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    A small collecton of skulls

    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...
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    Antique South East Asian fire piston

    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...
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    Strange stone with metal nodules, anyone got an idea?

    [/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...
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    Homemade fatwood fire piston

    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...
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    Marshmallow, the plant -> marshmallow the candy

    Does anyone know how to turn the roots of marshmallow (Althea officinalis) into well eh...marshmallows (as in the traditional sweet candy)? Cheers, Tom
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    Southern Turkey, 30th april- 10th may 2012

    Part 1: Sultan marshes & Ala dag mountains (click on pictures to see them in a larger size format) From 30th of april till the 10th of may I was on a short solo holiday in Southern Turkey. I visited 4 area’s that were known for their wildlife and travelled by public transport. I arrived...
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    Some uses of ermine moth caterpillar silk

    Wednesday I encountered this veiled tree in the park near my work (it was pristine then): It´s the combined work of thousands of caterpillars of a species of ermine moth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermine_moth) Out of curiosity I stripped a piece of the silk from the tree bark, it...
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    Bending horn?

    Has anyone got experience with bending horn? I've got a cow horn's and want to use the last few inches (the dense tip) to try and make a small horn fire piston. The curved tip of the cowhorn would be more usable to me if it would be straight. As horn is a thermoplastic material I know...
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    DIY coconut snow goggles

    I finally got round making these Inuit style snow goggles out of coconut shell, as I had promised in an earlier thread about the coconut shell fish hook. I purchased a coconut with a fairly symmetrical curvature and flattish middle bit. With a Dremel tool I cut a section out of the coconut...
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    Finding ´urban´ Chaga-Inonotus obliquus

    I found some chaga (Inonotus obliquus, or true tinder fungus as the Americans call it) last week. I had found this fungus in the past before but that was after looking closely at thousands of birch trees for months in wooded areas. Now I just ran into it during a bicyle ride along a road in the...
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    A Coconut-shell fishhook

    As my 8 year old daughter had decided that she wanted "to taste a coconut" I bought one for her in the supermarket. There wasn't much fluid inside but the white flesh layer was quite thick. After one bite Jools decided that this wasn't her cup of tea so I munched half of the flesh away myself...
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    Fire piston out of native wood, which types of wood would work?

    Hi all, A question asked by a fellow Dutch bushcrafter (not a member here): is there anyone out there that has made an all wooden fire piston out of a North European species of wood? I know that most types of wood, even most hardwoods are too porous to make a fire piston and most...
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    Making fire with superglue and cotton?

    This was posted over at paleoplanet by "Mooncat": "You need some superglue (Cyanoacrylate), A large cotton ball and a tinder bundle ready. Normally, I would probably use a chunk of bark or wood as a base for this just to start. Take the cotton ball and get it completely soaked in that...
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    Fishing with spiderwebs!

    A beautiful clip from the "South Pacific" BBC series, a man from the Solomon islands using spiderwebs and a kite to catch fish, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-hmHuRKYP8 Cheers, Tom
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    A chihuahua calling in the Dutch reedbeds…

    Last sunday morning I got up really early, at 4 o' clock. The day before I had seen on the internet that a quite rare bird had turned up at a site that I visit several times a year. Although I'm not a real 'twitcher' I love watching birds and as I had intended to go for a morning walk in the...
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    Things I set on fire with my fire piston, including a new natural tinder

    Charcloth (duh...) Horse hoof fungus or 'false tinder fungus' (Fomes fomentarius), the felty trama-layer, scraped into a woolly mass or sliced very thin Cramp ball fungus (Daldinia concentrica) Chaga or 'true tinder fungus' (Inonotus obliquus) 'lulut'; the fluffy layer that can be found...
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    Only for BOD...and his full inbox

    Hi Ash, you´re inbox is full so I can´t send you a PM...:rolleyes: Cheers, Tom
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    "Galemys fire piston tutorial", making a fire piston out of hardware store material

    This is how I make my own fire pistons out of normal commercially available hardware store material & is meant as a guidance. There are off course numerous other ways to make working fire pistons. Clicking on the pictures will lead you to my photobucket account with bigger sized pictures Tom...
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    Viking firestarting, the quartzite & soft iron method

    Ah! a double post... Mods can you remove this one please? Cheers, Tom
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    Viking firestarting, the quartzite & soft iron method

    Thank's to Mike Ameling I got interested in another relatively unknown way of firestarting, used in historical times in Scandinavia by the Vikings (alongside the 'normal' flint & steel): "THE QUARTZITE-AND-IRON" method of fire starting: "A method allied to, but distinct from, the...