Bush craft skills with the LionSteel M7
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Bush craft Skills using a LionSteel M7 part 2 field review, in the mountains.
Using a LionSteel M7 for the more delicate tasks. In this video I show an old technique for lighting a fire with a Swedish Fire Steel. This technique I have taken from a set of instructions that came with a Swedish fire steel I inherited from my father over 35 years ago. Simply scrape some shavings of the ferrocerium rod onto your combustible material, in this case powdered birch bark. I made the powdered bark by scraping sideways the blade of the LionSteel M7 against the bark. By adding several shavings of the ferro rod to the powder, when some molten metal strikes these other shavings, they will instantly ignite within your tinder material.
Do not confuse this techniques with scraping Mg (Magnesium) metal onto the combustible material and then igniting this material with the ferro rod, a similar technique but requires two different materials. Despite it's large size theLionSteel M7 is quite capable to do very fine tasks, tasks which some consider to be "Bushcraft" tasks. Of course the skilled outdoors person knows how to perform bushcraft with any type of robust knife. I also show gathering mushrooms with the M7, something which many would look upon as overkill but it proves you don't need to carry a separate "mushroom knife" for this task if you are carrying the LionSteel M7. Chopping wood is of course covered as well in this video.
In this video you will also see me gathering Macrolepiota procera and some Boletes
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Great review. I love how you incorporated foraging and fire making lessons into your video. Beautiful videography as well.
Hi thanks for you nice comments. Yes I try to make it not "just a knife review" but to really show you can in fact use these things.
I think I'll be taking a closer look at this knife. I know their folders are expensive but look very nice so we'll see. Nice video Thanks. Mike
+Michael Quigley The M7 rocks as a biggish drop point but the actual cutting edge is not so big. Simple design, very comfortable for a micarta handle. Super hard wearing alloy D2-like steel.
Another great video! It is awesome you always show the knife being used outdoors. I'm looking foreward to your next video!
Best, Huntsman!
Huntsman308 Hi thanks for saying that. It takes some time as you can appreciate. I think you can't beat a field review
you and I have similar taste in knives dude love it
mart oosterwoud Cool wait to u see what's coming!
Muy buen vídeo. Gracias
looks like a pretty good knife :) thank you for showing us
best wishes
Stefan
Thanks for watching!
We have the end of 2020 now and the M7 is still one of the most beautiful knives out there!
And it works ... and works ... and works ...
What more do you need?
LOL, you know when i think about the design of this knife and hold it in my hands, I believe there is not one line upon it which is superfluous. It has been copied in general (from some other designers-no names mentioned here LOL) although not the first to produce such a handle, it is handle although large for my hands can accommodate both smaller to large hands without it being hard to hold. LOL, I long since forgot the cost of it!
Some beautiful landscape you've got there, makes you wonder how all those rocks and boulders got there like that if they were put there by man or naturally 🤔 also I have an M7 being delivered anyday now super excited to get it in hand and put some use on it....
Hi there! thanks for watching and commenting! Yeah it is leftover I believe from an ancient volcano and over the millennia, moved by ice etc. to where you see them today. Thy are all composed of granite. Enjoy the M7!
to let burn you should hold the knife fixed and move the firesteel
Hi, yes there are many techniques and yes a big knife better to move small steel. Thanks for commenting and watching!
Great review of the M7.
What are your thoughts on using a Kukri as a chopper or survival tool?
Firstly thanks for watching and thanks for your comments, much appreciated!
Well I spent some time camping across a lot of the Indonesian archipelago and we carried and used a coconut machete (primarily designed for de husking coconuts but it was used for everything like gutting fish we caught to cutting into jackfruit and of course coconuts which in some locations were our only source of "water" for cooking. So a kukri would have been (had they been used there) just as useful. I've seen Sherpa people building houses with them in Nepal and also cutting firewood. The thing about Kukris is that they are just as useful outside of their normal geographical range, more useful i think than lighter machetes that are /were really intended to deal with jungle type foliage. Their usefulness comes about because of their design can handle hardwoods, albeit not so great for blazing paths in dense jungle. You can see some of that type of jungle i refer to in many of my vids where I'm at such locations and a machete is the choice if you have to because a easier way can not be found. A kukri would not be so good. But when we were on a deserted island (u can read about it on my blog) the parang was the choice for the tropical environment.
I've seen this knife running around $350 Canadian. My girlfriend would drop kick me if I ever paid that much for a knife. Great knife though.
Hi, to be honest my wife nearly divorced me! LOL But seriously I think, one better be really sure about using this knife for the price. It is a great knife but at the end of the day it's a big drop point with a funky handle (albeit very comfortable) and a non stainless steel. I have found (with no scientific comparison mind you) the Sleipner seems to be holding an edge better than my N695 blades for equivalent usage. I guess too you need to be living and or going into some true wilderness to really get your money's worth too from this blade, eg Canada Australia, some part of the US. In Europe it's very limited in use, except for mall ninja's, plus it's not a collectors knife, as there is nothing collector about it. I know many Aussie who def would not be parting with the ghoulash despite confirming it's a nice knife.
Thanks for the reviews. How easy is it to sharpen or better yet strop?
Van Lurton Hi thanks for watching an hope you like them. As to stropping this blade, well the cutting edge is actually a bevel machine ground and as such I think it would not be suitable as it comes from the manufacturer to strop in the real sense. As to sharpening I have only touched up the edge using ceramic rods. If you let it go blunt I think one would need to be patient in getting a working edge back. This is really a problem (if you don't like spending time at it) for all knives at high Rockwell I think ( JMHO here). I'm a bit of a fanatic when it comes to keeping my blades sharp and will definitely fine tune my edges when in the field. My Scandi ground knives are better for stopping at least in my hands
Debating between this and the Tops Tahoma Field knife for camp and hike tasks. The M7 is almost $100 more. Thoughts?
Hi, yes I debated for almost 2 weeks over the M7. I'll give you my opinion as i know many people love the Tahoma Field knife. Firstly 2 very different steels, one generic 1095 Vs Austrian made Sleipner (see this reference just to save on the writing: www.uddeholm.com/files/PB_Uddeholm_sleipner_english.pdf)
Secondly 2 very different designs, one custom, one familiar drop point; both have composite bolt on handles. The Sleipner will resist the effects of corrosion much better than the 1095 if you do nothing to either blade in aftercare, this will be true even though Sleipner is not a true stainless as you will see from the PDF data sheet, even less Cr than D2. Long term use comparing both steels, if you want your Tahoma to look good and you don't care much for maintenance, ie keeping it clean and free of moist environments then then no big deal. I have 1095 blades all suffering from surface corrosion, this is impossible to stop completely-unless you live in the desert and or store 1095 blades in a dry atmosphere, keeping a mirror polish surface on them and or light oiled up. The Sleipner as treated by LionSteel will hold an edge far longer than the Tahoma. Sleipner has been designed as a cold working tool steel so it can really take abuse on it's cutting edge ( i can say this based on field-not laboratory tests). Also the best finish other than a coating to 1095 is going to be as smooth as possible polished finish. Ask a metallurgist about this. This will resist the effects of corrosion better than any "rough" or poorly milled surface on 1095.
Personally I don't like the butt end of the Tahoma, I don't like acute angles in a filed knife (might be good for control points during combat- but I'm not a soldier). For me if you have to hunt using this knife and are moving about crawling stalking as one can often do I see that acute butt end sticking in my side and I don't want that. Again depends on what you generally do in the outdoors-(sorry I'm assuming you are not thinking of this for military aps-apologies if you are)
-It depends on what you want the knife design for. I'll give you an analogy re surfing: You have different boards for different environmental (the surf) conditions. For me I take different blades for particular chores and environments. The wire cutters are a good idea but I'd like to see them closer to the handle (JMHO- and I've talked about this before). The scabbard of the M7 is excellent and no way can a big knife penetrate this if you fall on it. I can't comment on the TFK scabbard but it looks good too.
Don’t get me wrong the TFK is very popular but I think it tries to do too many things, ie block for fire drill, cutter notches/pot lifters/bullet remover, control point/lever/big ass flat blade screw driver-Butt end. The M7 is a simple clean design that really reflects Italian manufacturing. But is just as “bad ass”.
Finally I’d forget about all that I have just said,and that of others about either knives and go and actually hold (if you haven’t already) both knives, swing them about (if the shop will let you!) and make a decision then based on what you REALLY want from a knife for your time in the outdoors and where you generally venture, ie coastal, lakes, mountains (both knives are way too heavy to cart into the mountains on long trips if one foot). Don’t look at the price difference, whatever knife you buy you will have forgotten the price after you have bought it, trust me.
Hope this helps out.
Finally thanks for watching!
Forgot to say I prefer the Silent Hero as a more practical knife design for my aps.
Hi not sure why this was struck out but here you go again.
It depends on what you want the knife design for. I'll give you an analogy re surfing: You have different boards for different environmental (the surf) conditions. For me I take different blades for particular chores and environments. The wire cutters are a good idea but I'd like to see them closer to the handle (JMHO and I've talked about this before).
BTW, Did you see my other vids on the M7?
+Bush Camping Tools Thank you for all the great info! Yes, I watched several of your videos which are all fantastic so thank you for getting out there and sharing these field test reviews. Edge retention and corrosion resistance are both very important. I'm also considering the Cudeman entresierras, though a bit smaller. I live in the foothills of CA's Sierra Mountains. Pretty dry as far as humidity. I camp a lot and need a good chopper, some batoning, and camp kitchen tasks. I can travel heavier and bring other tools but I prefer to have something on my that can handle the essentials.
Very interesting italian knife and brand, uses a lot the Böhler M390, Sleipner and D2Steel which are high quality steels. This one has the sleipner steel blade. A very good but not very often encountered steel. And for the information, this one is also a Moletta design www.lionsteel.it/n/en/designer/5/molletta_-_pensato_michele . Thanks for the review.
Hi, yes i very much like their knives. I have to say though I have so far only bought this model and it was a choice between some early Knife Research models (again "Moletta" designed) and the M& but it was the comfort of the handle and tang design which won me over.
I know this is an old comment but Sleipner is pretty simiar but considered better than D2. M390 is a great steel but it does better on folders and smaller fixed blades. You wouldnt want that on a chopper like this
Why would you carry only one knife two is one one is none
I'm always carrying 2 (three if you count my kid's).
@@BushCampingTools me too I carry a lionsteel M7 a joker nomad and off grid alpha dog in my bag with me when I leave the house plus a pocket knife and kneck knife I use to carry 2 guns now I just carry a Glock 20 it has a higher capacity then my other 2 handguns
do you also own the m5?
No I don't but I'm sure it is also a great knife of more manageable proportions for camping etc without scaring off other campers. Bi aps for such a a late reply -only just saw this message now for some reason!
Not if you bought her one also 🤣🤣
LOL!