Posts Tagged ‘wood’
Survival Bill Survival & Bushcraft Rendezvous II
Monday, July 27th, 2009My 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…
Homemade Ceramic Knife Sharpener
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008I got the ceramic insulator from Switchblade to make it easier to use I have added a handle to it yes its just a branch and I used construction adhesive I pumped it into the center void and pushed the branch in hay it works great I have just finished sharpening all the kitchen knifes have to say it works slick..
Switchblade was saying that they used these ceramic insulators in very old homes it was when they needed to go through wood beams and then they would put the insulator through the hole then the wiring through the insulator just to make sure that for whatever reason the wiring does not catch the wood on fire when the electrical gets over loaded….
Since using it as a knife sharpener not its intended purpose it is not perfect and had a couple of imperfections on the surface but It was easy to fix by just using a sharpening stone and going over the imperfections its now a nice smooth surface to sharpen my knifes…
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….
