12 years ago I bought this Old Hickory Butcher Knife 7" because it was affordable and I needed one while trying to learn bow drill. The very day that I got it, I batoned the scales off of it. All that battering straightened out the brass rivets in the handle. Lol! I just lined everything back up, put several rounds of green electrical tape on it, and kept right on batoning. Needless to say, this knife is a very poor choice for bushcrafting because of the above, but also because of the poorly designed handle. It quickly causes hand fatigue from only minimal whittling, scraping, feathering, etc. Early on, I wore the spine out from casting sparks off it with Chert then resharpening with a file. The edge I also wore out from over sharpening. I ground the tip off while scraping it against concrete to shower some nearby char cloth with sparks. Believe it or not this Old Hickory is still super sharp, has a relatively sharp spine, and can still do work, lots of work! Let’s make some fires and then prepare a salad for lunch. Please follow the Links below and SUBSCRIBE. Thank You! Ferro Rod Playlist ru-vid.com/group/PLkoXX8XsMW3lI6k8TH1Bljf57Yvp9K1WD Old Hickory Butcher Knife Slicing Newspaper ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ND0R2BEdMF8.html Fire Roll With My Beloved Old Hickory Butcher Knife ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yblmmmzCoPQ.html
This is the knife my dad made feather-sticks with. Our stove was an old-time wood stove purchased for $50 dollars from a roadhouse that was remodeling. This was their cook stove. This was about 1949. I was 6 at that time. At night he would make feather-sticks and place them in the open oven and the heat, from the dying fire, would help them dry out-for the fire that he started the next morning.
I enjoyed seeing the old knife back out again. I especially enjoyed the salad making with it. I like your cooking shows. I have decided you aren’t using magic as I previously thought, I think it’s a 6 million dollar (prosthetic hand) that can pick up a burning fire and slowly move it from the table to the stove!! Way to go, fire master!
I commonly pick up burning tinder and quickly deposit it in the hobo stove. This time I wanted to see if I could "handle" a close up first then drop it in the stove. It went well. It's not as hot as you would think. Which way the wind is blowing, how thick the tinder bundle is, pinching the bundle, and hand speed all figure in to the magic.
When I was a short order cook, I got to the point where I could handle items on the grill and in the deep fryer with bare hands, you get callouses and you get used to it. Now I’m all soft again and I occasionally get blisters from my zippo pipe lighter if it’s overfilled or windy. Sigh… also, now that I have a fairly long beard, I’ve learned not to blow a tinder bundle to flame without a long reach blow tube. I use something called the pocket bellows. It prevents my beard from becoming a stepping stone to self-immolation. Still, I do kind of like the beard even if no one else does, lol.
I went through a phase in my knife making journey where I would find Old Hickory knives at garage sales and reshape the blade into a Kephart/bushcraft blade, replace the cheap wooden scales with micarta, and craft a leather sheath. They make great bushcraft knives, if you dry them after they get wet. Thanks for the video.
Oh my lord..!! #1. Old hickory butcher knives are freaking awesome..!! I actually stumbled across a piece of their steel that had been stamped with the pattern but not cut into a knife blank and I cut my own knife from it.. awesome knives..!! #2. Your ferro rod looks like my son's..!!! Always time for a new one..!! "Dad..!! I need a new ferro rod, or I can just take yours..!!" 🤨 #3. We get to see chef Dave again..!!! Now this has to be amongst the top videos as all videos where chef Dave makes an appearance are the best..!! #4. Now I'm hungry..!!!🤨
I have an old hickory set I picked up years ago at a yard sale, with the board. I bought them for the steel, but just don’t have the heart to destroy them. Excellent knives.
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These were my go to cheap knife back when i was young. We would buy them for like $5 and used them for everthing. I still have one thats like over 30 yeats old.
I have 10 Old Hickory's and three of them are their butcher knives that I break out when we slaughter hogs every winter. They can take a wicked edge and are easily resharpened. I wanted to modify one to make into an outdoor knife and think I will now after seeing this. I use a WorkSharp belt grinder for sharpening.
My Mom often made Mayonnaise, tomato and Lettice salid. Ok you win, tomorrow I go get a tomato and make a salid 😁👍 I also have my Moms Old Hickory knife. Much nicer than the Old Hickory knives they sell now days.
My mother did those ingredients plus cucumbers, radishes, rarely celery, oil and vinegar, and Wishbone seasonings shaken up in the little Wishbone jar.
Growing up my mother would put some in a jar with a little water and shake it up into a pourable dressing. When I grew up and started making her salads, I put the mayo straight in without diluting. She liked the taste of my method better. We used to eat Saltines with our salads. That was when they stayed crispy instead of immediately turning to mush on contact with fluid.
I have quite a few old hickory knives from my grandparents. I always buy them at garage sales because I will only use knives that have carbon blades. Well let me rephrase that, I only use old hickory knives 😂
At one time I thought that the hatchet was the key tool to have now the hatchet has its place but the saw unfathomable to me at the time is less work than the hatchet for getting wood into two pieces I do like this all you got there probably going to go to Home Depot tomorrow and get one see if I can't do me some cutting on something
For years I carried a small meat cleaver in my snowmachine windshield bag. I could clear branches and fallen trees with it to clear trails and gather wood for a fire later. It’s heavy enough to baton with but is a horrible craving knife. My wife loves Hellman’s, in Alaska it’s called BestFoods. Dukes is ok but most other brands of mayonnaise I’m not a fan of.
Of the adults in my house, I like Hellman’s, another likes Duke’s, and one likes that old nasty Miracle Whip. It all depends on what we grew up eating, but Miracle Whip???
Yeah that's a great knife. It cut through that tomato skin effortlessly even after batoning. Very nice! Hey, why do you say we'll like "wheeeel see you on the next one"? Just curious.
Another reason to not be beating on your knife except in a case of dire emergency. Batoning is a recent fad brought about by the "survival" shows. In the 60's and 70's in the scouts, we never batoned nor was it taught nor was it mentioned in any of the books. Nessmuk and Kephart and those of the period didn't baton or teach batoning. I've always had a hatchet or a saw or both, and would stomp pieces of branches in two if I was without other tools, or burn longer pieces in two. If you have a one and only knife, you shouldn't risk using it as an axe or a firesteel unless it's a dire situation I won't myself just because there most likely won't be any more new available Old Hickory knives for sale in my lifetime. You're sure not gonna find em new for sale for $5.00-$10.00 like I did for the ones I have and use
LOL! You and the Boy Scouts are wrong. I don't believe Nessmuk and Kephart did not baton regularly. Get a stainless Mora and 2 lb baton like I have and see if you can damage the knife.
The potato salad I made for Easter dinner this afternoon is full of Dukes. Lol. I think the guy who’s making the Deviled eggs is going to use Miracle Whip… NASTY!
