Birch bark matchbox

[pwb]

After reading jon r's excellent 'Birch Bark Container Tutorial' I had a go at making a small matchbox. The bark I used came from a tree I felled for fire wood. Given a warm on the stove the bark became quite flexible.

It's amazing stuff, I've only ever used birch bark for fire lighting before.
The top and base are made of Ash and I used jon's thorn pin method to secure the base.

I cheated with the cordage and used raffia type stuff left over from Christmas, yet to try my hand at natural cordage.

A Happy New Year everyone,

Pete.

 

[Mesquite]

Looks really good Puub. I really must try to get rounbd to making one of those

 

[Hoodoo]

Nice work! You can take that raffia and make twisted cordage but it looks pretty nice just as is.

 

[MartinK9]

Very nice work Puub. How long did it take you?

 

[Forest fella]

Lovely job,I've made afew,but nothing that fancy.
They look great

 

[pwb]

Nice work! You can take that raffia and make twisted cordage

Will give that a try , thanks.

Very nice work Puub. How long did it take you?

Started last night , didn't take as long as I thought.

Pete.

 

[IntrepidStu]

Nice looking box. I see you have used the harder "inner" bark as well to give it thickness and strength (and a snack if you get hungry).

Just a note to others though that using the inner bark of a living tree will probably kill it.

 

[topknot]

Hi Puub,
That looks really neat work .
Cheers Topknot.

 

[John Fenna]

Raffia is made from palm leaves - it makes great cordage in its own right!
Nice work mate!

 

[Flasheart]

That look absolutely brilliant. Great job

 

[jon r]

Excellent work! lovely to see people following my tutorials! Thanks for showing

 

[Allybally]

Very nice!

 

[durulz]

Isn't birch bark extremely flammable...

 

[Shewie]

Great job Pete