This video was taken on our 2 Day Bushcraft Course in April 2019. It was a bit of a chilly weekend, as you can see from us all wearing hats and scarves! But we still packed a bunch of stuff in, including knife safety and cutting techniques, fire lighting, cordage, foraging, tarps & hammocks, knife […]
Cross cutting is an incredibly useful technique and one we use regularly when we’re in the woods, from making a simple tent peg to pot hangers. Here I want to look at two methods of cross cutting small rounds of greenwood, hazel in the photos below, using a knife – the rosette cut and batoning. […]
Hopefully you’ve already taken a look at this post on knife safety, so now to look at different knife strokes, or cuts. It’s important to know what knife stroke to use and when so that you can work safely, efficiently and effectively. First up are a couple of power strokes; these are strokes that I […]
On our last Carving course Miles, one of the participants, asked me if I could send a list of the various carving and bushcraft tools that we’d been using over the weekend. Instead I thought I’d write a post covering some of the bushcraft tools we use on a regular basis. This first photo below shows […]
As a responsible bushcrafter, it is important to be aware of current UK knife law and to make sure that you’re in compliance with it. The guidance we provide here about UK knife law is given in good faith and to the best of our knowledge is correct, but we’re not lawyers, so take the […]
This simple modification to a Mora knife sheath (Companion HD) to prevent the knife from falling out was sent to me by one of our students, Dave, and is absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing. “For the bottom tie I pushed an inverted “V” of thin copper electrical wire up the drainage hole until it was visible at […]
