Mora Draw Knife | Bushcraft Knife | Field Review

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors reviews the DrawKnife by Mora of Sweden. Once a heavily utilized piece of carpentry and woodcraft, the drawknife now finds its home amongst the bushcrafters and master wood craftsmen of today.

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what's up Turtles this is correct with black outdoors today I'm going to be doing a video on just some basic uses of a draw knife and for my particular purpose of using the straw knife is going to be taking a bark off of a bow on making a self bow I'm making and this is the draw knife I'm going to be using this is a more knife of Sweden same handles you'll probably notice this little bit thicker that's one the more classic one and to some of my favorite knives it's a carbon steel blade right around four and a half inches long if you can imagine this blade being maybe two or three times longer a drone off like this would have been used back in the day when hand tools were so prevalent everyone was using hand tools for skinning or de barking timber it's going to be making a house or just any type of timber you going to take down to do it by hand who uses a draw knife like this to really skin bark and we've been much larger for you know using really big pieces of timber like I said I'm gonna use this more as like a wood crafting if you will so the blade can be smaller do more more small controlled movements and carving down my bow but it can be you know to take bark off of a walking stick if you wanted to do that or just carve any pieces of what with this and this is the first time I've ever using one of these knives for this bow project I'm doing and the staves over here so far what I've got to with the bow and at this point this has all been taken down with a hatchet now it's time this is been seasoning it's time for me to try to shape this now with the straw knife and I think I kinda swung and missed on this this wood that I chose for my bow because I did some research tried to get the bark characteristics of trees that grow in this area that would be good for a bow and I think I just didn't get the correct wood because this has really really been a pain to to shape it's really almost fibrous it's shredding apart snot making really smooth cuts it's heavy it's hard or probably good if I can get it down to the shape I want but it's going to be a lot of work so I'll keep you updated with my progress and as I said for the video purposes I'm going to be just taking the bark off and try to get down to one growth ring and this will be the back of the bow if you get to think of the terms of the bow right now it's still pretty thick this will be the back and the point is using this to take the bark off and also to try to get down the one growth ring on the back which really makes give the boat strength if you're not going to be backing it with you know hydor sinew or some other organic material having one exposed growth ring on the back here in theory makes it strong I've never made this I've never made a bow before I know one's sort of shown me how to do this I just looked the videos online read articles done some research and just I'm just going to try it you know some authority on this but this is sort of my first go at making a bow and I'll say I'm sorry in the draw knife there's a little plastic clip that comes with it to go over the blade which is nice and I think this was around $30 online do some work over here on the bow now so far this is what I've been doing taking the bark off trying to get down past the cambium in the bark down to just this white would try to keep it consistent and on the white i'll start fresh on the other end they're gonna brace it in between my legs

shifter I need like I said this is my first time ever using a draw knife and let alone making a bow so it's been a lot of trial and error huge learning curve if anyone out there has you know a knowledge or skill in this I'd be more than grateful if I could pass some of it along it's really comfortable to use them to use as well just really natural to hold hold up hold a blade on both sides and you know the draw knife is sort of an arrow that's passed when people use hand tools for everything now you know we have a lot of battery-powered plug-in hand tools aren't utilized like they were so it's another cool reason sort of why I wanted to do this just to use old tools nothing else can actually I think see this is the cambium layer these little words my fingers tracing here you can see these little brown specks pretty sure that's like almost that cells in the cambium which does act to the cambium is the living part of the tree underneath the bark I want to take that off

and like any type of woodworking from what I've learned in my own mistakes it's better to go slow and be sure of what you're doing you can always take more wood off if you need to you can hardly put any back so you can see this would definitely be a very time intensive project making this bow I can take the bark off pretty quick but doing this smaller and smaller cuts on this wood really takes a while take some more of the bark off down here I'm not gonna mess with mess with this not too much if I keep this as my back I decided to do it later how I need to to work around it at this point that's going to sort of leave it as is not try to take off too much would might be a problem for the Bo structural integrity but it's a gamble cutting down a piece of wood and working on it having to wait three months for it to cease until I get to this point good lesson in life I suppose

so you can see basically I'm just going to do this until all the bark is off and I have it down to this pale pale color of wood kind of this Browns Minh take all this bark off once I get to that point I don't wanna start actually shaping the bow I'm going to do this probably on a vice back in my house you know you can sort of speak and break up systems to do this in the woods but for this being my first bow I really don't want to challenge myself in too many ways you know I really want to take my time and get the technique and sort of the small details about just making a bow out of a piece of wood but I will be there will be updates so probably picture is on Facebook that type of thing this is correct signing out with black outdoors later Turtles