Whilst making a shell pendant might at first sight appear to be a simple task, it actually brings together a bunch of complex skills. For this pendant I’ve used lime cordage, which means you have to be able to process lime bark to extract the fibres. You then need to be able to use those […]
Cordage is an incredibly important resource in a bushcraft setting. In this video I show you how to make 2 ply reverse twist cordage from lime bast. But the method is the same if you’re using nettle fibres, brambles or any other fibres. It’s a method of making cordage that has been developed all the […]
I put together a video last year about using the ‘plumbers vice‘, and whilst this is a good technique to use when you don’t have a working platform to saw on, it has its limitations. I find that it’s fine for pieces of wood up to about the thickness of a drink’s can, but bigger […]
After previously posting a video on collecting and processing sweet chestnut inner bark, I thought I’d make a video showing how to ignite it. We teach lighting sweet chestnut inner bark on our 2 Day & 5 Day Bushcraft Courses as well as the IOL Bushcraft Competency Course. You can see plenty of photos from all of these courses on […]
We don’t have many conifers around our ancient woodland camp, but recently we were gifted some fatwood by Joe, who lives in Snowdonia. Joe attended our IOL Bushcraft Competency Certificate training course earlier this year. So I thought I’d put together a short video showing how to prepare and ignite fatwood. We teach how to […]
This is the only occasion on which I’ve found inner bark of beech. Over the winter a beech branch came down and so I put it to one side to use later for some carving. I went back to it recently and found that I could pull away fibres from the inside of the bark. […]
