C & R Vol. 5 - Friction Fire, Bushcraft Inspiration & Sharpening Choil

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hey wassup turtles creek here with black outdoors welcome back to call and response this is volume 5 you notice the leaves starting to change behind me yeah Falls here really pretty alright getting into it first question from Ted's outdoors hood craft survival what is your opinion on friction fire is that something you're interested in do you find it a practical skill to have thanks first part of that question yes I am interested in friction fire I if I had to be or I say I'm best at bow drill fire but I have not owned the bow drill fire I do remember actually the first time I was successful with that and it was such such a great feeling oh you know full of elation and illness was like a high to like birth fire from just two pieces of wood and rubbing it together and getting an ember and blowing it to life is just the feeling that I don't there's really nothing else like it there really is nothing else like it so yeah I'm interested in friction fire but I do want to get more proficient at the different styles and techniques as far as a practical skill goes I'm not sure if I would call it practical yeah in the sense but here's what I think for those of us that maybe like to go in remote settings and for extended periods of time having the ability and skill and knowledge of be able to go to the forest find material and create a fire you know out of all natural materials i believe is a practical skill for there's people that potentially may need that if their modern equipment fails them or they lose it or or you lose it Ted you know what I mean so in that sense i believe it's practical or if you maybe are planning on the world to end and all modern technology and conveniences are going to be you know really around anymore may I could be practical then to be able to start fires using primitive primitive methods or Old Forest old-world technologies as i like to call like saying primitive because it sort of drops it down so conclusion yeah it's something I'm interested in and on the practical sense I think it gives people a knowledge and skill base besides just being able to create the friction fires go to the forest and start recognizing you know resources that you can use that you can use for for certain things question 2 comes from Calvin Swan he asks who was your inspiration for getting into bushcraft i received a handful question sort of revolving around the same type of question how do you get into it who was your inspiration stuff like that so Calvin I decided just to address your question specifically but I've always been interested in on in native cultures and especially where I grew up and where I live now in the northeastern United States the native cultures of the area you know you have the Iroquois until before the north of us in New York State and you have you know the Huron of Canada all that area and the Algonquin speakers around us and old further south and all that so I've always been interested in native cultures growing up and how that sort of manifested in my adult life the interest in that was that I chose to pursue a degree in anthropology at University and I focused on archaeology while I was there and archaeology is basically the study of the pass through you know material goods you know artifacts and environment environmental you know I'm sorry I'm looking for stony environmental factors cues left from the past so that's what I studied in school and at one point after I graduate I did have a friend who is a little bit more into what we may call bushcraft now in a sense because all these terms really get confusing and it really is semantics but I do have a friend who was a little more active in doing the skills and practicing the skills that sort of prompted me again to be more hands-on hands-on with the interest into the native skills and bushcraft and the final question comes from Eric Dunphy he left the question on the open L number 9 video and he asks Creek could you explain the purpose of the knot you put in the blade I'm new to knives so here's the open now number nine again aragan here's the notch I put in there and why did this is basically to be able to get to this part of the cutting edge right down here right by the notch and be able to sharpen that easier than if it wasn't there because basically when you're sharp

you're going to be laying this on a stone and this nacho isn't there can be really difficult sometimes to get this part of the the cutting edge sharp just with the nature of how a grind terminus I will show you another knife or an example you can see this knife does not have a sharpening Troy or notch and sometimes you can develop a flat spot down here with if you're sharpening technique isn't is efficient or is if your skills are a little bit lacking in your sharpening you can develop a flat spot down here just because there's no notch and you only have the plunge right here and I know I'm kind of talking around it's not maybe as clear as I could be so any of you watching this I want to try to you know add anything onto the sharpening not tutorial please please leave a comment in and chime in on on this topic just a few updates now at the end of this video maybe you noticed in this video I'm rocking some new if you out or even gear been testing this out and I'll your see some videos soon on some of the clothing from them which I'm pretty excited to do also standing I've been talking about getting some new gear some new knives from your bag stuff that we're going to purchase that's not going to be sent to us stuff that we're going to hand pick and find that's out there so we're going to be really excited about putting some new gear on the channel as well and I got as I mentioned in the beginning of the video you can see the leaves are starting to change right now and the weather just broke yesterday we're getting cold weather is in now so these leaves should be really bursting with color in the next couple weeks we're going to be traveling probably north on the East Coast and and capturing some footage of the fall foliage right now so that's pretty exciting so just want to you know throw a couple updates out there and in this video if you have any questions leave them in the comments section like always until the next volume of call and response later turtles