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    Quail prep

    Would anybody be interested in a short talk on keeping quails and a field prep? I can bring about eight (pre culled) birds, but they’d need to be £5.00 a bird as that’s what it’s going to cost me to buy them. I don’t have enough of my own so I’m having to buy them in. They are very simple to...
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    Silkworm raising and Silk production

    Ive had a fun little project on the go, that's nearing completion, so I th ought Id post it even though I couldnt decide which category it would go in! Silk production (sericulture) has been around for about 3000 years, but as silkworm only eat white mulberry leaves, it was confined to those...
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    Oak Gall Ink Making and locust eating

    Long time no see on the forums!! After foraging far and wide for oak galls, I discovered they are in fact available on ebay (is there anything you cant buy?!) so would anybody be interested in a short demo on ink and black dye making? I believe it can also be used to dye leather with, I...
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    Tanning a fox fur at home (graphic)

    I put this up ages ago but exceeded bandwidth so Ill so it in installments! ive not posted a lot for a while - a combination of only getting internet when I can nick it off the neighbors, and being busy with various projects, but I still love the meets, and I do a bit o bushcraft when I can...
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    Velcro Give away

    At the charity where I work, we were generously gifted with some excess velcro from from a velcro company. A whole room full of velco infact. Strips, sheets , dots and reels of the stuff. Thank you so much velcro people for your generous gift...Of velcro. we have found many uses for it...
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    does Beeswax desolve in alcohol?

    Will the beeswax lining of my shot bottle disolve before I have a chance to disolve the lining of my stomach with Stroh Rum 160% proof?
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    Just a little update...

    Ive not been able to come online much recently, since christmas I split up with my partner, of three and a half years, Moved out to my own house, and as I now have lots more out goings than incomings (it seems!) Im attempting a career change by moving into tattooing :) Im happy with the...
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    coeliac recipes anyone?

    my mumhas diabetes type 2 and recently aquired wheat intollerance which she has just been diagnosed with. I went to find some recipes for her but all the stuff I can find is for people who clearly do not live in the real world and shop at tescos. I won't be cooking aubergene with caviar anytime...
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    Reindeer Parka heads up

    If youve got money to burn (£550 quid to be precise!) This lovely reindeer skin parka featured on one of rays programes is up on Ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Reindeer-skin-Inuit-Arctic-Parker-Bushcraft_W0QQitemZ120524801165QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_SportingGoods_FishingAcces_RL?hash=item1c0fd6848d...
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    I told ya so!!!

    Does anyone remember this thread I made back last march? http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37532&highlight=coldest+winter+1964 I guess the guy is turning out to be right - coldest winter since 1964? I reckon it will be. Im snowed in anyway lol!
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    Ray fan arrested for killing pigeon to eat

    Dear oh dear:( While I don't think its a great idea for teenagers to go battering pigeons with their skateboards, with rays `Wild Food` book under their arm, the response is well over the top...
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    Big fire in Stockport

    Does anyone live in Stockport, there seems to be an enormous fire in Reddish somewhere, or at the back of the big tescos. I'm on a hill so I can just about see it but it looks like an entire factory and the flames are so big coming right out of the roof (and all floors) it is bellowing...
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    Hobermans technology and bushcraft

    I was wondering for some months if a tent could be created based on the principles of an expanding toy ball I once saw about ten years ago. Unfortunately i didnt know the name of the ball and couldnt find one anywhere. After some googling I learned it was called a Hoberman Sphere, and...
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    Grave of the Fireflies Live action

    I don't know if anyone is familiar with the Japanese anime film `Grave of the fireflies` but I read it has been remade as a live action film in 2008 and Id be interested to hear if anyone has watched it and if its worth it? The anime film is well worth a watch, it is based on a true story...
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    Recent Pyro Work :)

    Im pretty pleased with my recent works :D Thanks to Stuart at Wild World who sent me the reference for this San bushwoman. I was offered a discount price on the trip in return for some art, but unfortunately I couldnt make it at such short notice :( he sent me some photos he took and I just...
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    Fur on the Inside or out?

    I got a bargain price reindeer skin the other week, and it got me to wondering about making reindeer skin clothes, its not something Im actually likely to do, but looking at all the far northern peoples clothing, they all seem to wear the fur with the hair on the outside when surely it feels...
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    can dyed leather be lightened again?

    Ive darkened a peice of veg tan leather far too much and I wondered if bleach or anything would lighten it at all?
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    Looking for scrimshaw supplies

    Id like to get started with scrimshaw, I only want to make some inlays, so I probably need antler. Im not sure where to go to get them though, or which peice is the best cut, most of the suppliers online are American. I know a few people here have dabbled in scrimshaw, so Id be interested in...
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    Back from Sweden:)

    Well I got back yesterday and I can truly say I had a wonderful time, I am glad I went there instead of Norway. After spending the first couple of days in stockholm, we spent most of the two weeks in a holiday cabin owned by the parents of one of Phil's friends in Darlana county (about the...
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    Off to Sweden tommorrow!

    Im off to do some proper bushcrafting for the first time! (by proper I mean on my own in a real wilderness) Dont worry though, Im with the big fella and we are actually staying mostly in a holiday cottage in the woods for two weeks, however Ive brought my camping gear and we plan to do a few...