Hi folks!
At first I wanna explain to you a little bit of my kind age, so ou can understand the whole thing!
When I was a child (in age from 2years up) I lived by my grandparents, because my mum had a fulltime job to do.
My grandfather was a very important man for me - more like a father than a grandpa.
He took me out in the woodlands and showed me skills and bushcraftstuff EVERY DAY after I´ve done my schoolwork.
It was a great time and as the years go by and I grew up he was more and more an important person for me. We went out to collect fungus, make whistles out of wood, make slingshots, create shelter, camped outside, went fishing and so on. He was the man who gaves me my first knife (which makes my grandmother not so happy *lol*)!
Now he is very sick and is in hospital since 8 months! No one knows how many years/days he has left.
I visited my grandparents yesterday and remembered myself on his old rucksack.
I´ve asked if I can have this old bag from him - because there are a lot of thoughts and memories in this old bag.
My grandmother told me, that some kids set the utility shed on fire last week and the bag was in there - she doesn´t know if the bag survived or not.
So I went out to the shed and have a look if there is anything left from the bag. And I was very happy as I found it - WITHOUT any damage on it. It was just a little bit dirty from the charcoal around.
So my new bushcraft rucksack is the old bag from my grandfather! And I´m very proud to carry his old bag (he used this one every time when we were out).
My actually project is to get this bag back in perfect conditions - and this is what I want to share with you!
So here is a step by step manual how I "refresh" my new bushcraft rucksack over the next days. It is a heavy canvas rucksack with leather straps.
On the first pics you can see the bag in his conditions I get it out of the burned tool shad.
Here you can see the bag as I got it from my grandparents:
At the backside there is a metal outer frame and leather straps:
Also there are 2 pockets at the front:
The FIRST STEP I´ve done is to soak it in soap and warm water and give a good wash - so all the dirt and charcoal is washed away as good as possible.
This took me about 30min. today.
After the wash I hang it up for drying as you can see here:
and here:
As you can see at the pics I hang it upside down so the most water can drain off.
When the bag is fully dryed - I have to do some stitching and repairing (small wholes and a defect stitching).
After that I will wax the whole rucksack with greenland wax and do some leather balsam on the straps. Also I will put a small coat of wax on the zipper inside the top flap to make it go easy.
So watch out for the next pics I will do when the bag is dry!
thanks for watching
cheers
Mike
At first I wanna explain to you a little bit of my kind age, so ou can understand the whole thing!
When I was a child (in age from 2years up) I lived by my grandparents, because my mum had a fulltime job to do.
My grandfather was a very important man for me - more like a father than a grandpa.
He took me out in the woodlands and showed me skills and bushcraftstuff EVERY DAY after I´ve done my schoolwork.
It was a great time and as the years go by and I grew up he was more and more an important person for me. We went out to collect fungus, make whistles out of wood, make slingshots, create shelter, camped outside, went fishing and so on. He was the man who gaves me my first knife (which makes my grandmother not so happy *lol*)!
Now he is very sick and is in hospital since 8 months! No one knows how many years/days he has left.
I visited my grandparents yesterday and remembered myself on his old rucksack.
I´ve asked if I can have this old bag from him - because there are a lot of thoughts and memories in this old bag.
My grandmother told me, that some kids set the utility shed on fire last week and the bag was in there - she doesn´t know if the bag survived or not.
So I went out to the shed and have a look if there is anything left from the bag. And I was very happy as I found it - WITHOUT any damage on it. It was just a little bit dirty from the charcoal around.
So my new bushcraft rucksack is the old bag from my grandfather! And I´m very proud to carry his old bag (he used this one every time when we were out).
My actually project is to get this bag back in perfect conditions - and this is what I want to share with you!
So here is a step by step manual how I "refresh" my new bushcraft rucksack over the next days. It is a heavy canvas rucksack with leather straps.
On the first pics you can see the bag in his conditions I get it out of the burned tool shad.
Here you can see the bag as I got it from my grandparents:
At the backside there is a metal outer frame and leather straps:
Also there are 2 pockets at the front:
The FIRST STEP I´ve done is to soak it in soap and warm water and give a good wash - so all the dirt and charcoal is washed away as good as possible.
This took me about 30min. today.
After the wash I hang it up for drying as you can see here:
and here:
As you can see at the pics I hang it upside down so the most water can drain off.
When the bag is fully dryed - I have to do some stitching and repairing (small wholes and a defect stitching).
After that I will wax the whole rucksack with greenland wax and do some leather balsam on the straps. Also I will put a small coat of wax on the zipper inside the top flap to make it go easy.
So watch out for the next pics I will do when the bag is dry!
thanks for watching
cheers
Mike
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