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  • 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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Tutorial on fitting a handle to a stick tang knife

  • We hope that your 2019 is a great year, that you get out doing the things you love and enjoy every minute of it.

  • 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 [...]

  • Elliot is a Furniture maker who has turned his technical skills to knife making (we'll have one of Elliots knives reviewed very soon) I met [...]

  • The Art of Fire by Daniel Hume Who doesn’t want to learn more about fire? if there is anyone I'm not sure I know them! [...]

  • Spring will soon be leading into Summer and we're all making more plans to get outdoors bushcrafting, camping and adventuring.  It's worth having a reminder [...]