Splitting kindling is a useful technique when you’re finding if difficult to source dry materials to light your fire. Whilst there are different ways to split kindling, in this video I show one of my favourite methods, using a ‘support stick’ to hold the wood still so that I can use my axe with one […]
An axe is a fantastic tool for us in bushcraft, it makes most tasks quicker and easier. But much like a knife it has to be well maintained and a big part of that maintenance is going to be around keeping your axe sharp. In this video I show you how to sharpen your axe […]
We do a lot of cooking over fire at our ancient woodland camp on the Kent Downs. And if you’ve cooked over fire before then you’ll know that it gets very hot! So a spatula with a long handle is a great idea so that you don’t have to get too close. The spatulas we […]
We run our spoon carving course a few times over the course of a year and we’ve got one coming up this weekend. Getting ready for a spoon carving course involves checking that all of the tools are sharp and also getting hold of the raw materials. So today we were in the woods felling a […]
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 […]
Take a look at this short video where I demonstrate splitting wood with an axe, firstly using a stump to split onto and secondly splitting a piece of wood on the ground. This video can be viewed in conjunction with this post that describes various splitting techniques (written 5 years ago, where does the time […]
