Bushcraft Blog
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Birch Tar through primitive technology
This is the third and final blog in a series about birch and its uses. In the first blog we covered the many uses attributed to it before focusing on...
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Bushcraft Holiday
In this blog I wanted to talk to you about bushcraft and whether or not you take it on holiday? I have had a few trips away and some have...
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Obtaining Birch oil with dry distillation
In my last blog “Birch Uses and Dry Distillation” we looked at the properties of birch and some of the many uses the tree can provide for us. One of...
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Toasty toes from Sweetcorn tinder
Autumn has well and truly arrived here in the northern hemisphere and, since I’m one of those people who feel the cold badly, now is the time when I get...
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Bushcraft an international language
Like most bushcrafters, I occasionally like to search YouTube to find videos to watch when I’m looking to improve or learn new skills. Recently one of the things I’ve been...
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Tubs ‘n’ Tins
I want to give you some ideas that I hope will fire those imaginations even more and really get you looking at re-using and recycling stuff that would normally be...
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Bow Drill - How many things could be ‘just not quite right?’ Blog 5 of 5
In this blog we are going to focus on the “stance” how to position yourself in relation to all the components of the friction fire bow set. If you have...
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Bow Drill - How many things could be ‘just not quite right?’ Blog 4 of 5
In this blog we are going to focus on the bearing block and bow of the bow drill set. If you have not read the previous three blogs that dealt...