Nov 19 2006
First post
This is my first entry in this blog. Here I will post every day, unless out and about. If you see that I haven’t posted by 18.00 GMT, please send me a mail reminding me. That is unless I have indicated in the last entry that I will be unavailable.
I can’t promise that all of my posts will be very long and informative, but if I will give a summary of the primitive stuff I have done during the day none the less. If there is any significant progress I will post pictures.
A little about me first. I am originally from Fyresdal, Telemark in Norway. Currently I live in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag in Norway (a city 🙁 ). My interest introduction to primitive skills was when I was about 9, when my grandfather made me a bow. I had been carving and fishing for a long time before that, but that was when my interest in more historic crafts was sparked. But it wasn’t until I was in my teens that I started using stone tools.
From there and until today, I would say I have built quite an expertise in trout fishing. Both primitive and modern. I have successfully trapped ptarmigan and red squirrels. Have also hunted trush and duck (With what weapons you say? I won’t tell, but you can assume it was a gun 😉 ). In these skills I must state though, that I am an absolute novice. And being in a city, there is little room for practising it just now anyway.
Regarding crafts I have made lots of things of antler, bone, wood and sinew. Not much, but a few things of hides as well. My current gear will however fit in a photo. I will try to take that photo tomorrow.
My short term goal is to make all of the basic gear I need for 14 days on an island called Hitra south-west of here. I will compile a list of gear I have and gear I need, and from time to time I will post how much I have left to make.
RegardsTorjus
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Great to see you are starting a site! I’ll put a link on my blog to help you get some traffic.
Hi Torjus. We chatted on MSN recently. Got to your blog from Sam’s Woodcraft in Poland.
Looks like yours is going to be a great blog. Good luck.
Pablo
http://pablo475.blogspot.com/
PS I advise you to switch on the word verification for comments (from your dashboard) otherwise you’ll get a load of spam comments.
Thank you for your advice Pablo. I will do that.