Search results

  • BushMoot: Come along to the amazing Summer Moot 31st July - 5th August (extended Moot : 27th July - 8th August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
  1. E

    Building a sheath for this particular knife - question

    <img src="https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/eddiebratley/20230616_191007.jpg" alt="20230616_191007"/>
  2. E

    Building a sheath for this particular knife - question

    Oh dammit! Working my end, might be a privacy setting I need to fix
  3. E

    Building a sheath for this particular knife - question

    My question. If you had the below knife and were to make a leather sheath (nice one, quality) how would you design it ? FYI. I do have a sheath for it, im think of updating it/ modifying etc and am intrigued on what people would design for it. <img...
  4. E

    Returning to bushcraft after almost 9 years

    HI It's been almost 9 years since I have been involved whatsoever with a bushcraft community and I fancy returning to the fold. Think last time I was here there was the popular idea of making bushshi Since then I must admit skills and knowledge have waned, I quite often identify flora while...
  5. E

    How much does your pack weigh for a winter tramp and camp ?

    Well my winter is the same as my summer and I'd say 10kg max depends on the amount of food taken my only difference is i may take extra pair of socks and extra upper layer. I was hoping for a really cold winter to test my gear but I only managed to get out in 3 ish degree weather and I was fine...
  6. E

    guidence, frency talisman or jakelore classic?

    Arh so many options I'm liking them all! Hillbills jacklores not sure about frenchys not seen anyreviews on them. If there is any pros and cons on the knives you guys got on them please share :)
  7. E

    guidence, frency talisman or jakelore classic?

    He takes on 4 months work at a time so I just gotta be patient :) and I'm trying to find Hillbill
  8. E

    guidence, frency talisman or jakelore classic?

    I am stuck as choosing an actual bushcrafty knife my only one I have at the moment is my mora and a becker bk2 but I want a handmade one, and I'm stuck between the frenchys talisman and the jakelore classic so I need help deciding or if there is anyother suggestions :) Ps.if there is any knife...
  9. E

    primitive home building

    Hi thought I would ask here or I'll be researching for silly amount or hours and just to be clear I'm not going to go out and do this as I don't like the destruction of trees. But I was wondering if anyone knows how it was done or they would build a proper long term shelter basically like a...
  10. E

    Blacks on the blacklist

    And as I said being human we make mistakes You shouldn't pick out.faults like him walking to the store in those shoes as things could.have been solved with an.exchange even if it was with different shoes.they could of been good sales people. It just one of those situations in life
  11. E

    Blacks on the blacklist

    Yeah I hate situations like this as working in retail I hear it all and yeah if they had some more in store same size they could have just offered an exchange and signed the faulty ones off as faulty which every retailer can do which then the company takes up the problem with the manufacturer as...
  12. E

    A bit of an update

    This is a good post it in a way made me happy I feel they same way as you do with things. I've never taken into account my "relationship" with fire and I feeling I need to go out on my own very soon and discover some thoughts with my self. I am also trying to learn more on foraging and...
  13. E

    Knife: So nearly there.

    https://www.etsy.com/listing/29336746/r2-knapped-obsidian-knife-w-kelp-handle This is the only example of what it would look like I could find
  14. E

    Knife: So nearly there.

    Something I think I saw ray mears do when I was little was to get hold of some fresh wet kelp stalk and cut it to length then jam the tang down the core and let it dry out and job done quick tight handle, just getting the kelp part..
  15. E

    how to tan hides help?

    Oh right yeah I understand and yeah i does sound like a fascinating past time I need to try it and when I get it right I'll practice sewing and make a pouch too :) shall be a project after my nettle and thorns fishing kit I'm mid making, maybe a pouch for my fishing kit aye!
  16. E

    how to tan hides help?

    Oh okay so soaking it will allow the hairs to come out, and what's the reason for the brains or soap is that the replacing grease part so stop it decaying ? And yeah i understand there's alot of scraping rubbish off and preparing I'll watch some videos on that.
  17. E

    how to tan hides help?

    So I was wondering how would I go about tanning a hide but out in the bush no chemicals just what I can potentially find, I have heard about brain tanning, so could someone explain nice and simple the process steps of preserving a fury pelt and also how to remove the fur so I could make it in to...
  18. E

    knife sharpening kit?

    So many choices and I like them all! I am stuck between the doublestuff and dc3 :/ and they be used for my outdoors knives and kitchen knife
  19. E

    knife sharpening kit?

    Hi I was wondering what knife sharpening kits people have as I am looking for one that is not big and bulky and will sharpen to a mirror shine like a mora knife straight from the box?
  20. E

    Young lofty.

    I got started when I was quite young around age of 10 when my grandad bought me my first bag, map,compass and boots and we used to go for long walks literally all day and he showed me how to set up a snare, map reading, base building and what things are called like flint. My grandma was a...