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Making a birch bark stacked knife

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 🙂

Making a simple jig for stacked knife handles

Just practicing my fire making skills a bit 🙂

One stick fire with axe and ferro rod

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

Cleaning up a WWII Russian entrenchment shovel

Making a no friction bowdrill bearing block from antler.

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

Forging a steel striker with knife edge from an old …

Together with 3 friends, we hiked about 35 km in a nice hilly area. Our train: Bara, Kacka, me, Tomasi, warming up in the train. The village where our train ride ended. Before we reached our destination for that night, we visited a pub to mingle with the (communistic?) locals […]

Hike in east Bohemia

My simple tarp setup for groundsleeping

I have started a small series of video’s for the beginner bushcrafter, on how to start low budget, and then if you are familiar with the exercise, to possible upgrade your gear. This episode is about making comfortable hammock Sorry, it is in Dutch language only

Het hoeft niet duur, deel 4 – Zelf gemaakte hangmat

I have started a small series of video’s for the beginner bushcrafter, on how to start low budget, and then if you are familiar with the exercise, to possible upgrade your gear. This episode is about making a simple but effective hobo stove Sorry, it is in Dutch language only

Het hoeft niet duur, deel 3 – Simpele hobo stove

I have started a small series of video’s for the beginner bushcrafter, on how to start low budget, and then if you are familiar with the exercise, to possible upgrade your gear. This episode is about testing the axe, a knife and some other simple gear. Sorry, it is in […]

Het hoeft niet duur, deel 2 – Bijl, mes, zaag, …

I have started a small series of video’s for the beginner bushcrafter, on how to start low budget, and then if you are familiar with the exercise, to possible upgrade your gear. This episode is about modifying a cheap axe into a usable axe. Sorry, it is in Dutch language […]

Het hoeft niet duur, deel 1 – Goedkope bijl aanpassen

Just having some fun with charcloth, flint and steel.

Lighting feathersticks with flint and steel

Three friends came over from The Netherlands for a hike in the beautiful nature of Czech Republic. It was a warm weekend, with temperatures between 26 and 30 celcius, so we planned the route passing a lot of fresh water sources.

Three day hike with 3 friends from The Netherlands

Rebuilding my tool shed – Part 5, making a tool …

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 grill / bbq table

Making stinging nettle tea, with a view

Cooking pasta and eggs on the fire

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.

Making a wooden rocket stove without power tools.

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 […]

Home made swinging bench / bed

Refurbishing an old knife with cow bone handles and gunshells

Together with 2 friends from The Netherlands, we spend 4 days hiking in Czech Nature.

Four day hike in beautiful Czech Nature

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 […]

Making a new leather sheath for my outdoor knife

Walk in nature, harvesting a burl, and baking eggs and bacon on the fire.

Walk in nature, harvesting a burl, and baking eggs and …

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.

Removing second bevel and sharpening my Mora Garberg

It was time to go to the forest again for a nice day walk with ym dog. I have some new equipment I wanted to try out, perfect chance to do it now. – Mora Garberg – New firesteel, thick and long one – Silky Gomboy 240, medium teeth – […]

Snowy walk, making tea, trying out equipment

Rebuilding my tool shed – Part 4, bench vise restoration

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 […]

Rebuilding my tool shed – Part 3, several small improvements

Simple and quick fire pit from a washing machine drum

Rebuilding my tool shed – Part 2, building the workbench

Seasoning my steel pan, the easy way

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 […]

Rebuilding my tool shed – Part 1, the cleanup

Trying various stones for flint and steel

Autumn hike, with rose quartz and steel for fire

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 […]

Forging a neck knife with antler handle

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, […]

Three knives that I made (and sold already)

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

Forging a multi-functional tripod

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, […]

Giving life to and old axe, yes, another one

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

Splitting laptops, cameras and mobile phones with an axe

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. – […]

Showing my backpacks

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