Posts Tagged ‘bushcraft’
Bow Making
Monday, August 17th, 2009Hobo Stove Project
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Todays Project : Hobo Stove – found this at the thrift store and decided it was perfect for another hobo stove here are some pics…
My New Camp Wood Stove!
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008My New Camp Wood Stove!
I made this up as I want a camp stove that I can also use in a tent if need be I have seen lots of tent wood stoves but for the price they really did not impress me at all so I made this one up made it as simple as I could the gal can in the front can be taken out to load in the wood also you can adjust the draft by pushing it in or pulling it out some more I am going to add a draft control in the chimney pipe as well later and I also need to flatten out a spot on the top for a stable place for pots but man this is one cheep way to make em here is the cost rundown…
5 gal can – free
1 gal can – free
shelving brackets for legs a buck each at the dollar store
self taping screws 2 bucks
stove pipe 3 bucks and change
elbow 3 bucks and change
Time to make about 2.5 hours
So as you can see it does not come any cheaper unless you already have all the items kicking around Well OK here are some pics of the project…
Deer Jerky
Saturday, December 13th, 2008Here are some photos of my Deer Jerky
YUM….
I used Teriyaki sauce to marinade the deer in a ziplock bag overnight and into the dehydrator for 12 hours…
Hand Carved a Spoon
Friday, August 15th, 2008OK here is my spoon took me about 2 hours to cut/carve the shape from a chunk of wood and about 3 hours sanding the hardest part is the inside of the spoon… Next time I will take more time to carve the inside as smooth as I can, I could cut the sanding time down to an hour or less I bet…
I tried using a crook knife but found that just did not work for me not enough control.. I used a small cheep wood gouge and that worked OK for me…
Now that I know what works for me I will be looking into buying a good quality spoon gouge for the next spoon project….
Berry Picker
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008I made this up today for something to do today here are a few pic’s
Survival Bushcraft 2008 Rendezvous
Monday, July 7th, 2008Photos of 2008 Rendezvous
Had an awesome time as I think all who showed up did here are a few photos Enjoy!
Group shot of the gang
Switchblade himself he knows his stuff and it was great chatting to him about everything.
me and Switchblade comparing saws.
Swichblade was showing me a new knife he has oh man its sweet I think I am going to order one like it for myself.
better shot of Swichblades knife
this is a damasus knife Swichblade brought along very nice blade…
This is one of the large frost mora’s I have they are cheep but a well built knife for the price
Swichblade was eyeing it up so I told him were He could get one wonder if he got one or several later?
He did get one later that day after all…
this is another mora that Switchblade brought along to show off…
This knife Switchblade is looking at is at least 40+ year old frost mora blade it was my dads hunting knife and still a quality blade to this day..
This was a sweet pocket knife he whipped out to show us.
Switchblade giving us the rundown on the knife he likes this one.
this is Switchblade’s hobo stove
Switchblade showed us a neat little trick I though was great making egg carton fire starters with a built in match great Idea. Gun Babe wants to make a bunch of them up now..
Switchblade admiring a fire-steel of mine he was very interested in getting one for himself…
the stick is hollow and we reamed it out a bit it did work better after that it will be used as a fire poky stick and to blow embers or help to get a fire going…
Fire making demo using birch bark and firesteel to start fire
me blowing on charcloth to get ember to grow so I can use it to start fire.
more fire demo’s
think we were adding pine resin to the fire here man did it ever catch fire and burn very well…
Switchblade checking out my camara clamp it worked great for doing the group shots.
Tarp setup for some shade it was very toasty out I did put on spf 30 that morning too just to be on the safe side.
another tarp shot
this was a bit of tree fungus that I was testing out as to how well it would take light and to see how long a chunk would smolder for.
we left it alight for a couple hours and it was hardly burnt down at all it gave off just enough smoke to keep all the bugs away and the
smoke smell was OK
the Fiskers Axe of Switchblades humm never did get a shot of mine next time…
