New Turley Gasconade and 1 stick fire

Hey, I wanted to make a video because I finally got my Turley Gaskin 8 in the mail. It's a sweet knife. I would have had it on the 13th, but my post office is screwy and we won't go into that. But yeah, so some specs on the knife. It is an OD Camo, OD Green Camo G10 scales with black, fat black micarta liners. it's got silver pins and uh i'll post the exact specs when i put this vid up but really nice knife fits great in my hand i got some small hands and uh it has made this perfectly for me it's a solid knife like extremely solid yeah so and the best part about it is fits in my Iowa Woodsman dangler so now i got a sheath from Iowa Woodsman and a knife from this which you can't go wrong for those products that that's for sure so yeah i wanted to uh show the knife some some things that it can do so i'm going to probably do a one stick fire and if i have time i might do a bow drill with it as well um so yeah i am just in the woods today with scout and it's hotter than heck so he's dead he's beat so i found a piece of cottonwood uh an old cottonwood limb laying uh against a cottonwood tree and I carried it here. So that's the piece of wood I'm going to use for my one stick fire and possibly the same piece of wood for the bow drill if I get around to it. I know a lot have been questions lately about what to use for a socket for a bow drill. This is just a piece of cottonwood bark. It got burned a little bit there on the prescribed burns in the prairie. But that's just a piece of cottonwood bark. Take it off the tree and it's almost a frictionless bearing. And like I said if I get around to it I'll show you guys how I do that. Now I know I know most of you guys have seen the one stick fire vids before, basically for anybody who doesn't know, I'm going to use my saw and my knife and this one stick. So I sawed this piece off, I'm not going to use it because it's all mangly and I have a nice straight piece here which I'd rather use. So I'm going to cut probably about there, so maybe 15 inches, I'm going to cut there and I'll be right back. Okay so I cut that piece off and actually the piece that I said I wasn't going to use, I'm gonna use as a baton to split the wood with with my gas grenade through pretty easily as you can see That's some pretty seasoned Seasoned cottonwood. It's quite hard on the inside. Actually, I can't really mark it too much with my fingernail So I baton that in half now I'm gonna continue to baton smaller smaller pieces and then make some feather sticks Oh this knife makes some beautiful fuzz sticks or feather sticks who'd have thought a convex could do that I don't know if my technique is different than other people's seems to me a lot of people use the This half of the blade to do the feather sticks with I could be wrong But I think that's what they do and I tend to use the the base of the blade more more often than not Could be wrong though. So that's some nice curls. I'd say alright, so That stick was was horrible to split it kept breaking off little Like halfway through or whatever, but I managed to break up some some pieces that I think are suitable um there's my scrapings on a leaf my couple feather sticks and a bunch of just shavings that i'm gonna pile on um so yeah i believe that this will work i think i did enough uh preparation okay so i've got all my kindling ready there we go and took her i don't think i have enough scrapings there we go yeah that's uh that's the one stick fire with my new gas grenade it did the job very well I especially liked the ease that it baton through the hardwood and in the making and in making the the shavings it really performed well I'm not worried about dulling the edge whereas a Scandi I would be the scrapings I'm sorry that's the word I was looking for when I was using my Scandi I was always worried about dulling the edge making the scrapings but uh so it's like held up very well and uh strike the back of the fire or the back strikes the fire steel very well as well so i don't think i'm going to put the bow drill video on this one i'll probably do a separate video because this is running kind of long but uh yeah i just want to put the knife through its through its tests you know what i mean so that uh so i can give is a hard time if it fails on me which isn't going to happen i know that all right guys thanks for watching