The varied convex grind

Alright, well I'm out here today, and I've got three knives. I've got my Varied Convex Grind Gas Knade, I've got my BK7, and I've got my Scandinavian Grind Helle Knife. Get over here! Come! So the reason I have all three knives is because I wanted to do a little test, and actually explain to you guys a little bit about what the Varied Convex Grind really is. So the very convex grind is near the base of the knife or near the handle and then it tapers off and it's thinner and has less material behind the blade near the tip. So about this much of the blade is heavy use, batoning, heavy knife use. This part up here would be like feather sticks, slicing, cutting a notch, things like that. Obviously you know about the BK7, just a brute knife, 7 inch blade, good for batoning, light chopping. And the Heliodol, for any guys who don't know about it, it's a Norwegian knife, about 3.5 inch blade, Scandinavian grind, sharp as hell. So the way I'm going to compare them is I'm going to baton through these pieces of seasoned oak. they're extremely hard you can tell and then I'm gonna make feather sticks after that so when batoning with the varied convex grind I'm gonna put it close to the handle just pretty much like any other knife that little chip close to the handle and two my BK7 same deal towards the handle with that one bust them up again gas grenade varied convex once again the BK7 now when it comes time to make the feather sticks i'm not going to use my BK7 i just don't like it for such delicate work i'm going to use my heli that's where this comes in so i guess the whole point i should have said was the very convex grind is a good all-around knife it does everything that you need it to do whereas i can't baton i could but i'm not going to baton with my heliodel it's not a good idea to do so and really i don't want to make feather sticks with my BK7 so stay scout sit deer there he wants to go get it leave it um so yeah so i want to make some feather sticks with my with my heliodel at first so obviously just and i'm always told if the can you please relax if this if the shavings stay on the the wood it's a feather stick and if they come off then they're just shavings so really quickly that's a feather stick made by the heliodel it looks fine to me Then I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to use my my gascan my very convex gascan I'm going to use the tip. Scout relax I'm going to use the tip of the knife to make the shavings with that one So I guess while making these first off a few flew off, but that's not a big deal Like I said, they don't have to stay on it works the same thing does the same thing again Just really quick. That's all I needed to do the curls on from the helio are a little bit more curly than the ones from the gas grenade but that's totally fine because I'm not making them so that I can strike them with the fire steel I actually go ahead one step further and make the scrapings so really all I'm looking for is little pieces of wood with a bunch of air in them that are going to take a flame extremely well so in that sense the gas grenade does just as fine as the heli for what I needed to Now just gonna baton another piece here so I can get to the heart wood I'm going to go ahead and make scrapings with the BK7 right off the bat It is feeling not the greatest like it's not making the greatest scrapings But I'll try well. There's a fair amount of scrapings there. I guess after quite a bit of effort on it Now I'm gonna try with my gas grenade. I'll try the same piece of wood just on the other side So let me get these scrapings off so I can compare them after. Oh, they all just fell off. Well, you saw what it looked like. This is working much better. That's the scrapings from the gas grenade. So I guess really for batoning, I would hit the knife or try to get through the wood less times with the BK7. But for the extra effort of one or two swings, it's not a big deal for the gas grenade. Um, the, the scrapings were definitely, uh, better with the gas grenade, which is cool. And the fuzz sticks were both the same. Like I said, a little bit more curls with the heli than with the, with the gas grenade, but it doesn't matter one bit, uh, for what I'm using it for. Um, and I guess that's what I was told when I, when I was researching the, the very convex grind. The maker, uh, Israel Turley of Turley Knives, let me know that it is pretty much a jack of all trades. Does everything you need it to do. doesn't really excel in one area but in my opinion especially with all the questions lately like if you have one knife what would you choose what one knife would you bring the bush all sorts of those those posts in my opinion would have to be the very convex grind it does everything I needed to do and I really like it that being said bring two knives to the bush if you want to it's it's fun we have them you might as well bring them everybody I know has more than one knife, right? So yeah, that's pretty much it. I just wanted to have a little fun, test out the knives. In my opinion, if you're looking for one knife, get a very convex grind. Get something that does it. If not, big deal. You know what I mean? Bring a big knife, bring a small knife, bring ten knives. It doesn't matter. It's just whatever your opinion is. If you are looking for a very convex grind, though, hit up Israel Turley from Turley Knives. He'll make you a pretty damn nice knife. I know I like mine a lot. Well, thanks for watching guys. Hope it wasn't too long this time. Take care