Bark River Woodland Special | EDC Fixed Blade Knife | Field Review

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors gives a thorough rundown of the Woodland Special by Bark River Knives.

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hey wassup Turtles it's Creek here with black outdoors today I'm going to be doing a video on the bark river knives woodland special so I paid one hundred and fifty three dollars and change for this knife actually in a retail space you can see under here bark river knives it has a - that's the steel overall length of this knife is six and seven-eighths inches blade length is a little over 3 inches convex grind I'm trying to move the light on it so you can see that there's no really sharp bevel on this it's just a rounded convex grind on this does have a sharpened spine just see that in action no real actual finger protection if you will or guard or rest it's very very slight here so something to keep in mind when you're using this knife or buying something similar to this that there's really nothing to stop your finger from from rolling up here on the blade besides just your grip and control of the knife something to keep in mind the scales on here are pretty pretty vast the type of material you can get on this there's a lot of options but I opted for the green and black linen micarta two pins lanyard here and this knife is definitely heavy to the butt end it's H will excuse me 1/8 inch thick right around an eighth of an inch right here but as it gets down here through my calculations it's it's definitely at least one or two thirty seconds of an inch thicker down here than an eighth and also lending to it being a little heavy down here is that you can see the taper I'm trying to pick it up if you can see the taper it's it's thinner up here the scales taper and are wider

down here or my finger and thumb are pressing in addition to that you also obviously have this kick out in the stock and the full tang Ness of the knife more material down here the steel and the scales and the balance point of this knife find it you get my finger that is right about here on the top side if you can see that try to move it a little bit now what that does for leaving this thinner is a little bit nicer in the fingers because this is more of a in my mind and sort of what Bart rivers calling is the EDC slash hunting woods knife but having a thinner up here having the scales thinner up here allows you to pinch it a little bit nicer a little bit more control with it depending on the cut how you want to use it you can just pinch up there press your thumb there this gives you a little bit more control but it definitely is definitely not a completely balanced knife in the in the sense that it's going to bounce or in the middle it's definitely but heavy I've been really you know hindered any any chores with it or felt anything goofy with it but nonetheless it is present and because this handle isn't really rounded flat on this profile and flat no no really palm sole here I did hold this for awhile using it on doing a bunch of woodworking with it which is not this type of knife it's a convex grind not really meant for woodworking a strict woodworker can do it fine and feather fine but as a comfortable handle this is actually the full-size handle of the Highland special of the bark River the Highland special but definitely not a super cool super cool actually is a comfortable handle to really do a lot of power cuts and grips for extended periods of time definitely hot spot it's going to gonna cramp the hand all that but nonetheless is a cool little knife so let's keep talking about it and do some chores with it and show it in action I'm gonna cut some cord with this now if it's really sharp this knife did come really sharp but if it's really sharp it makes these type of chores very very easy

just straight push it first don't slice it off it's really nice push not bad slicing motion now yeah complete with these I was doing a push because as I mentioned before you can really tell the sharpness and sort of geometry of an edge by how well it would do pushing straight but the slice action is the money for using a knife just drag it slowly without any pressure I mean I barely put any pressure on that it's going right through it with a slice nice convex grind I will show you how this reacts to putting it on some paper slicing through some paper get my notebook running out of paper running out a paper and hair my arms testing knives and sharping them to my low gear loft and I did use this knife pretty heavy for a day of wood chores and I did actually strop it a little bit it's a little bit different technique for doing rounded edges but the great thing about convex and one of the reasons why I wanted to use this knife and buy this knife actually well like I said before or maybe I didn't that this is a present for stony not sure if he likes her to even wanted it but I won't hit the try convex grind I was in a store where I saw the bunch of bark rivers by one the try try convex grind for supposedly superior edge retention all around strongest sort of profile on an edge you know I'm really gonna knock putting hardly any pressure through this let's see if I can just go straight push and not slice like in fun I'll hang up right there stay closer to here cuz I want to pull right there Simar i have a little bit of work that I need to do right down here towards the plunge no idea what plane that is my wide solo hey I'm just losing a little bit of finesse with it down there seems to be doing all right now might has been me trying to talk through it I'm not concentrating but nonetheless you can see it's coming pretty sharp coming pretty dang sharp now that made a mess in front of me here I'm actually gonna go down to the ground and do some work on some wood with it take a little bit of this bark off this outer bark I want the inner bark really nice smooth really nice and smooth no pressure at all now they have some of that outer bark off to flip the knife around use the spine get that really fine inner bark this is tulip poplar great resource great resource use this use this what a lot for a lot of different things take this off put this up on my stool see you again

really nice tender a little trick I picked up and each time I do a certain task usually I'll pick up something new or learned you know a little little different technique to do a little bit better but with feather sticking a lot of its angle and you never really want to put too much pressure on the blade to get thin curls by notice to keep a consistent curl instead of you know sort of breaking off up here is once I start my cut and I feel comfortable is to is to look down where I'm gonna go not where I'm cutting but look down past and look where I'm going I found that really gives me a little bit more control and consistency with my curls if that makes sense this is doing a really nice job with this convex grind is doing really well now I have to I'm using a lot of force in my hand holding this knife as I mentioned earlier because of the handle size and shape but you can see it's doing a really nice job with these curls all right just a little one let me get that tinder back down here now Claire our little space having processes anymore since it came off the stick as you saw me take it off that piece of wood now I never have been able to get a really strong flame using this inner bark this any of these inner fibers of the tool poplar tree but that's why you can add a sort of secondary or something that's going to give a hotter flame initially because this is a skit like sort of a really small primary weak flame then add something to it but it's really nice to use because it's plentiful it's pretty easy to process not bad

you see how quick this curls going to go up to thinner your make them will quickly burn the easier they'll take a flame but it's prudent if you're trying to get a fire going with this method to definitely have more than one feather stick or a very very big one with a bunch of curls what I saw was pretty what I made what you saw was pretty small wiping off some of the material from the fire steel so really surprised with how this sort of sort of worked with with feather sticking this wood like I said before the handle definitely not the most comfortable to really get a strong grip on and hold for extended period of time just because of its size not really made for that but nonetheless more than functional really nice control with this convex grind the angle seems to be working really well for getting a long curl considering weights in this would really nice and part of that has to do with the fact that I'm bracing this against the ground really not trying to hit the blade into the ground trying to stop right when I get to the end let that pop off if I wanted to shape the end of this stick for a steak or anything like that reposition myself comfortable not don't want to get through that and like I said before I got this knife because I won the Tri convex grind because from what I've heard and seen myself is that their superior grind for strength and edge retention now I do a lot of sort of woodworking and of in the in a white light hey meaning I really likes candy grinds one of my knives because that's just how I use my knives a lot is just playing around with wood you can see once I get a nice little Ridge started with this follows it really as well a lot of my slicing motion not a lot not a lot of effort and going into this so you see I'm sort of slipping around this is moving but this is on my outside of missing my right leg I have the outside I'm pushing all the way from my body there's no part of my body outside of here so you might do slip here or slip to this way or slip like this my foot might you know inside my thigh my leg anything like that is not in the potential path if this knife slips off that's gonna stab me or stick me worked fine just that little bit and you see my cow so you see I read my hand is you see my calluses sort of get a little red from holding it my cows right here you can see him sort of raising up a little bit like they got pinched with this handle but so far no hot spots but I can definitely feel I'm using a lot of force to hold that let's go back down to the ground gonna test out this convex grind now a little bit more put up a certain type of notch in this works fine enough this is an all-around Littlewoods knife and a hunter you know definitely small enough to be used the skin sharp enough to be able to do that just an all-around you know type chore camp drawer three-inch blade type knife alright let's take a look at the sheath now so here's the sheath without the knife in it for a second it's a different style design honestly I've another I've haven't used anything that's quite like this we're stitching running to length adhere welts here fire steel loop that barely barely fits this larger model this is the late my fire and army army Edition which is much thicker I try jamming it in there jamming it in there and it you know at this point I probably wouldn't to keep doing that I don't know how well it's the stitched in there but the point is for fire steel loops if it's gonna have it on a knife even this is a small knife a small sheath I wanted to be able to accommodate a fire steel this thick this one barely does I'm stretching the leather and price dressing some of the stitching it's integrity but nonetheless it fits in there not too bad considering that this is machine stitched from what are they calling this hold on a second Great Lakes leather works there's a stamp right here it's machine stitched you know I can tell that there's one how the stitching is coming through the back of this you can see the way the stitching is coming through this it doesn't move like that if you do it by hand or if you punch it with an awl or drill a hole and second hold on a second you'll be able to see the marks the indentations on the leather from the feet the dog feeds off feet would ever on a sewing machine you'll see that if you follow the stitching and that just is in line with every other knife I've seen where it has a leather sheath the reality is for handmade

handmade and constructed and put together sheath it's gonna you know greatly increase the price and then here you have the belt loop belt loops right here and there's actually two different ways actual sort of height adjustments to put this on which I will show and then the knife in the sheath come down here slide it in slide it in nice tight fit it is a nice tight fit great retention on it probably six to seven ounce leather but let me get this on my hip now and show you what I mean about the sort of different ways to different heights to put this on now concerning the back of the sheath about how your Belle can thread through this I'm gonna get my belt undone here there's a slit here let me just show you so there's basically two ways you can put your belt through this I don't know if is intended like this I don't know I didn't really watch any videos on this first way is going through here one two you can see from the top of the sheath oh I don't know what I have here maybe almost an inch here and less over on this side and you can imagine see my belt on this side now how high this is going to sit up on my hip I really do not prefer knives for their handles to come Vivaan this high maybe an inch at most to come this high up on my hip I don't feel like I'm carrying too much extra weight down there in the love-handle region but how I find out how I found that I prefer to like this this is go through one yeah and what that does is it moves the belt this even this much closer to the top of the sheath and the handle so that gives me still a little bit higher than I like it but it's better than the first way I showed you in my opinion slide that around

thoughts with this buckle buckle y'all so you can see how it's sitting on the hip right here still have this handle come up a little bit but it's honestly not too bad much better the second way I showed you putting the belt through you can still get it out one-handed put it back in gently gently gently gently it says leather you can definitely cut a sheath up really quick being sort of not the not the gentlest with pulling it out of leather sheath a little bit of a tip to pull with something a leathers keep a nice pull it up till you break the friction once you break that fixing get nice a little another grip and pull it out gently the same thing put the blade in nice nice nice and tight there it is on the hip not too bad not too bad looking say so myself see it's sitting on the hip as I sit down boy not too much coming down past where my legs are touching this stool not really too much poking into the side a nice small compact knife or just an all-around EDC type camp chore small little whatever you want to do with this knife it can do so this is not a cheap knife for I think the MSRP retail this is almost $200 which is pretty expensive now I didn't pay retail I got it at actual retail store knife ship free their website actually was at their store in Oregon when I bought this for for stony but this is not a cheap knife for a three-inch blade you know my card is scales granted you do of the a to steal and you get the convex grind which I can only imagine takes that much longer to put this on it consistently you make it sharp as opposed to just some sort of a more you know flat beveled knife if you will scandi saber or something like that flat grind so I believe you know that's where some of the cost is coming from you have a really really really beautiful finish on this knife I'm rubbing my fingernail overtop of here or the spine and the scales meet all around this no gap there's no inconsistencies of level levelness you know from one service to the next the plunge lines really even the scale shape so even it's a really really nice finish to this knife bow that being said it's a knife and it's a tool I personally I don't like I don't collect knives because they're tools in my opinion nothing wrong with collecting knives at all but if I buy a knife and spend $150 on it in the front of my mind I make that purchase it's gonna have to be okay this is a knife if I ding it if I chip it if it if it gets beat up that's okay that's the purpose I'm buying it I grant a lot of time and effort goes into making these knives look pretty but the point is they're a tool and if you have an issue with sort of you don't want to use this you want to spend the money great you can get cheaper knives do the same thing but the longevity the little nicer finish all of that you know make it stand out to a cheaper knife this is my opinion if you have any questions about this knife about the woodland special anything I didn't cover in the video any questions about how I performed or didn't perform leave a comment below this video will be up on blackout doors calm remember to check out our website I encourage you all to go there there's things that are getting posted on there that aren't getting put on other social media social media outlets remember to Like subscribe and share on this video on the YouTube vein if you don't like this video leave a comment let me know why leave some sort of a constructive criticism the stony and I and to leave a comment why you didn't particularly like this video or things we could have done different open open up a discussion this is correct signing out with black outdoors later Turtles you