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I did this one up as a Christmas gift for my wife. Birch tree and button clasp on a kangaroo twist braid. I do hope she likes it....as it is the big gift:)

My Mom was out visiting the past two weeks. We spent three days down at the Oregon State Fair in Salem Oregon. Like all state fairs it has a diverse collection of folks, from the carnival barkers to the hawkers selling all sorts of unique and “must have” household items. Acres of livestock...

After seeing the more open spoon knives that Robin, Hoodoo and others have used, I decided to ask Del Stubbs if he had ever made something similar. He made 7-8 prototypes and took them to a Spoon Gathering in Minnesota. After several carvers had provided him with feedback, he has decided...

Here is my latest. This one in Lilac wood, again from a blank from Frank Foltz. This is very tough wood. The pith ran right down the handle, so I thinned it back so the pith hole would not be near the bowl. There is a faint tinge of purple in the grain....I opted to not utilize my...

I just finished up a Buckthorn heavy duty cooking/serving spoon. I really like working with Buckthorn as the grain is interesting, the wood hard for durability, but it still works well. I really like the odd grain “wrinkles” found in this one in the bowl. From the side and shown here...

Blackberry Spoon I roughed out a vine maple spoon a couple of weeks ago. I got the spoon to this state (100grit) and decided I would like to try out some new dye as the maple is so blah….. So reaching into the freezer I pulled out a quart of frozen blackberries and brought them...

Last night I started carving out a birch spoon (from a sawn blank that Del Stubbs sent me). I started looking at it and decided I did not want another white spoon so decided to stain it in a bath of tea. I sanded it to 100 grit and have it close to its final shape. I used Red Bush...

Once again my old belief that it is far far better to hire a pro for sheath work is reinforced. I have worked my Orien MacDonald crooked knife into some of my carving routines and I wanted to safely carry it around with my other carving tools. In Ville Sundqvist’s book he showed some sheath...

Ever since I bought the Twisted Dragon Steel from Darrel Aune I have wanted to make a fire pouch…..well this weekend I got around to doing so. I followed the same shape and size of an Otter skin bag that a friend made for me that I use for my sewing kit. I traced around it on paper and then...

Medicine Spoon I finished this medicine spoon this weekend. The shape reminded me of a spoon my Mom used to shove liquid vitamins down our throats. I did it out of a green alder limb that was cut at the base of a multi-stalk "bush". The natural bend coming out at the ground formed the...

I picked up a few library books on net making and mending and decided to give it a go. Step one was to make a net needle. I started with a piece of 1/4” poplar that I had kicking around in the garage, and decided to use the Garcia SBT carver only. Gouging out the pin track took quite a...

Generally as I walk along I keep my eyes open for bits and pieces of useful tinder. I am always on the lookout for birch as it is a rare tree…mostly ornamental here and I grab whatever I can get. Western red cedar bark, cedar splits or some resin soaked fatwood are always nice finds. I...

This weekend I tried out a new stoneware baker we picked up in the after Christmas sales. I spotted this before Christmas and thought it may make a good bread baker, but the price was pretty high. However in the mad rush to blow out stuff after Christmas this came down to less than $15 so I...

Skookum Carver, Deep Oil Treatment My Skookum Carver came from Rod with Arctic Birch scales. From the feel and smell of it I am guessing Rod soaked the wood in Linseed oil. Looking back through my knives I have noticed a fairly small representation of natural wood scales. I have some...

I have been unable to open up Buckshot's baldric tutorials that he linked in this thread http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21401 I get a restricted access message and a blank page.

I posted this over at BB yesterday, but thought I would put it over here too. I got an email yesterday from Gene Ingram answering another question I had asked him and he kindly attached an image of his latest work. I was just about blown away when I saw he had created a slip-joint folder. A...

I just recently purchased a pair of hook (spoon) knives made by Del Stubbs at Pinewood Forge. For the past couple of decades I have been using crooked knives made by Kestrel Tool and North Bay Forge, local fellows following the NW Coast tradition patterns. These are flat bottom knives with the...

My newest arrival is a large sewing ulu made by Maynard Linder in Homer Alaska. I wrote him last summer about how much I liked his large Fish River ulu. He wrote back and told me of his antler hunting trip and I mentioned I wanted a sewing ulu. Well here it is. This one has about a 4.5...

Last year a fellow I know from another forum mentioned that the Oregon Trail Sourdough Preservation Society would send out a packet of starter for a nominal donation. I promptly sent off a SASE and a couple of bucks. I got my little packet of yeast starter which I then proceeded to file away...

Groupings of animals or even objects get generally get some sort of unique classifier….a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, a flock of pelicans, a ream of paper, a pot of coffee, a wallet of money….whatever. Well I have been quite fortunate to have been working with a couple of the BCUK...