Last weekend I was turning at Linacre woodland festival near Chesterfield. It is a lovely small local event in nice woodland alongside the reservoir. There are some excellent craftspeople demonstrating and we stay on site and have a nice evening round the camp fire….sometimes work can be very pleasurable indeed. It is a family friendly event with story telling for…
Last year I came across a chap in Sweden Fredde Norgren who has wonderful bushcraft skills. He has lots of videos on his youtube site and if you are into the outdoors and simple (but very proficient) hand skills I would recomend looking through them. Fredde and I have aranged a 3 day course in the UK so we can…
Nicola has just finished a video of the spooncarving course we did at Chopwell woods, it’s up on youtube here, you can see we had fun. And for those that enjoy bushcrafty type things I recently discovered a chap on youtube from Sweden who has some lovely down to earth videos. His name is Fredrik and I hope to meet…
Whilst we went to Chopwell Woods to teach spooncarving we also learnt some bushcraft tricks. My favourite was learning to make fire with flint and steel, Eric Methven taught me and Ollie and Jojo too then gave us a flint and steel each to practice at home. Here is Ollie blowing his ember into life. And Jojo. This really is…
It has been a busy time since my last post. I have continued playing with birch, this time making a birch bark box. I have admired these for years and at Christmas was sent two by a German friend, they were made in Lithuania. I managed to take one apart and put it back together learning how the joints worked…
