Hello there welcome to Vinniesdayoff
Today we're looking at this knife
This is the British Army folding knife
And we're going to try this out. See how it works out
As you know, I normally build a shelter to try out these knives
But that takes a great deal of time and a great deal of work
That's something that's not shown in a lot of YouTube videos, and it's something I'm going to discuss in a future video
I'm going to build maybe one more shelter just to get my ducks in a row and then we're going to discuss something like that
So today, we're going to make a field expedient bow to try out this knife and see see how good it is
I'll give you a quick close-up, and we will get to work, okay?
The sun has just popped behind some clouds guys
We might be getting a shower
Anyway, this is the British Army folding knife close-up. It has a rather large can opener
Now this does a very crude job of opening cans, I might show you that later. It has one good strong cutting blade
and It has a Marlin spike for
undoing knots
It's certainly a no frills knife it's rough and ready
But it's a good workman like folding knife
so enough jibber-jabber
Let's go pick out a piece of hazel and build a bow with this knife, okay?
Okay, so I picked out a nice hazel  sapling that I think would make a nice bow
But, while I was looking at it it has snapped away from the root stock, this sometimes happens
So we won't have any big job of cutting it
While there's an awful lot of hazel here, there's not that much weapons-grade hazel
So this is a nice a nice smooth piece
without any horrible knots
So hopefully this will work out for us
Okay, so we need to reduce it now to the proper length so we need to cut it here
Leave the knife there
Okay, we need to take it off. I think about here roughly
Now we need to find somewhere to wedge this so we can bend it a bit and break it off
Okay, let's try this one
Now
Dyson, my dog is chasing a hare
Okay, we need to make a few more cuts here
He will be back soon
This knife is fairly severe on your hands without gloves. I tell you that
It cuts well
Right
Should make a handy little bow for us
Okay, guys, so I found here a convenient stump, so we're going to start reducing this to
the proper size, proper dimensions I
Now I can see it has a bit of a bit of a kick forward that way, a bit of a recurve
so we're going to leave that as the,
The forward section, or in archery terms, the back of the bow
Bloody rain has arrived
Okay, so we need to reduce the back of it
The back of the bow or the portion that faces away
is not going to be touched I'm going to leave that completely alone
But I'll remove material from the sides and from the back here or the belly and as  it is properly known
Okay
Just make sure
So this this portion needs material taken off
And both sides as well
Dyson's come back. He was trailing a hare. That's why I was whistling at him
Thus far it seems to be fairly powerful knife. I'm liking it for this work anyway
Music by my daughter Aoife
Can anyone spot the proud dad?
Okay guys, I hope you can see this
I did say  this knife would be hard on your hands
Maybe it's not so obvious now, but I have a little, nice little blister there already even though I've been using gloves
So this this sharp heel here portion is quite hard on your hands
Ok guys so we brought you in a little closer, so we have
The bow is starting to flex now a bit
It's still bit overpowered
So we're making a bit of progress
As I say the British Army knife it seems to be holding edge, and it's seems to be cutting well
Okay, so we're flexing pretty well
but I'd like to get the best out of this that I can so I'm going to take it home to my garage and I'm
going to tiller it back there
Okay, so let's head back there
Right, so we're back home at the garage guys, and I've got the bow here
with a loose string and I have it on my fairly basic tiller
and I can see I have a lot of work to do, It's not bending here at all
and there's a slight twist over there. This is not meant to be a work of bow making art
This is just a quick bow that you would make with a folding knife, a field expedient bow, okay
and the whole purpose of it is to test out the British Army knife
So I need to take a lot here, I need to still take a fair bit here
As we get closer, I'll have to scrape with the knife, but for the moment I can still whittle, whittle away of some of this
This is a good knife, a good piece of steel, I think
But it's the most uncomfortable knife to work with, I have a blister even though, I have gloves on and it's it's a...
I'm feeling it pretty good in my palms there now
It's a good cutting knife
It's nearly good enough for just a, for a field expedient bow to chuck arrows, so it is, damn nearly good enough
Well guys I  finished the bow
As I say, it's not a work of art, it's a field expedient Bow, and I've made up a few arrows for it as well
So I've come out to do a bit of hunting
And today we're hunting the vicious Irish pumpkin
And this is the sort of habitat they live in
They are vicious brute and a dangerous quarry to hunt
So hopefully we'll be able to put one down with this
Let's have a look
Okay guys, I've spotted one, now I have to take the shot
Yes, we got him
There you have it an excellent pumpkin hunting bow
So anyway, as I said all of this was just a test of this knife
Blade wise and steel wise I would, I would say it's a pretty good knife
Now these were made by many different makers. I don't know if they all used the same blade or if they made their own blades
But a good blade
But man oh man it is one uncomfortable knife to use
Can you see that as I say that's,
That blister is, it's quite tender and that was with gloves on
So it's a it's a most uncomfortable handle in my opinion
But an interesting knife?
Anyway guys. Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. Bye. Bye
