beta464, thanks for your video review of the updated version :thumbup:, looking forward to more (esp. to see if the pommel breaks off as in earlier version).Video speaks for itself please wait until it's done processing
beta464, thanks for your video review of the updated version :thumbup:, looking forward to more (esp. to see if the pommel breaks off as in earlier version).
Don't feel the need to chat so much to fill space as in desktop reviews (which would be a whole lot shorter if the reviewers kept to salient facts), like you said the video should speak for itself.
Yeah, this is why I'm not a big fan of most "desktop" reviews - way too long, including parroted technical descriptive details which can be looked-up on the manufacturers or distributor websites and are more easily and quickly presented in typed-format: no repeating oneself, no stutters for those who do, no ridiculous hyperbole [my main complaint of many reviewers, yourself not included so far ], it's more easily translated into foreign languages, it demonstrates maturity, etc. "Technical" details, imho, are best left as text....generally in my video reviews I'm very technical...
Beta464. I enjoyed the vidio. Last week when I was in the jungle I batonned my BG UK through some pieces of oak that were like sections of telephone pole. Managed to make fuel and kindling pieces. Used bamboo scrapings for tinder. I really had no problems with it, and enjoyed using it.
I started fire daily with it also. just need tinder from higher up in the trees in the jungle, or inner bark so it is dryer. What also took a spark well is the "hand sanitizer" stuff in the little traveling bottles. Its mostly alchohol, (used that trick during my 2 yr contract in Vn recently)
Yeah, this is why I'm not a big fan of most "desktop" reviews - way too long, including parroted technical descriptive details which can be looked-up on the manufacturers or distributor websites and are more easily and quickly presented in typed-format: no repeating oneself, no stutters for those who do, no ridiculous hyperbole [my main complaint of many reviewers, yourself not included so far ], it's more easily translated into foreign languages, it demonstrates maturity, etc. "Technical" details, imho, are best left as text.
This is all just one user's opinion, of course, and I'm a user not a collector, so feel free to ignore. My favorite videos are more demonstration less description: reviewer shows the knife, names it (including manufacturer and maybe price paid), then demonstrates its capabilities. Brief descriptive statements: empirical ergonomics/comfort-level performing each task, level of effort required to accomplish each task, state of edge/handle/etc. after completion of each task. I felt that this video did a fairly good job, just giving my own humble advice for future use-videos.:thumbup:
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If Les Stroud ever made a knife, I would buy that thing in a heartbeat.
I'm 100% sure that instead of a pommel that easily breaks, the handle of the Les Stroud knife would double as a quality harmonica.
The more things change....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gj9CMvwfv4
But hey, this was molecular steel.