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- Let’s refresh a few things: handle shapes, sharpening, and lightweight fixed blades. Plus, we’ll cover how to remove blade coatings, edge retention for cutting flour sacks, and the best tactical option for turkeys.
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0:00 Intro
0:44 Handle Shapes Explained
5:38 Getting Into Knife Sharpening
10:32 Removing Blade Coatings
13:37 Lightweight Backpacking Fixed Blades
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15:57 Tactical Turkey Carving
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Handles also have "grinds." Contoured, smooth, blocky/squared off, rounded, finger grooves, pinch points, etc.
A lot of medieval daggers are named after the shape of their handles and guards. For instance, the roundel dagger (has round disk guards) and the bollocks dagger (I'll let you guess what it's shaped like...).
Canned food?
@@lifespanofafry1534 Only if it's canned 🍆
@@Regolith86 BREAD?!?!
My favorite fixed blade handle shape is the coke bottle shape
I use my Buck 110 from 1972 to carve the Turkey every year since then. It is a family tradition.
I can think of few people with more credibility on knife basics than DCA. Thank you sir.
Thank you very much for answering both of my questions. Have a great time good Sir.
If you do strip off the coating under the handle scales you can simply apply frog lube and then put your scales back on, or get yourself a can of top coat and spray it over the handle area and then put your scales back on
1) Love to see traditionals getting some air time. So much knife heritage still influencing modern blades. 2) I've also had good success stripping painted/coated blades with gel paint stripper. Fully cover for at least 30 mins then scrape. May take more than one go. Remember to fully rinse when done as paint stripper does bad stuff on some surfaces (esp. handles & sheaths). A few unwanted drops can ruin your handles real quick. 3) My goto sheepsfoot bag opener is the Spyderco Rescue - ergos may not suit extended use - but worth a look. Sharp blades all.
You hear people say coke bottle quite often when describing certain fixed blade handles.
Yeah the Benchmade Steep Country is a great lightweight fixed blade. Love mine!
I have carved a turkey with my Kershaw Strata XL. Pointy, sharp with a nice long thin blade, it worked great.
When DCA said I digest instead of I digress I laughed out loud!
The work sharp precision adjust is a good system to start with.
I liked the sharpening device and short demo of it!
I've used, carried, and recommended other Moras for hiking and camping, but the Kansbol is the king of lightweight backpacking fixed blades. The versatility, utility, packability, carryability, comfortability (apparently that's a word now), and easy-on-the-wallet-ility (why not?) are all off the charts.
it performs very bifurcably
@@jimcarlson6157 😅
Okay. I get it now. In order for our questions to be answered we have to refer to David as “good sir”! Ha!
Always enjoy these even when the weeds get thick.
Will we ever see Thomas appear in a cameo in one of your videos, good sir?
I'm loving watching Knife Center videos and DCA! This is Cutlery Corner on steroids! Good presentation but also on better, better knives!
"I digest" I thought it was hilarious. I make terrible jokes like that while teaching rooms full of police and all I get is crickets. Know that I will always laugh for you buddy! Keep it up!
I was thrilled to hear you use one of my old malapropisms. 👍
The coffin handle was the very first thing that came to my mind when I heard the first question. I wonder if there are more folders or fixed blades with "named handles"...?
5:20 Another handle shape is on a Doctor's Knife. Rectangular with a slight flare on one end, squared off so a doctor could crush a pill. It's notable for being a handle shape with a functional purpose other than just ergonomics.
Case used to have a good line of doctor's knives, but I think it's discontinued. I see Buck versions on KC, haven't used them but they look similar.
Then there's also a doctors knife like the ones that have a finger hold to choke up on for even more precision. They were largely used before scalpels were widely available, very nice knives too
The funny thing about modern knives is that the whole game in the industry today is to create unique-looking products, which more often than not translates to unique handle shapes. So coming up with names for modern knife handles would be next to impossible, unless you just referred to the handle shape by the model name (Para 3, Bugout, ESEE 4, etc.).
Hey DCA - Great job as always. Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to you and the whole KC Team!
You’re totally right DCA about electric sharpeners I ruined a couple of cheap folders on the Ken onion system but it’s a learning curve, take things nice and slow too you don’t wanna ruin the temper of any steel but it’s a fantastic system for repairing tips just keep water on standby to keep it cool and it’ll be fine. For beginners in sharpening too I would go with a manual benchstone, spyderco sharp maker or any clamp system lansky or the precision adjust from work sharp would work wonders
I learned to sharpen on a KO WS with the blade grinder but I did so on kitchen knives for friends, family and even restaurants where I did kitchen equipment service in my previous life. I sharpened a thousand knives before I felt truly comfortable. Now I’ve done 3000+ and I’ll sharpen anything without concern and then knock off the microburr on a diamond paste strop.
Totally agree people should learn to raise and feel the burr etc on a manual system (I tend to recommend the precision adjust, I’ve used one and it’s a great kit for the money, puts an edge that’s plenty good enough unless you want something super polished for certain types of cutting. Doesn’t feel
super premium but for the money… it’d a good value). I’m glad I use a belt system, much simpler and I can do it while removing the absolute minimum material but much harder than a guided system (especially the side where you hold with your non-dominant hand)
There may be many more iconic- named-knives that have come to be associated with specific handle shapes/styles in part, but also including their multiple-blade configurations, and blade shapes. The first thing the leaped into my mind was the so-called "Boy Scout Jack-Knife." I'm willing to bet that was the very first pocket knife ever owned my many of your oldest viewers. However there are many variations of those as well. In my own case, I owned a "Lone Ranger" knife even before that, which was the first knife I cut my own finger with, just days after I first got it, and against my mother's permission. "Lessons Learned" should be a separate iconic knife category of it's own!
Have you made a video regarding Utility blade/knife alternatives to use on jobsite/work environments? Something with a great blade shape for cutting cardboard & heavy duty plastic cargo & pallet straps? The Cold Steel Tuff Lite is one obvious choice that comes to mind, but this seems like it would make a great video topic. Thanks!
Love the new all black CRKT Ritual...
My favorite slipjoint pattern is the sunfish/elephant toe. Laid one out for tomorrow's edc.
As far as traditional pocket knife shapes, there's always the Barlow, too.
And the Espada XL would be better for the bird carving, IMO.
Handle shapes: coke bottle and Kepart (analogous to broom handle).
Classic Barlow shape is my favorite.
For the guy opening bags of flour at the family business… I’d go with a utility knife and use replaceable blades.
Or get the ad 20.5 rebladed
Saddlehorn trapper, my favorite...
MKM Makro or Mikro are good fixed blade options for backpacking. Skeletonized they are very lightweight. (also, nothing wrong with recommendations here, just a lot heavier for backpacking)
For the fella asking about edge retention, I'm surprised you didn't say Spyderco K390 models you have several of. K390 is King! LOL!
I looooove my K390 Delica, but he mentioned finger safe as a desire, so lockbacks are out. -DCA
Knife Steel Nerds did a comprehensive study on knives sharpened on various types of belts including the Work Sharp. Without exception every blade that was dry ground did not cut in the CATRA test as many cards as it did hand or wet sharpened, no exceptions. Knife edges are easily overheated during powered grinding due to the small volume of the edge and the friction buildup from grinding. This softens the edge and worsens edge retention and unless you use like I do a water cooled belt or hand sharpen, your edge will be re-tempered even if it's only one or two thousandths of an inch deep.
There were no exceptions except M4 which is a hot hardness steel used in machine cutting bits at red hot temperatures.
I use my 1x42 belt grinder with silicon oxide belts and a fine mist of water to sharpen knives. I finish them by hand, but in the shape I get some knives to sharpen I'm not spending 30 minutes getting an edge on a knife that hadn't been sharpened in years, I'm wet grinding them to 600 grit then a quick finish by hand and I'm done. Unless you carve wood or cut leather you most likely only need a 600 to 800 grit "butcher's edge" finish.
The Case vault release in 2022, the swell center Jack 25 1/2, many people used to call it a coke bottle knife because it looked like the profile of an old glass coke bottle.
On the subject of handle shapes, how about the LAGUIOLE BOTTINE looks like a boot, another example.
BTW, I enjoy your videos, very informative and at times adding some humor makes them fun.
Cheers from Down Under Australia.
I have only seen the green Kansbol!
Ravioli man get Spyderco with k390 ,My son uses one o cardboard and nylon straps it’s he loves it and hasn’t had to sharpen yet
For Turkey I also would put the Spyderco Sprintrun Massad Ayoob in the ring. Very tactical blade to grip angle and superior edge retention, Seeet reissued Seki made Classic.
Thanks guys, always a pleasure..and happy Thanksgiving!
If the asker of the lighting round question is doing lightweight backpacking then I recommend the Mora companion Spark
Id like to ask my question again: thinking about a tool set, if you were going to put together a nessmuk trio, perhaps one traditional one and one modern one, what would they look like? Thanks!
I love the videos and have learned a lot from you guys! I have a sharpening question for you. How do blade geometry and steel type influence your choice of sharpening angle?
You finally missed a question. I believe that the CS Luzon XL would be a much better choice. Or the giant Espada. You do great stuff. Thanx.
The most common shape handle name you did not mention is the Coke bottle shape. There’s also a Dog leg shape that I consider a variation on the Coke bottle shape that is probably my favorite. Great video.
Ahh!! I see it has once again, been gotten into 👌🏻
DCA, I recently read an article about a surgeon in Antarctica performing an appendectomy upon himself in 1961. In the (hopefully) unlikely event that you had to perform self-surgery, which EDC folder would you prefer to be carrying at the time?
Something with a thin, thinly ground, narrow, and razor sharp blade -DCA
I suggest The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening by John Juranitch.
Case used to have cigar whittler knives and I’ve heard people refer to basic Swiss Army knives as cigar shapes
Hey, guys i have 3 questions this time feel free to pick between them. 1. I have been looking into potential Knifes/Machetes to pick up for a survival situation. would you recommend any in particular? im hoping to carry a separate knife so a longer machete would be perfectly fine. 2. would you recommend either of cold steel's bowie machetes as a main servival implement and if so which would you prefer? 3. and would you recommend the cold steel Dropped Forged Bowie for a survival/bushcraft scenario or would the Dropped Forged Survivalist be a better option?
Just started watching this show. Love it. Purchased a couple knives. Question, I don't see any KnifeCenter videos on oiling a folder. Did I just not look well enough? I was thinking a gun oil should be fine.
Lots of folks use gun oil. I'm partial to food-safe mineral oil personally. Cheers! -DCA
Slips are down my alley, as being older than the stoneage ;)
HELL yeah! They still haven't gone away, right??
@@ssunfish No, some old farts are around still :)
Greetings DCA from Canada. Longtime subscriber, love the content.
I’m looking for your recommendations for my 10 year old son’s scouting knives. He’s been using one of my Benchmade 940’s, but I want to get him his own combo of fixed blade and multi-function pocket knife. Some specific criteria are that the blades need to be sub 10cm and he needs a wood saw included. I’m not really worried about price. Thanks in advance.
Leatherman. Choose what will serve you best. I like the Wave+ and the Skeletool.
what a good fishing/ bushcaft knife i am looking for one for my tackel box
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I removed coating from Becker BK16 2 days ago, chek out my video on it. Used "Body 700" paint remover. Available in Europe.
Does that CRKT have bearings or washers in the pivot, and which would work better with turkey grease?
Part 1 - bearings... Part 2 - washers... DCA
Hey DCA love the show. Quick question. I have a para3 lightweight and love it. My only issue is I don’t care for a deep carry pocket clip. Are there any options for a non deep carry clip out there? Thanks and keep up the great work!
I'm looking for a narrow folding tanto for left hand carry in the same pocket as my phone. Something about the size of the crkt ceo would probably work very well. Price range preferably sub $250. I was honestly thinking of reprofiling a ceo to see if it would suit my needs, but I've never tried reprofiling before and it might end up shorter than I prefer.
Bradford Sheepsfoot Guardian 3 is a good fixed blade for ravioli man.
What's the best way to sharpen a convex grind with no secondary bevel?
I use a DMT diamond stone like a 10" x 3"
A bit of a steel nerd for several years. Could you talk about the heat treat... and difference you see with in the 50 dollar flipper D2 situation?
I have a no name $20 d2 knife that rivals if not surpasses my bencmade prisidio2.. blade geo/thickness almost identical
Would like to see a review on the new buck 150 hookset cleaver. Presently I have not sean any reviews.
Thanks steve
Acetone or turpentine type paint removers work.
Hei DCA
Can you recall of a pocket knife that’s one-hand-opening but nut locking?
I modified my delica and hold out ||| to make it possible. Would like one that is designed and built like that from the factory!! 😉
The good old coffin handle bowie also
Great video
Please D.C.A.. what knives have the best lateral strength (light prying)???
Only include folders please, that YOU would actually edc. Love your content!!.
I m a welder. My mora comp. HD is a small crowbar.. however I d like to have a folder for this... Maybe cut down on how many knives I carry haha
Kershaw Barge.
hey Dave, is there a blade steel tough enough to carve the steak my partner served yesterday?
I love a fixed blade with a "coke bottle" shaped handle.
This is an honest question.
We hear a lot about how D2 steel can be a challenge to sharpen. Is it any more challenging than any of the super steals that we so readily buy?
Not really, it takes a little more work than vg-10 in my experience but nothing like m390 or anything like that.
Canoe or Peanut is just stellar :)
I like a nice Barlow knife to 🙂👍
Coffin is a commonly referred to shape
Hello DCA, my name is Vladi and I'm a huge fan all the way from Israel.
Our knife carry laws are very similar to the UK, my question is if you can recommend a good non locking budget knife (preferably under 50$ and a tanto blade).
Can you make a new video for best budget knives.
Is Santa Claus' Jingle Blades fixed or folding? What is a flipper's favorite music? Bali-songs naturally.
Hi DCA. A question : You have to pick knives for the following movie scenes : 1. The shower scene from Psycho. 2. Stabbing Luka Brazi's hand in The Godfather , and 3. Aldo the Apache carving the swastika on col. Landa. What knife will it be for each scene ?
Hey DCA what is the best knife for zombie apocalypse since black friday is coming up I believe lots of people would find it useful. thank you!
Is forming a burr during sharpening critical - or is it just the most practical way to know you've sharpened all the way to the edge?
I.e. if, instead of sharpening on one side until you form a burr, you alternated sides for every stroke and... used a microscope or something to make sure you reached the edge - would the resulting edge be just as sharp? I basically want to know if the burr is doing something or if it's just an indicator of when it's time to switch sides.
Hey DCA. I am looking for a knife that can attach to a pdf for going canoeing and camping. Would like a downwards draw so the sheath needs to be secure. Also a steel that doesn't rust. On the portages, it would then need to convert to appendix carry or scout carry. Thanks and am interested what you would come up with. Cheers
Barlow
Handle name, but great knife type!
I think you had a big miss by not suggesting any White River Knives for the backpacking question
Please answer this question in a future video: I have an electric sharpener, the Chef's Choice Diamond Hone Sharpener 320, and I was wondering, with knives with different grinds, like my Morakniv vs. my Kershaw 1660 vs. my CRKT SPEW vs. my Esse 4, will the electric sharpener make them all have the same grind, or will it damage some of them, or is it fine to use with all of them? Also, how do I know what the grind is of for example the Kershaw 1660? I can't find that info anywhere.
Dca! Beat the Icon with the Cold Steel American Lawman
best EDC size double edge dagger with sheath that can be carried horizontally?
Hey there, DCA & gang. In an effort to thumb my nose at the disposable razor companies, I took up straight razor shaving a few years ago. Weighing my options at the time, I decided to go with a restored vintage blade and it's been a rewarding venture. It now feels like time to upgrade and I'm considering a brand new blade; can you please show off some recommendable KC straights? I'm curious to compare what I know about vintage steel versus more contemporary innovations. Thanks!
Good luck with that. I tried a straight razor one time, and made myself so nervous that I never tried it again,and I’m fearless.
I have a strait from around the end of ww2 that has shaven the faces of my grandfather,dad and myself. I haven't found any modern razors that can stand up to it.
turpentine Is what is in paint stripper
For handle types: finger groove?
What are your thoughts on Ozark tail knives
I remember my dad stropping on a plain piece of cardboard or the rubber of his shoe. Are these just as good and free
Turducken carving video next episode! Haha
So call me crazy but I actually carry my 4max scout. It fits my giant banana hands but not every knife task appropriately. What would you pair with T-Rex skinner?
Speaking of handles I'm looking for a thick three finger handle fixed blade about 2 in drop point or clip D2 or 14c28 or similar thanks
Is there a variant to the spyderco dragonfly that has a 4 and a half finger grip, it could be from spyderco, how about another brand?
Question for yall. I have been looking for a modern slip joint, preferably titanium or another metal scales, but if not that's not too important.
Some that interested me were the benchmade proper and the jack knives line. Looking for something 2"-4", and
Maybe the ANV (Acta Non Verba) Z050. It has anodised aluminium scales and really cool super deep carry wire pocket clip. Very retro-futuristic design, made in the Czech Republic. KnifeCenter has them for about $87-95 depending on blade finish/steel. For titanium, Lionsteel also has titanium handles for the CK01 family called the Slim variant. Perhaps a bit above your budget though. If you're ok with non metal handles, perhaps Cold Steel Lucky. Carbon fibre scales and CPM S35VN blades (one plain, one serrated) and a pocket clip, and made in Italy. Costs about $60-75.I absolutely love mine.
Gotta love those weeds!🤣🤣🤣
So my brother had never carried a knife before and I want to get him one for Christmas, are there any elegant and safe beginners knives that you recommend?