Woods Competency
Recently, a client made the comment that he was a “student of wilderness survival, not a bushcraft type”. This struck me as sort of odd, so I asked him a bit about how… Read More
Category Archive: Woodscraft
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Thin, Sharp, Knives
If you look around the working world, at the knives that are regularly used to do work, you might notice some startling differences between those knives and what is prominent in the popular… Read More
Keep It Simple, Stupid
I carry butane lighters as part of my fire starting kits. People give all sorts of reasons not to do this, most of which come back to “they won’t work when you need… Read More
The Woodswalkers Bag
My Playground: Empty, yet Full of Opportunity, to the Horizon and Beyond Living rurally, as I am currently fortunate to do, affords some great opportunities for the survival/resilience minded person. Foremost is that… Read More
Otherwise about Axes
Continuing the conversation from our previous article, there are some further notes on axes and hatchets that merit sharing. While entire books on working with and maintaining axes can be (and have been)… Read More
Edgewise About Axes
Axes come up more than a little here on BFE Labs, and rightfully so: There are few tools that can do what an axe does, much less do it well. While there are… Read More
Working with Fatwood
Last week, in the Wet, Rusty, Dirty article, I made mention of fatwood. Fatwood, or pitchwood, is a product of resinous pine trees: After the tree dies, the sap (or resin) sinks to… Read More
Wet, Rusty, Dirty
In the real world things get wet. Things get rusty. Things get dirty. And that can have an impact on how those things, and the people using them, perform. Yet, I see pictures… Read More
Survival/Woodscraft Knife, Version 1
For several years now I’ve been using (some variation of) a particular set-up of edged tools for woods craft, survival, etc. There are several schools of thought on the appropriate cutting tools for… Read More
