Stone Knives for Beginners and EDC

hey guys Rangel herewith hunt primitive and today we're going to do kind of a stone knives for beginners video and also our stone knives good for EDC everyday carry so I do get a lot of people that see my stone knives that we make and use here at hunt primitive they asked if you can actually use them and absolutely they are a hundred percent for use but I'd also have a lot of questions as to how to properly use them how to sharpen them what can they do can we baton with them can you chop with them all kinds of stuff like that so we're gonna go into this video and even if you know quite a bit about stone knives there's probably a few little pearls of information in here to help you guys out as well but mostly this video is targeted at people this is their introduction to stone knives so one of the very first things that you have to remember about the stone knives is that they are made of stone and so stone especially Napa Bowl stones are very glass like to some degree so you're talking about obsidian which is what this is is a volcanic glass so this is a glass and it's going to act just like glass so if you've ever had a sheet of glass you know how easily if you pry it it's gonna snap but it's a very very strong long ways like this so if you put your pressure down like this on it then it's actually quite strong but if you try to pry with it it'll snap in a second and so now something like this which is chert and with Flint this a lot of people know if I is a little less glass like a little bit more stone like but it's still very very slick a very very sharp stone but it too will also snap and so when we're using these again we can't really hit with them it's like hitting with a piece of glass essentially so we're can't we can't baton yeah when you have to think about primitive man using stuff like this it was very very effective for thousands and thousands and thousands of years but the tools that we're using for chopping weren't these ones right here so one of the other concerns would say having a stone knife is if you say you have a sheath for it and even if you wear it on your hip remember a primitive man weren't jumping up into the cab of the jacked-up pickup truck and so if you wear this on your hip and you forgot that you had it on and you sit on it you never sit on your pocketknife a little bit you're like oops and you just readjust it POW it'll snap right in half so stone knives are not necessarily good for modern-day everyday carry because of that people are very much used to stone steel knives and how you can abuse them over and over and over and so we have to put ourselves back in the mindset of primitive man when we're using a stone knife and say it is a it is a very delicate tool but it's also a very effective tool and it doesn't break that easily I've gone through I've been using this same way it's worn down quite a bit on the sides and we'll get to that I've been using this one for well over a year now and I have been sawing bone and antler and wood with it and I mean really abusing it and then re sharpening it over and over and over but because we use it correctly we don't pry with it we don't chop with it we don't bang with it we don't you know twist and torque with it this is it's more of a sawing motion or you know a cutting motion and that's how these things are best used and you can use them for your everyday tasks if you want you can open boxes with them and packages and what-have-you and like I said I've run mine with stone and bone I mean we're cutting bones with with rock knives just like these so now when it comes to resharpening this one obviously is brand-new and then this is one that I've been using for like I said well over a year now so when they're new they start off more like this well when the edge does get depleted which it doesn't deplete that fast if you are using it on you know softer materials but when you start cutting wood and bone with it obviously that is when the edge does the plea and it's a different type of edge you know it's not a straight slick edge like you would see on a steel knife where you know you have this one solid razor blade I mean we're looking at an apt edge that's the way you make stone sharp is to Nach nap it and it has to have some degree of serrations and I usually like a pretty good amount of serrations especially for cutting flesh and then when you start running into cutting bone and antler wood or whatever you can see a lot of the serrations getting knocked down a little bit smaller but it's very much like a saw so that's what removes the material so over a period of time when it does fall out it does need a resharpen well you can't resharpen it with your modern yo you know grinding and sharpening stone techniques the only way to sharpen an apt knife is to remove chips of flakes and I will show you this here in a minute off one side or both sides of the blade and that gives it a fresh broken edge and then gives you another new fresh cutting edge to start using again and it'll last for quite a while depending on what you're using it on and so to sharpen that you can either go the more modern route with a copper flaker or if you want to go the real primitive route you go with a deer antler flaker that's it right here on our lap like this I'll show you one on each side the deer antler flaker and then also the copper flaker so we'll lead off with the antler flaker it's a little bit tougher to do it's not too bad but essentially you're gonna have to understand some of the the basic mechanics of flint knapping where you're looking at little platforms and that's where you're gonna remove a new flake so when you find one of these plates actually what you really want to do is set it to where the blade is secure if you start with torquing on the half that's when you could potentially break the half loose especially when you're up here trying to remove a flake you could even potentially snap the knife blade off so you set it up to where the handle is free but the blade is very well supported on your leg and then you take these little tiny chip flakes and here those coming off and you don't want it to go you want it to go tick so if it's that means it's grinding and it's not gonna give you a very sharp edge you can sharpen it some and it will grind a tiny bit but here we get one click is really what we want and we're doing this the distance of fall apart is about the same distance as the width of the tip of our flaker and so you can see it removes these little tiny Flint chips just like that and that exposes a new fresh edge and that's what makes a stone knife sharp so for many thousands of years before the advent of metal this would have been the best knife you could put your hands on and we still use them a lot and if you follow along with my channel we do a lot of work with stone knives okay so this side now you don't have to sharpen both sides sometimes you may want to flip it over and you find another platform and it's be careful obviously if you do it one way like that you can remove those ones and now we've got a new sharpened edge that's pretty sharp compared to the other side and that would be great again for sawing anything that we need to saw through or even cutting flush so now we'll go ahead and we'll nap the other side using the copper flaker you'll see it comes off just a little bit easier so if you're brand new to it I do recommend picking up a copper flaker and you can get all this stuff too whether you want to watch my video on how to make this yourself make your own stone knife which is another video that you should be able to find in my stone edge series playlist or here on my channel could link it down in the description as well for you or if you do have a lot of interests working with a stone knife and learning about it you can pick them up on my website pug primitive comm and of course that'll be linked down in the description as well you can see the copper flaker which would you can find these under flint knapping tools section they remove flakes very very easily a little bit easier than the deer antler does again we're trying not to grind we just want one click and there you go so now it's sharp so we didn't remove a ton of material so it's not like we went from this great big blade we sharpened it once and now all the sudden it looks like this it's it's over time and this knife has been sharpened probably well over a dozen times already probably maybe even more than that and that's because I've been using it very very hard on wood bone and antler but you have this one that I carry around in my quiver and I use it on flesh you know cutting animals up and skinning and I don't think I've ever reach our pin this we can we just clean it off and it's ready to go again for the next time so depending on how you use it the blades can last for a very long time but do please go check them out if you would like to on my website hunt primitive calm and then if you want to learn a little bit more and maybe how to make one yourself check out the video that's done in the description

Channel: HuntPrimitive

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Keywords: Stone knives for beginners, how to use stone knives, how to make ston eknives, how to make stone knives, stone knife, how to use a stone knife, flint knife for beginners, flint knives

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Length: 9min 30sec (570 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 09 2020