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Tar making and few misc. pics
What i am learning, is the making of tar in a pretty old the traditional Finnish way. During next week, ill be having an over nighter watching and ...well...smelling the "tar grave" smouldering and...
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Simple Kota / Lavvu interpretation, part 1.
As the fall arrives without a doubt, and it comes with grouse hunting season and other activities , i started to make a new shelter. Its sadly not made like , nor to be any "real" saame/saami kota nor...
View ArticleFew new-ish films, about old Finnish skills.
Heres something new for all you bushcrafters out there. No matter if you are more into hand craft skills of old finnish travelling "Jacks" who worked from area to another, from felling wood, to making...
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Little shelter update
Heres a few quick snapshots of my shelter progress. The cloth is -due to my lack of money- just made out of two tarpaulin pieces. BUT, i did NOT settle just to throw the tarpaulin over the frame, no...
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Hows it going here.
Well, like this..I made small simple coffeepouch, in style of canoe bags, from cow & moose leather and pitch thread.And went to participate Bshcraft Finland´s meeting in which we concentrated of...
View ArticleC´mon in Kuksa lovers & crafters.
You really may want to see this part, of quite new series broadcasted here in Finland. The show´s called " Peltsin lappi", as Lapland through the eyes a guy called Peltsi. Hes a younger chap, sort of,...
View ArticleCamera geeks ahoy.
Just a quick question for you.Would You choose;-Canon EOS 600D-Sony NEX-N5-Nikon 1 J2Yep,well i am not BUYING any cam of those, i am broke moneyless, but i have some options to get some cams to try...
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Just a few pics
Today i was ´bout to sleep over in my humble kota, but i got a call from my buddy, to help him out to build up a new large dog shelter for his two ew hunting dog puppies, so i had to skip the...
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Spoon with iisakki Järvenpää´s Rabbithunt puukko.
I had a good conversation with my friend whos a professional knifesmith with good points of view, and we got to chat about knives, as part of bushcraft community, especially in our own BcFin scene. We...
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Leuku of my father,and his father.
At first, sorry for the weak picture. But its the best i have in my hands right at the moment.Every year, i have mentioned my fathers old leuku while we´ve had been over the phone, like in every chat...
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Simple restoration of Marttiini leuku.
Heres a few pictures of the Marttiini´s leuku that i wrote about, a few days ago. So far, ive understood that its propably from year 1967, give or take 2 years, but most likely my dad received it as a...
View ArticleNew, small subforum on BcFin forum
Theres a tiny new subject created just few moments ago, on our BcFin forum, and in that, you guys speaking / writing english, are wellcome, especially if you are into Finnish outdoorsmen skills and...
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Lost a dog.
This has been such a shitty week.My old dog, that we adopted from Estonia, got very weak and sick in a blink of an eye, like in a week...He suddenly lost a few kilos of weight, went a little unfocused...
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Winters here...and i wish it wont melt away soon.
Heres just a snapshot of my kota shelter, after two days of permanent minus Celsius temps and light snow falling...i spent one night in there.no blankets,no sleeping bags or specific winter...
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