Bushcraft Blog
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Social Spoon Club- Every Wednesday evening at "The Barn" (aka The World of Bushcraft Centre- Rowsley)
STARTING WEDNESDAY 8TH NOVEMBER The team at Woodland Ways have decided to start an informal social club for anyone to join. The aim being to offer some casual evening company...
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Saw options as a bushcraft tool
To compile a set of tools that you can use when in the woods to make items, kit and furniture there are certain things that will make life easier. Most...
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Birch uses and dry distillation
In my next few blogs, I will be taking a closer look at birch and its uses, our two native species being silver birch (Betula pendula) and downey birch (Betula...
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Making a Folding Shave Horse
Before becoming an apprentice instructor, I like many others who choose to take this path, may have attended a number of courses with Woodland Ways. One of those courses for...
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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...