Knife skills for making a spindle


Six months or so ago I did a couple of videos around improving your knife skills.  This week continues that theme with a video on knife skills for making a spindle for use in bow drilling.  To make the spindle I firstI baton a piece of sycamore, I’ve done a video in the past on batoning with a knife, so take a look at that for a refresher.

A knife is likely to be your most important tool in a bushcraft setting and so any chance you get to practice using it is time well spent.

We teach Knife skills for making a spindle on the IOL Bushcraft Competency Course.

You can see loads of photos from this course, as well as all of our other courses, on our Facebook page.


About Gary

Lead Instructor at Jack Raven Bushcraft, teaching bushcraft, wilderness and survival skills to groups and individuals.

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