10 Simple Knife Projects Part 1

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good morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school what I wanted to do this morning was I wanted to walk you through a small teaching system that I'm developing called 10 simple knife projects and the word simple is relative because it begins very simple as if you'd never done anything with a knife before and it goes all the way through to making something as complicated as a bow and drill set that works and these 10 projects are designed number one each one to be a little bit more difficult than the preceding project and each one to teach you a different critical skill when it comes to manipulating the natural resource of wood to make usable objects and then also it enables you to make things that will directly affect your survivability or your life at camp so that you have a practical object that meets a real-world need and with these 10 projects we're going to walk through each one of these really quick not how to do them necessarily because I have videos on lots of these already but what the projects are the real-world application of that product project and then we'll talk also about what it teaches you within the project about knife work stay with me okay so what I thought we'd do real fast the beginning of this video is we'll just walk through the 10 projects real fast so you can't write them down if you choose to I know I get a lot of Scout masters and things like that watch my videos and this will give you a running list the first one is a simple toggle that you can use for a tripod to hang a pot the next one is a tent stake or tent peg the third project is a feather stick the fourth project is a split or step trap trigger or what they call a promontory peg trap trigger the next one is a pot dangler or a pot hanger that you can use to adjust a pot over a fire up and down the next one is a figure-four deadfall with a forked end the next one is a net needle and mesh gage

project number eight is a pair of steam bent tongs and these can be used for either cooking obviously or manipulating coals in the fire the ninth project is a frog gig or fish gig that includes Barb's within the gig and the last one is a working bow drill set so that gives you 10 projects that start off very simple and get more complicated we'll talk about each one of these individually now okay project number one is a simple toggle and you're going to have a circular veenox that goes all the way around that toggle bullnose both ends and cut it to length and what this is designed to do is go inside the bale of your pot but if you use it correctly and you set your cordage upright you can also use it to hang off of your tripod and create a tripod and I'm going to show you that now so we're going to take one into this and put a bowline knot in it and I've made just fairly short so you can make it any length you want and then I've got just a stop knot tied in this end that I'm going to put a large set in and what that's going to do is create a stopper right there because once this not stop not falls into this loop as you're pulling us down tight it becomes a jamming type knot and it won't let it slip all the way through so you just work it down until that Jam not goes into that larks head and then it can't slip any further no matter what you do and then you have a toggle and a loop now if we take three sticks we can use this to make a simple tripod and hang a pot over fire okay I want to add an extended discourage a little bit on this toggle for this example all we have to do is take three sticks about an inch in diameter wrap this around and put our toggle through the bowline and we can put that toggle through that bowline as many times we want to to adjust the length of this as long as we've got it longer than we actually need it what that's going to do is that's going to lash our tripod together and just kind of see where you're hanging and if you need to go around it again

you can do that until you get what you want now you should be able to break that tripod open just like that and hang your pot over the fire now if you've got a little bit of adjustment you need to do from there you can always just take one wrap around the tripod leg like this to lift it up a little bit it will work just fine for you and then you'll have something that you can make a small tripod whip quickly on the fly and hang your pot over the fire and it takes just a couple minutes to make and that's the first project but it really involves getting the length of the stick cutting it off with your knife making that circular v-notch all the way around it involves a few different knots because you got a bowline knot and you have that jamming larks head knot and then you've got two lashes tripod together so you've got to cut these tripod poles as well so this setup right here is just a good little project for Scouts that do on an overnight and it's very very simple and does it take a whole lot of materials on your part as a Scoutmaster or you've got to have some cordage and a piece of woods and some knives and you're ready to rock and roll okay the second project is a simple tent peg again it's just a little bit more difficult than the last one because you've got a seven knots that you need to put in here and then you're going to crown the top off set the Crown's that you don't put the shock over top of the knotch

and put a point on them so you've got several operations to do this one piece of wood but not only is this good now for tent stakes but you also understand how to make a seven notch which has real world applications and fishing traps and things of that nature as well as other connecting pieces of parts that you'll use in wood craft later on so it's a good second project all right so the next project is the feather stick and feather sticks are important for fire-starting because it increases surface area so you have a lesson there in understanding how to create fire properly what that entails that you need to have multiple surface areas of highly combustible material so that your flame is sustainable quickly that's important feather sticks give you that advantage teaching feather sticks teaches knife control it teaches Samoans with the knife instead of push cutting to get those curls and it teaches them the elements of building fire so I think it's really really important ok the next project is a very simple split trigger but they're going to have to learn to cut through one side 1/3 cut through the other side 1/3 and split that off into a barber chair and that's important for making other pieces of wood crafting and things like that so this is just the first step in that but it gives them a real-world application of a simple trigger system that they can make lots of because when it comes to trapping successes in numbers so you need to make a lot of these this is called the Promotora peg trigger the barber chair trigger the breakaway trigger the split trigger there's lots of names for it once you have broken that out you just need to sharpen one side and make it a little bit shorter then this side so that it can't bind up and I'll use a very simple deadfall type device here and just a little piece of log and the way this works is very simple you put the trigger to the inside just like this and when you bait this point it's going to create some separation there so you have your bait in here and that's going to create that separation so it kind of looks like without having anything connected to it's not going to create separation real well let me just stick a piece of bark in there okay and when the animal goes and pulls on that bait to get it out of there the trap Springs okay it's a very very simple system but it teaches kids really really well because number one you don't have to work with a lot of weight I just got a piece of log here you could use a piece of brick or whatever make this a little bit shorter because triggers like this are for very small animal this would be at what I would call a micro trapping trigger for things like chipmunks and rats and smaller so it teaches them a way to make a simple trapping system that's easy enough to manipulate easy enough to make in mass production fashion like 10 or 15 of them in one night sitting around the campfire and it teaches them how to set and manipulate traps and how to catch animals so again there's lots and lots of lessons involved in this one very simple project our next project is an adjustable pot hanging system and now we've got to cut three seven notches but we also have to create this undercut like an owl beak bird notch and this is kind of the way they make owls when they carve owls into sticks this notch right here is what they use for the beak of the Allan and they carve the eyes in and you can also make this fancy and make that an owl and if you wanted to but this is where your pot hangs and it adjusts here I'll show you the real-world application of that right now okay so your application here is you've got this adjustable stick with this bird beak on the bottom your pot drops into that bird beak and then this hangs on another stick that's got a semi point wedged off on the end of it just like this and it can be adjusted over the fire and this would be supported I've just got to jammed into a hole but it would be supported so that you can adjust that by several different heights over the top of your fire just like that okay