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Just for fun and I like the idea I made a strike a light belt buckle. Its not perfect but it is the first belt buckle I have forged.

I used the search engine to find debris shelter and not a lot came up. So hows about letting us see your debris shelter. I built this one a little bigger as im slightly claustrophobic and like room to maneuver. What I don't show on the video is that I filled the SB with leaves as a...

My Brother -in-law and I did a two day trip to Wales. We where going to beach camp on Anglesea and do some coast steering but with high winds and a 12FT swell we gave that a miss so headed in land and camp on a site within the Snowdonia national park. So here's the pics,hope you enjoy...

Heres the right up I put on my blog. I Have been talking with my Friend Joel Delorme about making me a friction folder,we talked about what grind I wanted and what handle material but the rest was left up to Joel. Well today I received said friction folder and before I even opened the...

Had a go at making a couple of leather bags,one for coffee and the other for tinder. coffee bag. Tinder bag. Here what I put in the tinder bag. UN-twisted jute,a bag of birch bark and fat wood and a small bag of pine resin. Both bags.

I made a leather belt pouch to go with the knife and folding saw sheaths I made. I used imatation sinew to sew it up and antler for the button. heres the sheaths. I also made a little sewing kit container with the left over leather,the top is ash.

I got a little bored yesterday and made this hobo fishing kit container out of hazel,today I made a lid for it as i was using a cork which I didn't like to much. I have seal the container with wax. I also fitted it with a brass lanyard tube...

Well I decided to go spend the night in the woods that I have just got permission to use,I have guerrilla camped here before but its much nicer knowing if the farmer turns up its just for a cuppa and a chat. My Wife dropped me off at 4pm and it took about an hour to set up camp,first priority...

Heres a project ive been thinking about making for some time so got to it the other day. Ive tried to keep it as primitive and natural as possible. It took some hammering to get the head flat on thisbut was fun to make. I differentially quenched the edge and the hammer which left the...

I would like to know what everyone preferred method of suspending there billycan,pots over there camp fires. Photos or illustrations would be good:) I mainly use the crane type method.

I have been playing aound a little with editing and making youtube videos over the last couple of months,im not the most computer literate person so this has been a learning curve for me but one i have enjoyed a lot. I don't know if anyone will be interested but here is a couple i have...

I made this knife from an old carbon steel saw blade. The blade is 2mm thick and 4 1/2"long,total length is 8 1/4" The handle is recycled walnut and has red vulcanised fiber liners. I made it for the kitchen really but it could easily be used as a bushcraft knife.

i Made it from an old metal work file and quenched it in salt water. I then held the part you strike your flint with and heated the parts you hold when striking as soon as i felt any heat i cooled it in water,i repeated this process three times,some temper is better than none...

I remember seeing a kit like this being used by a Sammii reindeer herder on one of Ray Mears series and really liked the idea so i decided to make one. We don't get many reindeer around here so i used a sheep bone instead. I used birch wood that i had left in the garden for over a year and...

didn't take a lot of pictures but here is a few of my camp. A lot of people i know set up the fire first but i always like to get my tarp up first and get my kit under it just in case it rains and it did,i got the tarp up ground sheet down and unrolled my bed roll,i put the self inflating mat...

Well i decided to go spend the night in the woods that i have just got permission to use,i have guerrilla camped here before but its much nicer knowing if the farmer turns up it just for a cuppa and a chat. My Wife dropped me off at 4pm and it took about an hour to set up camp,first priority...

I was looking at an civil war era reenactors kit the other day and noticed a little awl which i thought would be a nice piece of kit to make and add to my little whittling & leather working knife. It is made from carbon steel and is 3" in length. I used a blow torch to heat it as it was...

Heres a few of the knives ive made over the last few years. The first four are all made from O1 tool steel. Rail road spikes. This was made from a pair of old Sheffield carbon steel hedging shears. This one was made from old sheffield steel tin shears.

I forged this fire steel from an old file the other day and it works great. In the tin i have char cloth,a birch bark tinder tube,a roll of birch bark,fat wood,natural string,flint and petrified wood.

The knife is made from an old carbon steel deck knife and has a white oak handle. The handle is attached with epoxy resin and two 4mm brass pins the wrapped in jute and bees waxed. I annealed the blade first then drilled the holes,heated it up in my forge and curved the blade then water...