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Excellent man. Thank you for giving answer regarding this matter

Nice vid. Tried a bow drill for fist time about a month ago and after what seemed forever, sweating my ass off and feeling like I had arm wrestled 50 people, i through the biggest childish fit…anywho, gonna try your method this weekend. Thanks!!

Thanks knife guy, your explanation and photography of drilling a dust pile and ember are the best visual I have ever seen. Great science.

Bro that 2 hole method no notches is ember in the hole or on the tip of the spindle

Great Video! My Kitty does the same to me than Loves me, She is Like a Sour Patch Kid!

this is the best video ive seen on friction bow drilling, no one else has covered these details in other videos i've been searching for.

Your technique is nicely demonstrated. Thanks for your video and all the best from New Mexico.

I'm on a mission to make fire, so I watch videos like this but this, I have to say, was terrible. Just awful. You could hardly sound more like an egotistical, pompous twat lecturing children. Where's the friendly humility? The mateship? Your punishment is to listen to this again and again until you get sick of the sound of your own voice, and then do it like you are showing a friend a trick, not lecturing from a pulpit. This is a two minute video hammered out into an eighteen minute lecture. Do better!

Isn't it easier to tie two sticks together instead of making a hole in one stick for the fireboard? The ember will fall through the crack them between into the bundle.

Good work on the video, learned something new to try with my 8 year old.

A couple more advantages I can see are that you don't need an extra board to catch the ember, and that the ember is better contained. I'll definitely give this method a go. Thanks

Thanks Brother!! Lots of good info there. I'll probably have to watch it a couple times to get it all but I knew there had to be a way to do without killing myself!! At the end of you it look like you tilted the spindle into the slot and then back. Maybe to heat the top of the dust pile on the last few strokes...?

Great review and I love your mods. I will be getting a couple of these for my edc.

It's good looking and tough get it done

I like the steel eagle - I have a steel eagle 111A, but my carry for hikes, camping is an RMJ. Both great knives, just wanted to try something different with the RMJ.

Three SXBs? 😎👍Whoa. I haven't used my Tracker much since getting the SXB. I got a custom kydex sheath to wear it on my belt, cross draw-style for in-camp chores. But I leave the original sheath attached to a pack for easier carrying. Great hat btw.

This is good an all but...one slip and youre done.

Wicked tough looking knife. Half hunting/ survival camp knife, half tracker.

Awesome vid and your smoking that makes the knife cooler

Great choice. It is unbeatable as a belt knife. I'm amazed that there aren't far more people carrying it.

Been carrying that knife for last 3 years, never leave home without it!

There’s a big ass gap in mine. 99 vstar 650

Those things look good but they’re really a waste of money. Just do some pods and get rid of it altogether.

Ok,you obviously didn't do your research on this knife prior to purchase. For one, the back teeth are only meant to make notches in limbs for running rope through as in tying down a tarp for protection. Also,as smallish this knife is, it should only be advised for very small diameter limbs, not batoning large diameter piees of wood. You mentioned the sawback could cut open aircraft grade aluminum materials, absolute crap. You are doing your followers a disservice.

You have given me some compelling reasons to purchase this knife (especially over similar TOPS knives) as my new EDC/Bushcraft tool. Just one of which is smacking the pommel with your hand and not getting beat up by it, something I've certainly done before. Many thanks for this review...

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A fuller is not always a 'blood groove'. Most of the time they're made to keep the integrity of a blade while reducing weight, and for swords that is something very beneficial.

What an innovative way to repurpose something. That really IS a life hack! ;-) However, I might recommend turning the knife 180 if possible, in order to get the stabby and cutty bits away from the quickly moving fleshy bits... I was scared there a couple times watching this... =-{

That is basically a spike. It is entirely too short and thick to be any good at slicing and too short for efficient chopping. It's not good for much other than stabbing through a lot of clothes or a thick animal hide and probably some bones. It'd be good for opening a 55gal drum or as a tent peg. Too short as a saw. Yeah, very limited uses in all reality. Self defense and rescue is about it. But, hey, if you dig it, that's all you bud. There are much more versatile blades out there that are of similar length.

A knife with a 90° spine will scrape tinder like a champ, or wittledown to the dry center of limbs and sticks.carry a ferro rod, life boat matches, Bic lighters. Vaseline cotton balls are great. Friction fire, magnifying lens, study how to build fires. It'll save your life...

Thank you for such a useful video you are really very, very experienced in the matter of survival, I did not even know that you can use these knives this way it was quite interesting to learn something new yes the digger is really a very powerful knife thank you again for the video I subscribed I will follow your new videos

Hi, I saw your video about the tops tracker digger knife and I would like to ask you to take a full review of the tops tracker digger knife, if possible, of course, with the tests it will be very interesting to watch it in action, I hope you will not refuse and take such a video on UA-cam there is not a single review of this knife at all

Hi, I would like to ask you to take a full review of the knife tops tracker digger, if possible, of course, with the tests it will be very interesting to watch it in action, I hope you will not refuse and take such a video

Make sure tandems are slid all the way back. This reduces the trailer's chance of lifting/sliding by changing the lever advantage of the wind.

I put a serious effort and finally got the cuts to look right. On my set up I dialed back the acetylene back to about 2 3/4 and oxygen to 27. After failing to cut thru on one pass but the cut looked good I decided add more oxygen pressure and it worked . I did use a burn bar to help me maintain the right distance the only thing I need to work on now is my travel speed. Thanks for all the help I would not have got this on my own. Like you said you can't cut molten lava.

I really appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule to put this video together. I had tried it last week and even knowing I was too hot I still had it welding back on itself. I didn't use a guide bar. I did use a 3/0 tip and dialed back the pressure to 3lbs on the acetylene and 15 on oxygen and it was still closing back up. I will after watching this video give it another try. Seeing you do it I know it's possible. My attempts last week were better than before I had watch your video but I'm not there yet.

Thank you!!

came here to see the spike on the bike as well. looks big.

would be cool to have seen it all on the bike

I second your evaluation of the Digger. I modified one side of mine. I gave the modified side a full convex and serrations on the draw knife portion. If I had bought it factory direct I would have requested serrations on one side. Mostly for additional cutting options. I don’t baton with mine but it is possible to bury one edge in a log and use the other edge as you would a double bit axe. The middle blade depression works great as an ember catch for bowdrill fires. I haven’t tried it yet but plan on using a magnetized needle on a leaf floating in the same depression. I think a tracker is best used with imagination. Great video! Your T-1 looks well used and loved. Thanks!

I believe I'm in love with the idea of the tracker. More then I actually like the tracker. Let me first say I've only used one I don't own one. That said I didn't like the grind. Now if it was my knife I would have reprofiled it. My friend was treating it like a fragile work of art. I guess if I spent that much I'd feel some kinda way. Well actually pissed off my knife didn't do anything good. Tops had the worst grinds ever. I just kinda bit my tongue and didn't say how I really felt. I'm sure he knows because he has brought the knife out again. Now that digger is a interesting design. Almost reminds me of the ww2 bolo or a small smatchet.

Would like to see the Finish product. He repeated yourself about a hundred times