How to use bushcraft knife like a professional?
The professional bushcarfters know about these main skills of using bushcraft knife. Each of these is important you’re your survival within wilderness. Fortunately, they are very easy to understand so, let’s have a look on how to use bushcraft knife by using these skills.
- Fire Starting
Everyone knows the importance of making fire while you are in a wild region. Also, it is lucky to own such beneficial tool of fire steel along with the striker. However, what will happen if you lose your striker? Will you able to use make fire? Don’t worry!
You can use bushcraft knife for making flame. If you are at home, strike your knife with Ferro rod to make flames. But you use that knife for fire making which has carbon blade in it.
- Feather sticks
Feather sticks can initiate the fire when you have got no other source of heat. Have the feather sticks with nice curves and this can be done by slicing the wooden block very thin. You can use your bushcraft knife here so be sure that you have a sharp knife.
- Carving
Other than fire making, you can use your knife for carving too. Use the skill of carving for not only making plates and cutlery but also for improving your bushcrafting skills. Just check this out! There is nothing much fiddly which you will have ever for using your bushcraft knife than the craving your spoon – thus if you want to do this, go for it now.
- Batoning
Batoning is a controversial thing among bushcarfters, which has a related history of destroying knives as there are a lot of forces being acted in a lot of planes. So, it is better to use saw or axe. But, if someone doesn’t have an access to the saw or axe then he has no choice than to use the knife, so it is better to know how to use it.
Batoning involves cutting of solid surface of wood at one end. Put the knife on top of wood and use another wood as baton. hit your knife with baton for cutting your log.
