Isn't it funny how some of the core bushcraft skills drop easily into place and some take ages to master ? However, the order of "skill acquisition" seems to vary from one person to another.
Here is my skill acquisition history from easiest to hardest / still struggling. It has usualy been some other expert showing me a few tips that has finally cracked it in each case.
1. Spoon-carving / basic wood carving. No expert, but got it quickly
2. Bowdrill. Always found this a doddle for some reason, once I got some good tips
3. Cordage and Bowstring making - got it fairly quickly
4. Feathersticks - struggled for ages. Only really getting it now
5. Sharpening - only really just sussed it. I was rounding the edge at the stropping phase !
6. Plant ID - pretty well still hopeless, but good-ish at fungi and trees (got deciduous first, then conifers)
7. Navigation - seriously accurate navigation is still a black art to me
7. Tracking - haven't a scooby
What have other folks found ? I am sure there are loads of other skills - as they say you don't know what you don't know.
NS
Here is my skill acquisition history from easiest to hardest / still struggling. It has usualy been some other expert showing me a few tips that has finally cracked it in each case.
1. Spoon-carving / basic wood carving. No expert, but got it quickly
2. Bowdrill. Always found this a doddle for some reason, once I got some good tips
3. Cordage and Bowstring making - got it fairly quickly
4. Feathersticks - struggled for ages. Only really getting it now
5. Sharpening - only really just sussed it. I was rounding the edge at the stropping phase !
6. Plant ID - pretty well still hopeless, but good-ish at fungi and trees (got deciduous first, then conifers)
7. Navigation - seriously accurate navigation is still a black art to me
7. Tracking - haven't a scooby
What have other folks found ? I am sure there are loads of other skills - as they say you don't know what you don't know.
NS
