Make your own outdoor gear!

Here's a link to making your own outdoor gear that has great directions.
Use the Menu on the left for directions on making the following:
BACKPACKS
SHELTERS
STOVES (all kinds)
COOKWARE
SLEEPING
ACCESSORIES (Headlamps, Fishing gear, Rope bag and more)

http://www.backpacking.net/makegear.html

VERY NICE!!!! Thanks for the link, I'll have to try some of those projects. I see a few I would like to do with the Boy Scouts.

Exellent !, I like the idea of the 'Kiwi Stove'

Thanks very much Gray Wolf

Lots of great projects! I like the Altoids Stove idea.

Nice link GW - thanks.

This is a great link to have for those cold winter nights...lots of projects to try out...thanks

Very interesting and useful site.

I'll be reading more about this site,good stuff

I did the simple MODIFIED ESBIT STOVE, and what a difference. (slaps self on head, should have had a V8).

Now starting the J. Falk's 4 in 1 Cat Stove.

That is a pretty simple mod, and easier than bringing a full wind screen. Nice.

It was so basic it's killing me! I've always used a full wind screen, these flaps are nothing to pack.... duhh

I'm telling myself I would have thought up the modifications to the Esbit with a bit more time. Yes, I would have! Really!

I did the "ALTOIDS STOVE" this evening. I used one of the little half size tins, and used the perlite. What an easy stove to make and he was right on two things. In an Esbit stove, the height is perfect, and it does look like an Esbit tab on steroids when burning.
Real easy and inexpensive.

great site! thank you:)

Anybody remember those old "Cat's Whisker" AM radios they used to make out of scrap metal & wood? Weren't they also called "Foxhole Radios"?:confused:

They sure were, Sarge. Here's a post I did on them some time ago.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...=crystal+radio

Wasn't there one that you had to touch to a house radiator?

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Wasn't there one that you had to touch to a house radiator?

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Thanks Rick! I thought it had been posted before, but had forgot where, when, & by who. that's why I'm always looking for ways to keep important info like this to the forefront where we can locate it easy! Okay Wolves, Rick has done all the work for us. Enjoy!:D

It's amazing how well those things work...without any batteries. Powered by the radio waves they receive. I bought about 10 diodes several years ago and still have most of them them in my bag. The hard part today is finding an older carbon receiver but having worked for La Telephona Gigantica I've got a few of those around, too.:D

Rick, there is a MODIFIED TRANGIA STOVE how to here (same site as above).

http://www.backpacking.net/makegear.html

Someone posted the modified Esbit a couple of weeks ago and I was looking at the Trangia then. I don't have the Tig/Heli arc so it was just a nice read.

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Someone posted the modified Esbit a couple of weeks ago and I was looking at the Trangia then. I don't have the Tig/Heli arc so it was just a nice read.

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That was me, I did that mod. As far as the Trangia mod, there are other ways to attach those same legs w/o the Tig/Heli arc.

I thought about bees wax but then there's that whole flying close to the sun thing. Oh, wait. That's another story. Never mind.

Maybe ear wax?

Where do these people get those wives that let them have toys like the Tig/Heli arc, and the plasma cutter ???

JB Weld is about all I play with that may work.

I felt this was worth a bump. Scout Masters, myself, and others, have been having a great time making these projects.

Here's a link to making your own outdoor gear that has great directions.
Use the Menu on the left for directions on making the following:
BACKPACKS
SHELTERS
STOVES (all kinds)
COOKWARE
SLEEPING
ACCESSORIES (Headlamps, Fishing gear, Rope bag and more)

http://www.backpacking.net/makegear.html

Site 1 - Here's a link to making your own outdoor gear that has great directions.
Use the Menu on the left for directions on making the following:
BACKPACKS
SHELTERS
STOVES (all kinds)
COOKWARE
SLEEPING
ACCESSORIES (Headlamps, Fishing gear, Rope bag and more)

http://www.backpacking.net/makegear.html

Site 2 - Here are more great projects for all:
* Making a knife from a saw blade
* Fish Trap
* The Stone Saw
* The Three-Stick Roycroft Pack Frame
* Hoko Knife
* Carved Dish
* Kuska Cup Tutorial
* Willow Tarp / Clothes Clip
* Net Making - Tatting Method
* Beech Bark Container
* Making Basswood Twine
* Berry Picker
* UCO 9 Hour Candle to Oil Burner
* Paracord Bracelet Tutorial
* Antler Needle
* Tudor Rose Bracer
* Five Hour Forge
* Cordage Backed Bow
* Grow Your Own Bowstring
* A Foolproof Method for Tillering Bows
* Hafting a Stone Blade the Old-Fashioned Way
* Making a Scandi knife
* Keltoi Moccasins
* Stone Age Arrow
* Bamboo Bow
* Clay Pot
* Spoonylicious!
* Knife Sheath
* How To Make A Shave Horse
* Crab Trap
* How To Make A Flat Pack Wood Burning Stove
* Sheath Making Tutorial
* Knife Handle Tutorial
* Antler Needle
* Fishing Hook Tutorial
* Bark Container for Hand Drills
* Bows - Yew
* Stone Age Sling
* Cartridge Case Matchbox
* Antler Tweezers
* Making a bow from a sapling
* Fletching By Hand
* Flemish Twist Dacron Bowstring
* Small Hook Case Tutorial
* Tinder Container Tutorial
* Tinder Fungus Tutorial
* Glue Stick Tutorial
* Inuit Thimble
* The Scapular Saw
* Jiffy Fletching Using Duct Tape
* The Primitive Sauna
* Turk's-head Knot Tutorial
* Braiding a Baldric Strap (Part 1)
* Braiding a Baldric Strap (Part 2)
* Quick Cheap Pocket Stove To Make
* All Thai'd Up?
* How To Make Char Cloth
* Making Leather Sheath with No Stitching

There are more at the tops and bottoms of the two pages- well written instructions for each.

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/index.php/Table/DIY/

Enjoy!

More great stuff. Thanks.