My Bushcraft EDC.

Hey guys, Joe here with Scout and we're in the woods again. It's been about three days since my last video and it was all full of snow and cold winter day or whatever. Today is not that day. Yesterday was like plus five Celsius and today's right around, I think it's around the same to be honest with you. Anyways, I'm in the woods. I got a knife about a month ago. I've been using it a lot and I want to make a video about that knife. So the knife that I've been using for the past month or so you've seen in a couple videos it's a deering edc bushcraft knife the knife came in a nice leather sheath just a pouch style with the fold over belt loop i have used this in a neck carry a couple times works fine because it doesn't weigh much at all take it out the knife itself the handle is four inches long and it's brown micarta with a not too grippy finish and a not too polished finish somewhere right in the middle so it's a really nice feel and then i've got thin white liners really nice the blade is three inches long and it's only 3 30 seconds thick and that's the same thickness as a mora number one pretty thin it's a scandinavian grind and he's got his deer ring maker's mark there i ended up putting a small little finger hole lanyard on the end just for for a couple reasons actually for visibility for an extra finger in case i'll need to chop a little bit or to pull out of my sheath easier let's go use this knife conjunction with a fire steel boil up some water and make a tea he doesn't like to listen so good anymore come good boy real nice spread on them big old oaks nice job dog drank that dank in the spring and winter sometimes fall i like to wear these muck boots they're not too warm so my feet don't sweat too bad but they're fully uh waterproof up to here so going through stuff like this isn't that big of a deal walking through muck isn't that big of a deal i don't know if this ice is going to gonna hold me or not go scope all right did you look at the size these frag mighties will you to look at it what's a look at what you just look at it look at them they're gonna be like 12 15 feet tall man pretty crazy now we're into the goldenrod all right Doug I found some feathers too where's the sticks bud where's the sticks go get your stick there are no sticks you never threw any sticks yet okay so you gotta give me some room bud go on okay I found the tree that we're going to use it's going to be this one here it's dead standing it's still attached to the other tree so we have to get it off we could take our knife put it here and baton it through it's just honestly not necessary there we go and get this out of here process it up you are going crazy right now go i've come over to this down cottonwood tree so that i can use it as a work platform as a brace something to get up off the wet ground on i'm going to light the fire and cook my or boil my water up over there but here's a good place to work anyways what i need to do is to get this into sections right uh so that i can start splitting it down because all of my firewood all of my tinder all of my kindling everything is coming from this one piece of trembling aspen okay so let's break her down a bit there's nothing fancy about this go on it's not for you not for you these are gonna be my manageable pieces use uh i'm gonna make one a dedicated baton. I might use the skinnier one for the baton. All right, let's do this. Keeping in mind that this is only a three inch blade, I did not go after a piece of wood that was wrist thick or bicep thick. This could do that, wrist thick wood. It's easier to not have to baton around the sides and work a piece down and down and down. It's easier just to use a smaller piece of wood, if possible. It's all situational, right? It all depends. So I've got a piece like this, right? and it's got a little bit of a break here and uh it's kind of too long or jagged to baton safely i guess what you can do is take that broken piece and give her a couple good whacks go split her down like that okay again that could be more of a manageable piece and if you didn't have a knife or if you're working with a pocket knife or a stone tool or something along those lines that's how you can also get your pencil size pieces right by splintering it off it helps that anyways this isn't about that this is about this knife so I'm gonna split this wood down and because there is no guard at all on here I need to if I'm doing tip first I need to make sure my thumb is on top of the the pommel and I'm also looping my thumb in the paracord lanyard okay not too shabby splitting down could also instead of using my hand beat on it it's got no pommel plate I'm really not too worried about it to be honest with you. So I want to split these down. You don't have to do it that way either. You can baton normally, right? So if I wanted to just baton this down, if I wanted to just baton this down and didn't want it to go all crazy, go and tip in if you're worried about that or whatever, if you just don't like it, you can baton normal. So Jonathan Deering is the knife maker, like I said, and I actually camped with him. I met him last month. We went to Michigan. He lives in Michigan, close to me, and we met up and went to the Huron National Forest with a bunch of guys. I have a video of that on my channel. That's where I got this knife. He gave it to me. He wanted me to test it out and give him some thoughts back on it or whatever. He said that he sells a lot of knives, but he doesn't see a lot of them in use, so kind of bummed him out. He wants to know, like, real-world opinions on them, so that's what I'm going to give him. This has become my everyday carry for bushcraft. I do carry it in its sheath. The sheath fits very nice. I can slide it from the front to the back if I want, can ride high or low, and that's my new pocket knife every day. So it's got a nice patina going on it and everything. Pretty cool. So for the sake of using this knife and showing what it can do, let's cross baton this and truncate this piece of firewood. This is probably the most I've used this knife for. The past few camping trips I've been on, I've had an axe with me. There's no need to do that. No need to use the knife so hard, but let's do it because it's fun and there's no need to be crazy and try and get all the way through on every side or even just chop right through with that when you can truncate it and give her a couple breaks and now it's more manageable size super sharp makes really nice tight curls I'm gonna collect a bunch of these I'm not even splitting this wood down just doing the curls off the the circular wood outside of it I find a lot of times I get better curls near the outside of the wood for some reason maybe the woods a little bit softer more deteriorated there I've got to collect all these is because these are not staying on the stick. This'll work, a little cup. I really love the thin Scandi blade. I honestly, one eighth is almost too thick for me in my opinion now. It doesn't need to be that big. When it's thick, when a Scandi knife is thick, it's more of just a big wedge. It doesn't cut properly. It doesn't cut as good as it should. I'm a big fan of convex knives and also a big fan of skinny Scandi, skinny Scandi knives. Pretty wet out here, I guess that's what you'd expect in February. So considering it's super muddy and wet, I'm going to try and keep my stuff mainly off the ground as much as possible. I had it set on my backpack while I was doing stuff, now it's on the wood that I grabbed. That wood that I grabbed from a platform is going to be an integral part of the fire. It'd be almost impossible to strike a fire steel right onto the ground. So now all we have to do is organize our sizes. I saw a video by Iowa Woodsman the other day, who also recently got a Deering knife, and he has the Sami Puko, I'm not sure how you say it, Sami or Sami Puko, which is a really nice knife, and also, Wranglerstar has one of his knives, one of his first knives, or one of his older knives he made, called the Forester, I believe, it was a white one, Wranglerstar made a video on it anyway, it's pretty cool, so John's a really nice guy, and I'm glad to support him and uh especially him being so close to me being a friend and i want and i do want to say thank you to him for this knife because it's a sick knife all right let's get this fire started okay let's start this fire so what i've got to start with is just some really fine uh curls some shavings that i got off of the aspen that i've been using not too shabby nice good to go a little tim hortons tea bag green tea this time and she's just gonna steep there for a bit and while that's sitting let's get rid of this fire no let's go leave it there if that's not safe i don't know what it is okay because i know somebody will say something let's get it all submerged fire's out folks where's the fire not here so i got my backpack on my back i have not had any of my tea yet i just don't really feel like sitting on the ground even though i have my foam pad i'm gonna i put out the fire as you saw it's out and then the debris the debris is in the water over there i'm just gonna walk back over to this um this log and sit down in the log with my with my seat and my pad because it's nicer to sit up on something than on the ground getting old you know in my old age my knees can't take the old age my knees can't take getting up and down anymore i think this video has gone on long enough it was supposed to be about a knife and it's turned into like an outing video which whatever so again if you want to check out during knives he's got an instagram he's on bushcraft usa he has his own website during knives check them out i hope you guys found this informational and enjoyable i'll see you soon bye