DIY projects

My son used the standard Mora Companion, of which I had removed the belt loop. After a year or so he saw a friend with the same knife but with belt loop and dangler system, so he asked if he could have it as well since his knife didn’t fit […]

A friend of mine owns a couple of cows, and it was time to butcher 1 of them, and section it into smaller pieces to sell it.Me and a couple of guys helped him with this, which was quite interesting and fun work.

For several years we have a small patch dedicated to berries alone, and our dog has destroyed it mostly every year.We have a lot of mice and lizards running around in our garden, which he likes to hunt.But now age is catching up with him, and he is not able […]

Friends asked me to make them a dog bowl holder from wood.With some left over pine boards that are 30 years old, I made one to the specifications they asked for.Quite a simple project.

Since a couple of years my son and I collect dandelions in spring to make honey from it.It’s a fun job to do together with your kid, and gives a tasty result.Online you can find many recipes, mine is a variation from a few I found online.The main difference is […]

I’ve build a mining rig and try to have this way a small passive second income next to our normal salaries. Here is the video of how I made it:

About 20 years ago I bought a guitar from a 2nd hand shop in The Netherlands with the intention to learn how to play it.Till this day I still have that intention, an hopefully soon I will start with that.But to prevent this guitar spending another 20 years or so […]

After years of standing in corners or cupboards, my fishing rods finally have a place of their own and out of the way.

For a very long time I wanted to forge my own axe, and recently I had the chance to do so. Together a with a good friend we signed up for a workshop axe forging at a blacksmith shop.Some parts where easy, some parts difficult, and I made one big […]

For a while we wanted a bench in the garden, one of those rustic ones.When I was in Holland visiting relatives and friends, I was able to buy these rusty side parts from a farmer. Together with some cut to size beech, the bench is now again ready to be […]

My chainsaws are always on the ground and in the way, time to make a rack where they can hang on the wall.

For the upcoming Dutch Bushscraft weekend mid September, I wanted to make a small grill / cook setup where my friends and I can prepare our food on between and after the workshops that are given there.The sink is an old one, quite thick material, not one of those flimsy […]

From an oversized axe handle, I made a thinner octagon handle for my smaller pack axe.

From some scrap wood I made a wine / whisky rack for on the wall, as a housewarming gift for my friends.

The fabric 1.0 oz Hyper D ripstop nylon was bought at ripstopbytheroll.com. Hammock itself weighs 187 grams, and complete with suspension and treehuggers it weighs 383 grams.

Making a winter tarp with doors from 1.1 oz silpoly.

Restoring an old home made bandsaw:

For a long time I wanted to have a skrama, but the handle material is what always stopped me from buying it. So last week I decided to forge one from an old rasp. The rasp was 7mm thick so with lots of hammering I got it down to an […]

Modding a down sleeping bag into a underquilt for a bridge hammock

For our grilling corner we wanted a small table where we could put the food and drinks on during grilling / cooking on the fire. I’ve seen a few pics of tables with axes as legs but with the bit sticking out above the table. With a small kid around […]