Budget Knives. E1

Hey guys, it's Joe here. I'm in the woods with Scout today, and we're going to start a new video series called Budget Knives. I posted a knife video a while ago showing my knives, and people liked them, but a lot of people find that they're too expensive. A lot of my knives are custom knives. Well, in this series, I think that we're going to dispel the myth that you need an expensive knife to play in the woods. I got this knife. It's actually, let's call it what it is. It's an SE or Rat Knock Off. It's called a SEMA jungle survival knife looks exactly like a rat or an SC3s So we're gonna we're gonna beat it up. We're gonna try and break it today. What are you doing getting all wet? It's only 10 in the morning, bud. A little deep. We had a torrential rains for a couple days here My old muck boots are holding up for now. I'm cutting it close here, man Don't get a soaker. What is that? But hey, what is that? Little jawbone action, bud this is pretty fresh leave it this jawbone's intact pretty good i think i'm gonna keep the jawbone the skull's a little banged up might have some brains in there still but maybe i'll put it up in a tree if that's still there in a week or so i'll come grab it i doubt it'll be there my main purpose for this knife is gonna be a car knife i'm putting together a little uh car bug out bag and this knife is gonna go in there um there's a couple reasons why it's just a solid make it's no nothing pretty and i think that i can use the end to bust some glass if i need to, so a little bit of specs on the knife the blade length from where the blade starts because there is this little bit of a choil oh you want this knife in your face, is that, there's a little bit of choil, this blade length blade to blade, blade to tip is 3.35 inches long, it's got this black coating on it which i'm not a fan of but we'll see how it goes with the fire steel and i'm sure i can wear it off with a little bit of use, it's got micarta handles or at least it looks like micarta to me, it's only 5/32 seconds thick which is, which i like because a lot of these knives are gonna be 3/16ths or at least a quarter inch thick, it's a thin handled knife like the SEs are, it's got this exposed tang that you can use for a lanyard or crushing bones or maybe even a window break if you wanted to it's got some jimping on the spine and i believe it's a flat grind or a v grind, i'm not 100 sure on that. I don't have these style knives. I don't really like a v-grind or a flat grind but we're going to see how it works for me in the bush today And the first thing I want to do with this knife is the old Mora Kaansky beat into a log and stand on it to see if it breaks test. I'm doing this downed log so I'm not penetrating a live tree and hurting it. I actually do like this little pommel plate on here so that I don't have to worry about it. Let's go. Come on. Okay she's in there. Can you see that? Just going to try to get another angle for you here. That's the knife stuck in like you saw it, all right and then zoom out I'll try and step on her again, okay hopefully that's sufficient. Yeah, she didn't break, didn't bend still perfectly straight, that's cool that's impressive, it shouldn't bend, it's 530 seconds worth of steel and I weigh about 100 pounds so that's a good thing it didn't bend, so what's next for this knife, let's let's split some wood down and try and start a fire, steel maybe because realistically that's what I do I don't go around pounding my knife into trees and standing on it for ladders Let's get some wood. So this is some really dense oak. They're longer pieces than I would normally try to baton, and this one's all funky. Got some gnarls in it and stuff, some burls. So let's split this one, the thicker one. And again, this blade is just over three inches long, the cutting edge. To be fair, there was a natural check in this wood, so made it a little bit easier, but let's split it again where there's no natural check. Although it is in half, so again, it's making it easier. But that's part of it, making your life easier with these knives. It's gear and skills and knowledge. Okay, well, that's splitting down really nice. When I'm holding any knife, I do normally grab it up right by the blade. Where are we? Right by the blade. But here, it has that choil. So look at my hand, where my hand is when I'm holding it. I have super control of that because my hand is so close to the blade. And it's not making too bad of curls, to be honest with you. It's a different angle than I'm used to. I have to go more deep. Definitely way deeper than a Scandi, but those are some of the curls I was able to produce. Let's uh, let's strike those bad boys See if this coated blade strikes a fire steel. All right, let's try her out. Oh, yeah, no problem at all There we go. Too shabby. So let's take a look at the sheath comes in this I'm sure it's a plastic not a kydex Actual sheath part is okay, but the belt buckle is insane in my opinion This is metal, like straight metal. Look at the size of that thing. I don't like it. I don't like the metal part of it. If I were to take off the metal part, which you can do with these screws, not a big deal, and just have it, like I said, for my car, it'd be all right. But it snaps in. There's no way it's coming out at all. It's not coming out. You have to actually give it a little tug for it to come out. Yeah, the retention is great. I don't like the metal, like I said, it's heavy. but what do you want, you know? You can't have everything, so. This little paracord in the front, too, can be used as a neck carry if you wanted, although, again, I would take off the metal part because of the weight. I should've done this before I started beating on it, but this is a receipt, so thin paper. Seems like the edge is held up. I haven't done much to the edge at all, just that little bit of batoning, pounding it into the wood, but as you can see, it's fine, I actually kinda ripped it on that one, but not too bad, and I imagine if, after a while, If I start to strop this, it can be convex, the edge, which I would prefer. Here's a dead tree I'm gonna throw the knife at, do some knife throwing skills, plus see if I can break her. Ah, there we go. Did you get it, did you get it, did you get it? There she be, there she be. Let's go take a look. So I threw it six or seven times at least. You can see it bounced off there, there, where else? There, anyways. She's in, she's doing pretty good. I don't think it's any worse for wear. Let me set up the camera and figure it out. Everything looks fine. I don't see why it wouldn't be. It's a pretty tough little knife, man. Little bulldog, little bruiser. It's a SEMA fixed edge knife. Imagine that. The steel is a 7Cr17Mov stainless steel. I've never heard of that steel in my life. It's a Chinese steel, definitely. So, stainless steel knife. The hardness is a 58, which is good. 3.35 inch blade length, like I said, and probably 5/32 thick. So this is the kicker, right? It's a budget knife. All my knives cost like 200 bucks plus. 200 bucks without a sheath is a good deal for a custom knife. This knife is a $57 knife that is on sale right now for 20 bucks. Nope, that's wrong. 22 bucks. 22 bucks for this and this. I can't fill my car up for 22 bucks. It's not even a half a tank of gas for 22 bucks. And you get a capable woods knife, survival knife, pack knife, car knife, whatever you want to call it whatever your intended purpose is for it i don't know it's uh it's not going to take the place of my Turley, my Adventure Storm my Deering any of those knives but it definitely has a place in my car or a buddy can use it if you wanted to uh that didn't have a knife my wife can use it you know i mean it's it's it's a knife it's uh it's going to cut things going to do a good job as you can see um i don't know what else i can do i can i can sit here and make a bow drill kit with it i can split down harder wood i can cross baton i can carve some traps and all that nonsense but in all honesty you know what's gonna do it like this is again it's hard oak yeah maybe i should have been able to go through it in two swipes but like what is the what is what is the defining factor right move scout you're gonna you're just gonna all right well that's it for this this video uh maybe i'll do a follow-up video on this knife or i'm gonna plan on doing this for a bunch of knives now um maybe once a month we'll do a budget knife review review but maybe i'll come back to these knives all at once maybe in a year or something and see how they've held up long term because that could be an issue for somebody buying a cheap or um inexpensive knife i guess but yeah so thanks for watching guys i will post the the links at the bottom of the page where you can get this knife you better if you want to buy it i suggest doing it quickly before the deal runs out 57 bucks isn't is not bad for a knife at all but if you can get it for 22 bucks buy two anyways have a good day guys thanks for watching i will see you on the next one and i will be back with a trip video soon maybe a maybe a survival-y kind of trip soon so all right bye all right see you later folks so i decided we should cross baton with it uh this is a piece of hickory and in all reality cross batoning is something that i do with my knife so well that's dead hickory for you and it's a clean cut let's get another one right on a knot right on a knot here leave it scope so truncating things splitting things down shouldn't be an issue this is a dead hickory hickory is a pretty dense wood let's go pretty dense wood so you could also uh split your wood down if you didn't want to baton it stick it in a bit first this will be a good test for it that hickory still i'm gonna put it right against the knife and hit the edge of the hickory right into the blade. Works, eh? Now to get the knife out of there. Too shabby. Okay, so there's one thing I really don't like. There's no swell at the end at all and no hook near the bottom to grab onto when you're chopping. But you can fix that. Let me see if I can do it with the piece of paracord that's on the sheath. There's that little piece of paracord. It's not even a paracord, actually. What do you want, eh? so i'm just threading it through this little lanyard hole in the exposed tang i'm just going to do a quick overhand knot a small loop that way what that does is gives me a little bit of a pinky hold and something to choke up on or to grip while i'm chopping so let's see if that helps at all gotta love the train wouldn't be a joe robin a bushcraft video without the train again i'm looping my pinky finger through that and basically my whole hand is going down here it's really not on the blade too much at all feel like it's gonna fly out of my hand at all it just doesn't have the weight really to chop all right that's it for real now guys thanks for watching i'll see you on the next one love the train