anyone who watches this channel should know they don't boast experience. nor are they instructional videos. they're novice entertainment to show what you can do with inexperience
I know it was just entertainment, but you build a shelter you're not going to sleep in, a fork you'll never eat with, a cook stand you'll never cook with and "feathersticks" that will never see a spark. Disregarding speed, I'd say Jaron's shelter won, Mark's fork was a little better, and his cook stand was much better. No comment on either featherstick. ;)
No offense but it was kind of painful to watch how inexperienced they are, both in the woods and with their knives. They really should work on their feather sticks too. If you're using the thumb of your support hand to make feathers, then it means your feathers are much too short. You should be utilizing the entire length of the wood. I say perfect your skills first, then make videos like these.
***** It was even more painful to put that inexperience out there, but practice makes...something. You're right about using the full length of the sick to make feather cuts, totally screwed that up.
KnifeHQ Though every time these competition series are painful to watch for me, I watched it anyway, learn from mistakes, but what I really love to see is Mark and Jaron with more advanced skills!!! Don't even need to be expert but at least common sense, many times I worried both of you may cut yourself pretty bad, I think many people will agree, and it will really shows how function the knives are, please!! keep up the good work! :)
I have three type of knives I would take with me on camping or just generally going into the woods. I have a bark river knife the jx4 bush bat. With both leather sheath and the kidax sheath. I only do the kidax when I'm wearing jeens so I would probably do that sheath for that knife. Than I have the Esee 5. This is great for camping it has good weight and super sharp. It has its own hand drill notch and great handle. Than there my microtech. I don't remember the name of it but it has a tanto tip and ceration. Good weight for chopping and great for any task you put it through. My bark river knife I carry as my secondary knife. Like Mark I also like to have two knives on me. A folder and a fixed blade. I love the jx4. It is super sharp, super comfortable in the hand and super reliable. I urge anyone buy these knives they are all great.
I've seen a lot of Mors Kochanski videos recently. One thing I saw in them that might help with this competition would be carving a "try stick", also called a "sample stick". it might be a better test of all the different kinds of cuts you might need to do with your bush knife.
Hultafors GK heavy duty knife, $15. Take the $350 you've just saved and buy a pack, sleeping bag, tent, hatchet, food, jacket, fill up your gas tank, and still have enough left for dinner when you hike out the next day.
The bushcrafter by BRK is a superior knife for camp and bushcraft, my favorite knives for these tasks that I own would have to be either the BRK Bushcrafter or the Pohl Force November One!
Say Heah, I don't have either knife your using in the video. But I want to comment, I recently bought a couple of Mora's, I like knives so I bought a few knives since I been wood crafting. But I do have to say this. And you know I don't work for Blade HQ, ALL my Mora's I recieved seemed like they were buffed polished and just as shiny as can be, maybe they were just wiped down and that would be very nice of Blade HQ. I was very impressed how they came. Thank You. Blade HQ.
Hmm the rocks did all the work it seems. Speed plus knife is never a good thing, I would rather see you guys compete within a realistic time frame and craft something more refined to show the capability of the knife. I enjoy how you all present but the content is a bit lacking in the practical use of a knife with these tasks. Plus you all kept saying "in real life I wouldn't do it this way" then say at the end of the video that you wouldn't do any of this the way you did because camping is not a timed event. I get the idea, a quick funny video for entertainment to promote blade HQ. I just think you all could still do this by really using the knives and showing their true strengths and weakness's. Set s realistic timed event and then let the viewers vote on your end product. Then do a follow up video showing the winner and throw in a random goodie to one lucky viewer who voted on the initial video. Will give you more views, better content and will entice more to be involved as your giving away a random inexpensive freebie that is a tax write off.
Depends I really like my SP10 marine raider and have carried a kabar. As for the 4-5 inch camp knifes Normally i am carrying a 7+ and a smaller Delicate blade Sooo not really into them. I kinda was looking at a Becker recently though
Everyone's here complaining about their inexperience. At some point we were all much worse then them. They knew they weren't the best and still posted this video to show the knives. People should consider that how many of you would post a video where you knew you weren't experienced. At least they tried, and they're only going to get better from here on in.
Say Heah BladeHQ. Yeah, I have a couple of good ones myself, I really like my Ratmandu, and my Rodent 5, I consider my Rodent 4 as my Bush craft knife. But I just got my S. O. G. Pillar Fix Blade from BladeHQ, and I just can't put it down. I made a new Trio with it. I teamed it with my 2Hawks Double Bit Hatchet and my Wicked Tough Saw. Since it has a Choil, I find I don't need a neck knife. I could go with my Gerber Gator Folder in the 164 CM, or my Bokor Tec-Tool City 2.8in.,,. p
Hey, Blade HQ, I got this idea. You know how you guys do the contests with the knife obstacle course? I was thinking you could either do a different type of contest or add this element to the “obstacle” course. Have part of the course be a segment or several different segments in which you have all the different types of opening methods represented by their respective knives and have the contestants open and close each type of mechanism like 5 or10 times. For instance, there could be a CRKT Snaplock, a flipper, an out-the-front knife, a back lock, a CRKT Fulcrum, and any other type of mechanism ( There could also be a Spyderco hole-type that needs to be Spydee flicked too. ) . I just think that the finesse required to open and close should be incorporated into the fun. PLEASE!!!!???!!!!!
Those feather sticks red improvement try like standing dead wood and honestly if you have a 90 degree spine on the back of your knife you can just scrape it and they will take a spark from a fero rod very well
I don't know why you would use an ESEE 4 as a camping/Bushcraft knife. A bark river is such a great choice, but I think the ESEE 4 is much more suitable as a utility blade that can do some camp tasks.
Love you guys. But camera man needs some work. Let me know ill do it for free. I live in sandy. Also skilled in bushcrafting. Camp knives I like to use is BK9 and bark river aurora
KnifeHQ My main blade in the bush is the TOPS Fieldcraft. My friend Caleb Musgrave of Canadian Bushcraft helped design it. It is a fantastic field knife. I would absolutely LOVE to see you guys use the knife he designed on his own, the TOPS Dragonfly 4.5. It is a beast of a bushcraft knife that you guys would really enjoy. It needs some love! Check it out! Keep up the interesting videos. Peace fellas.
i hope i win!!! the video was great, and very entertaining to watch. Keep up the competitions and awesome videos guys. Thanks for the great website too, BLADEHQ WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!
I honestly wish you guys took your time to make your campsites and eating utensils, rather than rush through it to see who can complete the task in the quickest amount of time! I want to see you guys actually use those blades to make something functional and beautiful...just saying
You misread my comment, it seems. :D Anyway, try kneeling down and bracing the back of your knife against your knee. Then put the wood against the edge bevel and pull it back slowly. This way the blade won't wiggle and you get more consistent results.
Being able to carve wood doesn't mean I also have the software, equipment, skills or time to make videos. Just so you don't have to think of me as an armchair commando, here's a pic for you of what I carve: i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv209/m21peace/head_zps1a289285.jpg or how 'bout that: i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv209/m21peace/loff3-1.jpg Making feather sticks is way easier than those projects. But let's get back to the video: Like I said, I find the video entertaining and I figure that's what it's meant to be. If it was supposed to be educational, it'd be rather bad as compared to the content of real bushcraft channels like e.g. Karamat Wilderness Ways (i.e. Mors Kochanski), would'nt it?
I don't see how people take their knives on multiple trips and the edge is still sharp. I use my bark river a lot on hiking trips/ bushcraft weekends and it will be dull after 3-4 days of use. Do they just not use their knives as much or is 1095 way better at holding an edge than cpmS35vn(my bark rivers steel)? Granted I do use it all day and to me it's not "sharp" anymore if it doesn't shave hair. (Then it's just an edge)
Ethan Mack 1095 won't hold an edge like the Bark River knives will. The key is to strop it in the field. Use Black Magic and some cardboard if you need. Or bring a leather strop and touch it up each night. Your blade will stay sharp WAY longer. Ty
but in all seriousness....the video was hilarious and pathetic at the same time. and let's be honest...yall said that they're your personal blades and that you've used them plenty of times and had a lot of use on them, but highly doubt that that's true. both of you obviously had zero to no experience with using the blades. so either the 'use' you've had on the blades were just goofing off and dicking around like what you did here or yall bullshitting yoir viewers. i dont understand folks like you guys who have these nice blades or gear, but dont know how to use them or never even use them at all. just dont get it.
I don't want to be overly critical but your tattoo is not accurate. The Millennium Falcon is not part of the Rebel Alliance and never displayed that insignia.
Not to be mean but judging by the ammount of experience these guys have with knives by the way they use them they're not really the right people to be giving out advice on knives
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anyone who watches this channel should know they don't boast experience. nor are they instructional videos. they're novice entertainment to show what you can do with inexperience
I know it was just entertainment, but you build a shelter you're not going to sleep in, a fork you'll never eat with, a cook stand you'll never cook with and "feathersticks" that will never see a spark.
Disregarding speed, I'd say Jaron's shelter won, Mark's fork was a little better, and his cook stand was much better. No comment on either featherstick. ;)
Keith Peters Mark's fork was WAY better....and what feather sticks?
I love these videos. Y'all need your own TV show!
I love the demonstration performed by both of you and I like both of the knives you all used in this demonstration.
No offense but it was kind of painful to watch how inexperienced they are, both in the woods and with their knives. They really should work on their feather sticks too. If you're using the thumb of your support hand to make feathers, then it means your feathers are much too short. You should be utilizing the entire length of the wood. I say perfect your skills first, then make videos like these.
***** It was even more painful to put that inexperience out there, but practice makes...something. You're right about using the full length of the sick to make feather cuts, totally screwed that up.
KnifeHQ Though every time these competition series are painful to watch for me, I watched it anyway, learn from mistakes, but what I really love to see is Mark and Jaron with more advanced skills!!! Don't even need to be expert but at least common sense, many times I worried both of you may cut yourself pretty bad, I think many people will agree, and it will really shows how function the knives are, please!! keep up the good work! :)
Never claimed to be an expert. I just study and practice a lot. ;)
I have three type of knives I would take with me on camping or just generally going into the woods. I have a bark river knife the jx4 bush bat. With both leather sheath and the kidax sheath. I only do the kidax when I'm wearing jeens so I would probably do that sheath for that knife. Than I have the Esee 5. This is great for camping it has good weight and super sharp. It has its own hand drill notch and great handle. Than there my microtech. I don't remember the name of it but it has a tanto tip and ceration. Good weight for chopping and great for any task you put it through. My bark river knife I carry as my secondary knife. Like Mark I also like to have two knives on me. A folder and a fixed blade. I love the jx4. It is super sharp, super comfortable in the hand and super reliable. I urge anyone buy these knives they are all great.
I've seen a lot of Mors Kochanski videos recently. One thing I saw in them that might help with this competition would be carving a "try stick", also called a "sample stick". it might be a better test of all the different kinds of cuts you might need to do with your bush knife.
I love my ESEE 4. It has an uncoated stonewashed finished, but if you care for your blade it will take care of you.
Hultafors GK heavy duty knife, $15. Take the $350 you've just saved and buy a pack, sleeping bag, tent, hatchet, food, jacket, fill up your gas tank, and still have enough left for dinner when you hike out the next day.
My top 2 camping knives condor kephart and SAK CAMPER
I would agree with the condor kephart but I had to shelf mine
The bushcrafter by BRK is a superior knife for camp and bushcraft, my favorite knives for these tasks that I own would have to be either the BRK Bushcrafter or the Pohl Force November One!
AlaskanFrontier1 I love all of the BRK knives. Mike is a knife genius!
TJack
I wouldn't say that I have broke a few of mikes knife designs
I've broken a few knives too. It happens when you abuse a knife.
TJack
nah its when someone who designs good hunting knives tries to design good traditional bushcraft knives
Life In The Taiga well that's probably on you
ESEE knifes, saved the day....love mine, bought it at the HQ
Shout out to the buck reaper. It chops, it does fine work, you can hammer with it, and the hc stainless is in my opinion the best budget steel.
Say Heah, I don't have either knife your using in the video. But I want to comment, I recently bought a couple of Mora's, I like knives so I bought a few knives since I been wood crafting. But I do have to say this. And you know I don't work for Blade HQ, ALL my Mora's I recieved seemed like they were buffed polished and just as shiny as can be, maybe they were just wiped down and that would be very nice of Blade HQ. I was very impressed how they came. Thank You. Blade HQ.
These are freaking hilarious lol and so much fun to watch
i love my bk16 works great.
Dang 2 more knifes added to the buy list.
Lol, you guys are hilarious.
Thanks for posting.
Hmm the rocks did all the work it seems. Speed plus knife is never a good thing, I would rather see you guys compete within a realistic time frame and craft something more refined to show the capability of the knife. I enjoy how you all present but the content is a bit lacking in the practical use of a knife with these tasks. Plus you all kept saying "in real life I wouldn't do it this way" then say at the end of the video that you wouldn't do any of this the way you did because camping is not a timed event. I get the idea, a quick funny video for entertainment to promote blade HQ. I just think you all could still do this by really using the knives and showing their true strengths and weakness's. Set s realistic timed event and then let the viewers vote on your end product. Then do a follow up video showing the winner and throw in a random goodie to one lucky viewer who voted on the initial video. Will give you more views, better content and will entice more to be involved as your giving away a random inexpensive freebie that is a tax write off.
They gave me a Kershaw Camp18 machete from one of their competition videos about a year or so ago. :)
Love it!! Keep doing an amazing job!!
Depends I really like my SP10 marine raider and have carried a kabar. As for the 4-5 inch camp knifes Normally i am carrying a 7+ and a smaller Delicate blade Sooo not really into them.
I kinda was looking at a Becker recently though
My go to camp knife is the tops bob ain't nothing better
lance herbruger mine is the strong arm grime guber because it is always ready
Everyone's here complaining about their inexperience. At some point we were all much worse then them. They knew they weren't the best and still posted this video to show the knives. People should consider that how many of you would post a video where you knew you weren't experienced. At least they tried, and they're only going to get better from here on in.
Say Heah BladeHQ. Yeah, I have a couple of good ones myself, I really like my Ratmandu, and my Rodent 5, I consider my Rodent 4 as my Bush craft knife. But I just got my S. O. G. Pillar Fix Blade from BladeHQ, and I just can't put it down. I made a new Trio with it. I teamed it with my 2Hawks Double Bit Hatchet and my Wicked Tough Saw. Since it has a Choil, I find I don't need a neck knife. I could go with my Gerber Gator Folder in the 164 CM, or my Bokor Tec-Tool City 2.8in.,,. p
Hey, Blade HQ, I got this idea. You know how you guys do the contests with the knife obstacle course? I was thinking you could either do a different type of contest or add this element to the “obstacle” course. Have part of the course be a segment or several different segments in which you have all the different types of opening methods represented by their respective knives and have the contestants open and close each type of mechanism like 5 or10 times. For instance, there could be a CRKT Snaplock, a flipper, an out-the-front knife, a back lock, a CRKT Fulcrum, and any other type of mechanism ( There could also be a Spyderco hole-type that needs to be Spydee flicked too. ) . I just think that the finesse required to open and close should be incorporated into the fun. PLEASE!!!!???!!!!!
Those feather sticks red improvement try like standing dead wood and honestly if you have a 90 degree spine on the back of your knife you can just scrape it and they will take a spark from a fero rod very well
Great job,guys!
I use a Rat 3 as my camp knife and love it
I don't know why you would use an ESEE 4 as a camping/Bushcraft knife. A bark river is such a great choice, but I think the ESEE 4 is much more suitable as a utility blade that can do some camp tasks.
Love you guys. But camera man needs some work. Let me know ill do it for free. I live in sandy. Also skilled in bushcrafting. Camp knives I like to use is BK9 and bark river aurora
O by the way awesome video
Nice Star Wars tattoo!
My personal knife is for now a bahco 2444 but i have ordered a 3.1 inch paaso puukkot polar knife.
Hi I'm Mac on the left, and hi I'm PC on the right...
Gso 4.1 and esee 4.
Sad thing is a 12 dollar mora would have probably done a better job at all of these tasks.
I personally prefer the spyderco bushcraft
Great video!
you hiked up into the mountains in open toed shoes? i don't know whether to trust you guys.
I don't understand? This wasn't a knife competition. More like a bushcraft skill competition.
Surago I didn't see any skill tho lol
Those sandals bro
KnifeHQ My main blade in the bush is the TOPS Fieldcraft. My friend Caleb Musgrave of Canadian Bushcraft helped design it. It is a fantastic field knife. I would absolutely LOVE to see you guys use the knife he designed on his own, the TOPS Dragonfly 4.5. It is a beast of a bushcraft knife that you guys would really enjoy. It needs some love! Check it out! Keep up the interesting videos. Peace fellas.
i hope i win!!! the video was great, and very entertaining to watch. Keep up the competitions and awesome videos guys. Thanks for the great website too, BLADEHQ WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!
My favorite camp knife is the Tops TSK.
TFK??
TSK. Tactical Steak Knife.
I honestly wish you guys took your time to make your campsites and eating utensils, rather than rush through it to see who can complete the task in the quickest amount of time! I want to see you guys actually use those blades to make something functional and beautiful...just saying
Can't go wrong with my bk16
Those videos are so entertaining. You couldn't make worse feathersticks if you tried.
kaizoebara Sadly we WERE trying :/
You misread my comment, it seems. :D
Anyway, try kneeling down and bracing the back of your knife against your knee. Then put the wood against the edge bevel and pull it back slowly. This way the blade won't wiggle and you get more consistent results.
Being able to carve wood doesn't mean I also have the software, equipment, skills or time to make videos.
Just so you don't have to think of me as an armchair commando, here's a pic for you of what I carve:
i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv209/m21peace/head_zps1a289285.jpg
or how 'bout that:
i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv209/m21peace/loff3-1.jpg
Making feather sticks is way easier than those projects.
But let's get back to the video: Like I said, I find the video entertaining and I figure that's what it's meant to be. If it was supposed to be educational, it'd be rather bad as compared to the content of real bushcraft channels like e.g. Karamat Wilderness Ways (i.e. Mors Kochanski), would'nt it?
Oh god, did I see an apple watch.. hahaha
feather sticks? man those are more like notch sticks
This is painful to watch. I'm not an expert either but this is rough.
Ontario Marine Raider!
You guys should have shown you eating with your forks haha
Colin Chalk We had planed to, but since we couldn't build the fire, no boiled water for out Mountain Houses :(
Awesome
I don't see how people take their knives on multiple trips and the edge is still sharp. I use my bark river a lot on hiking trips/ bushcraft weekends and it will be dull after 3-4 days of use. Do they just not use their knives as much or is 1095 way better at holding an edge than cpmS35vn(my bark rivers steel)? Granted I do use it all day and to me it's not "sharp" anymore if it doesn't shave hair. (Then it's just an edge)
Ethan Mack 1095 won't hold an edge like the Bark River knives will. The key is to strop it in the field. Use Black Magic and some cardboard if you need. Or bring a leather strop and touch it up each night. Your blade will stay sharp WAY longer. Ty
knife guy Like a Fallkniven DC4 and a Strop.
Just carry a shcf 36 with a Swiss knife.
Fish out of water but entertaining.
Worst feather sticks I have ever seen
Steven Bustos LOL. Glad it wasn't just me thinking that. More like gouged up sticks.
HAHAHAHAHA! Exactly. Spot on
god how could you be so confident that your esee 4 would be better than a scandi for camp tasks. even a mora would be better
Bark river is a far better knife and yes I own both brands.
Ahahahahaha!!!! pampered city boys trying to do outdoors stuff. lmfao!!
but in all seriousness....the video was hilarious and pathetic at the same time. and let's be honest...yall said that they're your personal blades and that you've used them plenty of times and had a lot of use on them, but highly doubt that that's true. both of you obviously had zero to no experience with using the blades. so either the 'use' you've had on the blades were just goofing off and dicking around like what you did here or yall bullshitting yoir viewers. i dont understand folks like you guys who have these nice blades or gear, but dont know how to use them or never even use them at all. just dont get it.
is that clash of kings backround music?
Tops bob
Why is it that they record the time on their phone? Couldn't they just use the camera time, or time it after the fact?
+Charles Batkin We could, but it gives a visual to the start and finish. Usually, we have a stop watch, but we forgot it for this one.
All this could be done with a slip joint...
Jargon
I don't want to be overly critical but your tattoo is not accurate. The Millennium Falcon is not part of the Rebel Alliance and never displayed that insignia.
nick frankos lol your comment made my day!
Esee4
LT Wright GNS
mora frost custom
SCHF42
Thought it said concentration camp
Not to be mean but judging by the ammount of experience these guys have with knives by the way they use them they're not really the right people to be giving out advice on knives
And the moral of the video is that excellent equipment is useless without the skills or experience .
+Eurotrash4367 I teach that lesson every I go out :/
you guys need help...
+logan steele Usually :/
6th lol
....their inexperience is painful to watch. hipsters the lot of them!
For people that work with knives all day you guys are really bad at using knives.