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Ben Banters
United States
Приєднався 26 чер 2020
What Iiiiiiisssss Up Guys?!!!!!!
I Tested My Knives in the Amazon Jungle!
I spent 10 days in the Amazon jungles of Colombia and Brazil. Come learn with me.
I was a 90s kid, and thus, I played Oregon Trail. I've seen a lot of dysentery in my day. Imagine my joy in 1996 when the new Amazon Trail came out! No more dysentery. And Fishing! Photos! Creatures! It was super cool, and it planted in my brain a desire to float on the Amazon River myself. Fast forward 25 years and I arrived in Colombia in the Amazon jungle via Bushcraft Global Expeditions. I wasn't a carefree 11-year-old kid anymore, and I went looking for more than just an adventure. What I found was rich, vibrant, and inspiring. I'm glad you're here for the ride.
Buy the knives:
Knafs Lulu -- www.knafs.com/collections/the-lulu
Knafs Lander 1 -- www.knafs.com/collections/all-knives
Civiviv Baby Banter -- www.knafs.com/collections/civivi-baby-banter/
00:00-- Let's go to the ungle!
00:58 -- Trip Notes and Explanation
02:02 -- Jungle shelters and how not to hang your hammock
002:57 -- Jungle walks with the Matis tribe
03:18 -- how to drink water from a vine in the jungle
04:57 -- the Matis tribe eye drop hunting ritual
06:50-- jungle sounds
7:28 -- Knives of the Amazon
10:07 -- Epic jungle bushcraft battle
11:04-- Eating caiman meat
11:44 -- finding food in the jungle
12:31 -- how to make tree bark leather in the jungle
14:26 -- net fishing in the Amazon
16:48-- Swimming with piranhas in the Amazon. Do they eat you?
17:49-- How to make a blowgun in the jungle
20:05 -- FUNAI interrupts the party
20:45 -- How hot is it in the jungle?
21:11 -- Electric eels in the jungle and how to eat them
23:01 -- Kambo ceremony and effects
23:05 -- Mariwin ceremony and whipping
25:25-- A jungle goodbye
Bushcraft Global Jungle Expeditions: bushcraftglobal.com/
Tanimboca Nature Preserve: tanimboca.com/
I was a 90s kid, and thus, I played Oregon Trail. I've seen a lot of dysentery in my day. Imagine my joy in 1996 when the new Amazon Trail came out! No more dysentery. And Fishing! Photos! Creatures! It was super cool, and it planted in my brain a desire to float on the Amazon River myself. Fast forward 25 years and I arrived in Colombia in the Amazon jungle via Bushcraft Global Expeditions. I wasn't a carefree 11-year-old kid anymore, and I went looking for more than just an adventure. What I found was rich, vibrant, and inspiring. I'm glad you're here for the ride.
Buy the knives:
Knafs Lulu -- www.knafs.com/collections/the-lulu
Knafs Lander 1 -- www.knafs.com/collections/all-knives
Civiviv Baby Banter -- www.knafs.com/collections/civivi-baby-banter/
00:00-- Let's go to the ungle!
00:58 -- Trip Notes and Explanation
02:02 -- Jungle shelters and how not to hang your hammock
002:57 -- Jungle walks with the Matis tribe
03:18 -- how to drink water from a vine in the jungle
04:57 -- the Matis tribe eye drop hunting ritual
06:50-- jungle sounds
7:28 -- Knives of the Amazon
10:07 -- Epic jungle bushcraft battle
11:04-- Eating caiman meat
11:44 -- finding food in the jungle
12:31 -- how to make tree bark leather in the jungle
14:26 -- net fishing in the Amazon
16:48-- Swimming with piranhas in the Amazon. Do they eat you?
17:49-- How to make a blowgun in the jungle
20:05 -- FUNAI interrupts the party
20:45 -- How hot is it in the jungle?
21:11 -- Electric eels in the jungle and how to eat them
23:01 -- Kambo ceremony and effects
23:05 -- Mariwin ceremony and whipping
25:25-- A jungle goodbye
Bushcraft Global Jungle Expeditions: bushcraftglobal.com/
Tanimboca Nature Preserve: tanimboca.com/
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Not a great video. Two guys in a high rise apartment on a weird loveseat and fake bear skin rug. Don’t think these are the guys to take knife options from.
Good looking handle with the ugliest blade I've ever seen! I hope they go to a new blade style and I'm in!
such a unique and well put together video!!
@@plausible.deaniability hey thanks! 🙏
The main similarity is the color of the scales. Literally everything else is very different. I see the Sendy as a more blade focused swiss army knife more than anything else.
this video is a masterpiece. we need more stories like this
Made a review of this knife on my channel check it out
I'm a foreman in a machine shop and get little pieces of metal in my hands all the time. I'd been looking for a GOOD quality knife with tweezers in it for a while. While looking through UA-cam several months back, I came across this video and seen instantly that I had to have one! The knife is amazing! And holds an edge very well for what I put it through! The tweezers actually work very well and the metal pick amazingly works great for digging the metal out of my hands! I just wanted to let you know how satisfied i am with the sendy and the great quality of this knife!
Great work. Glad I found this.
That's awesome! But if we're talking about the Amazon jungle, I'd probably prefer a machete over a shorter knife like a LULU.
Have you considered visiting a machete shop? ;)
Just got one. The toothpick & tweezers combo did it for me! 👌
This was a really fun video to watch! Looks like the Lulu really held its own too. It definitely performed better than the Metallica record by the same name!
@@CarlMurawski thanks Carl! And duuuude! I’ve really enjoyed watching Knafs show up on your channel. I’m so glad you’re stoked about what we’re doing.
Why not use another type of cedar.. like there's more than just the one tree called cedar.. or use its scientific name..
Lady outdoors person. I love the Sendy. It's one of my favorite EDC's. The tweezers are great.
Could man get some scissors on the sendy 2?
What an excellent video!! Makes me jealous as heck but definitely appreciate all that you shared here for us. This was just incredible.
So cool you started your own channel!! And especially hanging out with the man Joe Flowers!!! How fkn awesome!!!
That was awesome Ben! I Love your knives!
I have two of the Sendys, and on Swiss Tech Würdig. Not a copy. It's not really even close.
Hey Ben I featured your knife a few times in my channel and a few of your other designs I am a big fan if you want to send me some to review let me know I will show it on my channel
This knife is awesome I recently reviewed it
This was awesome. Sure, you tested your knives but I love how it really wasn't a focus. It really reminds me of something Anthony Bourdain would do
Thanks! I've been watching some old Parts Unknown episodes, and I'm fascinated by how food brings people together. I think knives have a similar effect.
So awesome!
Not only a great knife maker but a really good guy. That video was awesome and it just makes me like your knives even more. I'm pretty heat intolerant so I wouldn't do well there but you made it look easy
Thanks for the kind words. The heat was definitely rough, and I'm not sure the video fully captures the sweat-fest of the ordeal. I appreciate you watching!
I love this video Ben! There is tons of great knife makers and knives out there to buy, but I enjoy your products because they are well thought out and because you are someone I’d love support! Looks like a stupidly fun trip that I wanna go on real bad now! Haha
I've never seen a more glaring example of why a knife designer needs to also be a knife user.
I think this is an insult? Perhaps you could rewrite it to be more direct? "Ben should get out more and use the knives he designs" or "I'm sure glad Ben didn't cut his arm off with his knives". Either way, thanks for stopping by! ;)
I like the concept of mixing ideas from different knifes!! Ben you should design a fixed blade version of the Lumi, similar to Mora eldris but finner and with longer blade.. I think both are amazing designs, and it would be great to have a small fixed blade that is also a great slicer, able to do anything but easier to clean and maintain than a folder.
If I could press the like button multiple times I would. Thank you.
Thanks! That's very kind of you.
Awesome trip! Thanks for taking us along. What’s the deal with those dark hands on the other guy? He get told to wash his hands too many times as a child? He showed them!! Ha ha.
The dark hands: the Matis had a die that they use for skin painting, and all sorts of skin painting definitely happened. Nothing like appendages looking gangrenous.
Thank you Ben I thoroughly enjoyed watching your amazon experience,,the lulu pulled through!!
Bro, I just left Leticia like 3 weeks ago. We headed out to some of the Takuna communities around Puerto Nariño. Beautiful area. Have to say, it feels like a “let’s get paid to mess with gringos” opportunity for them… We work more with communities for humanitarian purposes (medical, school, etc)
Very cool! Your trip sounds a lot more helpful for society than my pleasure/pain trip. And yes, the indigenous definitely get a kick out of the gringos willing to try stuff. I think half the fun is watching them laugh at us. ;)
@@benbanters oh no, Your trip seemed equally important for other reasons! Helping you too find a healthy rhythm in life and develop some more awesome knife designs, which will bless many people 👍🏼
Ben you are one of the good guys! Go Knafs!!! Thanks for sharing. Mark.
Thanks Mark! That's very kind of you.
Thank you for the great content, and for sharing this experience. These almost 30 min made my day a lot better.
Excellent video Ben and even greater experience I’m sure
you are great i love your video
People don’t even realize they do all this to make fun of you they love doing things that hurt Americans
Maybe. Maybe not. I think there's an element of fun and jest, but I also think they're sharing the Snipe Hunting of their culture with us. I accept Snipe Hunting as a necessary rite of passage.
Man, this was an amazing video thanks I bet it felt amazing to sleep in your bed again!
Thanks! It was pretty great to be home, particularly because the hammock tends to get obnoxious after a while.
Amazing video, Wish it had more knife content
Totally fair feedback. I realized as I was filming that knife use happens crazy fast. You almost have to stage it to get good shots because they all move so quickly. I wasn't particularly interested in staging it, so you see a lot of what I was actually able to capture.
Excellent video! I loved my time down there with Joe in 2019
Joe is a legend and one of the best humans I've encountered.
🗡Thanks for giving us a glimpse into these peoples lives .I have 2 Qs 1st It said test ur knives but the most "testing" I saw was a little batoning and feather sticking. I think it would of been more interesting giving them the tools and watch how they would use on a daily basis. 2nd all the knifes I saw were the colors of the forest, what would happen if u set it down and forgot it or it was dropped. Wouldn't it be more practical to make them bright colors? Or at least have a colorful lanyard?
Username is straight fire. Well done. Thanks for the feedback. One of the hard parts of the trip for me was filming vs experiencing. There were probably 2 days in the middle where I turned the camera off and just whittled on a log-- not particularly exciting content. We did film a couple other pieces that were exclusively knife use: ua-cam.com/video/swsjLZwqRts/v-deo.html As for bright colors: duly noted.
Brother this was absolutely phenomenal and insightful! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Well filmed, funny, relatable, inspiring. Just well done, thank you! 🙏🏻 👊🏻🤙🏻
I cant put my finger on it but I just dont love how many germans there are at a knife show. Its just a feeling that I cant quite put into words.
Ha! I love the Germans. They are dear friends and amazing humans. I’m excited to visit them in September in Germany.
Great video, I really enjoyed seeing what you did after hearing about at Blade Show. P.S I love seeing Joe rock the vest I made him
Thanks Heather! Your vest was EPIC and it made Joe look like a jungle boss.
I usually buy from the brand if it’s the lowest price with free shipping. I don’t click on sponsor ads out of spite. Sometime the free goodies are nice but want some more quality (useful) or collectible.
Hablas español hoy vimos tu video nos gustó mucho somos de Costa Rica 🇨🇷 increíble el Amazonas.
Excelente! Algun dia voy a llegar a Costa Rica para visitar. Pura Vida!
Great video, Ben!
It looks like a very nice adventure but you can leave that up to Joe Flowers. As for the knives presented the only ones that made sense to me in a tropical rain forest were of course the local machetes and the stainless steel Mora Companion. Jimping on a knife is useless. Carbon steel in a tropical rain forest is not a good idea and also leather sheaths or wooden handles are not a good idea. Granted I only spend a month in Colombia but so far 5 months in Thailand. And just like in Colombia and Thailand when it rains it really rains. So I was surprised about some knife choices. I would bring an SAK, the Fallkniven Scout (in Elmax) and always buy a local machete. But it was a nice video so I subscribed and liked it.
Nice! Thanks for the knife notes. My leather belt started turning into a stink-fest on my body, so I hear you on the leather. As for carbon steel, I think I realized a lot of folks are not as particular about the steel type. It's a "use your stuff" mentality, and they don't mind the patina or oxidization. Full send.
@@benbanters I don't mind a patina or corrosion on a big chopper or machete since I'm not using that for food prep. But the small camp knife I use for food prep must be stainless. A leather sheath looks nice but will rot in a jungle. When the leather sheath gets wet the carbon steel knife will rust and the sheath will also stretch and lose tension with the danger of losing your knife. I want my knives to be low maintenance and not having to dry and oil the knife after every river crossing or downpoor only to put it back in a still wet leather sheath. During my time in the jungles I have brought a Mora Basic 546 or Hultafors RFR (both stainless with a plastic sheath) for all small tasks and food prep and they needed zero maintenace. If you want something a bit stronger the Mora Companion HD in stainless. If you want even stronger the Fallkniven F1 or R2 Scout in the zytel sheaths come to mind. But that's just my opinion of course and some people don't mind cutting their food with a rusty blade. They seem to go for traditional looking knives over praticality.
The same trip is on my wish list
Great video Ben. Always enjoy your enthusiasm.
Awesome video Ben!! Really enjoyed watching this edit of your journey.
WOW! What an experience man!! Fantastic footage. That’s a definitely a trip I could not make! I just spent a week camping in the UP if Michigan….the bugs were bad enough there hahaha!! Take care bud!
Someday I'll make it to the UP. It looks beautiful up there. Take care, my friend!