“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail” (Mark Twain)
Amongst the earlier videos I’ve covered most of the main cutting techniques used with a parang, but I thought it would be useful to put them all together in this one video.
Although the parang can be used for intricate carving, given the choice I would use a small Mora knife instead. There are two reasons for this: 1) my Mora is always razor sharp (but my parang sometimes isn’t) and 2) it is simply easier to control a small light knife than it is to control a parang.
If you are taking in a Mora I would suggest taking a thin balded, carbon steel, Scandi grind model. I like the one I’m using in the video which has a hand guard and a very thin and extremely sharp blade. This model is the Mora 511 and you can pick one up in the UK for around 6 pounds (astonishingly good value!). I would recommend avoiding the thicker bladed bushcraft knives as, for any heavy work, you will simply use the parang instead.
I’ve also covered the two-stick bow drill method towards the end of this video as I had left it out of the advanced bow drill techniques video I did earlier.
Thanks for the great vid again with a lot of safe and useful techniques that you’ve shown. Thanks for the two stick method demo.
Have a good one,
John
Hi John,
Glad you liked the video and thanks again for pointing out that the two-stick method is one people should be aware of. I’m downloading a video soon on natural cordage (and will include how to make a bow string for the bow drill as well) which you might find interesting.
Cheers!
Paul