Simple Knife and Axe Sharpening/ Falkniven DC4 Giveaway

Thanks for tuning in. Unfortunately, I'm at home today in the house. I actually went out earlier to shoot two videos and screwed up on the memory card thing, so I was only able to shoot about three quarters of one video out there. But this video needs to happen today, and I'll tell you why later on. So, today we're in the house. Today I'm going to be doing a very comprehensive sharpening video for your knives and axes using a Fallkniven DC-4. What I'm going to be showing you on is my Sandvik axe, which I used on my solo winter camp. I've got actually, it's all rusted up a little bit there, and she's dulled from using it quite a bit. And I've got this Scandinavian grind knife that I'm doing a little bit of testing for from my buddy Doug Flinders. Goes by Flinders Adventures on Instagram. So he recently started making knives, and he knows that I've had my fair share of knives, and just wanted me to do some testing and report back to him. So I made the design on this a bit chunky, and I think he did it on purpose for a couple different reasons. He told me that he wants this to be doubled as a shovel, so it's pretty thick. So dig in the dirt and whatnot, and also put underneath your bow drill to catch the embers, and a couple more reasons, but anyways, I digress. When I was out in the woods today trying to film, I used this as a shovel quite a bit, and I was throwing it. I put some electrical tape on the bottom just for grip, and I was throwing it, and I dinged up the tape, and I didn't ding up the edge at all, so i threw it and i was uh cross batoning sorry cross batoning and also hacking and batoning and stuff and uh the edge held up really well it's not shaving sharp like it was so again we'll touch it up one more thing before we actually get into the sharpening my other friend doug doug outside i guess doug is a very canadian name um is doing a giveaway on his channel right so he's going to be giving away a few hankies, a nice strop that, and this is all handmade stuff, a few hankies, a nice strop that he made, hand carved bears, blocks of wood to carve your own bears. And I'm sure he's got like a ton of stuff in there. He's a super generous guy. So I'm sure you'll be getting a good package. But I had a very generous subscriber send me a brand new Fallkniven DC-4. And this is what I use to sharpen with to give away on my channel. So instead of giving it away on my channel i thought it might be a good idea to give it to doug when i saw him a couple weeks ago to put it in his kitty for his giveaway so i hope my subscriber who gave me this doesn't mind so you guys have a chance to win all that stuff including the DC4 as well being my subscribers i want you to go over to his channel and watch his giveaway announcement video and there's rules in there what you need to do i believe it's just like share a video or like a video or comment on a video i can't remember specifics doug talks so much he says a lot of things so it's hard to keep track you know anyways go over there do what it says and have a chance to win big thanks to my subscriber who generously donated the DC4 that's going in doug's kitty and yeah enough talking so the Fallkniven DC4 this is the what i use to sharpen with when i'm in the field when i'm at home sometimes i'll use sandpaper and a mouse pad nine times out of ten i'm using this right mine is old and mine came apart and this is a common thing with these things no big deal at all they have a diamond side and then a ceramic side and nine times out of ten i'm not using this diamond side unless i make a big ding in my my axe or my knife like batoning through fence boards with with nails and whatever you know just being silly so we'll put this aside i'm not going to really use this but when you're when you get yours in the giveaway it will come attached and it comes in a leather case well i'm a DC4 case right so first off i've got my axe and this is the way that I sharpen with my stone and I'm sure there's a million ways to sharpen but this works for me so I'm gonna grab my stone on either side and you want to watch your fingers right because after a while this stuff's gonna be sharp and I lay my axe on my my knees and you want to find the angle where it sounds really good so let's try so let's do it a couple different so I'm too shallow here I'm getting the belt I'm getting the the cheek and I'm too deep here creating another bevel so listen to the sounds different now I'm gonna be right in the middle working my edge hear it so so not good not good oh my gosh let's get out anyways so we're finding the edge and you're listening for the sound and i'm just doing circular patterns on it let me see where are you just doing circular patterns touching the edge i'm not going flat i'm not going there i'm like a 45 almost not quite a 45 right on the edge and i'm just doing circles like I said and I'm not coming anywhere near my fingers and that there's no amount of time or strokes or any anything to gauge it on except for experience and sound really once you've done this you'll know when to flip it over maybe a couple seconds on either side really so when when it's on the other knee I'm holding the head in my hand and I'm doing the same thing and I'm keeping keeping the downward pressure with my thumb on the rest of the handle to hold it in place and i'm just going to town sometimes i'll use different parts of the stone where i'm sharpening because i think in the middle it's kind of wore down and and super fine super uh lost its grit so anyway sometimes i'll move it up to where my thumb is or down by my finger always taking care to not cut myself so i'll flip it over again and again you want to make sure you get a full blade of the axe or the knife whatever you're using and i'm guaranteeing that's going to shave now. So before I try to shave with it, I like to strop because using that doesn't leave a fine, fine edge on it. And I want to polish my edge and get it real clean. So this again will be another good reason to go over and check Doug's video. He made a strop. He's going to give one away. It's a really nice one he made on like a piece of walnut. Anyways, my strop is a small piece of leather with compound on one side that fits into this old BDU pants thing pocket pouch that Kyle made for me and then the DC4 goes in there as well there's your hair let's look at sharpening the knife now fancy slider so the axe was a convex edge and the idea is I'm going to show you how do I do my convex and my Scandi's so the knife Scandi edge to be honest with you it doesn't need to be sharpened with the DC4 ceramic side I could get away with just stropping it and it'll come back to shaving sharp no problem so I don't normally do the circle thing with the knife unless I'm trying to work on a ding what I do usually do is I'll find the bevel all right I'll go towards it and lift so I'm cutting into it and lift at the end right on the bevel right you can leave it on the same length as well you can even put your finger what I used to do is put my finger and find the bevel and as long as you're careful you can leave your finger there and work your way up the blade or if you're not a purist and you don't care about a true Scandinavian grind which I don't give a damn about you can do this which is easier you find your grind your bevel and then you raise it up a touch so right so I'm at my bevel there and I'm just canting it a little bit more and that creates a micro bevel it creates a stronger grind on your blade and if you don't care again then it's no big deal I don't see an issue with it I don't see it hurting anything so I'm gonna just quick show you how I would do it cutting into the blade like that on the same not on the bevel but again on the bevel and tilt it totally up to you however you want to do it if you want to leave it on the bevel you can you can continuously sharpen it that way it takes a bit longer for me to do it that way personally but I like to bevel up maybe spend a little bit more time on the tip because it's got a little bit different of an angle you gotta lift it up and even the belly all right I call that done you can do the thumbnail test to see that shaving off pieces of my nail no problem you can always go in and see if it bites on your thumbnail or your fingers which it is it's not rolling it's biting and that's good but I think the shaving of the hair is the most visual oh haha I guess you got to use the blade look I'm completely shaved now there is a ton of my arm hair on there All right guys, I hope you learned something and I hope you enjoyed it Make sure to check out Doug's channel for a chance to win all that stuff. Take care. I'll see you next time Bye, click over here to see Doug's channel