Great tutorial Felix. As 2023 fades away, I'd like to say thank you for all the tips and tricks you passed along this year. You are one of the nicest guys on RU-vid with your helpfulness and genuine interest in helping others. Merry Christmas to you and your family and all the best for 2024 man!
James, that's a great thing to say. I agree. I think that this video is a great Christmas gift to all of us. Thanks, Felix. Merry Christmas to both of you.@@FelixImmler
MEIN LIEBER FREUND🤗 unglaublich was du zeigst. uns sooooo vielfältig. das fisch schuppen mit dem von dir vorbereiteten messer ist zu genial mit den vielen fischen im hintergrund. top inhalt und wie immer schön erklährt mit so viel lebensfreude. DANKE FELIX
Greetings Felix. Excellent video as always. I must admit i never thought of creating a bur on my knives. They are all 90 degrees, but you've inspired me to go further. Thank you again for providing the best informative, and practical content. Happy holidays to you and your family.
Hello Ben. What an honor that you watched my video! I'm really happy about your positive comment! Thank you for your great work on your channel. Kind regards from Switzerland Felix
I've been running a burr like this for some years now on all my bushcraft knives and honestly wouldn't be without it because of the many uses. My method to produce the burr very similar to the one you're describing. I use a honing steel mostly but also have a tool made from an old blunt router bit where I use the shaft rather than the blade of course. Great video and a very happy Christmas to you.
On my bushcraft knife, I keep the distance where my thumb can reach, (around 2 inches), rounded, for carving, and the rest of the blade towards the tip, I keep very sharp ( 90 degrees, ),, So, I have the best of both worlds I think,, 🤔🤔🔪🔪,, Great video Felix,, Merry Christmas to you and your family, 🎅🎅👍👍
Thanks for this information Felix, I am a big fan of Mora knives and have now put a 90 degree spine on mine and can finally use it as a ferro rod sparker. I never realised it was the angle, I thought it was maybe the metal used. So thank you again for this fantastic Christmas present of being able to upgrade my simple Mora. Enjoy your Christmas and look forward to seeing your videos in the new year
I had to sharpen the spine on a fairly expensive bushcraft knife so I could use it like you demonstrated. But, I was in the field and had to use my Leatherman file on it. It took a little while, but I got a nice sharp spine that should have been on it when it was made.
With a metal file and sharpening stones, I created a scraping surface on the inside straight portion of the lockable cap lifter on a 111 mm Soldatenmesser 08 SAK. The liner lock makes it easy and safe to use this DIY - about 12 mm long - scraping surface for tasks like striking a fire steel.
Oh Great! AnotherFelix video!! Always good to see you Felix, always I learn something from you. Thank you. Have a great Christmas with your family. See you in 2024. Les in UK 🇬🇧
Bought the Venture to gauge its quality before I want to buy the pro for my brother for his 40th birthday and I wanted to see how good they are before getting the more special and slightly more expensive one. The quality is absolutely top notch! Very impressive, and I'm very happy with my purchase. So I guess he'll have a nice present for his birthday.
@FelixImmler I did it today, thank you. I was too wary of using power tools, so I put the knife in a vice and used a file. I then finished with successively finer diamond stones. It was a great success, with a neat finish, and it showers plentiful sparks of a ferro rod. Thank you for the motivation.
Wow! Now I know why my burr-free spine underperforms. More grinding just won't do it. Who knew? Felix, I never miss your videos...always learn something useful!
Excellent! Your homemade jigs are great. Maintaining 90 degrees at all times is crucial and thus the jigs are needed. One little roll away from 90 degrees when grinding and you have ruined it…I know from experience!
This was a very informative video. I have several knives to fix the spines on. Thanks again for a great video. Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year to all.
Just discovered your channel loving the content especially the tips and tricks with a sak now your compulsory viewing for cubs scouts and venture scouts
Excellent as always. btw you'll find almost every wood type, even green shaved with a carpenters scraper or your new spines will take a flame from a firesteel.
I just use a utility blade dolphin knife and a modified hand vise for files for utility blades and reciprocating blades for everything . I use the the thicker utility blades otherwise will snap and brake . Thats a neat trick using a drill bit backwards .
Ja lieber Felix, genau so wird es gemacht!👍👍👍 Ob und in welcher Intensität man es braucht, muss jeder selber entscheiden, wie du ja selbst sagst. Lieber Felix, vielen Dank für deine tollen Videos und deine super Tipp's! Ich wünsche Dir und Deiner Familie ein friedliches Weihnachtsfest, erholsame Feiertage und ein gesegnetes, gesundes neues Jahr! Ganz liebe Grüße aus dem oberösterreichischen Hausruckviertel!🤗
At the tip of a Mora blade there is actually about a centimeter of sharp spine where the Scandi bevel ends. This can be used as an emergency option for creating sparks with a ferrocerium-rod.
I mentionied a card scraper edge on the spine in a previous video's comment(where I said that it can be good if it is put on the tail of the venture). thanks for mentioning my idea and watching the video i recommanded. But my method of making a quick(not so sharp) card scraper edge in the outdoors is using a tungsten cardbide machine tool as a burnisher. It is sharper than the burnisher and would creat a perfect burr, but this sharpness allows knives with non-perfect 90degree edges to take a burr. Thank you so much for showing my idea in a video, I totally did not expect it! I always love learning from many different fields and take inspiration from them into my own field
I've got the Morakniv Garberg, which has a carbon steel blade and is flat ground. I also have several of the lower end Morakniv blades and they are definitely stamped out and without a flat ground spine!!!--will have to tweak those on my Ken Onion Worksharp!!! Interestingly, the burnishers used for honing the burr on card scrapers are made out of tungsten metal and are MUCH harder than the steel of the card scraper! Thanks Again for the Great Video Felix and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 🎄🎄🎄
Hi Felix, the opinions in case of a spine should ve sharp or rounded are different and there are many of them. I also like a sharp spine more than a rounded one, because it's simply an additional tool. Thanks for another very interesting and useful video and i wish you and your familiy Merry Christmas, some hopefully relaxing days and a great start into the new year 2024! LG
Please don't do that! I mean the first example, eating from a tree trunk. Foxes mark their territory by placing their stools on raised areas. Stones, sawn-off tree trunks. Placing food on a sawed-off tree trunk without a base is questionable because of the fox tapeworm. I also don't want to cut my sausage with a blade where I have previously wiped everything with it. Just some good advice.
Hey Felix, I've been waiting for the venture pro rerelease. Any word on what's being changed? Is it only gonna be a sheath that holds better and doesn't rattle? Thanks for your videos, you're one of the few on RU-vid that makes informative, entertaining content. What's your favorite Bushcraft knife & favorite steel regardless of price?
This is a wonderful video and very well explained! I really do like your homemade burnisher. Also, Merry Christmas to you and yours and enjoy your RU-vid break!
Hoi Felix, does this method also work for blued blades of the evoke? (still debating if i should give this treatment to the knife-blades of my SAKs tbh ;)
Video über einen ' scharfen Rücken ' , das habe ich doch komplett falsch verstanden 😂🎉, dachte noch, wo sind denn die Ladies 😅 ... Nein Scherz, jetzt aber erstmal dein Video kucken.
Super gutes Video, sauber erklärt. Bin da generell bei dir, ein scharfer Klingenrücken bietet einen unglaublichen Mehrwert. Als Verletzungsquelle sehe ich eher die groben Jimpings, die da rein gefräst werden, oft sehr unangenehm
Wow! Today I learned something really important! That was one of the best demonstrations videos I've ever viewed! It's amazing what a huge difference that such a little extra effort/skill can accomplish! I can't wait to try it out on one of my knives! Thank you for a great Christmas present here on Christmas eve! Wishing you and your family a happy and blessed Christmas and an exciting and productive New Year! I'm waiting (impatiently perhaps?) for the latest news about the Venture improvements! Cheers Felix!
Hahaha. I had to re-grind my Morakniv to be able to strike on the ferrorod. Well done Felix! Excellent! GREAT DEMO OF ALL THE STEPS! THE BEST VIDEO DEMONSTRATION OF CREATING A BURR! All the best, Rob der Dinosaurier vom Fricktal
Felix, war schon immer so, ein scharfer "Rücken" kann entzücken.....bei einem Messer, das man als Arbeitsmesser nutzt, da ist sowas echt desöfteren mal hilfreich.....und ein Victorinox Messer ist immer auch ein "Multitool", wie man hier anhand deiner Beispiele sehen kann....good job! 🙂 Dir und deinen Lieben ein schönes Weihnachtsfest gewünscht....stay sharp & Peace, Stephan
It's worth pointing out that this is completely pointless on san mai knives where the outer layers are iron or some unhardenable steel. It really needs to be a homogenous blade. Even differential hardening or tempering like edge hardening or a soft back draw, renders it kinda useless. You want the whole blade to be hardened. So if you want a knife with a hamon, it's worth considering treating the back the same as the edge
When sharpening the spine you are doing the exact same process used in ice skates. Particularly figure skates or hockey goalie skates. Other hockey skates are ground to be concave. Goalie or figure skates are closer to a flat 90 degree grind. So, you could go to a skate shop and see if they can do your knife, if you don't feel comfortable yourself. Once you get the initial shape, you can proly find a hand sharpener for skates to touch it up.
Hallo Felix was man noch machen kann mit dieser Seite des Messers ist die Decke vom Wildbret gerben also für nicht Jäger erklärt,vom Fell das Fett runter holen.schöne Grüße aus Mecklenburg Vorpommern
Always peeled carrots with the back of my knives. And yearly I smooth out walking sticks and tool handles with the back of my bushcraft knife. Counter intuitive but you get better grip with a rough cut stick than a well rounded stick - so I shave the bark off my sticks while green, and then smooth out the ridges with back of my knife. Quick and dirty job does the best. I make handles for my tools and family as well - hoes, fries, axes and hammers. As others have said, you should probably add a big disclaimer warning people about the danger of grinding a knife the way you did. Or pin a comment saying that. I have had a knife flick at my arm while sharpening like that - first and last time I make the mistake. Luckily it wasn’t my last mistake… Cheers from Portugal. And merry Christmas Felix!
Felix - excellent explanations (and images) of why such a bur is desirable, what a desirable bur looks like, and how to achieve such a bur. Thank you and please have a very Merry, Christ-filled, Christmas as well as a Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
I am doing the 60 degree angle on my Moras with the Work sharp field sharpener and it is working amazingly well. I am sharpening close to the end of the blade, opposite from your technique as i was cutting my finger when too close but will probably changing the edge sharpening but still i want to have it at least 2 cm from the handle as sometimes for precision i use the thumb. I agree completely that further the sharpening edge is , more difficult to operate is.Great tutorial and tips again!!!
Thanks Felix, loved it. I'm an engineer and long time knife lover and would like to add something to the commentary about how you ground the knife spine. I really liked how you did it. There are risks to your person every time you pick up an edge tool and if you cannot manage those risks you should not be handling sharp things. Of course, there are recommended ways of handling sharp things and that's fine, but we need to be able to recognise risk and to weigh it against any potential benefit. If you cannot do this, you will not last in a true survival situation. I've taken to doing it as you showed in the video, mostly because of physical limitations; it's just more comfortable for me. For most of my life, I've had high-risk physical jobs where there were little options available, so, learning to recognise risks and assess how to best approach any given task was the best survival tool I had. Again, if you can't understand what the pointy or slicey bits of knives can do to you (and how to stop it happening), don't use sharp things like knives. Keep up the good work, and thanks again.
i tried this with the shaft of an 8mm drill bit. it did nothing. spine is not bad, rounds over pine lumber corners fine, but no better than straight after the sharpening stone treatment. may be my technique, might be the tool. i only tried 3 times but paid attention to the angles you described
