Birch Bark

[DFCA]

Hello Chaps,

I'm after getting me some birch bark containers and would prefer to make them myself (or have a go at least)

As I havent got anywhere to harvest locally, does anyone know of anywhere that sells the stuff? I have seen a couple of places in the States - seems a little excessive to ship it from there though!

Any ideas?
All the best
Dave

 

[Cromm]

How big a bits do you want??

 

[DFCA]

Well I should think it wise to set my sights fairly low to start with. Was hoping for enough to make a box maybe 5 or 6 inches high and around.

Never used the stuff before to make anything you see and fancied a play.

It seems that if you happen to live North America, you can by quite large chunks of the stuff

 

[MartiniDave]

Cardboard from a cornflake box is not a bad substitute to work out techniques and blank sizes etc.

Dave

 

[DFCA]

Thats cool - I might just be having a practise in prep for finding the real stuff