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The sharpening slots, carbide or ceramic, are never the right angle, which makes them useless to me. I don't buy a sharpener for IT to tell ME what angle to set my blades to. That's a backwards relationship. Remember the 10% rule. You need to be 10% smarter than the equipment you use. The square edged carbide pull through slots make a horrid jagged mess of the edge, which then can't keep an edge for long until the carbide damage is fixed. The long strip of ceramic is okay for touching up a small to medium sized knife. Screwdrivers would typically need to be torx or phillips. So about one function on the thing works. It is a waste of space and money. A couple small stones from my sharpening kit are smaller, cheaper and more effective. What I actually take with me is a small double sided stone (ceramic and diamond) in a leather pouch that has green chromium paste rubbed into one side for stropping. If I have a recurve knife, then I'll take a diamond rod and a ceramic rod because flat stones don't work on them.
The v-type carbide sharpeners are real good for removing dings in the edge on beater/damaged knife blades. I find a pocket diamond rod sharpener to work great for general sharpening if the blade is just dull. Of course there are better choices for portable sharpeners, but a V carbide sharpener combined with a diamond rod is very portable and cost effective.
Completely disagree. Pull through v-type sharpening tools, maintenance tools (it doesn't matter what you call them) are universally garbage. The carbide leaves a ragged, weak, dull edge, and the ceramic portion loads almost instantly, so does little to nothing useful. For proof of these statements, see Outdoors55 videos on the subject. You would be so much better off with a small pocket stone, like a Fallkniven DC4, Spyderco DoubleStuf, Worksharp Field sharpening tool, or so many others. These will be about the same size and weight, but so, so much more capable of actually producing a decent edge.
Worst Knife I've ever owned "MSK-1E"! This thing is so heavy, it's like hauling a crowbar around! Guy's the best knife is the one you have on you, I could not imagine having this thing on my hip, EVER! Tried selling it "Brand New" on several knife boards, finally listed it for $200 and $20 shipping "$449.00 new now". Not one taker! I ended up sending it to a Knife Buddy in Finland to see if he wanted it. NO WAY, he said the same thing, way too heavy to ever carry! So he's going to try to use it for trading towards something more suitable and easier to carry! Sorry guy's, this is a Rambo wanna be boat anchor! Yes, it's NICE, extremely well made, WAY Overpriced, but I could never see myself humping one of these around on my hip! 👎👎👎 !
Hmmm, I thought it was because you were making these stupid videos in a private camp ground 15 feet from your 5th well trailer, Phony Suits, back yard biker.
Haha, backyard biker, all bullshit, you just set your shit up for the video and then leave. Phony Suits, thanks for ruinging my marraige. I like your other videos where you were 15 feet from you 5th wheel trailer, you are a pathalogical liar.
Recently picked up the new TI geopress, I love it! Goes everywhere I go. The only thing I like better about the ultra press is the design of the bail handle on top.
His soon to be ex wife said he just set's it up for the shot, and then goes back home, everything he says is bullshit, I was his close friend for 50 years, until he had an affair with my wife. Ask him about making hootch in his toliet in prison.
I love my Pendleton wool blanket. I sleep better wrapped up in that on my bed than fighting with sheets and comforters all night long. Plus, there's something oddly soothing about rubbing my feet against the wool.
At your suggestion I purchased one and could NOT be more pleased. The Silverfire folks could not have been better to work with and ordering was easy and delivery at rocket speed. Awesome piece of kit!
I already dropped out at the beginning where you came riding through the woods on a MOTORCYCLE. A real tough guy does that on foot!!! Even if only to maintain peace for all the animals that live in the forest.
I ordered a Faribault Mills Frontier Blanket, Queen size, for $545. It is their heavy weight blanket, but they don't call it "Merino" wool. They call it "very fine". Same for the Cabin blanket.
We're still using my grandmother's Merino blankets, probably a good 70 years old now and still going strong. Our family took the gold medal for our South African super fine Merino wool shearing on the London wool market for years. It was always an item of pride to point to what could be made from that wool. Thanks for a useful evaluation.
@@backwoodsbiker4311 another army trick my father taught me as a boy: if your socks are woollen and they’re wet you can dry them in the flames of a campfire. They will steam dry quickly and wont scorch. It only works with wool though. You can’t go completely overboard so caution is still necessary but we’ve used the method for years and it works well.
Depends on what you want. For those lightweight speedy hikers - Sleeping blanket. For durable rugged camping and years of use - Wool 100%. Thank you for the video Wool information I'm updating my shopping list while researching!
My mom gave me a wool emergency blanket from when she was a paramedic, I take it everywhere with me. Mine is pretty thick and not as maliable as the ones you have there.
GOOD quality 100% wool blankets, if properly cared for, should last for a minimum of 40-50 years of hard use. Even much longer if care is taken in storage. Even rips and burnt through holes are *NO JUSTIFICATION* for retirement, or disposal. Many people don't realize this, but woven wool fabrics are potentially able to be mechanically repaired through a process of machine weaving utilizing 100% wool thread that is often an incredibly close match to the manufacturer's color palatte. This type of repair is far more common in men's and women's high quality suits and dresses, but the same process can theoretically be applied to heavier woolen items such as blankets. One of my greatest regrets was selling off three C.J. Wilde handwoven custom blankets that she made specifically for me to match the tyoe of weavings done in colonial America prior to the founding of the United States. I paid her close to $750 dollars for those three blankets, and today they are *EASILY* worth a minimum of 3-4 times what I paid for them in the late 1980's.
