lol!
roo, everyone who's anyone knows you don't carve hats!
you weave them out of your hair!
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Oh, [email]cr@p....[/email]
I need to grow me some longer hair; maybe like a 'Predator'.
Weave hats, carve spoons.... so THAT'S what has been going wrong. Soup all over the ground.

But you can carve shoes like the Dutch. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Wooden shoes... those Dutch are the masters of un-ninjalike noisy survival skills!

(Cloak, you stole my title!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> )

I agree with RW. Here. If you go to google they define "bushcraft" as survival skills. This will range from building shelters to fires, etc. I guess most of the stuff we've been doing can be classified as "bushcraft".

Awesome stuff and good thread to start. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Hahaha!

Heh I had some shoes like that when I was little, my Mom used to go on business trips to holland.

I've never tried to whittle a spoon, though I've seen it done by burning a depression with hot coals. I don't really see the point though... If you've got a pot, you can just sip from it Asian-style, why do you need a spoon?

one element of BC that I really like though is making stone tools; thats something I really want to get better at. Sharp, lets see if we can buy obsidian or flint around town?

whenever I mentioned making spoons, I was just using it as an example BTW...
in case any of you didn't know.

Instead of obsidian, why not practice with regular glass? I read an article in Backwoodsman where the author used the round bottoms of glass bottles to make points from. They looked pretty nice. Another article used old toilet porcelain. You can use nails for pressure flaking.

I dont consider myself a bushcrafter although I know many of the skills.

When I walk the woods I carry the best, strongest and lightest gear I can but I can get almost everything I need to survive in the wild if I have to.
I dont think you should chose leather, file knives, bow-drills, and sack cloth clothing as your main survival gear if you can carry and wear poly-pros, busse's, maxpedition, magnesium, and nyco.
Although being able to survive on the basics is a great skill to have.

Its not your gear, but your knowledge that will bring you back alive.
So get out there and learn and practice, just because you have a DFLE or a FFBM doesnt mean you can survive.
Get educated before you post.

my 2 cents

I agree with you mac, that its the knowledge and not the gear. That said, having a minimal amount of nice gear is something that most of us can expect to have around when we go into the wilds. Sure, there is a possibility of finding myself totally naked and lost in the middle of the woods, but its a rather small one. Chances are I'm likely to have at least a good set of cloths and possibly a knife. The only situation I can really imagine needing to start from scratch would be in a plane crash scenario, in which I would be wearing only my impractical civilian clothes and I wouldn't have a knife.

As for you request to "get educated before you post", I think its not quite what I had in mind for this thread. Sure, there are tons of people out there who know a lot. Maybe you're one of them, and maybe you're not, but I don't know you or your background so I won't pass judgment. One of the main points of this thread was to correct any misconceptions about BC, so I encourage even the "uneducated" to chip in. If they're wrong, they can learn the right way of doing things and could potentially learn life-saving info. If they're right, then the educate the less-experienced. Everybody wins <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I'm hoping Horn Dog will add his two cents on BC in his tropical area, because we've all read his tests on bush-craft knives and seen his other comparisons.

I wouldn't say there are really any "misconceptions" about BC.
I think this thread is more like... what it means to different people you know?
everyone can think of it as something a little different... but so far, me, mac and rainwalker seem to be on the same page. (only because what I THOUGHT of buchcraft changed)
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(then there is roo... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />)