My Covid-19 and later projects

[John Fenna]

Project 34
Elements of BcUSA Bushclass Intermediate Award
More focused fun in the woods and workshop!
Intermediate 1 - hand sewn ditty bags a couple in leather one from a trouser leg...
cont.

 

[John Fenna]

Intermediate 2 Light 5 natural tinders with a Firesteel
Birch Polypore, Birchbark, coconut husk, fatwood, grass, heartwood scrapings, limebast (never could count...)
Cont.

 

[John Fenna]

cont.

 

[John Fenna]

Intermediate 4 Charring natural materials
Various natural cords, nettle fiber, punkwood, limebast. Sisal rope and punkwood worked best with filnt and steel - all worked with a firesteel!
cont.

 

[John Fenna]

Intermediate 7 4 intermadiate knots
Bowline, clove, slip Canadian Jam

cont.

 

[John Fenna]

Intermadiate 9 cook a meal over a fire
Peppered Steak, Saute potatoes, onions, peas - very nice
Cont.

 

[John Fenna]

Intermediate 10 Lash a camp project
A take down table/gear rack/bench

cont.

 

[John Fenna]

Electives next ...
Improvise a chair





Cont.

 

[John Fenna]

Improvise a fish hook
Not that I go fishing ... safety pin and Mesolithic "gorge"

 

[John Fenna]

Project 35
Trying slicing again after too long!
Back splice

Eye splices Short splices

Lazy-man eye splice

Ring and Eye splices

Short splices

The whipping is not needed really but I just fancied doing it

 

[John Fenna]

Project 36
Knife revival
I found a knife - I think it used to be a Stiff Kiss - and revived it...
The tip was gone, the edge very dinged and the sheath absent but after a bit of regrinding and using up some leather scraps it is now a working knife again

 

[John Fenna]

Project 37
Cordage work - no photos as my camera is playing up!
I practiced more splicing , making more rope slings and whipped the handle of the above knife to give improved grip, then twisted up a new ridgeline for my tarp from paracord.

 

[John Fenna]

Project 38
Wind shield/reflector for my stove.
This is simply a piece of "Survival Blanket" glued onto a scrap of fabric and bound in webbing. Webbing is also used to house the knitting needle legs...

 

[Broch]

I do hope you asked Mrs Fenna before taking those knitting needles. Though, if she's anything like my missus, she'll have more than she can use in a lifetime anyway

 

[John Fenna]

My wife has been knitting the same sweater for 3 years ... it is not her main hobby....
The needles were actually Charity shop buys ages ago - I use them for billy can bails amongst other things....

 

[Broch]

Apologies; it was very sexist of me to assume they were your wife's anyway. Modern man should be able to knit

 

[John Fenna]

I can knit with a machine.... but not by hand! Sewing is my craft!

 

[John Fenna]

Project 39
Helping prepare my mate Greg's new permission - and have a first camp there. I helped drop and move some dead standing trees to make pitches safer, build the fire reflector and windbreak as well as cut more timber for the table, cleared trip hazards from the path to the toilet area and get in the way of other work... our first meet on the site was a great success!

 

[John Fenna]

Project 40
Xmas Booze
A project started 3 months ago... just finished bottling and labeling.
It might be enough to get me through Xmas!
Sloe gin, Black Currant Vodka, Blackberry Vodka

 

[forrestdweller]

Project 14
Sycamore ladle
From the same branch as the spoons, soaked in hot milk for a casein seal then oiled with Flax seed oil. Spoon for scale.

i'm still catching up with what happened on the forum after several months of absence (due to lack of internet)... things have been crazy here, too "thanks" to this conspiracy but staying in a friend's place on the edge of some jungle made it easier
how is not milk treatment supposed to work and what are the benefits?!