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Essential Gear For The New Bushcrafter Part 2 - Cutting Tools

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Essential Gear For The New Bushcrafter Part 2 - Cutting Tools Some examples of knifes that I use outdoors. Cutting tools For bushcraft use cutting tools are most often a fixed blade knife (maybe a secondary knife like a smaller fixed blade knife, a folder or a multi tool containing a blade), an axe or hatchet and a saw of some type. It is at least at a bare minimum a knife. The Knife A cutting tool is a knife for most of us and few tools can accomplish so much in the outdoors. I recommend getting a fixed blade where the blade is about 10 cm (4 inch:ish) long with a Scandinavian grind (also called a "V" grind which is a variation on a sabre grind, have a look here for an explanation on basic grind types ). This type of grind is good for general tasks as for example woodworking and is, in my opinion, a bit easier to sharpen. One manufacturer that most can recommend is Morakniv   which has several models which are suitable. In my opinion the entry level kni...
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Essential Gear For The New Bushcrafter Part 1 - Overview

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Essential Gear For The New Bushcrafter Part 1 - Overview The boreal forest. So you like to get outdoors and do some bushcraft? That's great but how do you begin and what do you need? I'd would like to try to give my opinion here but it is based among other things on that I live in Sweden where we have something called Allemansrätten ( Freedom to roam ). It's a unique thing in Swedish law that simplified makes it possible to hike and camp while following some principles on what one can and can't do. General guidelines when starting out with bushcraft is simply to get out into the outdoors and not start to collect all the gear you think you're gonna need first. While gear mostly will make it possible to do more and stay out for a longer period it isn't necessary to begin with. Simply getting out into the woods for a couple of hours in a area that you know well with a bag containing some food and something to drink is a good start. If you are allowed t...
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Gear collector or gear user?

Gear collector or gear user? Are you a person who love to read or watch reviews on for example YouTube, buying gear, building kits more then actually using the stuff? Well, it's OK - you aren't exactly alone. I have been watching a lot of YouTube channels where the trend is, and have been for some while, to review something and in most cases then state that it is a must have item. In most, that is in my opinion pretty much all, cases you probably don't need it. These YouTube channels constantly "review" gear, some are "sponsored" by the manufacturer, and it is in the channel's interest not to give a bad review on that item of gear. It is probably so that if they did they wouldn't be sponsored in the future right? Lets take knifes for example. Personally I have to confess that I got more knifes than I probably going to need during my lifetime. I also try to make my own knifes but that is more of a hobby of mine. I don't think of myself ...
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Bushcraft in Sweden?

Bushcraft in Sweden? Since I live in Sweden I find it interesting that we actually don't have a word for bushcraft in Swedish. Sure most of us do enjoy being outdoor either in the woodlands, mountains and such hiking, running, biking, skiing, hunting, fishing or whatever. Most people in Sweden have some connection to nature but far from all. Pretty much all do in some form enjoy the outdoors but we don't have a word describing bushcraft so we simply use the English term. Isn't that a bit strange? For me personally the term bushcraft describes at its lowest level some basic knowledge like types of plants, edible mushrooms, trees, fish, animals, insects, use of a knife, ax and probably some sort of saw, land navigation using a map and compass and how to get a fire going using matches. It might also be how to fish and how to cook it. The next level might be building shelters, deeper knowledge into use of plants and outdoor cooking. Since hunting is regulated in Sweden we g...
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