Magical isn't it, he ignited a fire in me. Love his books but there's nothing like watching the boss at work is there 👊

Spot on.

Ray Mears couldn't survive in a tescos.

@@thegingerpowerranger lol

@@thegingerpowerranger That was what Lofty said to his wife!

@@boffingeorge I know. I still laugh at it. Cheeky Focker that lofty!

I thought he cut the window in half to demonstrate how sharp the knife is

Deeno if you want a set of sharpeners on a budget, a good tip is to get some emery paper (used for car bodywork repairs etc) in different grits and glue it to some strips of plywood. I've found it's giving me much better results on flat grinds. I managed to scrounge everything except the glue. Also, get outside whenever you can mate. Even just a walk in the local woods or park. Whenever my head is doing me in, it always helps to get outside and away from everything.

Budget is a budget, make the best situations with the gear you've got, but go out and enjoy. We've all had or bought crappy gear at some point, but you learn how to use it to its best potential, when the opportunity arises, you'll up grade, that's when you sell your kit on to someone who's in the situation you were in 1,2, 5, 10years ago.

Dragonfly wings do work great but try wet frog skin. Wet frog skin will give it that extra extra extra perfect perfect perfect edge that will make your knife illegal to carry.

Ahh, the frog skin gives it a nice finish. However, a little trick I learned to give it that extra added sharpness is to wave the knife through the air - just a few centuries, and the edge is perfectly sharp for your carving. You can also just simply repeat the process after that one first slice brings down the edge again.

Waving your knife through the air is a good way to give your knife an extra extra extra extra, perfect perfect perfect perfect edge, but have you have tried waving your knife through the vacuum of space? The grit in the vacuum is so fine, that it will give you that extra extra extra extra extra, perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect edge that will give your knife the ability to cut through the molecules of whatever the blade touches.

Aaron Stevens Yeah, did that once; cut myself in 4,5 parallel universes - never again. But you’re right, vacuum grit whetstone is the bomb.

@@aaroncarapace8054 I think you have skills, but if you were a true master, you would blow cigarette smoke in front of you before doing that. Just saying

faultroy In order to truly sharpen your knife you must first use 5 different stones. In order to find 2 of them, you have to travel to the magical world of Narnia, and one is hidden in the astral realm. Once you have collected the stones, you must also find a whale-glass elephant toothpick in order to make the edge even finer. Once you are done with that, you can use some diamonds disk-shaped diamond grindstones for a reflective finish and rhinoceros heart balsam for a stainless coating. Or you can just, I don't know, rub it on a rock or something.

Close, I believe you mean leg end

The video isnt titled how to sharpen a knife using minimal kit on the edge of Everest. 'Base Camp' for Ray Mears and many others basically means home, or your 'civilisation' away from home, you have access to tools and materials you wouldn't have access to on an expedition, . But you carry your puck of grit and enjoy your shitty working edge, hope your knife edge rolls and when you get your arm trapped behind a bolder for 3 days youll be begging you had some waterstones so you dont have to tear your arm off.

You sound like a joke yourself 3 decades of training to sharpen knives lol well at least I can agree Ray Mears is the best in my eye but to degrade Canadian bushcraft like it's nothing demonstrates your idiocy. It ain't cold in the UK like it is here in Canada where we use Swedish knives.. but go figure

He specifically says "at home or expedition base camp"

your belt, and your Land Rover :-D

but the title is very misleading

says nothing about home in the tittle misleading whatever on to something useful

365 Survivalist your very lucky then seeing as it’s a 12 plus year waiting list just to get one and the original maker Alan wood died that is the most sought after

You are luck as Ray's knives are very very very sought after

@@kaltonian Thanks for the reply. Back then it was alot of money for me to spend,..Half my mortgage monthly payment. I do feel very privileged and lucky that I chose Ray over lofty Wiseman.

@@americanpatriot3667 Really!!!! I did not know that. WOW I suppose that would affect the price. But like I said before, it's not the value of the knife, but the memories of back then on that course with only about 7 of us, being taught by the man himself.👍🏻👍🏻

365 Survivalist most definitely we’ll said

_"The evil force emanating from him destroys everything in its path,"_ ... while simultaneously sharpening all blades nearby in a 10km radius, to +70 sharpness.

auto sharpen aura wtf, this cracked me up

Jordan V this band of hobbits, do you speak of the DBK Boys?

No.. You pay the Dragon to heat treat it. Adds an extra $300.00 to the cost..Heat treated with Dragon Fire!

The OCD is the counting...

...and a brand new knife, Ray Mears and skill and expertise in the same sentence.

Kim Jong Il If you are Kim Jong Il, you could've gotten your minions to do it for you :)

thoughts on the below.. James Ritchie James Ritchie 2 years ago The windshield of your car, and that ceramic rod, is not stropping. That's honing, and useless on an already sharp knife. Stropping means removing the burr and polishing. Honing means straightening microscopic bent places on the edge that have been bent through hard use. You can actually shorten the life pf a blade by honing when you should be stropping. Honing rips off a burr. Stropping polishes the burr off. Honing of for bent places on the edge, and does not remove them, it merely straightens them. It's amazing how many on KZfaq, including Dave Canterbury, who don't know the difference between honing and stropping. They are NOT the same thing, and doing one when you should be doing the other really can shorten the life of any knife that's used very often because you'll have to sharpen that knife far more often. Anyway, it's impossible to hone a knife you just sharpened because there are no bent edges to straighten, and using a rod, o honing steel, or the windshield of your car, just scratches an already straight edge. Stropping, whether with leather or sandpaper, polishes the edge, and helps a knife you just sharpened, as long as you don't overdo it.

As an avid knife user, I find the scandi grind far more problematic to maintain and sharpen. When you get a knick, it requires far more material be removed to repair, and also, since the scandi grind provides such a fine fragile edge, it gets damaged far faster than say, a convex grind.

fucking lost it XD

XD

lmao, only read the first one and then spent 5min trying to figure out what canned wifebeater was on google

hahaha a yes... the legendary Stella Lager, the cause of half the domestic abuse calls the British police get. Cant be beat (unlike their spouses apparently)

Excellent! If youre drinking beer, that means you are preparing to survive!

ed stafford

ed stafford took a challenge, Ray is the challenge an expert in all conditions.

They are both good in their own right imho. Ray is the finished bushcraft article, there is probably nothing in the art of bushcraft he doesn't know as well as knowing an impeccable level of history in the art as well as making it look effortlessly easy when it is not. Whereas Bear is a different beast, he is the survivalist who prefers to teach via the trial of being stranded and in complete desperation type of situation, he will do what ever it takes to survive while only carrying nothing but the absolute basics, the basics always being in the form of a daypack, water bottle, metal cup, paracord, fire steel and a sturdy knife. As well as the odd extras he finds on the way. I enjoy both, but to be fair, I feel I learn more from the calm, slower pace of Ray. I wish both were my scout master's as a kid.

05Rudey tbf ed stafford deserves some recognition

I didn't mention him to be disrespectful, it's just that i haven't seen much of his stuff or know what he is all about but to be honest. I have heard a lot about him. So might pull up a few of his episodes on KZfaq to see what he is like.

Survival minimalist :)

😂

Confirmed! That's how I've always done it. Plank of wood, cement bench, glass top table it's all the same, one wet towel between is all you need. Never had a stone slip on me yet.

It's interesting to see how Ray prefers a scandi grind, while other bushcrafters (with definitely less actual survival experience than Ray) often prefer convex or even hollow saber grinds. Personally I love scandi and it's variations for bushcrafting/woodworking. The maintenance too is very low IQ because 95% of all maintenance of your edge can be done on strops with or without stropping compounds. I made a double sided paddle strop with the fine side of the leather on top, roughed up a bit with 800 grit sandpaper and loaded with grit 5000 and 7000 compound. My edges are absolutely polished to perfection. Whetstones is only for really dull, really crooked or chipped blades. Or when you want to change the grind angle on your knife. EDIT: thinking about Ray's technique is interesting because he uses a non-stabilized strop (leather belt) that effectively rolls the edge around a little. It makes it a bit more of a convex micro-bevel but it also removes some of the absolute sharpness of a full scandi. The honing on the car window (comparable to honing on a ceramic honing rod/stone) doesn't conform to the form of the bevel like the flexible leather does, so that allows Ray to re-adjust the micro-micro bevel to a level of sharpness that I think he missed after the leather belt stropping. I must try this extra glass honing step after my next round of sharpening my scandi ground bushcrafting blades.

@@Dirkietje8 It's a matter of preference. Hadzabe use knives with V grinds and secondary bevel. Yakut use flat on one side convex on the other. Nordics use flat grinds edge angle becoming more obtuse going from east to west (Ruusuvuori, A. 2009. History of Puukko). And to be honest it's more about the edge angle that the profile of the grind. Moreover Mears falsely states that the finer the polish the longer the edge lasts which is completely the opposite. Polished edge doesn't last as long as coarse edge but it goes through wood more smoothly in push cuts because the microscopic edge surface area is smaller than in more coarsely ground edge. Edit. Dude has 30 degrees on his knife. Whatever handfeel skandigrind gives you is lost in that axe edge angle. Of course it's his preference.

@@ReasonAboveEverything thank you for giving me an interesting paper to read! Also, I agree with most what you're saying. Although I would like to add, some tasks are better suited to a certain grind style. Like, for butchering I prefer a hollow ground knife over scandis, V-edges and convex grinds. But I haven't yet used it on anything really substantial. Also, Cedric & Ada's channel has shown that for some types of steel a high polished edge (up to 16,000+ grit) can actually make a big difference. But I suspect Ray wouldn't even know about those steels in the early 2000's. Lots of placebo effects going on in what people prefer as well I think.

you can't expect people to still be paying attention, that far into the video. It was a massive 6 seconds. Who can concentrate for that lo... ooh, a cat

+John Ottaway haha

+RiverBlakeful But why bring all that when all you need is an oil stone?

it's pretty much one of the best things you can do at a base camp.. especially it a woodland or jungle scenario... extremely sharp tools work more efficiently and last longer.

Exactly, how many people would go on an expedition without any means to sharpen one of their most important tools...

Sharkfat haha I was thinking the same thing. I was interested to see how he sharpens knives at camp, I didn't realize you had to bring a whole tote full of gear to do it lol

Well obviously one would have a AGA cooker and Nigella Lawson at base camp, gas BBQ and a small asian chef is for when you are travelling light.

Fun On Vancouver Island did you not watch the video and listen to what he says obviously not

Who Carrie's all this in the field lol

take the missus with you

... and don't forget your car

Yes, the's not very good at staying thin!

+Diamond Geezer if you have a jeep at camp, wet stones wouldn't be that hard to bring...

MrLaurensio Yes you're right in that case. I was thinking more of back-packing on foot.

Then it isnt bushcraft in the sence of bushcraft. Nice video anyway :-)

He says "At home or in the expedition base camp". An expedition camp would have tonnes of equipment.

RiverBlakeful I always thought survival as plane crash survivor alone in the wilds type scenario, living off the land with bare essentials. Man your practically talking about having a kitchen sink in your kit.

Amazing how many people haven't grasped that concept

They grow near the automobile windows, out beyond the flat surfaces.

Maybe you have to travel to japan and search in a river

Report Fedoreo he is a spammer raiding from a website.

reported for 4chen, ur gonna habe fbi at ur doorr xD

***** you misspelled "neckbeard".

Hey Fedoreo, you should get together with Berta Lovejoy. You could post vlogs about your marriage and make little fedoras for your kids. >2kawaii4me xD

***** Fedoreo IS Berta Lovejoy. I didn't get the memo and fed the troll. FUCK ME RIGHT!?

Ya, Made me cringe ever time he popped that edge!! Especially on a knife that nice.

haha RIGHT!?

AntwonDaBusiness it dies show you how much pressure to use if you're a beginner

Surely not as a bad as the car though.

Each stone weighs in under a lb!!?

TacticalTimmy12 idiot. you think it's impossible to find a river or a lake?

Gokuw Sweg you still have to take the stones with you

***** tbh I was expecting some out in the woods variant rather than just using the stones...in-the-woods, nothing new here, move along.

TacticalTimmy12 Wow, It says in the title 'at camp' f*****g moron

Wow, so cordial and polite. Jeez. No need to be a dick. I understand that this is at camp. It's not practical to carry a full set of wet stones. Keep it light, keep it simple.

Me too, It's beautiful!

The Spyderco bushcrafter blows this piece of garbage out of the water and for a fraction of the price, using the same 01 tool steel.

@@itsawonderfulknife7031 I have got spyderco bushcraft and yeah the spyderco bushcraft is a very good knife , I think this is the best knife I have ever held

Don't forget the belt!

Then you must have cheap plastic ones, a real knife is for life

I said 'IF' my knives won't stay sharp - like Rays appear not to. I have had cheap knives and expensive ones. Some of the cheaper ones are better than the expensive ones. Mora for example - not the best, but good value and unless abused only need sharpening every few months.

Ah you mean like that i see, and yes i agree expensive doesnt always mean better. Thought you really ment you threw them away every time ;-).Cause my handmade sami knife is over 6 years old and still going strong. I will still own it when im an old man for sure.

Clive, you have to understand he's just doing this for his show & instructional purposes. I'm betting Ray sharpened his knife so beautifully before he went camping, as sharp as Steven Hawking's intellect. But this obviously is just to show the lay-person the method.

faultroy ^^ What he said!