DIY projects
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Making a multi-functional axe for my hiking trips. Long and heavy enough to cut down a tree, short and light enough for processing fire wood, and customized head for easier handling during carving.
Making the ultimate food bag for outdoor trips from all leftover materials I had from previous projects and a discarded backpack.
A friend of mine asked me to make this for him. It should be a double bit, leather wrapped, decorated axe. This is how it turned out.
For my wood carving projects I needed a wooden mallet, so I made a simple one, with a ash handle, a beech head, and oak dowels to strengthen it. The wedge is also from oak.
To make nice pictures of outdoor equipment and my axe collection, I made this photo box. I did not go for the usual cardboard box setup, but for something more sturdy as some of the equipment is heavy.
This is the 3rd forge I made from a barbecue, and in this video I am showing you all the steps I take to make it work.
Making a simple cheap lightweight pot stand from 2 bicycle spokes for my Toaks titanium alcohol burner.
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.
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, […]
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 […]