When we’re teaching knife skills on our courses we always start with knife safety. And one of the things we discuss is the importance of using a sharp knife. So here’s a short video of Bob demonstrating how to sharpen a bushcraft knife using a Japanese waterstone and leather strop. We teach how to sharpen […]
We use char cloth regularly on our courses when we’re teaching fire lighting. Char cloth is a tinder made from natural fabric that’s charred in a tin, a bit like making charcoal but on a much slower, and quicker, timescale. I generally use cotton as it’s easy to get hold of. And from the various […]
We use mallets regularly on our courses for all manner of tasks, from batoning with a knife and splitting with an axe to simply knocking in pegs when we’re putting up a tarp. In this video you can see Peter making a woodland mallet with a folding saw and a knife and then Bob doing […]
Check out this short video of Bob making 2 ply reverse twist cordage from lime bast. I’ve written a post previoulsy that shows you how to prepare the fibres, here we show you how to turn those fibres into cordage. We make natural cordage on our Cordage & Containers day as well as on our IOL Bushcraft Course and 5 […]
We make woven and folded containers on our Cordage & Containers day and sometimes we have a little left over. This was the case on our last such course back in June and whilst the bark had dried out it became more than pliable enough to make a plaited bark strap after soaking for a […]
When we teach debris shelters we always make a big deal about the importance of getting off the floor. It’s incredibly important to get get something between you and the ground as the ground will literally suck the heat right out of you. So here’s a video of Peter making a bed for a debris […]
