that take a log it's four inches by six inches and start a fire with that and nothing else then you're doing something soft the woods are simple if it's so soft you can carve it with a butter knife it's not a challenge to you challenge yourself as much as you possibly can that's the key to owning the skills of making fire I see a lot of people waste their time doing things that are not realistic think about what you're liable to have think about what you're liable to get stuck with which is probably your fair riding your knife try the hardest materials that you can find to make fire with and attempt to make fire with those materials and practice that until you get good enough out that you can do it on a pretty sure bet when you get to those levels then you truly own the skills of making fire it's great to make primitive fire it's a fancy skill that's great to understand but it's the last thing I'd want to have to rely on in a real SUP reliance or survival scenario I'd rather have the Ferro rod I'm not going to lose the thing it's going to be in my pocket I'm going to have it learn to make fire with that fail rod with any tender source that may be available to you including the inner dry wood from a hardwood tree I'm Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school I hope you enjoyed this video today I hope you enjoyed this small lesson on making a sustainable fire with heartwood only and a quick review of the jeff white bush knife I think it's a really really good quality knife for less than 100 bucks especially for something that's us-made it's very much what I would consider common man I apologize about the smoke blowing directly into the camera at the moment I got wood seeping water out the inside of it over here I'll try to get a shot of that that's where the smokes coming from is the wet wood I'm going to get a shot of that real quick and before I do I'll sign off I thank you for joining me for this video I thank you for support your views your comments I thank you for everything you do for our school for our store for our business our family our friends affiliates sponsors and instructors and I'll be back to another video as I can't thanks guys you