Scallop Shell Lamp
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Nice lamp, I was thinking you could also use oyster shells as you often find these washed up on the beaches and they can be pretty large. I made a really good lamp by pecking out a big chunk of red sandstone that I found on a shingle beach, into a fairly nice sized bowl. I used sunflower oil for the fuel and the chunks from the tube layer of a polypore fungus (think it was ganoderma applanatum) for the wick. The tube layer of polypore fungi makes an EXCELLENT wick because the hollow structure of the tubes. You should try it!
Dreadhead
Bushcrafter through and through
Not quite but it may do. Suet is solid fat thats taken from the animal as part of the butchery process. Dripping is a part of the juices and fat collected whilst cooking. Any fat should do but tallow wont go off
Really cool little tool, hows the light from one of those things? anything near pine nots? or less bright?
I've not seen the light from a pine knot so can't compare. But it really isn't that bright at all. It'd be enough to read by in the pitch blackness of a cave. I would imagine that a family group would have 4 or 5 of these going at a time. It is a very pleasant orange light though. Now I have to go and make me some pine knot lights to compare - cool...
Ok - I tried this. I've posted the results on my blog. Essentially they are very similar but the fatwood won't smell so bad.
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