Turley Green River

Alright, so first off, I have to apologize. I've had this knife for a long time and haven't been able to make a video about it. Two reasons. I've been busy and actually I had footage of the knife, but my computer was all messed up. Couldn't figure out how to load videos for the longest time. Turns out it was very easy. Figured it out today. anyways so the footage i post later on after me talking here is actually shot a couple months ago you can tell because there's no snow on the ground but i think it's good because now i can tell you my my real opinion about the knife i've had it for like i said a few months now it's the Green River, a truly Green River and i beat the crap out of this thing it's taken place of all my other knives i use this way up way more often, 5/32nds thickness I can't remember how long it is but it's a good four and a half inches if I'm mistaken, Izzy correct me, I'm sure brass pommel and bone G10 scales really like the knife I like the fact that the 5/32nds is just a bit skinnier than the 3/16ths and like I said it's a beast now if you're if you're ever gonna order a knife from Izzy and I should have learned this a long time ago I've been trying to get by on just using other sheaths like this Brian Andrews sheath it's a really great sheath Ken gave it to me it's a really nice but it's too it doesn't fit the Green River very well obviously like just falls right out of it so when I came home one day I actually dropped this out of the sheath and landed on my concrete porch and I dinged up the edge pretty good I just did took Izzy's advice with the the sharpening and I took it down to 400 grit and you can't even tell that I didn't get any more obviously you can't see it in here either way but yeah so sharpen real real good and it's back to hair shaving sharp so it's another good aspect of it but so here's the the video like again like I said after using it for two and a half once this is the real deal I think I'm gonna like the 5/32 thickness it's a smaller than that 3/16 as you guys Nope. I like the longer blade aspect of the Green River too. This oak that I have is pretty dry, dandy. All the bark was removed already, so it's been dead for quite a while. The extra length really comes in nice when you're batoning. The wood is overly thick at all, but it's just the extra length. The Green River. Some of those curls are so fine, I could spark that right there with the ferro rod. That is the convex knife. So I like to make a bunch of shavings like that, like those fine shavings, and then after that, that just take off big like slivers of wood almost it's not really necessary to have them all fine like that and in my experience and my preference like i said i'll do a few of those but then mostly big ones um i'll normally do the fine ones at the end and keep them for catching the spark right away and then just throw handfuls of the shavings like the splinter shavings on what i really like about this knife and the Gasconade but this one takes it a little bit further is the pommel obviously so I can put the wood down and bury the tip right into it to split it but also the curve up at the at the tip of the blade here so I don't have to go directly with my tip right in I can now I do that though but I can also put the curly it's not really a worry one second let me flatten this more on it that way I already said right with the tip that's what I really like about this knife, the blade geometry and the pommel. The pommel just takes it one step further and that's the reason that I wanted the Green River. My Gaskinade is my favorite knife, well it's hard to say now, but my Gaskinade was my favorite knife until I saw the pommel. Now you can get Garsonades with pommels on them. I'm sure it'll do that for you. A lot of the times when I'm batoning my pieces if they're not big enough or if they're not too big I'll just use my hand to finish it by a push cut. This is ash so it's very straight grain nature anyways but this So I work with oak, maple, anything that splits relatively easy. All those kind of tend to split off, splinter off. And I do have my axe here. I'm just using this knife like this for fun. What are the woods for, right? Fun.