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Haven't done much bushcrafting lately... :(
BUT... Me and my nephew are almost finished with his knife and sheath... :) :)
But not really "bushcrafting" it, since we are doing it inside... :) (The rain has been quite stady over the past few days)
Hopefully I'll remember to take some pictures of it! :D
Made a birch handle for the new fire steel I purchased for the sheath of the Brisa Enzo Trapper O1 knife that is on it's merry way here. Apparantly by donkey cart from Oslo. Not Brisa's fault. "Posten" the Norwegian equivalent of Royal Mail, is the only one that brings parcel up here. Does not matter who the courrier is, they all hire Posten to do it for them...so we are still in the dark ages when it comes to mail...that is we have slid back to them.
Anyway, picture of the new creation will come tomorrow when it's done soaking in linseed oil :-)
Been out checking on some birds nests I've been watching,all fledged! Fishing season starts next week,time to sort my gear out this weekend. Paul
Here is the fire steel I made. Just chopped off the plastic handle it came with, and amde a birch handle. Just drill a hole, whittle it down, sand it, stick the rod in with some super glue, plonk it in linseed oil for a few hours. That should look good with my Enzo trapper :-)
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Tidy job FF
Cheers
AL
Yesterday, for the first time ever, I tried making char-cloth.
I had a mint tin kicking around in the bag I use for work and have been meaning to try it out for some time. So, yesterday while cleaning my garage, I turned on the grill, cut up some squares of an old t-shirt that was relegated to shop rag duty, snapped the tin closed and put it on to cook.
When I checked it a little while later, the fabric had turned from it's original black to a sort of earthy brown, and I knew from watching Ashley (or maybe it was Dave Canterbury, now that I think about it...) make char cloth that some of the cloth may not fully carbonize on the first go, so I put it back on to bake a little longer, forgot about it until my wife came out and asked me why the grill was going without any food on it...:D and when it cooled, I had char cloth!
I dropped a square on my work bench and gave it a shot of sparks from my ESEE tools fire steel and it took the tiniest spark that came off. I was fascinated to watch the little red ember glow and begin to spread, and then begin to rage when I picked it up and blew on it.
I am totally putting char cloth in my tinder kit now and I'll fight the man who tries to take it from me.
All the best to all the best!
Josh
There's always something special about these first times, especially when it comes to fire related items :D.
Charcloth may be a fairly simple thing to do, but it's still great to make it work, and even better on the first go. Also, it's still a traditional process, that mankind (and womankind) have been performing for hundreds of years.
Well done Josh T^
Took the wifey and the runt fishing yesterday :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgkI0z_A34A
What can I say?
Fantastic vid bud and had me laughin at the bonnie new cooking pots gettin chucked into the fire . Pan size trout are the best :D :camping:
A pricless day for sure and thanks for sharin.
Cheers
AL
We were out by the lake again, different camp site. I was planning to do something with the new knife, but forgotthe memory stick in the 'puter at home. So had to use the mobile phone.
That ended up with very bad sound, and the pictires look like an old time 8mm movie....so slapped some nice music onto it, and left it like that.
Alos, remade the logo i little...tell me what you think of that please :-)
http://youtu.be/uYNQVFHiuW4