What's the best crafty thing you have ever made?

[hen]

I love this forum. I think it's probably my favourite forum in BCUK.

I also love seeing everybody's pictures of what they've done and hearing how they did it. I find it really inspiring and reassuring.

So, I thought I'd start this thread off so we can all have a nosey at what you are all proudest of making. It would be great to hear how you made it too, what tools and which materials!

Apart from my baskets my favourite thing I have ever made is my spoon. It's made out of damson wood using my Svante Djarv carving tools (carving knife and spoon knife). I then sanded it down with gradually finer sand paper and finished it off with some groundnut oil (it was in the cupboard!).

I have two favourite parts to my spoon, the really feminine shape to it and the way there is a deep red grain that runs down the handle. The colour of it doesn't really come out in the photie though.

I've shown you mine, now you show me yours!

hen
xx

 

[bushcraftbob]

That's a wicked spoon! I've only really just started making bishcraty bits and the best thing ive done so far is a tinder pouch made of canvas with a drawstring, died with coffee, will try and take a pic some time.

 

[hen]

That's a wicked spoon! I've only really just started making bishcraty bits and the best thing ive done so far is a tinder pouch made of canvas with a drawstring, died with coffee, will try and take a pic some time.

blimey, that sounds tricky to make! I've not had a go at making leathery things yet. Would love to see it!

 

[JohnC]

The yurt we made over last year, would be the thing I've been most proud of.
Making it involved all the family: jane, jak, joe , they all joined in with either cutting and drilling wood, or stitching the canvas, tying knots in string, or setting it up for measurements +++

When I look at the notes I made during it, there were not a lot of "specialised" tools involved, We had all the basic woodworking stuff, The canvas required a special "denim" needle. Soem of the jigs for cutting got recycled later in the project, and the spare canvas is still turing up in projects.

 

[hen]

:You_Rock_

you made a yurt!!!!!!! It looks solid as anything!! Fantastic!

I'll be getting in touch with you next year when we're building ours!!!!!!!

hen
xx

 

[Stevcho]

Tried in vain to load picture so maybe try www.bigshoescanoes.com for pic
How do you get upgraded to be able to upload pics

 

[launditch1]

Hi all.These are amongst some of the things ive made that im pleased with..Forged firesteels for traditional firelighting with flint.

 

[Snufkin]

My favourite is this spoon.

It's sycamore and I use it everyday. It's starting to colour now, getting a bit darker.

I do like my yew flatbow too but I just don't get to shoot it that much. I'm glad I managed to include the twig in the limb. I was close to using the other end of the billet for the handle and having a much shorter bow.

 

[StJon]

This is my first and favorite spoon, started on the Camp Crafts course at Woodlore. Birch branch cut down with handmade sapling bow saw, hewn with SFA, shaped with training knife and Svante Djarv hook knife, finished with olive oil. Take it with me whenever I'm in the woods

jon

 

[Mungo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

I carved it out of a large burl found in the woods nearby.



Mungo

 

[Rosco]

Nice thread. Great to see the excellent work that's been produced around here.

 

[brancho]

Excluding knives it must be this I think

 

[Hoodoo]

Probably the trickiest thing I ever carved was this ball in a sliding cage.

I also kinda like this egg and yolk thingy.

 

[MagiKelly]

So far the leather journal is my favourite. I always enjoy using it.

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23987

 

[g4ghb]

Has to be my knife and my sheath 'family' - although it has grown as I now have a silkey saw pouch to match - Need to take another group shot at some point methinks

 

[Cobweb]

Hen set your camera to tungsten (light bulb symbol) white balance for shots taken indoors with the house lights on (unless they are striplights!)

 

[hen]

I can't believe the standard of these creations!!! They're awesome!! Such a mix of stuff too, bows and steels, spoons, kuksa's and leatherwork, knives and yurts!!

Hoodoo; Hoo did you you doo it!?!?!?! Looks stunning and really tricky!!

I can't believe some of the craftmanship in this stuff! The leatherwork is amazing. :notworthy

I really hope everyone is confident enough to post up the favourite thing they've made, I'm loving seeing all these. Inspiring.

Hen set your camera to tungsten (light bulb symbol) white balance for shots taken indoors with the house lights on (unless they are striplights!)

Thank yoo cobweb, you're dead right! That's an old picture and I've now learned how to use the camera (sort of!). I might take a new photie of 'The Spoon' (hallowed be), as the wood is seasoning beautifully!

 

[rancid badger]

A bit of this and a bit of that

I think my real favourite is the large bark bucket
cheers
R.B.

 

[Mike Ameling]

I was kind of wondering if my various blacksmithing work could also be considered
... bushcrafty.

There are the 4 assorted canvas tents I've sewn up and used for the last
decade or two. And several coats/shirts/pants/mocs/belts/bags/haversacks. Plus a
couple wood trunks. But I don't have pics of those ... ordinary things.

So here are a few of the favorite things I've made kind of recently.

Sheet Iron Pipes - historically based on originals from the early 1600's on up well into the
1800's. They are made in the same general style as the clay pipes of the Fur Trade.

Iron handled clasp knives - based on originals recovered from the wreck of la Salle's ship
la Belle which sank off the coast of Texas in 1685.

Tourtieres - sheet iron (or brass) pans used to bake over an open fire before they
developed the cast iron Dutch Oven and it came into common use in the 1840's.

And a few of the latest batches of flint strikers.

And I don't have any pics of the whitetail deer skull/antlers I and Jay made up a year ago
- antlers forged up from solid bar and skull formed from sheet iron. Or the "coffee table"
we made - glass top with the pedestal made to look like a tree with the branches
spreading out to hold the glass top and the roots curling down around several rocks. Or
the wood door I covered with random sized rectangles of copper sheet - nailed at all the
corners with brass pins, flame colored/patina'd, with solid copper forged door pulls. But
Jay still hasn't gotten me pics of them.

Just a few ... favorite ... items.

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

 

[hen]

Rancid Badger...

:Wow: they are amazing. What are the mini totems for? How did you make the bark buckets??? How did you get the 'scorched' effect in the patterns of some of your spoons???

ahem... sorry... I get carried away.


Mikey...
I would consider what you've made there bushcrafty. I certainly would have your pans, steels, knives.... maybe not the pipe though! They're beautiful and I imagine were well tricky to make!
Your a busy man then!!