High Tech Basket

[Neanderthal]

Bushcraft is where you find it. I made this from bits of scrap network cabling from work.

High tech meets primative tech. Pint pot for scale.

Info for the geeky. All the cable is Category 6A 10Gig ethernet. The main purple stuff is building cable and the blue and yellow bits are patch leads. The grey stuff is Zone cable from a Data Centre installation which is quite flexible for Cat6A.

Basic basket making techniques but I'm quite pleased with it.

Any other ideas for using this stuff?

Stu

 

[JAG009]

Top stuff !

Jason

 

[HHazeldean]

Nice, like the stone age materials.

 

[Shewie]

Love it Stu, not sure I could get away with it at our place though.

 

[Balanophage]

That's excellent! And must've taken some doing, Cat6A is not the world's most flexible material... although I suppose willow isn't either, depending on thickness.

Which is a thought - have you done standard basketry? How does the cable compare to more traditional materials?

 

[yomperalex]

sweet

Alex

 

[Bushwhacker]

Thus far, possibly one of the best things I've seen this year.

 

[Toddy]

I like that
Neatly done

cheers,
Toddy

 

[luckylee]

Thats looks great mate.

 

[ged]

Here's our picnic basket that we keep in the car. It's made from used pallet banding, you could probably pick up a truck with it.

 

[Neanderthal]

Which is a thought - have you done standard basketry? How does the cable compare to more traditional materials?

Only natural material I've used are Raspbery canes which worked well. However I used them green as I was impatient to get going and now the materials have shrunk as it dried and the basket is a bit loose. No suprises there though.

The Cable works suprisingly well, I've now got 2 baskets on my desk but I can stop making them ast any time I want. Maybe I'll just make a little one...

Stu

 

[Neanderthal]

Here's our picnic basket that we keep in the car. It's made from used pallet banding, you could probably pick up a truck with it.

Love the basket ged. I spotted some banding the other day an a lightbulb lit up in my head. ;-)

Stu

 

[HHazeldean]

Here's our picnic basket that we keep in the car. It's made from used pallet banding, you could probably pick up a truck with it.

That is seriously neat, I need to have a go at something like that.

 

[PaulSanderson]

ha ha that is awesome...i need to learn to do this...thanks for sharing.