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Since sheaths is not and haven't been Moraknivs strong point i made a new one for my new classic 2/0. It's in the classic style wich keeps the simple elegance of the knife. Veg-tan leather and linen tread with no liner. Molded around a last. The belt hanger is a copy of the old ones but sewn...

Yes you can have the thin fluffy bark from both, but it's harder from silver/warty birch. When they have the proper girth with proper white bark full of oil the first 1.5 -2. m is full of the black dots or as it's in many cases in southern sweden, they have a thick crust bark. When it's only...

Going back to the first post and tree. By the look of the leaves I find it to be something else then silverbirch. They have such a sharp point. Skickat från min E5823 via Tapatalk

I can't make a ferrod fire without birchbark. An easy habit to learn in sweden... I try to avoid silver birch, or as it's called here, warty birch. The warts kind of get in the way but it also messes up the struckture of the bark so it's hard to peel in layers with a knife as shown in previous...

Wildo. Sweden. Plastic eating utensils, such as the folding kåsa. http://www.wildo.se/ Polyver. Sweden. Winter insulated boots. http://www.polyver-boots.com/en/ Olskogen. Sweden. Wooden forest-skis. Non eng web. http://olskogens.com/ Östergrenskidan. Sweden. Wooden forest-skis. Non eng web...

Savotta. Finland Tents and rucksacks. Manufacturer for Finnish and Estonian defense force. http://finn-savotta.fi/en/products/ Tältcentralen. Sweden. Tents. Takes custom orders. No english website. http://www.taltcentralen.se/ Varusteleka. Finland/Estonia. Mostly surplus but has their own...

Kero, Sweden. Mainly shoes but does some nice leather bags made by their own tanned reindeer leather. https://www.kero.se/ Hilleberg, Sweden but manufactured in Estonia. Tents, very good ones. http://se.hilleberg.com/EN/?language=EN Skråmträsk,Sweden. Shoes, good for rambling around but not...

I think wooden poles would be good, but the lenght and if it's sawn timber factor must be taken acount for plus what kind of wood. Sawn timber dosen't go along the fibers so i must be thicker to get the same strenght as cloven timber/ cut down trees that does go along the grain. And the longer...

In the end of march begining of april this year I have 3weeks of free time and was thinking it would be some fun with adventure. But what should i do? I have been trying to find some woodworking courses and events at that time but found none, then I tried some place that would be nice to take a...

Have a devold nansen sweater for 4 years now and it's still loking good despite i do some lumberwork in it. But it's not felted and not windproff, devold has a colection called "Blåkläder" that is more felted, have been loking to get one of those but 1 year ago they stuck a big logo on the front...

Have had mine for almost 3years now and i have used it as my main outdoor jacket. The cuffs are showing such wear and tear that they need to fixed. It has been working great so far but can't really remember if i have used it in any hevy rain other then that one time i tried it in the shower for...

My first contact with this kind of iron making was at "riverdale college that i was attending(Älvdalens gymnasium in swedish). There we had 1.5 day event every year at a national reserve were we made coal, tar and iron, we also had guided tours betwen the diffrent houses and a "resturant". All...

If I have the time I would like to come to Jokkmokk and met you guys. I'm also thinking about the posibility to meet you guys in Stockholm and be your own personal guide since i'm going to work and live one month in Stockholm this summer. But time will tell if i have the time, and the money to...

Some links about great sami craftsmen http://www.havard-larsen.com/index.php?modul=galleri&innhold=lastNed&album=4 http://www.erikfankki.se/ http://www.enoksson.org/Webbplats/Bilder.html http://www.nilsjohan.labba.se/Ovrigt.htm...

Something to make you more envious, next fall there's a high chance that will be attending the first year woodworking course at Sätergläntan. It would be nice to see you there. Thanks for posting those links, i had a wauge memory about that website didn't know were it was, so thanks for hiiting...

Since i'm going to work this summer at Skansen (a big outdoor/living history museeum in Stockholm) at the "Same viste" (Sami camp in eng.) i have been doing some research and came up with some links that you might find intresting. This is the search site that the 6 links below are taken from...

The first one worked for me but not the second one naturally, did not think that one trough last night... Here is a link to the forum itself it's about turskidåkning (hiking with skis in Eng) http://www.utsidan.se/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=35 No snow!? that must mean that you live in the south...

Some more info A Google translated page about an old man that makes skis and saying that skis should be 3m long thus making my former comment on ski length invalid...

It has nothing to do with your height but instead your weight, the higher the weight, the bigger surface area is needed to ski comfortably. Hunting and forest skis are shorter and wider and has a larger surface area then normal ski's because in the forest there is a lot of trees that makes the...

I like to think long and hard about what i need and then just toss everything in a big pack. :lmao: Well not to big, it's not nice to her your fancy pansy equipment rattling around getting destroyed, but not to small, i should be big enough so that i can reach the bottom of the bag without...