Tips for finding supplies in urban areas?
I live right in the middle of a pretty big city (Portland, Oregon), and I am always envious when I read people's accounts here of how they went out and "got" some river cane, or some black locust, or...
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Here are a couple case skinning videos that are decent. One is for a chipmunk and the other for a squirrel. It just takes pratice. Nothing beats hands on cause sometimes you can see everything in a...
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Quillsnkiko wrote:Old porcelain toilet tanks and lids....knapps. they call it Johnstone.Does it really? I thought it would be too coarse, but I've never broken one and really looked at it. That would...
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CurtisSmith wrote:Here are a couple case skinning videos that are decent. One is for a chipmunk and the other for a squirrel. It just takes pratice. Nothing beats hands on cause sometimes you can see...
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Most modern toilet porcelain is pretty tough. If you can find an older one they were better porcelain and knaps better. I have only messed with a couple toilet lids and didn't like them at all. If...
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Tyrannocaster wrote:Does it really? I thought it would be too coarse, but I've never broken one and really looked at it. That would be a great addition to the list of things that are destined to be...
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Something I forgot to mention is that (in case this never occurred to someone - I'm kind of slow sometimes, LOL) if you have a good relationship with your butcher you can get stuff. Sometimes free,...
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I think that you have just hit on a concept that I was about to suggest: nobody knows that you want "stuff" unless you give them a list. Glass, stone, sturgeon skin = you name it. Write those things...
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Whilst i often hit the countryside for materials i love to hunt around urban areas for stuff to craft with. I live in one of the oldest industrial areas there is (Midlands, England) and there are...
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skalla wrote:Admittedly, one has to get over the stigma/possible suspicion of being seen walking into a big clump of bushes not to be seen for an hour....I gather many materials for food and craft in...
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LOL!~! Forager....I can see you with a monacle on and your clipboard and pen...you are full of it...BS I mean. Quills PS..thanks for the vision and the chuckle.
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The power of the clip board and pen is indeed considerable - a high vis jacket can work wonders too, peeps just tend to leave you completely alone.Mind you, being covered in dirt and sweat while...
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Axe, 2 hatchets, 8# maul, 3' goose-neck bars, wedges, bow saws. "What are you doing?" "I'm a wood carver and some of these waste pieces should be good enough to use." That's worked quite well. Often...
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Quills I will not disagree with you regarding your assessment of my constitutional fullness of a certain ingredient, even if I dress it in spats with a monacle fogging from the rising vapor issuing...
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skalla I neglected to mention my respect for your efforts in such environmental contexts. The ability to reappropriate spent, discarded, unwanted and neglected raw material is rejuvenating to put it...
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Cheers! I kinda assume most urban based folk here do the same really. I guess i'm lucky in that i live on the edge of a massively built up area with it's fair share of industrial decay, and am also...
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"I'll jump into any skip/dumpster and often find old style tv's (the screens knap nicely IMO), bits of copper wiring to smelt, slate rooftiles for blades, bracers and jewellery and so on. Just take...
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when i went looking around for the car i am driving right now, i always took a bow with me. on the surface, it looked like i was testing whether it would do for transporting archery equipment. what i...
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i can pretty much perfectly wedge a seven foot log diagonally in my car, even got to the point where they they just kinda automatically get cut the perfect length.Jealous about the toilets though....
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Some of the best yew I have ever seen anywhere, Pacific or European, has come out of the Mt. Hood area and from the mountains above the Clackamas River. You are able to get an inexpensive permit to...
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I admire the fact you are sticking to it. It took me a while to start finding what I need. Keep at it. You are doing a fine job. Kevin
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