Battle Horse Knives-Woodsman Pro. First Look and a Splitwood Fire.

Battle Horse Knives sent me this knife to test out and do a little bit of a review on. It's Woodsman Pro. I got it. They asked me what I wanted, the specs. I got natural canvas micarta. No polish on it, so it's a little bit grippy. It's 5/32, so I had them take the grind up a little bit higher than normal. And I want to do a split wood fire because that's what I do when I get a knife. It's a good test of it. See how I like it. So this is seasoned maple. Nice and dry on the inside. So I like to quarter the wood up when I'm batoning I'm splitting down wrist-sized pieces do it into quarters and then once again kind of take it easy on this knife by any means But I'm not going to do anything that I wouldn't do normally to my knives Just a really Real-world test for it for me at least obviously you see it's the knife It's doing what it's supposed to do see if we can get some curls off of it It's cutting through this maple like butter not too shabby cut those off and I'll collect them put them in my pile Try and get a fire going. I realistically do split wood this way So I want to see how it works with this one Sometimes when the pieces of wood are too small to baton or they break out you can do it this way Just stab the tip into it and it works good What I do like about this knife is it has a pretty pronounced guard right here that protects your hand from sliding down I'm also putting my thumb on the top, but that guard is Extremely pronounced more so than what I'm used to in my knives, so it's a little bit of a help there I got a kydex sheath with it. They asked me if I wanted a kydex or a leather It's actually got both it's got kydex and leather on it pretty cool sheath something new something different This is not my normal style knife look at the the size difference Right, the depth of the wood Against the knife goes up a quarter of the way up the blade Let's see if we can pound her through safely. No problem. Not too bad. Got some heft to it. Chopping is not a big big deal through seasoned maple. So my tinder is just gonna be the shavings, the wood shavings I made. I'm just gonna find like, yep, appearance by Scout. Just gonna find a nice set of curls, really tight ones that I got and I'm gonna focus on striking the fire steel into those and then adding the rest of the curls after. Maybe I'll move that so you can see. There you go. So the spine is nice and sharp, 90 degree spine. Split wood, so it did all right for that. I did that split wood fire in, I don't know, 10 or 20 minutes, no big deal. Like I said, it was maple, and yeah, it worked. It's a knife, it cuts it cuts things, right? So here she is, a little bit better close up picture of her. Like I said, natural Micarta, not bead blasted, left the grip on, I wanted this to be like a beater, workhorse kind of knife, which it is. Works good, see the grind is up really high the Scandi that's because it's a 5/32 and normally I like my Scandi's one eighth but this was my option so he uh Bear at uh Battle Horse Knives said he'd take the edge up higher and it seems to work it slices pretty good i don't see any nicks or dings in it in the blade in the edge and i was pounding it through that maple pretty good so feels all right feels good in the hand it's the the the blade the guard stops it there really well and then you have all this this room at the back I have small little girly hands but it's a pretty decent sized handle and if you choke up right at the back the chopping action is pretty good because it's hefty it's got some weight to it I don't know it's a good knife this is definitely not a review or anything this is me just using it for the really the first time to build the fire maybe I'll carve a bow drill set out of it later and make some notches in green wood and stuff and see how it goes but yeah I'm sure it'll I'm sure it'll work fine it's it's got a nice thin edge so I like it here's it in its sheath my first impression of the sheath was that it was way too big but when it's on my hip it doesn't really feel too big at all it kind of just rides nice it's got a leather belt belt loop I asked for a fire steel loop in it I don't have a fire steel that fits that right now so we're gonna wait and see but it's got this uh this lock they slide up if I can do it so right there this lock slides up and makes it harder it kind of locks the knife in place if you slide it down comes out easy and I have mosquitoes inside my ear hole that's lovely so down slide that thing up and then it can still come out but it's harder so it kind of locks it in i kind of like the sheath setup i i'm not a kydex guy i don't have any other kydex sheaths that's why i asked for kydex on this one works good so i wanted to see how much that i could do to this knife right just in the little time i'm out here so i think this is a good test got a size of wood that big on the knife so two inches across maybe an inch and a half across now let's see if we can stab and split this wood that big a piece with this knife i'm doing this up against the tree because it's steady it's the steadiest thing i have here there you have it not too shabby taking that stick scout okay thanks for that pretty good all right let's check the edge retention pretty damn sharp still all right guys i gotta get out of here you can see all those mosquitoes on scout and they're just eating him alive as well as me my first impressions on the knife for that it's good it's a good knife it's solid don't really have any worries about it so I'm gonna keep using it for a little while probably make another video on it or something like that but this is just me in the woods listening to planes in the background as always thanks for watching and I'll see you guys on the next one take care