I’ve written previously about lighting a fire with wire wool and a battery in this article which was originally published in The Bushcraft Journal in 2016. But as a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought I’d do a short video showing you how to do this, and also include a few of my […]
Now in it’s 8th year, we’ll be starting Bushcraft Club on Wednesday 5th May 2021 at 6:30pm from our ancient woodland camp in Westwell, Kent, just a few miles from Ashford. Bushcraft Club is for over 16s only. It will run for 8 weeks on a Wednesday evening from 6:30pm until 8:30pm (or so) starting […]
After mistakenly telling everyone last week that I’d done a video previously on using downy flower heads as a tinder, and then realising that I hadn’t, here’s one! I talk about how downy flower heads are best used as a tinder and also show a few different ones that you can find in the British […]
This is the fifth in a series of videos on the topic of natural tinders for bushcraft after previously covering inner barks, outer barks, fungus and downey flower heads. But of course there’s always things that don’t fit into any catergory, so this video is about some of the other natural tinders that we can […]
Starting a fire with a bow drill is probably the single most iconic skill within bushcraft. I haven’t practiced for a little while and so yesterday I decided to change that. And then I decided that I might as well make a video showing the process. So for the video I used a lime hearth […]
I wrote an article on how to use a fire piston for The Bushcraft Journal in 2016 and it’s reproduced on our blog here. It’s definitely worth a read and compliments the video below, which is all about fire pistons. We teach fire pistons, and loads of other ignition methods, on our 2 Day & 5 Day […]
