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might be usefull to have a spare duct tape roll.

dog wood uncle ray says! https://youtu.be/71jo8PKqKYg

this is how i do: http://www.bushcraft.fr/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6561&start=40 sorry words are in french, but pictures fortunally are in English!

this would be even finer if you'd decide to finish with a file (half round seems to suit the job) would refine contouring like a pro!

thank you John Fenna for the explanations! i'm allways amazed by human nature! :confused:

i'm learning something! well and how is this made, roughly?

man that's stunning, what a talent! it's not only looking like, it is a snake! what a patience! good idea the ammunition shell as an auger/punch/ drill ! it took so long his beard grew!:lmao:

back home i wash my blades with soap and old teethbrush, and wipe with piece of cloth . for storage i use duck fat, wich is an edible (and tasty)grease... blade out of sheath, in a cardboard one home made.

sorry i meant gran montañero! and the letters came big, i don(t know why!!!

wrong post sorry; delete please.:o

spanish aitor gran capitan?

those laser torches seem to be very Dangerous! i may be a little old fashion using flint and steel!:)

the hardest part of charcloth making is allways to find the tin, so a paint can is cool, and if you don't have, to tins(same size) are a good option one to store the cloth and the other one a hole in the bottom is used as a lid... both must be piled just like in the super market heat seals them...

a thick auger and a hatchet to make round tenons and mortaise are the easiest and fastest way , for a bench to split is the thing i'd do ,then once bench set, plane it with a drawknife. and a good saw to cut legs how to mesure the legs, ands a lazy/easy way to do by u s designer Jimmy diresta...

as you are in a pine area it's also time to check for some resin, old injuried tree will bleed and resine will cure as its getting down, on the trunk. pick it using bare hand and a hatchet to pry off as it's a bit hard to do sometimes. put into a old can and get a fire started to make it...

an easy way to pick up fatwood is Something mentioned by uncle Ray, but cropped another way... the famous pine notch, where branches meet the trunk of a Fallen resinous. i use to cut it with chainsaw, but i guess it can be done a more bushcraftic way with axe and saw...

that's a kind of magic! the midas touch! (poor midas was using gold what a fool!) you're the Genius next door!

yes i do have a trick: i go with a friend of mine who is a Professional stalker; and forest hunting ranger, beyond the joke,it is a good trick !

i start all my fires with that method, i want to know , if i am the only one. flint striker is a home forged file one, and tinder is charedcoton , or chared amadou...

to weld cast iron it good to use steel welding rods on a warmed up oven, you can also have a go on a fire with a oiled Dutch oven to get rid of rust on the outside and have a nice patina on it for the price of a good camp fire! don't know how old this post is! sorry to excave it!