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I put a convex grind on mine. The weird secondary v edge felt scratchy and catchy before but its like butter now doing feathersticks

Council 24 inch Wood Craft Camp axe all the way!

Yeah……but look at it. It sure is a nice looking blade.

Probably used to talking to people who don't know enough to realize you don't know . And powering through with un founded confidence huh. Anyone watching this should look else where for info

Great vidio blooming laws are mad rubbish for us bushcrafting communities they say no locking arnt as bad you can still do as much damage with a folding friction lock or slip joint ow well never mind me going on absolutely brilliant range of knives steve is a great guy i got the got the garcia very good knife . Keep up the great vidios take care 👍

its a hunting knive.

I'd add the Bark River Bushcrafter original thickness or light (LT) version in A-2 or in a supper steel to this list.

The most important thing you need to know about a bushcraft knife is how to use it. Practice makes perfect and learning how to get the best out of your knife is far more important than how fancy it is. Mors Kochanski and Cody Lundin could do more with a Mora #1 than most folks can with a $700 custom knife.

The reality is that most hatchets are overweight because 90+% of the wood we use in bushcraft for fire and shelter and improvised tools and every other use comes in the form of dry springy blowdown and green poles less than 3" in diameter. This calls for something light and fast, a heavy axe head is too clumsy for this kind of work and doesn't penetrate efficiently. Occasionally we may need to cut through logs as much as 8" in diameter to access dry wood in wet weather or construct things like bridges, but a 12 ounce axe head can absolutely handle this, and we tend to use saws for this kind of work anyway these days. The role of chopping tools in the age of cheap and effective folding saws has become quite limited, it follows that they must become smaller in size and weight. A 28 ounce hatchet with a 20 ounce head is not the right tool for any job right now in my opinion.

You can make something very similar by just getting a Cold Steel Spike Hawk and cutting the spike off and filing it flat. You end up with a 12 ounce head with a durable and useful hammer poll, and bit geometry just flared enough for baton splitting. Just don't try this with the Pipe Hawk, it's too front heavy and won't balance well with the hammer cut off. Then there's the Frontier Hawk at 10 ounces, but the round back isn't geometrically stable and may deform from hammering. The modified spike hawk is the best pack hatchet I've ever used and is extremely similar to the GB outdoor axe at a fraction of the price. The heat treatments on CS tomahawks are excellent too.

It makes feathersticks, it throws sparks, it battons, it hacks.. just look other Videos ... it is also good for hunting.. it is also a camp knife. It works for self defence. It is perfect. Greetings from Austria.

It makes feathersticks easily - just look a few other videos.

pronounced "Oh-boo". (Swedish word)

Here in the boreal forests of north Texas, on the edge of the tundra, we need a true felling ax to make wood and sod shelters when the temps drop below 50 F. It can mean the difference between life and death.

Nice comparison and review. :) What I find mildly annoying about the OA is the protective collar. My opinion is it should either be longer (I mean I usually damage my axe's handles because of an overstrike which this collar will not help against) or gone.

Wow that's great. And i have a question, I'm gonna begin camping and bushcraft. I have a full Tang knife 5 mm thick. I have a saw. Do i need to buy a hatchet for my backpack and camping or it's not needed?

Those are all camp knifes for the most part not bushcraft

Yeah, but 175.-€ is a high price for this thing. Even the GB Scandi cost less. And you have a 64cm handle. And for ca. 90.-€ you could become a 800g w60cm handle 'Bison Oberharzer 1879' This is half the price! I think this is a great camp axe. Maybe you can do a comparison with that!

I usually dip the sheat in oil.. Maybe it's wrong, but then I get everything covered with oil both inside and outside. Thanks for the video :)

Word of advice, face the light so the background is not lit up and you're dark.

How can you review a knife and not sharpen it yourself? If you don't like the edge angle and microbevel, put on yoir own, better one.

I bought a Mora a few years ago and to be honest it’s one of my favorite knives ever. It is so capable and way stronger than it looks or feels. I have many others worth much more and it is still always in my pack.

I love my Lars fault, had it four years now. It really comes down to preferences

They have differing uses. What changed is you, not them.

Mad Lad

Beautiful selection. When it comes to UK custom knives I suggest JACKLORE. The man is a saint and their products are from heaven. 🔪 Keep it up

Thanks, I like your technique 😊 take care😊

Who said its for bushcraft? its a Camp Knife or a Survival Knife.

Thanks for the video

Extended tangs on knives are for: prying, scraping tinder, and using a ferro rod without exposing the blade.

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I have to agree that the background music is really distracting and has an adverse effect on the video. But otherwise the content is aces. I use a parang where I am as well, rather than an axe for the same reason. The parang will handle 90% of the tasks, and a small blade will take care of the rest.

hey! where working down here

What is that darling, ducky little saw!? Have Opinel started making SAWS now?

Oh THANK-YOU! No insane jangly so-called 'music'!

hi is it supposed to fell trees because i have heard that you can fell trees with it but my new Aby axe handle broke on the second day.

Best knife for rainforests?

I take it you have your own private woodlands to use that wood stove? i'm thinking of selling mine utterly pointless keeping it in this not so great british laws of restriction.

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LoL guess UK guys don't do knife reviews with the sheath......

Hi John, I was on one of your courses a few years ago, really sparked my enthusiasm. Nice to see you in action again. I have actually managed to get a fire going using what I learned so thanks a lot. Keep the videos coming !

It's a hunting knife, so it's no surprise that it performed badly as a bushcraft knife 😀 You want a big bushcraft knife? Get a Finnish Leuku knife!

Waxed fire cord inside paracord is not new. I liked the necklace ferro rod and striker, one of the better ones i have seen, so i purchased one. I got rid of the magnetic cord. The snap magnet wasn't strong enough. Also the hexigan ferro rod design has been around awhile now also.it's a good design giving you more surface area to scrape. Good video. Thanks from New Zealand. 😎🤘💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥

Good job keep on keepin on

Yes, Love mine. Added a small O Light torch and battery. It is a perfect EDC pouch.

Grandfors and Boreal 24

Granforss bruks .. to memory stick

Great video Enjoyed watching ❤ 🫡 fellow woodsman

Not much of a review tbh.. these are tippy, and spill quite a bit of water while pouring. You can fix both problems - get a win pouring metal disk, and stab some stakes or tent pegs around the burner to hold it in place. As for the melting neoprene, comes with the territory of wood fires.

The SFA is harldly dead. It's very good and popular. But the SFA and the Åby are very different, for different uses. The Åby is longer, has a much thicker and heavier head, and is therefore heavier overall. The thick head makes it less of a felling axe and more of a splitting axe. Both are very good all around axes, but with different focuses.