How You Can Make Perfect Feather Sticks🔪
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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Many people struggle with carving feather sticks. There really is a bit of an art to it but it doesn't have to be complicated. With a little understanding and some practice anyone can carve functional feather sticks for fire building. Having the skills to make feather sticks is very important in wet weather conditions as it allows you to get into the center of the wood where material is still dry. This is extremely helpful in conditions where other tinder and small kindling is soaked.
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You said you are not an expert at feather sticks but your feather sticks sure put mine to shame. lol Another good job my friend.
Thank you so much for your kind words Lonnie! I really appreciate that my friend!! I do enjoy practicing them but I know I still have room for improvement as well. I always enjoy bushcrafting tasks that allow me to use my knife for carving. Take care my friend.
Some Good techniques!!
Soft woods are abundant here in the Southeast...
Easiest way to make "perfect" feather sticks?:
Find the softest dry wood possible. Lol 😏
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Great Video
Thank you so much much Shawn. I really appreciate you taking the time to tune in!
You are a humble man. You said that others on RUclips make much better feathersticks than you do, but yours are perfect! Very good demo and explanation. Thanks.
Thank you so much for your kind words my friend! I enjoy practicing this skill mainly because I enjoy working with a knife in general. I appreciate your kind words and your time in watching! Take care.
Well done sir...never seen an American fellow do a feather stick so well. Really clear instructions and very useful tips mate. Subbed and belled, thank you again for the video.
Great tutorial Matt. You make great videos Buddy. Keep them coming!
Thank you so much Scotty. I really appreciate you watching my friend!
Great job Matt!! Learned something! Thanks and God bless
Thank you so much Pastor Mike! I am glad that you got something from it as that makes it all worthwhile brother! God bless.
I’ve watched countless Bush crafting channels and their videos but I’ve got to tell you that you’re doing a superior job producing videos for for channel! I subscribed. Keep up the great work!
I've watched a lot of feather stick videos on RUclips, and I have to say this may be the best one I have seen. Thank you for yet another edutainment bushcraft video.
Thank you so much Larry! That is high praise my friend and I really appreciate that! I like the phase "edutainment!" That is really my goal..to share useful information but make it entertaining as well. Thank you for your interest and your kind words my friend.
This was a great help. I had been getting frustrated because I had been struggling and pushing way too hard.
I'm just learning to make feathersticks and I have watched a LOT of videos on how to make them. I must say that this video is the best and most helpful of them all. Thank you very much! God bless!
Certainly agree to what you said regarding the functionality of feather sticks - this is not about winning a beauty contest, but about making it work. Thanks for sharing, left a sub.
Thank you so much for your interest and the sub my friend!
Great tips! Thank you for your time!
Thank you very much for this video. 1 other video explained that you make smaller and then thicker curls but didn't explained why. You did and now it makes sense to me and gives me an understanding of why I need to start small and get larger. I will now become a subscriber because I know I will learn from you. Thanks again. ~Sherrie in South Carolina
Thank you so much for subscribing Sherrie and I hope you will continue to enjoy what you see here. If you ever have any questions, please feel free to ask and I will give you my best. Take care!
Thanks for the video
My go to wood here is black spruce, but I might try my poplar variety we get. Take care.
Definitely give it a shot if you have it. It is some great carving wood for sure. We don't have much spruce at all here to take advantage of but a decent amount of poplar and pine. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great Channel!
Excellent video Matt, very well done and great presentation as always. That blade sure makes easy work on that wood, it's a beauty brother!
Thank you so much Torren! I really appreciate you tuning in brother. The blade definitely doesn't mind making feathers:) It does make it an enjoyable task for sure. Take care brother.
Nice work!
Well done sir.
Very helpful!
Best tips from your channel by far. Thanks.
Excellent feather sticks my friend
Thank you so much my friend! I really appreciate you taking the time to tune in and you kind words. Take care.
Thank you !
good job..well done demo... safe journeys
Thank you so much Blackie! I really appreciate your time and the kind words my friend!
Love your level of detail in all your video's!
Very informative and educational. Thank you very much
Thank you so much Thomas. I am glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate your time and interest my friend!
Packrat 566! Ive missed your videos i sat down got on youtube started thinking about your channel then i saw the annotations glad to see some more stuff from you!!!
Hello! Thank you for coming over! I just wanted to take things in a little different direction and the BHB channel seemed like the best way to do that. Thank you for you interest and support through the years my friend!
I go from the bottom of the blade to the tip to get fine curls, then I do the opposite for big ones. A convex grind will do feathersticks the best. The flatness of the wood gradually makes it bigger from the start, so that is a good thing for me, I usually use pine/spruce because the wood has a flammable resin in it.
thanks. precision and parsimony!
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Thank you Matt much appreciated...joe
I appreciate you tuning in Joe! I am glad you enjoyed the video. Take care sir!
Nice one 👍 thanks for the tip
Thank you for tuning Jonah! Take care my friend.
Great job brother! Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much Bill. Thanks for tuning in brother!
Perfection, yet again
Thank you so much Frank!! Perfection is a strong word:) I appreciate you tuning in and your kind words very much my friend. Take care!
Tip-1 - focus, don't be distracted by other events, people (/children), animals (dogs) ... concentrate on what you are doing, ... and keep the distractions away from you. Usually YOU vs them will be the ones getting you cut and wounded if they get near you, distract you, ....
Tip-2 - SHARP !! blade. Dull blades lead to greater force, leading to over-compensating, leading to dangerous cuts and wounds.
Tip-3 - dry wood - not knotty, not sticky tarry pitch, not punky/spalted wood.
Tip-4 - carve as shown, downward and outward from the body into a wood object/stump/fallen log, have the stick between cutting blade and the body - safely.
Tip-5 - carve a feather, rotate the stick slightly and carve next feather, turn, carve, turn, carve, mini-angles of the carved surface easier to feather than a wider deeper forceful cutting stroke usually causing the cutting disasters (use the easy way).
Tip-6 - carve little feathers, instead of dinosaur spines. Easier, faster, less work and overcompensation, and they will burn faster, getting you the needed flames and heat for a secure fire.
Tip-7 take your time. You won't save any time getting cut and wounded, taking care of a wound, and not having a feather stick.
Tip-8 ... practice on matchsticks or long BBQ matchsticks or pine chopsticks ..... you cut and break them, you are applying too much force, and are cutting them too deep and too wide. properly feathered matchsticks (in your EDC) make for superb fire tinder starting.
All excellent points John! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to share.
Funny enough, in a professional kitchen I had a debate with my evening manager over dull knives being more dangerous. I love him to death still, but he just wouldn't see that a sharper knife is generally safer as long as you're abiding by the rules than a dull blade. Funny how that translates from bushcraft to a restaurant the same in that sense.
Good video, nice explanation.
Great job! Thanks
Thanks so much for your great videos. Could you tell me who made the knife your using???
I really like poplar as well but I also love maple for feathers
really awsome video man really helpful great stuff im gonna check out the rest of your videos now
Thank you so much for you kind words and for tuning in! I am glad this was helpful to you, that's what this is all about! Take care and feel free to keep in touch with any questions or feedback.
Matt just found this video and I love the looks of that knife what are you using here?
Great video and tips!!! Where is that knife from by the way? It's beautiful!
A craftsman in California hand makes them. He marks them simply "Rich V". He deals on eBay if you look up bushcraft knife wood lore. It definitely has a unique look and handles well. Thank you. He will make your knife to your exact specifications. Thank you for taking the time to tune in!
Say Heah Black Hat, That's a beautiful Featherstick, But lately I've been using a technique that I learned from the Russian, He taught me how to make Feathers from a Down Fall, as long as it's standing upward around 70°+ and he just said to take off the Bark and fine and thick of 4-5 feathers, but a bunch of them. I tried that and from now on that's what I do. His video is called Feathersticks in Siberia ? By the way, my B H modified Attitude looks similar to your knife, But you did good, Dilly, Dilly, heh heh heh.,,.p
Sounds like a good method, I'll see if I can find his video. Thank you for tuning in. I always appreciate your time and interest!
Black Hat Bushcraft Thanx You, I enjoy your video's too. But serious, even if the wood isn't at the right angle for you, just do it so it is. Set the wood for your comfort. Then just remove the Bark and start slicing remember it's not how bushy your Featherstick is, groups of 4-5 thin and thicker feathers are fine, but make a bunch of them around 12 >. The thin stuff will ignite fast with your ferro rod, then the thicker stuff burns slower and longer, That's the idea, so find a dead fall around a 70°-75° angle so actually your standing up right next to it, easy peasy nice and easy, Dilly, Dilly, heh heh heh.,,.p
Can you tell me who made the knife you was using?Great video!! Thanks!!
I think he said Mora they make many bushcraft and outdoor knives. He also mentioned Bushlore which is a style that has been replicated by a couple of companies.
Hi why do you prefer a scandanavian grind?
Dang, dude! I think you've got MCQ beat.
I truly appreciate that my friend! I definitely respect MCQ as he has been at this a long time! I appreciate your time and interest!
@@blackhatbushcraftI love MCQ but he always has the Comments turned off...
Any reason why you don't immobilise the knife in a log and then draw the stick back onto the cutting edge. This would mean at least one aspect is fixed and should help the process. I have seen some people do this very effectively. However, the mainstream featherstickers scoff at the method. Why is this?
Man that's awesome,and very nice feather sticks,I can make em but nothing like that lol, I have a channel myself check it out if you like,I subbed thanks
Thank you so much for you kind words Nathanial! I really appreciate that my friend and I subbed you back :)
Black Hat Bushcraft ur very welcome bud,thanks for the sub I really appreciate it
This time I will do it manually with the help of Stodoys designs.