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Making a birch bark stacked knife

Making a simple jig for stacked knife handles, although I agree it could have been even more simple by leaving out the metal strips. But hey, I like it this way 🙂

Cleaning up a WWII Russian entrenchment shovel to be used for my other hobby which is metal detecting.

Making a no friction bowdrill bearing block from antler.

A friend who gives workshops in fire making asked if I can make some steel strikers for his workshops. In this video I show how I make them

From an old garden table and a bbq bottom part, I made a new grilling / bbq table, to expand my possibilities for outside cooking at home.

Making a wooden rocket stove without power tools. It burned in total about 1 hour, of which the first 10 minutes I was feeding it with birch bark and a little bit of fat wood. After those 10 minutes it was burning by itself from the inside out.

My wife wanted a swinging bench, but none of the commercial ones are long enough to be able to fully lay straight on it to sleep as well. So I made one with a steel frame, and wooden inserts thats long enough, and which is also able to be folded […]

In March 2014 I made the knife I still heavily use. The sheath was made from an old leather school bag, and did it’s job quite good, although I did not much work with leather before that. In the design I made a mistake which caused it to fail over […]

Recently I received the Mora Garberg as a gift from some friends. After first tryout, it seemed to have a second bevel, which I was surprised about since they are suppose to have a scandi grind. So, today I removed it and properly sharpened it.

Small compilation video of several additions / changes in the workshop so far. – Showing my new belt sander – changed the lights to better ones – added shelves – made a inlay for the workbench – hanged the screw and bolt cupboards – painted 2 cupboards that will be […]

My tool shed became a big mess after years of adding things. Nothing had it’s own place, and it became a problem to work on something due to all the mess. So I gave it a lot of thought, planned a new layout, and now starting to implement it. There […]

Many years ago I made my first neck knife, from a piece of coil spring for trucks. That’s the top one in the picture below. The shape was perfect and was very comfortable in the hand, except that it was very heavy. No wonder with a spine thickness of 8mm […]

In the past months I have every now and then been working on 3 knives. Finally they where ready for oiling the handles, so I also sanded down the 2 knives on the left, to be oiled as well. From left to right: My first bushcraft knife, My DIY knife, […]

This tripod has several different ways to be used. Nothing special though, just thought I’d share this.

Recently I re-shaped an old rusty axe head, to make it more carving style, for the son of a lady I know from the outdoor scene. No pics of video of how I did that, there are enough of those in my previous blogs. – Axe head, cleaned up, re-shaped, […]