Some of my bushcrafty creations

[Corin]

Hi Guys,

I just signed on here I posted an intro, but pictures better show the sorts bushcrafty things I enjoy.
I am no master of any trade but I am not afraid to turn my hands to anything as long as it interests me. Sometimes I make nice things other times I make a mess, I am only going to show you things that are not too messy...

To start with, some carvings... Bone, Wood, Stone.

Knife stuff...

Home spun bark fiber cordage..

Big Bushcraft constructions, lashed bush poles, and pulleys.

 

[mountainm]

Hi Corin, and welcome. Some great stuff there. Love the stilt house!

 

[Wayne]

Nice carving especially like the bone.

 

[Toddy]

Hello and welcome to the forum
Looks like life's busy and creative

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Sherwood]

Hi and welcome, great stuff there

 

[JohnC]

Nice looking carvings, what tools are best for that kind of stone?

 

[Corin]

Thanks for the welcome and comments, glad you like my stuff! I have been having a look through the forum, I did not realise how big it was! There is heaps of great stuff on here!

Nice looking carvings, what tools are best for that kind of stone?

Hi John, the stone bowl is soap stone and is carved with really basic tools, hack saw, rasps, files, drills. I did a whole series of bowls in high school. The Jade/Greenstone pendant I carved using diamond tools in a mates workshop nearly 15 years ago. I am working with petrified wood at the moment, but it is a challenge without good quality diamond tools. It is very hard stuff!

 

[Wayland]

Nice work mate, nothing too shabby there.
I think you'll fit in nicely around here.

 

[Barn Owl]

Nice work there.

 

[cowboy]

Outstanding work there mate.. whats the green pendent make out of! looks lovely!

 

[Hoodoo]

Welcome to the forum! Some great looking projects there. Very nice work!

 

[Bluemerle]

Welcome Corin, you have some very nice stuff there

 

[Dreadhead]

Welcome, thats some braw work there! especially love the bonework and pendants great job

 

[sandbender]

Great stuff, love the stilt house.

 

[dwardo]

Stilt house is brilliant. Also the green stone?? carving is very nice,

 

[milius2]

Lovely work there mate! welcome to the forum! Loads of cool people around here

 

[brancho]

Corin
Nice to see you on here.
I was looking through the thread having not noticed the poster until I noticed the knife and thought I recognised it nice pioneering as expected from you.

 

[Corin]

Thanks for the positive comments all,

@Alf Hi Mate, good to see you on here! I have been flat out running knife making classes this year just gone. Something like 15 knives have been made in my shed this year, but only the one from me. I am set to change that between Christmas and new year, as I have a bunch of commissions I am months late in completing.

Did you ever get to make your own blades? That was the direction you were heading last time we spoke if I remember correctly.

@ Cowboy, The stones local name in New Zealand, is Pounamu or Green Stone, it is actually a nephrite jade. It is lovely stuff, and was highly prized by the Maori people for stone tools. It was ground as opposed to flaked, so quite different to Flint in that regard

 

[Whittler Kev]

:welcome1::welcome1::welcome1::welcome1::welcome1:
Nice carving there dude

 

[seagypsy]

love the greenstone, and the bowl is incredible.