What is Waxing the Thread? The twice a year magazine has been produced by GDH Leatherworker since 2018 and is one of the few publications [...]
Dave Budd tells us about managing his woodland and harvesting the wood he needs to make tools and craft items. Most of us think of [...]
Making fire without lighter or matches seems to be one of the main skills that people associate with bushcraft, and here I am going to [...]
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This is a great activity with the kids or to just while away some time, especially during this lockdown when we're struggling to get out [...]
More tools from old saws! After writing the article on making knives from an old saw, I started thinking about other tools that could be [...]
Well, what can I say, it’s a brown bag that filters water! But, as that wouldn’t be much of a review, let’s look a little [...]
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In this time of isolation we're forced to do our bushcrafting at home, so if you have the opportunity to have a little BBQ or [...]
Hobby knifemakers often turn large circular saw blades and industrial bandsaw blades into knives, but even cheap handsaws will make decent enough knives.
Way back when I would buy my charcoal in from various woodsmen but after a while, I started to make my own in oil drums, [...]
We as bushcrafters do love a nice new “shiny”, and in a similar way to our colonial cousins with there attractions to firearms, we want [...]
I spend more than 150 nights a year under canvas in the woods or on expedition running a busy bushcraft school. It’s important to have [...]
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OLight S1R Baton 2 Review First Impressions The S1R ('R' stands for their rechargeable product line) comes nicely packaged and when you've released it form [...]
We hope that your 2019 is a great year, that you get out doing the things you love and enjoy every minute of it.
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Pt 3 - Making and fitting the handle. Since I don’t use factory made drifts to shape the eyes of my tools, they don’t take [...]
First impressions Cool bottle, great colour, look stable and feels robust. On the flip side, it's fairly big and it might be more complicated than [...]
Ok, now we have a lump of steel with a hole in it. Time then to turn it into an adze. (Link to part one) [...]
I was a bit unsure what to expect from this book, I've known John to be a top ranking bushcraft instructor to those attending his [...]
The Trent Field knife is one of the original offerings from the Trent knife & Tool company run by Elliot Trent. Elliot has taken his [...]
Making an Adze by Dave Budd Most folks that have seen me forging only get to see me making twiddly little things or a knife [...]
