How To Make a Bushcraft Knife with ALEC STEELE - Blacksmith Masterclass
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Date: 2019-09-10
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Kim Holcomb
Alec, your a great teacher for someone who's quite young. Your patient. Yet you don't yell. ( I've had a teacher who was my sewing teacher. She yelled if you didn't quite get something. Was not patient. . You can get ideas across with out the person feeling like a geek. And most importantly your not arrogant. I like that if you make a mistake you admit it correct it and go on. I enjoy watching your videos and I'm starting to work with wire and using tools to shape it. Kerp up thr great work.
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Alec, your a great teacher for someone who's quite young. Your patient. Yet you don't yell. ( I've had a teacher who was my sewing teacher. She yelled if you didn't quite get something. Was not patient. . You can get ideas across with out the person feeling like a geek. And most importantly your not arrogant. I like that if you make a mistake you admit it correct it and go on. I enjoy watching your videos and I'm starting to work with wire and using tools to shape it. Kerp up thr great work.
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Dark Thoughts
We've used stones as knives, of course even a modern steel knife with small flaws is going to do its job. Cool to see him doing still lots of manual labor, a lot of people nowadays just buy steel plates and grind them down on the belt sander, which is fine too but I feel a lot of people missing out on a lot of in depth knowledge that way. If you keep that one, or decide to make a second version that you eventually keep, you should also look for making your own custom sheath for it.
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We've used stones as knives, of course even a modern steel knife with small flaws is going to do its job. Cool to see him doing still lots of manual labor, a lot of people nowadays just buy steel plates and grind them down on the belt sander, which is fine too but I feel a lot of people missing out on a lot of in depth knowledge that way. If you keep that one, or decide to make a second version that you eventually keep, you should also look for making your own custom sheath for it.
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owl3764
There's nothing like a hand-made knife, especially one you've made yourself. You could always change the grind to a convex edge if you find it wavers and make it twice as strong, but being as well made as it is, you may not need to. Now you just need to make a leather sheath for it and your ferro rod. Great looking and performing bit of gear, Mike, anyone would be proud to own it. Congrats on your entry into the blacksmithing world. Alex is a champ for teaching you.
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There's nothing like a hand-made knife, especially one you've made yourself. You could always change the grind to a convex edge if you find it wavers and make it twice as strong, but being as well made as it is, you may not need to. Now you just need to make a leather sheath for it and your ferro rod. Great looking and performing bit of gear, Mike, anyone would be proud to own it. Congrats on your entry into the blacksmithing world. Alex is a champ for teaching you.
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Matt G
Awesome video Mike When you showed the handle with the linseed oil on it I was in awe. I like a rounded, bottle style handle just like you made and having the wood go up the choil makes a ton of sense. I currently am using the Bark River Aurora II and wish the handle was more rounded and the choil covered fully with the scales (the choil is a bit sharp. Great job on the blade and handle geometry. I wouldn't change a thing. Bravo.
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Awesome video Mike When you showed the handle with the linseed oil on it I was in awe. I like a rounded, bottle style handle just like you made and having the wood go up the choil makes a ton of sense. I currently am using the Bark River Aurora II and wish the handle was more rounded and the choil covered fully with the scales (the choil is a bit sharp. Great job on the blade and handle geometry. I wouldn't change a thing. Bravo.
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orwell2984
Based on the views, we just want to see you and sometimes your dad pootling round the forest, building more of the shed, doing carpentry, having a tea break and just chilling. You don't understand how aspirational simply having 1) a dad 2) a forest to goto with is. It's asmr for some people. You need to build the shed near a river. Build to bringing the family out for a nice day. Bring this together
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Based on the views, we just want to see you and sometimes your dad pootling round the forest, building more of the shed, doing carpentry, having a tea break and just chilling. You don't understand how aspirational simply having 1) a dad 2) a forest to goto with is. It's asmr for some people. You need to build the shed near a river. Build to bringing the family out for a nice day. Bring this together
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Jeremy Langer
Great vid. Good info on the process. I have one beef, though Linux Vitae is not the hardest trade wood. Buloke is 5060lbf on the Janka scale. Lignum Vitae is only 4500. There are also a couple species of cashew that are up in the 4700 range. Buloke is reasonably readily available, at least as available as Lignum. Like I said, minor beef, but a beef no less.
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Great vid. Good info on the process. I have one beef, though Linux Vitae is not the hardest trade wood. Buloke is 5060lbf on the Janka scale. Lignum Vitae is only 4500. There are also a couple species of cashew that are up in the 4700 range. Buloke is reasonably readily available, at least as available as Lignum. Like I said, minor beef, but a beef no less.
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Josh McDaniel
Really awesome I was waiting for this video their is nothing more satisfying than making your own knife that you will use for years to come I made a bushcraft knife and every time I am in the woods I use it for everything great job
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Really awesome I was waiting for this video their is nothing more satisfying than making your own knife that you will use for years to come I made a bushcraft knife and every time I am in the woods I use it for everything great job
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Robert Villarreal
Thanks to Alec for fixing the grind or it would have been jacked up. Lol. But i guess you can say it was a great mess up because that think feather sticks like a beast. Like a hot knife going through butter.
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Thanks to Alec for fixing the grind or it would have been jacked up. Lol. But i guess you can say it was a great mess up because that think feather sticks like a beast. Like a hot knife going through butter.
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al math
Thanks enjoying as always, Alex's is a nice guy and knows is stuff but is a bit SHOUTY ALL THE TIME i am an engineer and know if you work in a loud environment you have to speak up but not all the time on video.
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Thanks enjoying as always, Alex's is a nice guy and knows is stuff but is a bit SHOUTY ALL THE TIME i am an engineer and know if you work in a loud environment you have to speak up but not all the time on video.
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The Wood Dragon
Great looking knife and very cool with the higher grind. Are you concerned at all that the Lignum Vitae is known to cause skin irritation or have you used some treatment on the wood to prevent that?
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Great looking knife and very cool with the higher grind. Are you concerned at all that the Lignum Vitae is known to cause skin irritation or have you used some treatment on the wood to prevent that?
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