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Best Budget Survival Knife for Beginners? | Odenwolf Review
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May 4, 2025
My initial review of the Odenwolf W Flat Survival Knife and why it might be good for a beginner. It's a budget friendly bushcraft and survival knife that has some surprising features. Use PREPAREDWANDERER10 for 10% off: https://odenwolf.us/r?id=i9mmsj Odenwolf on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4iysY5l Prepared Wanderer AMAZON STORE: https://bit.ly/3Jjs1iO Prepared Wanderer Patches and Stickers: https://thepreparedwanderer.bigcartel.com Prepared Wanderer WEBSITE: https://preparedwanderer.com Prepared Wanderer FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1835005976546722
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just got a new knife in from Odin Wolf
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This is the W Flat and I want to show it
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to you guys Stick around
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All right So I have done Odin Wolf knife
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reviews if you go back through some of
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my videos and I'll try to put some links
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down below But um it's always a kind of
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an interesting company for me Um I like
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the looks of their knives I like the
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designs Um they seem to be a very nice
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kind of uh general purpose uh survival
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knife And this is the the W
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flat Um but the company itself is kind
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of unusual It's a German company hence
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the name Odinwolf But the the knives are
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produced in China And this is a D2
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steel It is a flat
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grind It is full tang And even though it
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doesn't have an exposed tang on the top
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or the bottom it is full tang It goes
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all the way back here to this lanyard
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hole and then it has this kind of
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overmolded rubber grip on it And this is
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very characteristic of all their knives
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So um a lot of them if not all of them
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have this kind of those kind of features
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to it And long time ago maybe a couple
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years ago I think I reviewed the W
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Scandi and I liked it It was pretty
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decent I've been getting away from
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Scandi knives more and more
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Uh there's nothing wrong with them I
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know a lot of guys love them To me that
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they're a Scanny knife and this is just
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my own personal hang-up is I feel like
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that they are very geared towards a uh
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wood processing or woodworking knife Um
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whereas flat grinds tend to be a little
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bit tougher because you don't have that
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very steep angle Um and they're more
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general purpose So I've been tending to
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kind of go more towards saber grinds
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flat grinds things like that And um what
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I liked about this particular knife when
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I saw it is it just seemed like a very
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good all-purpose camp knife that could
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do wood processing feather sticks
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batoning you know carving cutting of
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rope but it could also be pressed into
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um food processing meat processing
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skinning And um so when this thing came
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out I wanted to get a hold of one and an
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Odin Wolf was very nice enough to send
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this to me so I could take a look at it
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and review it And what I'm hoping I can
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do with this is this is going to um kind
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of go through the year and be my hunting
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knife and my camp knife Uh kind of a
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general purpose knife Does come with a
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very nice uh plastic I don't know It's
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not kidex but it's like an one of those
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kind of molded sheath Um and it has um a
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dangler plate on it with a nylon dangler
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that has Velcro and a button So you can
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actually take this on and off without
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removing your belt or put it on a pack
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belt or something like that And then it
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has a retaining strap on
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it And of course with that plate you can
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position that uh differently So if you
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wanted to carry this uh left or
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right-handed you could It would work
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just
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fine I think But I'm a righty and that's
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the way I carry mine But I like the
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sheath Gives you some different mounting
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options If you want to maybe put a tech
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lock on it or something different you
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can do that But I thought what we do is
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we we'll go through this today and just
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kind of um just do some real basic
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carving with it and see how it performs
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and maybe do a little bit of batoning
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with it as well Um the spine is not
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sharp but you could sharpen it if you
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wanted to It does have this kind of
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stone washed finish which I actually
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like because it's not thick It's not
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paint Um it's more of a treatment uh to
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the metal So it's still a very smooth
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blade You don't have a a thick coat of
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paint on it but you could probably um
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sand a spot right there above that
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gimping if you wanted to if you wanted
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to strike a ferro rod with it or you
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could just buy you know a ferro rod
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um holder and and attach that here and
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have your ferro on the side So a lot of
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different options
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I think the thing that I've always
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really appreciated about the Odin Wolf
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knives is that they are very affordable
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This is this is under $40 It's like
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$39.95 and comes in a variety of colors
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Uh there's the OD green with the black
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stone wash finish And then there's a
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black with the black stone wash And I
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think they also have like an orange
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handle And then they also have some
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blade options that are plain Doesn't
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have the that black stone wash finish on
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it But I really like that finish quite a
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bit So I've got some seasoned wood that
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I just cut down with my BCO And um we're
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just going to do basic batoning
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Nothing outrageous This is an
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appropriate size piece of wood to
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baton with this
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knife I've got this baton that I made
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earlier this year It's still out here
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Hadn't gone anywhere yet
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This is going to come in handy and it's
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something that I always like to consider
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when you're thinking about a knife that
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possibly could be used for hunting or
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survival You want something that's gonna
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be comfortable and easy to
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carry And that flat
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grind does very very nice It's
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gliding That's right out of the box I
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have not sharpened this at all
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feel like I have a lot of control when
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I'm doing
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this To me it's just it's just the right
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size for this type of task And that
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little bit of cutout for the
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finger creates a little bit of a guard
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Got a small thumb ramp up
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here Small gimping up here Nothing is
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overly done Some knives gimping's too
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much guards are too big uh and it makes
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the knife kind of horsey hard to use
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Oo yeah Look at that I like
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that Don't you love it when you get a
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nice curl like that look at that
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Something about those curls when you
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when you hit that sweet spot Oh it just
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feels so
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good cuz you know you're doing something
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great Here you
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go I can't complain about that I don't
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know What do you guys think it looks
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pretty decent to me Those are some nice
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curls Nice tight small curls
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So if you're looking for a budget knife
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that um can do a lot multiple tasks
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different tasks Um I think this is
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definitely a good option Um there's so
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many great knife brands out there that
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everybody has their favorites There's
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going to be guys going to come on here
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and say you know just get a Mora I
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understand that There's nothing wrong
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with those knives Those are good options
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But sometimes people just want something
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a little bit different They want to try
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something different Um maybe they want a
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knife that
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um is a little bit more versatile
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And I think the Odin Wolf W Flat is a
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really good starting point for a knife
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And there's no reason why this thing
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can't do a lot of different tasks that
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I'm I'm going to throw at it this year
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So so we'll keep using this knife this
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year I think it's going to be pretty
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good I really like the blade
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profile and that like I said that handle
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is very comfortable So if you like this
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kind of content do me a favor Please
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like and subscribe Leave a comment down
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below Tell me what you think about this
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knife Um if you have experience with
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Odin Wolf knives let me know Um I'll
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have links down to Odin Wolf and also
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Odin Wolf in my Amazon store if you want
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to purchase one That helps me out of
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course And um as always thank you for
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watching and we will see you next time
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