I started my primitive learning in the early sixties with ruel gibbons and my side of the mountain and a tree house by the creek on the farm thanks for what you do and I still have a treehouse by the stream 🤠😃
Larry Dean Olsen's book was my first taste of primitive skills and quickly learned about David and Mors but have not had a chance to meet any of them. Hoping to be at rabbitstick '17. Great interview!
Before my dad passed he handed out all his spring steel and leather stacked knives. To him they were of great value. And now they are to me too. They stay put up.
Watched your video. Interesting ideas. Since I'm from Barrow Alaska, and we are considered to be living in Treeless Arctic tundra, would love to see ya come up and show how to make The Fire you sleek of. Hahaha. Seriously though, we use whale oil for most of our heating. My knife, was made from whale bone and heat hardened. It was passes down to me from 9 generations. It cuts just as well as most of today's steel knives. On the gathering you spoke of. I am trying to plan to go to it in Sept of 2018. I hope to see you there.
Every climate has it's own pro's and con's. I used to live in Juneau. For two seasons actually. In a treeless tundra friction fire may be out of the question but maybe not. While driftwood sucks because it is full of salt that's an option and also the roots from many shrub bushes will work too. I'm currently in a middle eastern desert and around here the only option is roots from the local brush. If you have anything that resembles sagebrush it will work. I've made hand drills from sage and Mullen and bow drills from sage on sage. I'd love to hear about any gatherings you have. Just leave messages or whatever on my FaceBook page TJack Survival or I help run the group Bushcraft and Survival Tribe on FaceBook.
This video is so good and chauked so full of good info that I don't even know where to begin. But here is a start: 1) Pocket knives are so valuable from simply a utilitarian perspective. I carry two always: the first is a Sunfish design. The second is an Imperial Congress design. Between the two knives, I have a total of 6 blades and 4 different blade profiles. Also, just a correction to your comment about fixed blades here in CA: they are indeed legal if they are not concealed (it's the "local" laws you have to be careful of). However, I would NEVER carry a fixed blades in a city even if that city allows them. Regardless of the laws, nowadays you can have such things taken from you by LEO's if they "look" scary. Pocket knives are the way to go in my mind unless I am hiking. And there is really no need to make fixed blades an EDC anyways; a good pocket knife or two will do things just fine. 2) I love you and your guest's emphasis that one knife cannot do everything well. Even I fell into this trap when I bought my BK2. Don't get me wrong, I love that knife. It can certainly do most things. But it does not do specialized tasks as well as knives that are designed to do them. I carry my Mora way more than I do my BK because of the environment I live in and because it carves wood better (which is a hobby of mine). 3) I also like how you guys said that you can make any knife work well with enough practice.
Good info grew up with a stockman and trapper styles of pocket knives. And a skinning knife made from a saw blade. From the military and being a butcher I've gone to a 8" boning knife and a swiss army knife. Great info thank you
very informative video good sir!! I 'm currently playing with a knife outside my wheelhouse I bought a schrade schf43 aka Jessica X designed by Chris tanner it's definitely got some strong points but I don't know honestly how often I will use this big beast luckily amazon Canada had it on sale for 55 and free shipping so I'm not out a lot awesome video and nice looking puppy!
hears a combo for Dave to try an old hickory paring knife for flint and steel fire iv got one that was my grand mas she taught me on when I was a boy I'm now 71 that's an old blade for sure
Hello TJ, good job on the interviews man! I was wondering of you know, by chance, what knife Dave was holding as his scandi knife that was his? It looked like a nice knife wich made me a bit curious. Figured you might have taken note of what it was during, after, or before the video. Thanks man.
Rewatching the video I think every knife in the video was one of mine. What timestamp is it and I'll tell you who made it. The one around my neck was made by Osmo at the youtube channel The Topicala.
It is the knife he is holding from roughly 14:53 to 15:40ish when he is speaking about his going to the scandi grind after hanging with Mors. Thanks for the info and the videos!
That is my Helle Temagami designed by Les Stroud for Helle. It is absolutely a work horse and I use it constantly. It's one of my top three knives I bet. I used it with all of the BOSS videos I did on the BladeHQ channel and I use it constantly when I'm not filming. It's just light, sharp, and high functioning.
The knife I have around my neck is of the same design and background. It was made by Osmo from the channel, this is that knife. ua-cam.com/video/bq-dlxCM2dM/v-deo.html
actually bro. californias laws on knives are very good. you can legaly carry any size knife as lone as it isnt concealed and in a sheath. i used to carry a fixed blade around all the time even around police officers never had issues.
Great video. Skills trump tool. One request. No more puppies in the videos. I'll have to watch the video again because I spent a good 5 minutes watching that puppy scamper around. ha ha ha One of my favorite channels.
The one thing I see ppl over look the most about pocket knives- any tool really- does it bring you joy when you use it? I'm a knife maker, among other things- leather worker, wannabee bushcrafter, etc.- and I use lots of tools to do my various work- and of course functionality has to come before all else, it has to work and do so efficiently- but I want way more than that. I want it to work so good it's fun to use- this inspires you to practice more, to work more, and to bite off new challenges. I think your tools can push you to be better, and remind you why you took up the hobby in the first place. Yeah it's about survival and all that but- it's about enjoying yourself to- this life style is beautiful, shouldn't always be about something so dire and serious.
That comment hits it out of the park. I want to use my Skookum bush too. I want to use my Puukos and Leuukus. I want to use my Sacha knives. They make me happy to carry happy to use and happy to look at. Spot on!
I have really enjoyed the time with, classes, stories, and lessons I have learn from David Wescott. A real fountain of knowledge.
He is the best kind of human and an amazing instructor and mentor to thousands of great people.
Thanks for sharing with us Tyler 👍🏻
Thanks boss. That new overlander of yours is awesome.
I started my primitive learning in the early sixties with ruel gibbons and my side of the mountain and a tree house by the creek on the farm thanks for what you do and I still have a treehouse by the stream 🤠😃
Thank you for bringing us together with those people in your videos. Peace from Izmir, Turkey.
Thank you for watching!
Larry Dean Olsen's book was my first taste of primitive skills and quickly learned about David and Mors but have not had a chance to meet any of them. Hoping to be at rabbitstick '17. Great interview!
I only wish that I would have learned earlier. I hope to see you there next September.
What a treasure trove of knowledge! Really cool!
No joke huh. I have absolute respect for this man.
Before my dad passed he handed out all his spring steel and leather stacked knives. To him they were of great value. And now they are to me too. They stay put up.
Watched your video. Interesting ideas. Since I'm from Barrow Alaska, and we are considered to be living in Treeless Arctic tundra, would love to see ya come up and show how to make The Fire you sleek of.
Hahaha.
Seriously though, we use whale oil for most of our heating.
My knife, was made from whale bone and heat hardened.
It was passes down to me from 9 generations.
It cuts just as well as most of today's steel knives.
On the gathering you spoke of.
I am trying to plan to go to it in Sept of 2018.
I hope to see you there.
Every climate has it's own pro's and con's. I used to live in Juneau. For two seasons actually. In a treeless tundra friction fire may be out of the question but maybe not. While driftwood sucks because it is full of salt that's an option and also the roots from many shrub bushes will work too. I'm currently in a middle eastern desert and around here the only option is roots from the local brush. If you have anything that resembles sagebrush it will work. I've made hand drills from sage and Mullen and bow drills from sage on sage. I'd love to hear about any gatherings you have. Just leave messages or whatever on my FaceBook page TJack Survival or I help run the group Bushcraft and Survival Tribe on FaceBook.
This video is so good and chauked so full of good info that I don't even know where to begin. But here is a start: 1) Pocket knives are so valuable from simply a utilitarian perspective. I carry two always: the first is a Sunfish design. The second is an Imperial Congress design. Between the two knives, I have a total of 6 blades and 4 different blade profiles. Also, just a correction to your comment about fixed blades here in CA: they are indeed legal if they are not concealed (it's the "local" laws you have to be careful of). However, I would NEVER carry a fixed blades in a city even if that city allows them. Regardless of the laws, nowadays you can have such things taken from you by LEO's if they "look" scary. Pocket knives are the way to go in my mind unless I am hiking. And there is really no need to make fixed blades an EDC anyways; a good pocket knife or two will do things just fine. 2) I love you and your guest's emphasis that one knife cannot do everything well. Even I fell into this trap when I bought my BK2. Don't get me wrong, I love that knife. It can certainly do most things. But it does not do specialized tasks as well as knives that are designed to do them. I carry my Mora way more than I do my BK because of the environment I live in and because it carves wood better (which is a hobby of mine). 3) I also like how you guys said that you can make any knife work well with enough practice.
Excellent reply and thank you for that.
Good info grew up with a stockman and trapper styles of pocket knives. And a skinning knife made from a saw blade. From the military and being a butcher I've gone to a 8" boning knife and a swiss army knife. Great info thank you
Hey thanks for stopping by Tracy.
very informative video good sir!!
I 'm currently playing with a knife outside my wheelhouse I bought a schrade schf43 aka Jessica X designed by Chris tanner it's definitely got some strong points but I don't know honestly how often I will use this big beast luckily amazon Canada had it on sale for 55 and free shipping so I'm not out a lot
awesome video and nice looking puppy!
Thank you! I've been told good things about Chrisses knife but not yet used one.
I like to thank each and everyone of you guys for showing these skills and knowing about surviving skills that's so cool.
Thanks for watching and sharing.
I can't this year but maybe next year!
Sad, but lets hope you make it!
hears a combo for Dave to try an old hickory paring knife for flint and steel fire iv got one that was my grand mas she taught me on when I was a boy I'm now 71 that's an old blade for sure
Excellent!
Yeah, Society of Primitive Technology!
Exactly!!! More coming out from this in about three weeks.
I guess I'll see you there
Come say hello. I will only be there the first few days filming stuff for my channel and to bring people to rabitstick in the future.
Hello TJ, good job on the interviews man! I was wondering of you know, by chance, what knife Dave was holding as his scandi knife that was his? It looked like a nice knife wich made me a bit curious. Figured you might have taken note of what it was during, after, or before the video. Thanks man.
Rewatching the video I think every knife in the video was one of mine. What timestamp is it and I'll tell you who made it. The one around my neck was made by Osmo at the youtube channel The Topicala.
It is the knife he is holding from roughly 14:53 to 15:40ish when he is speaking about his going to the scandi grind after hanging with Mors. Thanks for the info and the videos!
That is my Helle Temagami designed by Les Stroud for Helle. It is absolutely a work horse and I use it constantly. It's one of my top three knives I bet. I used it with all of the BOSS videos I did on the BladeHQ channel and I use it constantly when I'm not filming. It's just light, sharp, and high functioning.
The knife I have around my neck is of the same design and background. It was made by Osmo from the channel, this is that knife. ua-cam.com/video/bq-dlxCM2dM/v-deo.html
But this may be the one I like the best from Osmo. I have the sister to this knife. ua-cam.com/video/zAFFFHd5YxQ/v-deo.html
actually bro. californias laws on knives are very good. you can legaly carry any size knife as lone as it isnt concealed and in a sheath. i used to carry a fixed blade around all the time even around police officers never had issues.
Exactly. I'm in LosAngeles County and I carry large knives on a dangler all the time and have never had an issue.
Good to know as I don't have first hand experience
Great content Ty
Thank you
Guys what an awesome video. this is my favorite channel. but, that puppy is distractingly adorable!
Max Spettmann ya she is
Was that Cricket running around?
Yep! Wee baby Cricket right after we got her.
hahaha what one knife should I take on alone. Just kidding.
Well you could watch my other videos and see what the other people took.
boy scouts don't even teach flint and steel any more the dens in my area come to me to teach it
Sad isn't it
not for me its kept food on the table while iv been out of work since march
Great video. Skills trump tool.
One request. No more puppies in the videos. I'll have to watch the video again because I spent a good 5 minutes watching that puppy scamper around. ha ha ha
One of my favorite channels.
LOL, ya sorry that puppy is a permanent addition!
The one thing I see ppl over look the most about pocket knives- any tool really- does it bring you joy when you use it? I'm a knife maker, among other things- leather worker, wannabee bushcrafter, etc.- and I use lots of tools to do my various work- and of course functionality has to come before all else, it has to work and do so efficiently- but I want way more than that. I want it to work so good it's fun to use- this inspires you to practice more, to work more, and to bite off new challenges. I think your tools can push you to be better, and remind you why you took up the hobby in the first place. Yeah it's about survival and all that but- it's about enjoying yourself to- this life style is beautiful, shouldn't always be about something so dire and serious.
That comment hits it out of the park. I want to use my Skookum bush too. I want to use my Puukos and Leuukus. I want to use my Sacha knives. They make me happy to carry happy to use and happy to look at. Spot on!