Yearly Archives: 2016
32 posts
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 cleaning up at home, I decided to get rid of some old netbooks, mobiles and camera’s. And before throwing it away, why not split it open with an axe ? 🙂 Check my blog for more axe related things: www.dabberty.com
In no particular order, here are the backpacks I use for my hiking trips. – Vaude Jolly Comfort, 20L, for carrying my kid when I walk the dog. – Mountain backpack, 30L, usually for daytrips only, to collect things. – Colonial shoulder bag, for day trips, almost not used. – […]
With 3 friends from Holland, we went on a hike for 4 nights, 5 days. Weather forecast showed loads of rain, so we where prepared for it, but still we got pretty wet half way through. Here are some pics. Re-packing at home, adding the food we just bought etc. […]
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 […]
I took the shrapnel knife plus billy can out for some testing. The knife, still shaving sharp and no damages to it, and the bread form the billy can was good.
Together with 2 colleague’s we went for a day walk in the Krokonose mountains here in Czech Republic. Michal, who is very familiar with this area, and Shahzad, who never was here or walked in any hills / mountains. Early morning at the beginning of the trip. On the next […]
Normally I wear always in the outdoors some old army pants. Not cause the look cool or army stylish, but because they are very robust, and do not seem to get damaged. But after all these great stories about fjallraven pants, where people have them for 15 years and still […]
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 […]
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.
Together with Mirek and my dog, we spend this weekend in a rocky area, north of Prague. Here and there was still some snow, but the temperature was slightly above 0 Celsius. The landscape was amazing, and in total I made 166 pics, of which you will find here only […]
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 […]