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I found the brass parts in my fathers shed, I am wondering too what they are normally used for (my father doesn 't know either...) Cheers, Tom

Common murre: The insertions above the eye are for specialized glands that secrete excess salt (it is a seabird). and great crested grebe: Cheers, Tom

New additions: Woodcock, a window victim View from above Great cormorant, from a freshly beached specimen. The bony spike on the back of the head ('os nuchalis'), flexibly attached by a bit of cartilage, is a unique feature of cormorants & darters. It gives extra attachment for the beak...

After buying the antique fire piston I wanted to try and make a bone fire piston myself and found a piece of cow metacarpal bone in the pet shop. The bone wall was not thick enough to make a piston out of but I made a bone rod to match a small brass piston. It took a lot of splitting, carving...

The blue tit's skull: A common grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) I found dead last month (it must have flown some 4000 miles from its winter quarters in West-Africa just to die on a Dutch dune...life is hard): Compared to a black crow's skull: Failed project: A partial skeleton of a...

Here are some animal skulls I collected over the past two years. Blackheaded gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus): Black crow (Corvus corone), herring gull (Larus argentatus) & jackdaw (Corvus monedula): Grey heron (Ardea cinereus): Long-tongued bat (Glossophaga elongatus, a South American...

Long time since i used Photobucket, I did not realise it could cause trouble viewing for some! Hope this helps: Cheers, Tom

Last year I visited an Amsterdam antique shop that specializes in anthropological items. The owner had a collection of antique South East Asian fire pistons for sale. Anthropological Fire pistons collection: She had acquired the fire pistons from an English collector, sadly wihout any...

[/URL][/IMG] I found this stone in the rubble of my company's garden. This gravel there consists mainly of quartzite and abraded flint. The darker section contains small metal nodules and there is a lighter sandstone-like covering. The stone is heavier than you might expect of its size and is...

Hi Blundstoned love, it was Bushcraftuk members that rediscovered this remarkable firstarting method and brought it back to life. We wrote an article for the PrimitiveWays website about the bamboo strike-a-light with references to the original thread on bushcraftuk...

I think it's common broomrape, Orobanche minor, parasitizing on the clover plants surrounding it. Here in Holland this parasite is called 'klavervreter', which can be translated as 'clover-eater'. Cheers, Tom

I made a fire piston out of a piece of fatwood, found at the last bushcraftmeeting here in Holland. As fatwood is saturated with resin it is airtight, unlike most other woods, so it is fit for making a fire piston ;) The fatwood stick was cut in 3; one piece for the bore, one smaller piece as...

Time for a resurrection of this old thread! Thank's to OakleafNL at the Dutch Bushcraft forum who posted a youtube-link, here is some video material of Rudiger Nehberg making fire with cotton wool, ash and a flat piece of wood (it's in German & the firemaking starts at appproximately 31:50)...

Welcome from another Dutchie! We'll probably meet at some time in the future at one of the Dutch Bushcraftweekends or the meetings/walks that are arranged via the Dutch forum Cheers, Tom

Impressive post, thank's BB07 Cheers, Tom

Thank's for the recipes! Cheers, Tom

Does anyone know how to turn the roots of marshmallow (Althea officinalis) into well eh...marshmallows (as in the traditional sweet candy)? Cheers, Tom

Brilliant & very interesting post, thank's for sharing! Cheers, Tom

Wow! She must be very good in balancing! Cheers, Tom

So it's probably parasitizing on the clover plants? There's ivy broomrape in the park near my work, they're weird and wonderful plants. Cheers, Tom