The Survival Knife: Basic Knife Care

Video Transcript

" The next is a survival type knife. Here again, it has many forms and variations of this knife. This is designed to be used in combat and also can be used say if a soldier is down behind enemy lines. You will notice here on top of the blade that this is serrated for cutting line. You also have a very sharp blade here that has a pretty good point to it. This can be used to fight or defend someone. You have a hole here in the blade. This can be used to run a line through. Also, in the handle, you have a very heavy duty head on here. This can be used as a hammer or also, hit someone with this. You have line that’s in the handle. This can be used to set up a trot line or a trap to trap animals to survive. You also have a compass that is built into this cap at the end of the handle. Last but not least, you have matches and fishing line there in the handle. If used properly, this one piece of instrument, this one tool right here, this knife, can keep someone alive for many months, just using this as the primary tool."