This guy really knows what he is doing

[Hoodoo]

Wonderful vids! No BS. Thanks for posting them! I've been enjoying all of them.

 

[ganstey]

Thanks for the link Robin. Not watched them all yet, but a great set of videos. I particularly liked the willow whistle one - now that is clever!

G

 

[andywinkk]

Thanks for the link Robin enjoyed watching them, found this one on the Ray page, like this one to
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z5iLYbzN2NM&feature=related

Bernie

Be afraid be very afraid bernie lol

watch this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dodWbbkWyS0&feature=related

Andy

 

[Diligence]

well -- there goes my plan to show you how I cut firewood with my hatchet....he and I must have been taught by the same person, wonder if he knows my Mom...?

D

 

[Martyn]

Recently found this guy on youtube, just honest Swedish campcraft, no frills, cheap tools, very high skill level. He stuck about 30 vids up a month or so ago and they only have a few hundred views each, I reckon he deserves to be rather better known. Here are a couple as tasters, first just chopping some firewood with a cheap little axe, good stance and I love the way he splits it nonchalantly with a longitudinal chop and twist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjrJapcdWqY

And here carving a spoon, he makes a lot of use of one draw grip I use mostly across the end of a spoon but he uses it along the length, it looks dangerous but if done correctly it is not and clearly works well. Just nice to see a cheap mora knife used well. Someone else who doesn't think because you are into bushcraft you need folk music or indian chants for a soundtrack too....rock and roll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYvDeP5Etc4

Frankly makes our Ray look like a little boy playing at the job

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVi4MlZmKfk&feature=related

Great vids Robin, I'm gonna have to watch all of this guys stuff. He makes it look easy doesnt he?

Thanks for the link Robin enjoyed watching them, found this one on the Ray page, like this one to
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z5iLYbzN2NM&feature=related

Bernie

Bernie, you're about as subtle as a housebrick wrapped in ...erm housebricks.

 

[ZDP-189]

Haha, that guy was barred from a swedish outdoor forum a couple of weeks ago (for massposting links to his videos), he just popped up from nowhere and wrote several posts per day, and still had time to produce good videos. I saw them some time ago, he is very skilled in knife handling. There is another swede who made several good clips, in swedish unfortunately, but he focused on the wilderness experience and impression rather than skills, although he showed some clever ways to use a small axe and a firesteel.

Please invite him here. And while you're at it, invite him to BB too.

 

[robin wood]

yep thats just what I thought, either that or organise for folk to visit him as he lives near the airport where Ryan air fly to. I will let you know if we can work anything out.

 

[big_swede]

As he is suspended, it's not possible to reach him. And his email just bounces.

Contact him through the tube seems to be the reasonable thing to do.

 

[robin wood]

Have been in email correspondence and he seems to be quite game for doing something either over here or over there. I quite fancy going over there, haven't been for a couple of years and it would be very easy since it is close to the airport. Or I have friends who own a suitable wood in Essex not too far from Stansted, I am sure we can work something out for next year.

 

[Neil1]

Thanks for putting these vids up, the guy is a breath of fresh air.
N

 

[Tony]

Excellent vids, thanks for posting them

Bernie, pack it in mate...

 

[rik_uk3]

Wonder if he uses a Ventile anorak? His wellies didn't cost a £100 either by the looks of them, makes you wonder how he survives

 

[DoctorSpoon]

The best wellies I ever owned I bought in Sweden. I vote for going over there to see him so I can buy another pair

 

[johnnytheboy]

aye lets run a bus, i'll grab the fishing rods

 

[robin wood]

Well guys it looks like he is game for coming to the UK. I am hoping to organise a couple of short courses in Essex in May. I want to make one of his bush bows did you see this one, check out the bit at 2 minutes in when his missus if filming him shooting a beer can from 30 yards away and is stood just to the side of the target.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1y40KyGF1fY

This how he makes them

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j4mSz5qdvkc

 

[mr dazzler]

Which one Ray or Mr Swede?

I think they are both working in totally safe manner, it is not always possible to see the safety in a knife grip but I always ask when I am performing this cut, if the knife slips through the wood more quickly than I expect, where does it go and where does it stop. i think all those grips he is using the knife stops before it does damage but only if you understand them and do them in the right way.

I noticed while he was cutting along the handle as soon as the cut started to go deep, he turned the stick round and cut the other way, rather than let the blade start to struggle he was very in tune with the character and structure of the wood. ps I havent got sound only pics so dont know what he was saying?

 

[Karl5]

...a swedish outdoor forum...
There is another swede who made several good clips....

Do you have the links to these sites?

 

[big_swede]

Do you have the links to these sites?

Which site? You mean the youtube clips?

 

[Karl5]

Which site? You mean the youtube clips?

Eerhh, both actually.
As in: The swedish outdoor forum and the youtube clips.

 

[big_swede]

the guy called hobbyexp on you tube is called kontroll on www.utsidan.se

and the other swedish guy calls himself chinerunner on youtube, but it's mostlyt these four that are interesting (although not in english.. he is more focusing on the experience than kit);

ute (outside) part 1; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe19S5wGkRA

ute, part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUcG0D_SqEk&feature=channel

ute, part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqFUcUK1x6g&feature=channel

ute, part 4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh7SCAut0Io&feature=channel (features a nice way to use a fire steel and birch bark scrapings)