I started my bushcraft knife journey with the Mora 511, then the Mora Companion HD, the Gerber Principle, and now the Joker Ember. The Ember is a great knife, but when I need comfort I return to the HD.
I watch a lot of knife review videos and this is one of the best reviews I’ve seen. Doesn’t come across as bias at all. Not trying to push one knife over another and dosent seem like a sales video. Just the facts and opinion on each knife individually. Very direct and forward and great descriptiveness. Most definitely subscribing to the channel.
Those BPS knives are sweet, a wood handle is highly underrated for bushcraft. I wanted to ask, are you familiar with the brand Beavercraft? They have sweet hand-made knives with leather sheath in $40 range.
For almost 2 months, I’ve been debating whether to buy the kansbol, bush craft black, or companion HD. This information made it clear that I need to add the Companion Heavy Duty to my kit!
Izula by ESEE is not in the less than $50 category, thanks to politics. I'm sure other knives can be removed from the list. Excellent video that I missed... Excellent review...
Good video for knive/tool lovers. The azula i use to eat, and a good backupp. A coldsteal finnbear lookalike in 1095 carbon i made myself. I gave it a 90 decrees spine and a simpel kydex sheeth. I can recommand everyone who's handy to try and make one if you love & use knives. Love my coldsteal srk forever! I take it every trip everywere always. I did notice a small thin blade like the small moras cut very easy an comfy, perfect for carving. So i take one along. All my blades i use coldbleuing on and are black, even the stainless ones. Just some oil and sharpening after use is a nice relaxing job after dinner at the fire. Greetings from holland
Thank you for the excellent video. Clear and unambiguous. Am looking for the best compromise (utility vs cost), and I just bet on the Condor Terrasaur you featured, except I found one in ORANGE, so it's harder for me to lose in the outback or in the dark, etcetera. Please keep up the fine work!
The Morakniv's that dont have the 90* spine can EASILY be filed in moments to make them 90*. Any bushcrafter worth his prusik would know this and wouldnt even slow down making the spine 90* and smooth. Also, if you break the handle off a Mora, you have likely done it on purpose and used power tools to facilitate the act.
Absolutely! Martinni seems to be left out of a lot of these. Probably be ause tgeybare better then all of them out of the factory. Mora and Martinni run neck and neck imo.
This is the first video I’ve seen from you and I must say I’m impressed with the quality and delivery of the information. Really appreciate the efforts. But dang that scenery makes it hard to focus on what you’re saying. Such a beautiful area you’re in basically in all of the shots. I’ve been to Alaska twice for work. Both times I couldn’t stray far from Anchorage but I couldn’t believe the beauty and vastness. Great job. BIG thanks! My Faulkniven f1 has finally started to fail after 15 years of heavy use. I may put a new handle on it, but that’s how I came to find you. God bless.
I've been using an SRK for years. Extremely rugged and useful knife for the money. The only knock I have to give it is that it feels really clumsy for finer tasks. I'm getting to where I nornally carey heavier cutting tools (a tomahawk, axe, or saw), so the larger SRK isn't quite as useful for some of the things I normally use a survival knife for, so I'm looking to pick up a Mora Garberg or Esee 4 to fit my needs a little better. If i had to leave the other cutting tools at home, the SRK is my first choice (that I own).
20:30 Batoning the SRK. You say the swedge is problematic when batoning. With 6 inches blade length, if you're splitting 3" logs you've still got 3" for the baton to hit. In any event, splitting logs bigger than that you shouldn't be using a knife! You should be using wooden wedges made using the SRK. As you said, the SRK is NOT a bushcraft knife and won't do those Scandi grind knife tasks as well, as it was not designed to. The SRK is as its name says, "Survival and Rescue Knife". It will do the tasks associated with that description.
i always liked a bigger blade... been told i have "big hands", so i guess that might explain why i can do all or most of the tasks with a big blade as well as somebody else with a smaller blade.. that srk is looking yummy... *insert drool gif*
Let's stop scandi grinding every knife out there please. It really hinders a bushcraft knife because wood processing is but one of many tasks encountered in the bush and scandi grinds suck at everything outside wood carving
