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From some left over materials I made a simple strop.

After I cleaned my Dutch Oven properly and gave it a fresh seasoning, it was time to make a pot lifter and 2 pot stands. For this I used old iron, some horse shoe’s, and a hand grenade. How it was made:

Due to the tree’s in my garden being still too young and thin to use them for my hammock, I liked the idea of having a hammock stand. I could not find any design online that I really liked and which was completely fold-able. So I spend some time drawing […]

My Dutch oven stood for a whole year outside in the fireplace, where it could not get wet, but still it rusted. I tried several things in the past few weeks, like scrubbing it with a potato and course salt, and even electrolysis, but not luck. Then I tried something […]

In this video I’m showing how I hand forged a knife from a piece of grenade shrapnel. Knife specifications: – Metal: Shrapnel from a 122 mm grenade used by D30 Artillery during the Bosnian war around 1994. – Total length: 328 mm – Blade length: 180 mm – Blade width: […]

The modifications work fine, which I showed in this topic. But inspired by people who bake bread in their billy cans, and to have the possibility to steam vegetables or fish, I bought some ikea ‘steamer insert’, made out of stainless steel. First I removed all the ‘scales’, simply using […]

For quite some time I wanted to make a birdhouse from a log, here’s the result.

In the last 2 weeks I have been restoring an old axe head for a starting bushcrafter in The Netherlands. I’ve made a short video of all the steps, hope you like it.

For quite a while I had this hewing axe laying around, which needed a big cleanup. So I started with the head, putting it in my electrolysis bath. After 4 hours. After 24 hours. Cleaned it up with a wire brush, and dipped it up side down back in a […]

A couple of years ago, I bought a batch of axes from an old man, who also gave a block of rust in a shape of a big knife. I had it laying aside all the time till last weekend, when I decided to clean it up by using electrolysis. […]

From an old pair of Sony speakers, a simple amplifier (2x 25 watt rms), 16 mm MDF, and a very old suitcase, a new sound system was born.

My first tool roll for my carving set does not suffice anymore, since I have a couple of additional items to add to it. So I made a new one from a leftover piece of NVA tarp.

On the 15th of January my son was born. I’ve been planning to make a time capsule for him which he can open on his 18th birthday. Here is what I have put inside. Global overview, and junior is sleeping in the box. The content: – Bottle of Hennessy given […]

For the mancave, a source of music was still missing. You can’t just chill with a whiskey & cigar or pipe, without listening to your favorite tunes. So through the local ebay variant I bought this old radio / record player from 1961 which did not work anymore, for about […]

Since a couple of months I own a zebra billy can. During the last couple of hikes I have been using it, and made some modifications to make it work better for me. Here they are: Complete set. The metal square holder was removed, and replaced with a 2 mm […]

From one of the birch burls I found earlier this month, which has been drying in the garage, I started carving my kuksa. The previous one cracked when I pored boiling water inside of it.. Won’t do that again. The burl harvesting you can see here. The tools, my carving […]

Every year with some friends we rent a couple of canoe’s and go canoeing, fishing, camping, etc, great fun. Those canoe’s are the heavy thick plastic ones which I don’t like too much. For the same money as renting a canoe 10x, I could also buy a used one, which […]

For a long time I planned to make some birch oil and use it for my axe handle. The method is simple, bigger can which you can close with a hole in the bottom, and a smaller can under it to catch the oil.

Nothing special, just some progress on some knives that I worked on previously and started working on. The big boy is made from a grenade shrapnel, from the kosovo war. And as last making a firesteel and testing it.

Some time ago I bought a Polish lavvu, M size (170-180), and used it a couple of times in the garden to test out some sleeping pads, Czech army bedroll, etc. Problem was the space. Me being 177 cm tall, would barely fit it in. Time passed and I attended […]

During the last few weeks on every day hike and dog walk I collected pine resin to purify it on a later date. Now I collected enough, and decided to go for it. The plan was to melt it in the old big pan, filter it with the filter, and […]