Recent content by John Fenna

Your load depends on what you want to do, how you want to do it, when you want to do it and where you want to do it ... I have done weekend trips that only needed what I could fit into one cargo pocket and equally I have done weekend trips that needed a full van load of kit... Any fool can be...

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Powered - I am still not skilled enough for the pole lathe to turn out anything worth keeping! :)

Project 179 A nesting bowl set My first good bowl has just been joined by others to make a nesting bowl set.... all from Ash the two bowls that fit inside each other from the same round of wood...

Project 178 Saw Horse and Cleaving Break from cleft timber To service my growing delight in green woodworking I decided to build this saw horse and cleaving block from wood cleft with my new froe ... they both work OK but the next ones will be better... I then made a new mallet (broke the old...

For my permanent site - used about 6 weekends a year with up to 6 people at a time for two nights - I dig a trench and loo roll is burned and the ash and deposits are buried. Once the trench is full a new one is prepared. There are no water courses near-by. The land owner approves of the method...

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Project 177 Carving and/or chopping block I am having fun with wood! But to work wood you need a certain amount of kit and so decided to make a carving/chopping block from an old round of Oak and some lengths of Rowan I had around... The uneven original saw cut (plus a scrap of pine, screwed...

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The bowl is made from a random round of Ash ... basically re-purposed firewood - I still have the other, larger, "half" to play with for my next turning project :) This wood turning thing seems a bit addictive!

Project 176 My first successful turned bowl! The first one completed without cracks or splits... yet! Destined to be my camping dinner bowl - if it does not split...

Project 175 - part 2! I just had an idea for a towel rail/wind break support from Hazel with Ash and Willow rods (all just push fit) and a slate alcohol stove stand - to save scorching the wood with the hot stove... I get lots of ideas - all I need now are the skills and tools to do a good job!

Project 175 A "flat Pack" Camping Table On long turn static camps I like to "travel heavy" and haul in furniture and tarps to make life as comfortable as possible ... but I also like the "home-made/Bushcrafty" ethos ... This table was built to replace a similar size one that I lashed together...

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Many happy returns!