This channel is about bushcraft and what I feel it constitutes. To me, bushcraft is a form of art. It encompasses everything I like to do and have done since before I even knew what bushcraft meant, or that such word even existed. It's partly survival, long term wilderness living skills, wood craft, hiking, camping, photography, self reliance, quite a bit of history, archaeology, and anthropology.
But bushcraft is also about ecology. A good bushcrafter will know his plats, animals, fungi, and how they're connected. You can't live in the woods/bush without knowing all that. Here we have almost a completely new set of skills such as species identification, tracking, cooking and many more.
To me it's about learning new things every day, and using them to create or improve something. It's about finding your unique way of discovering and creating things.
Have any recommendations where I can buy some? I'm trying to get into blacksmithing but I'd like to try out the design first before I spend any time on it. I'm a big fan of its potential utility, but I'm just real curious where you would recommend getting one. Either businesses that sell them or specific makers that ship to the United States or abroad and general.
I haven't seen anything like that offered in the US. Getting them shipped from Europe might be a good option. I've heard that some blacksmiths, sword/knife makers do send stuff to America but I don't have any experience with that process.
Excellent video. Thank you 😊 I never knew Vaara was differential tempered. I watched a video of it batoning and you could clearly see spine was affected, bunged. Why people want to do everything with a small knife except cut & slice I’ll never know.
people who criticise knives dont actually use knives. its a knife. i bought this to throw in my bugout, can make a nice self defense weapon or even hunting/fishing spear. my actual camping knife i use a gerber strongman. cant break it if i tried. but i was thinking of using this my next time out
2024. i have the regular Bushman now for 10 years. use it every day on my farm, the knife and the seath hold up perfectly. i use it hard never lets me down............
Unsharpened knives and machetes actually have a point. They do not damage the blade during shipping and reduce costs so common people can afford a high qualify blank. That is the concept we use here in Latin America, machetea come pre-ground but it is the job of the user to put an edge, some may give a convex semi blunt edge to hack wood, some prefer to only sharpen the first third, other prefer a thinner grind for green bush clearing
I like the bowie shape better. As in, it looks more spear-like. Is there an actual advantage to it? I'm not sure. I think the point of the knife is more centered, which may make it easier to push through whatever you're trying to stab.
I just bought a used Camper and and another Tinker. I carry a Ranger but a Camper and a few other items on a cord i wear around my neck in winter can come in handy.
Simple designs always work the best no one knife will do everything well , but the bushman comes pretty close i like it because you can use it as a spear which gives you so much more advantage for hunting and protection .
I've had the original Bushman large and mini for over 30 years . Very good all around camp knives and the mini is particulary good as a skinning knife for large game. The original pig skin sheaths still work great . Thanks for your review and opinions. All the best.
A well thought out an honest review .I have never found anything fundamentally wrong with this knife ,though I do have a preference for the original bushman (no reason I just have a personal preference is all).I do have one of these too though and you are quite right in all you have said it is a great knife and covers all bases for a wander in the woods .Like you I do cover mine with tape for extra grip and I like your idea of adding the circular ridge for a little extra safety and will be adding that to mine very shortly ,so thank you for that idea . Many complaints about certain blades I have found come from people with no real practical experience of using these tools out doors for there intended purpose and it is good that people like you take the time to dispel various myths and notions that seem to form in the minds of the "armchair collector" .I have some 30 plus years of using knives and my bush crafting /survival skills in various situations and environments all over the world and I still learn something new from people like you and so many others on a regular basis .Keep up the good work my friend .
Such a fire will work. As long as there is firewood, it will not go out. Everything is done correctly here - one log warms the other. Yes, maybe there will be little heat, because the width of the fire is not very large, but it will not go out as long as there is firewood. Sorry for my language, I am writing through a translator, I am from Ukraine.
Mors would push the curls outward by tilting his knife at the very end of the stroke. Making it possible to stack curls right behind each other. Utilising all 3 directions is definitely superior! Thanks for sharing
There are a lot of variables on this concept. I have seen where instead of using the two slopes, just use one and do not use wood as the frame. Metal stakes would be ideal for the frame instead. That way, you've eliminated the possibility of the fuel feeding logs getting caught up on knots if a wooden frame had been substituted. And, of course the obvious thing with using metal vs wooden stakes is that there should be less to worry about in terms of your frame burning up. Also, at the fire pit, base logs can be laid out and rocks placed all around those base logs to help in keeping the heat going longer. The biggest challenge to using this method will be figuring out what the best angle would be to have the metal stakes set up for. Too steep of an angle and you can end up providing too many fuel fed logs to catch fire too quickly. Not steep enough and the fuel fed logs won't slide down the stakes properly to feed into the fire. But, at the end of the day, I can't say that I would trust the concepts of a fire being totally maintenance free. Either have a buddy that you can take turns watching the fire/sleeping or learn to sleep with one eyeball in ALERT mode if you are alone.
The blade my not hold an edge as long as some more expensive knives like a Benchmade, but they sharpen up very nicely and easily, and are a great EDC choice imo!
I have the bowie version. This knife is excellent! Only mod I needed to make was filing back of the spine to bare metal for starting fires with those round rods. Didn't mod the handle, but sounds like it might be a good idea.
