Sharp Knife Safe Knife Safety

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors explains the saying "A sharp knife is a safe knife." Obviously a sharp knife is still a dangerous tool, but when properly used the a sharp knife allows for far more control than a duller knife. Watch as Krik demonstrates the differences between them with a few simple everyday knife tests and uses.

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hey wassup turtles creek here with black ow outdoors has recently occurred to me that we've done a lot of videos on different types of knives but i haven't really gone into detail about you know knife safety or knife tech knife technique i wanted to change that today and talk about why a sharp knife is a safe knife and we've all heard that saying probably but do you know what it means I brought two knives with me today one sharp and ones dull the sharp knife is is bark river knife I forget its exact model name you can search our channel and find it kept this one sharp came super sharp I've dropped it convex says quality steel and the dull knife is this Condor mini Bush lure and you know quality and price really does anything to do with sharpness generally speaking what it really means is how long the sharp edge will last on a higher quality steel that's really relevant for what we're doing the day I'm just going to show examples of using a dull knife vs. a sharp knife to illustrate the purposes of this being sharp or do a paper test to start with really no effort at all putting into that sharp let's grab a dull one and or dull knife for today's video just tearing not gripping in the paper at all and some might call this a you know utility edge which you'll see once I start using it it still will cut but nowhere near as sharp is our sharp knife now I'm going to illustrate some cutting tasks and go through cutting some paracord I have some rope and then we'll cut some wood just sort of start talking about and show you how a sharp knife reacts to doing certain tasks you can see that little little effort on my part you see how there's really hardly any follow-through because I'm not really putting a lot of resistant or I'm not putting a lot of effort into this cut so I can just let that cutting edge do a lot of work for me and I'm not using a lot of force and that's one reason a sharp knife is safer than a dull knife literally because I don't have to put a lot of effort into the cut and there's less chance for some erratic movement when it catches when the edge catches now we got our dull knife st. piece of paracord I'm going to put the same effort i was using on the sharp knife we'll see what happens it's basically just skipping across barely cutting that outer that outer cord or a tube of the paracord now I'm going to put in the effort i need to actually cut through this and pay attention to how far my hand goes say much more effort i had to put into that how much farther my hand traveled the end of the cut this is still cutting obviously like I said it's a still utility edge but you can see I have to put a lot more force into it and it's going to tire me out faster not a clean cut here's the paracord we just cut we're going to move on to some thicker rope this is hundred percent manila this was actually the same rope I used in the how to whip the end of a rope we're going to cut through some different material just to show show the edges in action some people say it's easier to cut through thick rope or cord like this with a coarser edge or serrations so we'll see how that that utility edge on or dull knife performs compared to our super sharp knife and now we have our sharp knife going first in this task and I'm going to put the least amount of effort I have to at first just to see you know how that how that edge reacts not quite the whole way through but that's a super minimal minimal effort on my point on my part excuse me let's do that again and I'm really slicing you can see I'm sort of holding the knife out of angle and slicing letting the edge do the work not putting a lot of effort into it super easy let's try to do it in one one slice so it one more time this is the dull knife now I'm going to try to put the same amount of force I was putting in with the sharp knife and see how that reacts to this rope actually not too bad not too bad and like I mentioned before because this is a coarser edge and toothy not super sharp it actually maybe cut a little bit better in this really coarse thick material but we'll keep going to know see how I feel about the end of it I am having to put more force than this it might not be shown up showing up on camera but specifically for this cutting tasks like I said because this is a tooth year dollar edged it's almost cutting more like a serration which actually some people say is better again better for this type of cutting task but i can tell you i'm putting a lot more force into this with the dull knife sharp knife doing some wood cutting now and like I mentioned before what makes this knife safer in my opinion is that it's sharp and I have a lot of control with it and this is kind of a dangerous cut but I'm comfortable doing this because I have a lot of experience using knives I've cut myself a lot learning which you will do when you're learning how to use a knife you're going to cut yourself that's the reality of it but about with this technique I'm going to do you can see without the wood that I'm basically rolling the knife into this space in between my knuckles and that's the safety and it's just this literally the form of rolling my hand like this what makes it safe and I have a lot of control because the knife is sharp you can see how the knife's not really skipping off the end I'm finishing my cut with my force is being pretty much terminated how I want it to be it's not skipping off the end erratically or anything like that because I have control in its sharp and my technique is on point

I'm going slow for the camera so you can see it but I could go faster all right let's get the dull knife out I think I illustrating my point and we have a dull knife we're again I'm going to prep it the same amount of force and now it's not going to translate on camera but I'm gonna put the same amount of force I was just using in that cut and see how this performance compared it's actually not too bad I am putting a little bit more force in it but I can feel it's you know like right there I'm hitting resistance and you know when he have resistance your what's the first thing you're going to do you're going to put more effort into and force and that's really you know at the end of that and there's a chance for that length to come out and do something goofy because it sort of ran out of sharp bleed to use that's not doing a 2 beta to buy a job that has to do with the fact that it's still a utility edge and it has a lot of belly there's a constant swoop on this knife so it does make it a good slicer but I can tell you it is taking a little bit more effort on my end to produce and do this safely and it's a scandi grind which is just generally better for woodworking in my opinion I'm gonna turn around do some power cuts get the sharp knife back out sharp knife do some power cuts at the end of this I'm putting a lot of force in this obviously because I said I'm doing a power cut I'm getting a lot of good chunks of wood coming off do a couple more of this and get the dull knife out and see how that see how that feels in the hand all right let's get the dull knife dull knife power cuts i'm going to start flat that's a really good test of a knife sharpeners if you can take a real thin flat piece and not work on a ridge if you can go really like a flat spot you can tell if you're nice sharp if it's able to do that careful sturdy this is the dull knife putting a lot more pressure into this you can see doesn't want to cut the whole way through it stretch it over though give it a give it a fair shake I'm having to put a lot more force into this a lot more force it's tiring me out and you're starting to sweat on my brow but the point is you know a dollar knife will work I'm not saying it won't it's just the fact that you've put more force into it and you have less control in most cutting tasks those were some of the the best tasks I could think of to show sort of some differences and I know what pride and translate as much as I'd hoped I didn't really want to do anything unsafe using a dull knife to really show you know the difference because I don't want to get hurt out here I'm in the forest but sort of the recap the reason why I think a sharp knife is a safer nice because it requires less force on my part which then allows me to just put my focus into control and just the motion that I want to I want to execute with the cut with a dull knife I have to put more force just to get the knife to bite and then I have to focus on the control it's I'm expending that much more energy using a dull knife for most tasks you know besides like I said cutting rope a dollar knife or a tooth of your edge knife will work you know just as well if not maybe a little better but the point is if you have a dull knife you're going to put more effort into your cuts it's going to fatigue you faster and we all know when we get tired and fatigued injury likelihood goes way up it goes way up now a sharp knife can cut you a lot easier you can go just brush against yourself with a really really sharp knife and you know and cut yourself and your skin versus a dull knife you might have a little bit of leeway if you bump yourself it might not cut you right away but the point is if you're going to use a knife a lot you want to hold in your hand for a while or do a lot of task with it I'm highly recommending you learn how to sharpen a knife and get it super super sharp and maintain that edge for your own safety and for just the enjoyment of using a knife because we're going to sharp you just have so much more control and it's going to do everything you want it to do so if there's anything I didn't I didn't go over in detail or if you have anything to add to this topic for sharp knife vs. a dull knife please leave a comment let me know I want to learn as much as I can about knife control knife safety and all that and if you like the video please give it a thumbs up let's let my brother and I know that you like the content and it helps support the channel honestly it's something very small you can do and it helps support help support the channel this is craig signing out with black guy outdoors later turtles