Mears new series.
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familne,
sorry I'm a bit late in replying but if you have sky you can catch it on bbc2 england or ireland.
See this thread for further info.
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?p=78806&posted=1#post78806
Cheers
JFW
sorry I'm a bit late in replying but if you have sky you can catch it on bbc2 england or ireland.
See this thread for further info.
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?p=78806&posted=1#post78806
Cheers
JFW
Well guys your in for a treat!
After the disappointment of the first series I have to say I loved every minute of this one.
After the disappointment of the first series I have to say I loved every minute of this one.
Fascinating from start to finish - not much to be negative about on this occasion...Glued (or resined ??) to it for the full hour....incredible skills, "1st Nation Culture" in your sitting room, we can't expect much more from 21st century television....the next best thing to being there and having a go ourselves.
Just to add my bit.
I think it was excellent. Just the sort of thing we bushcrafters have been hoping and waiting for.
Even though I won't be going out to make a canoe, it gave you many things that can be used in other areas of bushrcaft (resin, roots into rope).
Just hoping the rest of the series is just as good.
Well done, Ray Mears
I think it was excellent. Just the sort of thing we bushcrafters have been hoping and waiting for.
Even though I won't be going out to make a canoe, it gave you many things that can be used in other areas of bushrcaft (resin, roots into rope).
Just hoping the rest of the series is just as good.
Well done, Ray Mears
top marks Mr Mears... Great program, I hope the rest can maintain the brilliance of last nights episode.
I want a birch bark canoe now... and how about those fur traders ones? massive.
I want a birch bark canoe now... and how about those fur traders ones? massive.
Paganwolf
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Awesome, why oh why did my dad come over here from canada 
, ive bought his first half of the new series on DVD and have re watched it and see it in a very different light now, this program was great and the end product beautiful, I cant even begin to imagine how he felt when it hit the water and he got in it for the first time, "Sigh" Top marks here.
, ive bought his first half of the new series on DVD and have re watched it and see it in a very different light now, this program was great and the end product beautiful, I cant even begin to imagine how he felt when it hit the water and he got in it for the first time, "Sigh" Top marks here. 
bambodoggy
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Guys,
as I said over on BB I fell asleep half way through the program last night (due to being very tired and not due to the show!)...I'll watch the rest tonight but what I saw was fantastic... I'd been toying with a birch bark canoe for a few months now but cost is stopping me....
Anyway, here's a couple of interesting links, one for making them and one for buying them....enjoy: (The buying price does seem very reasonable to me).
http://www.squeedunk.com/building.htm
http://www.cyberus.ca/~jriver/
as I said over on BB I fell asleep half way through the program last night (due to being very tired and not due to the show!)...I'll watch the rest tonight but what I saw was fantastic... I'd been toying with a birch bark canoe for a few months now but cost is stopping me....
Anyway, here's a couple of interesting links, one for making them and one for buying them....enjoy: (The buying price does seem very reasonable to me).
http://www.squeedunk.com/building.htm
http://www.cyberus.ca/~jriver/
Michael & I both thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. As Mike went off to bed afterwards he was muttering something about "Granny's got a big cedar in her yard..." That'll test his GB pocket axe!
I think net week is a trip in open canoes.
Cheers,
Dave
I think net week is a trip in open canoes.
Cheers,
Dave
The price these guys are asking is a lot less than I have seen elsewhere, who's going to be the first to ask about shipping costs?
if only I had somewhere to keep one.
Still I'll settle for a few evenings out on the lakes in Sweden in June - maybe after that I'll try talking SWMBO into my ned for one!!
Still I'll settle for a few evenings out on the lakes in Sweden in June - maybe after that I'll try talking SWMBO into my ned for one!!
Eric_Methven
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
It was the stitching method that I learned most from, basically a saddle stitch using split roots. I hadn't figured out how two panels of birch bark were joined before. Now I can try and make a birch bark coracle, that should be easier and cheaper than trying a canoe, and if it works, move on to a canoe next year.
Eric
Eric
Fantastic,enjoyed every second of it.I was glued to the tv,the thing what strikes me with Ray Mears is that he is able to comunicate his obvious love and enjoyment of his subject material.You could see how much he was enjoying what he was doing.
Just a reminder that it starts at 8pm this evening (Thursday). This one focuses on canoeing through Canada and looks good
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