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Some of the author's Flint and Steel Kits.

Punkwood

By on May 19, 2014 in Classic Camping, Fieldcraft, Firecraft, Master Woodsman, Primitive Skills, Woodcraft

When the realization set in to all the things punkwood offers with fire, and how available it is in the woods, I did the quintessential face-palm. This also happens frequently when I read the classics from Kephart, Jaegar, Beard, Seton, et. al. and see those simple and cool solutions that I didn’t take advantage of in […]

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Close-up from one of the applications in the video.

The Pot Hook Notch

By on May 14, 2013 in Classic Camping, Firecraft, Knifecraft, Master Woodsman, Woodcraft

Timing is everything so they say… I just started reading Mors Kochanski’s new eBook from Karamat, Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Handbook.  A pleasure unto itself.  But that got multiplied this past weekend doing knifecraft with my good friend Steve Watts. Talking knives, Steve entwined his encyclopedic knowledge of primitive skills, Nordic tradition, the American […]

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