Bushcraft is about knowledge and not kit, the more you know the less you have to carry. So here’s a video of me making woodland tongs for cooking. There’s more information on our typical bushcraft tools in this post. We look at the techniques involved in making woodland tongs on our 1 Day Spoon Carving […]
Under most circumstances I’ll use a saw to prune a tree, you can see a video on the subject here. But there might be times, and I’m really thinking about last resort scenarios, where you might have to look at removing a hazel stem with a knife. So in this video I show you how […]
Monday saw us making a woodland spatula with a small group of home educated children we work with once a month. And as there was a little wood left over I thought I’d make a video demonstrating how to make a spatula using a knife and pruning saw. This time around we used sycamore; it’s […]
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 […]
Last week I did a short video on how to use a folding saw, however, more often than not if you’re in the woods you won’t have a stump. You might find a fallen tree that’ll act as a stable platform, but failing that you’ll need some other way to hold your materials to saw […]
