Musings of an Imperfect Man In Search of a Handmade Life
Winter is here. For some of you it is here with real gusto. Growing up in Missouri and being sent out to ‘play’ no matter what the weather or who was around I learned a lot about how to entertain myself. Snowfall in the Mississippi valley could be heavy and wet throughout the winter and […]
Read More Quinzhee Snow ShelterOriginally posted on Wild Tuscany Bushcraft:
One of my dreams comes true! Last month I’ve written a tutorial on making a wool bush shirt and this article… has been published in the Autumn issue of “The Bushcraft Magazine“!!! Here are two shots of my last work. https://www.instagram.com/p/-hTbiqipJs/ I must really thank Edward O’Toole owner of Carpatian Adventure…
Thanks to Survival Sherpa for posting this look at making a pack frame. Making a quick, three stick pack frame is a valuable bit of knowledge. How serendipitous that this came up (seems to be a lot of convergent thinking around my world lately) as I am beginning to tweak my own wooden pack frame […]
Read More How to Improvise and Use a Three Stick Roycroft Pack FrameA fun and relatively tame primitive technology event for a good price located in southwest Missouri put on by good friends of mine. Here’s some information from their website: This unique event has two parts – a free knap-in/native arts-crafts show starting Thursday, with top-notch knappers, artists, and crafters from a 20-state area making and […]
Read More Bois d’Arc Primitive Skills Gathering and Knap-InOriginally posted on Wild Tuscany Bushcraft:
Old style bushcraft: a medieval possible pouch During the Middle Age was common carrying small items like coins, keys, inside pouches or purses attached to the belt. There are many archaeological and iconographical documents, you can search for your favorite patterns, but there is a model that in my opinion, is one of…
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by Todd Walker Coffee drinkers like myself usually have a favorite mug or cup. My all-time favorite “tankard” developed a crack and DRG trashed it. A sad day indeed! My sob story may seem petty, but there’s nothing trivial about not having a way to “contain” stuff. Think of all the ways…
Starting as a field scientist in the heady days when men were men and GPS was not available to common civilians, I learned my way around a compass pretty well. I thought I knew something coming out of Boy Scouts but putting those skills to the test mile after mile in order to locate a […]
Read More Magnetic Compass, a Gimme from an Iron-Rich EarthThis is part of an ongoing theme to document travel and camping gear that has served me over the years. These will be mirrored on the Traveler’s Gear page as I get them up. As a traveler, primitive technologist, peaceful survivalist, affected provincial, long-time Idler, and sometime field scientist I find the necessity for a […]
Read More Travel EssentialsLearn them, use them. I understand that some folks are topologically challenged but knots are always a great skill to have under one’s belt. Learn ’em. Have someone teach you. Carry a bit of rope and practice until they come naturally. Teach your kids! I suggest learning the dozen or so from the Boy Scout […]
Read More KnotsFor the Ultra Minimalists, Part 1, click here. More Historic Minimalists – religious wanderers from the East Wandering Monks part 1 – The Buddhist monks that travel much of the year throughout Asia are about as minimalist as one can reasonably get. Early Buddhist monks were instructed to own, as based on the Pali Canon, […]
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