Bush Craft Field Craft Survivalist thread

[KFhunter]

nice 

[jdb]

Stole this from the web buts what I carry

[pianoman9701]

What's everyone's bush crafting knife?

Slef-made "scandi"

Wazukie made mine, too. The smaller one I use. The larger one went to my brother for his 60th. 

[JJB11B]

Tomorrow I have to go shop around for some candidate material to play with stock removal knife making....need to rig up something to use as a forge. I know the owners of a large scrapping company and some of their employees, Ill see if I can get one of them to rough me out the start of an anvil out of some RR track

[Wazukie]

Tomorrow I have to go shop around for some candidate material to play with stock removal knife making....need to rig up something to use as a forge. I know the owners of a large scrapping company and some of their employees, Ill see if I can get one of them to rough me out the start of an anvil out of some RR track

A weed burner and 4 fire bricks works well for a simple forge.  Leaf springs can make a good knife.  I use 1084 and 1095 high carbon steel for all my knives.

[JJB11B]

and I think  I have a line on a bunch of old saw blades and files...I've always wanted to try to make a fillet knife our of an old hand saw blade... also watched a guy on youtube last night forging his own straight razors, looked fun....

[KFhunter]

just occurred to me I already have a forge,  it's a branding iron blower and it'll flat heat a chunk of metal white hot.


Have to be careful I don't get the branding iron too hot

[jasnt]

just occurred to me I already have a forge,  it's a branding iron blower and it'll flat heat a chunk of metal white hot.


Have to be careful I don't get the branding iron too hot

that would do nicely I'd bet.  Something I've always wanted to learn is forging blades. I'd love to make my own knives and axes

[KFhunter]

get one of these in the meanwhile, it's in my list of things I want 


http://www.gransforsbruk.com/en/

[jasnt]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WqyP6tjc2jI
Quick review of forging an ax

[KFhunter]

I ended up watching a dozen youtube vids on power hammers,  wow


The steam hammer design was phenominal

[jasnt]

I ended up watching a dozen youtube vids on power hammers,  wow


The steam hammer design was phenominal

lol I did the same. Also a bunch of forging videos. I got plenty of leaf springs

[JJB11B]

Due to my limited space I think I'm going to be doing stock removal knife making, I need to build a forge anyways for annealing and tempering though.

[kellama2001]

Good website to access different survival books/dvds/gear etc.  Helped me finish my Christmas list 

http://backwoodsmercantile.com

[JJB11B]

Anyone got a line on a good anvil that isn't $1,800?!  I looked online at new ones last night I about messed my drawers!