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grant4353 said:
Thats Great,I would love to hear about the course If you have some free time. You can E-mail me at Frankecast1@yahoo.com .
I hope you feel better,I had a few pulled about 3 years ago.
Frank
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yeah id like to hear more about it
my email is dariuslovehall08@aol.com
im going to try for one of the oct. 2005 standard class
i dont have a linger wsk so ill probally take one of my becks
my email is dariuslovehall08@aol.com
im going to try for one of the oct. 2005 standard class
i dont have a linger wsk so ill probally take one of my becks
There was a lot of lectures, probably like 65 hours of lecture and also workshops. If I remember correctly Tom lectured on Sunday, the first one too, monday morning, maybe tues morning, friday evening and saturday morning.
On Sunday they started the discussion talking about Grandfather, then they talked about knives, went to bed around 12:30 or so. The first topic they did on mon. was fire by friction, bow drill, then during lunch and dinner you'd have time to practice try to get fire going, I already could before I came, learnded in a 2 week teen program run by someone who has a lot of dirt time and taken a lot of tracker school classes. Well after that they did cordage, they talked about plants to uses etc. During the evening they did the figure four and later the pauite I think.
The next day theyy got into tracking, paces, animals, a lot of stuff, eventually we got into pressure realeases. What was pretty cool was the tracking line, which we did on fri i think, They had about 40 tracks marked with popsicle sticks, all different animals and they'd say things like, racoon left rear, and that's it. What was amazing is that they could find them, they were on the edge of some woods, not a large area, some were easy to see I guess and you'd see it more that u stared at it, but I was impressive that they could find them, one of the tracks was a mouse track ona stick, with a hair on it, nother was a robin track on some dead grassm u could see where the dew was missing and some slight discoloration ing grass from it being slightily bent.
My favorite instructor was billy, he did some good lectures and was a cool guy. There was a lot in the class, especially for a week. I'm going to be taking more classes, i've been working part time and finishing up my homeschooling. I want to do an apprenticeship or something like that somewhere, that'd be cool.
They covered the debris hut, and made one, and advanced shelters, they had some awesome slides, I thought the shelter me and my bro made was pretty decent, but theses were awesome. Especially the underground ones.
They covered some basic flint knapping, cooking, lots of different kinds. They also dis the hand drill and mouth drill, Kristi got a hand drill coal with 2 in half strokes, it was crazy, then blew it into fire. Myakka got a handrill fire with a partner. They also cover the mouth drill.
Covered some edibles, the big four, and more, talked about ways to learn them. Brain tanning, they showed some cool examples.
Throwing sticks, stalking, crawl stalking, weasel walk, fox walk etc.
They didn't get into double bows or snap bows, which was covered in the other class i took, or anything like that, that's in the adv std, i was a little disappointed but only so much time i guess.
I took about 100 pages of notes, and i didn't write down everything cause some i already have written down. I recorded a lot, i'm not sure how many hours off the top of my head.
They also had some good hot chocolate there
It was worth it. They give the tools you just gotta go out there and put the dirt time in! I recommend reading all of his books before hand, i've read all but 2. And also practicing the exercises in the field guides, cause you really learna lot from them, and that way when you go to the std you'll know a lot already, a lot of the students there had virtually no experience. Some never even read any of his books. For tracking, get the science and art of tracking and do they exercises in there. I think you can actually learn most of what he taught there from his books before hand, for the std class. But there id a lot there not in his books.
Tom was very passionate, in his last lecture there were tears in his eyes. He'd be yelling and swearing and moving all around. Some people say he's like a drill instructor. Although there was a story or two that was a little of the top, what it mean by that is if it was true or not he shouldn't have done what he said he did, like the one with the bird watcher in the train. Well anyways it was a good class, learned a lot, i recommend it.
One of my flights was canceled cause of the storm but they got me and my bro onto an earlier one, and we the last plane to leave charlotte cause of the storm.
On Sunday they started the discussion talking about Grandfather, then they talked about knives, went to bed around 12:30 or so. The first topic they did on mon. was fire by friction, bow drill, then during lunch and dinner you'd have time to practice try to get fire going, I already could before I came, learnded in a 2 week teen program run by someone who has a lot of dirt time and taken a lot of tracker school classes. Well after that they did cordage, they talked about plants to uses etc. During the evening they did the figure four and later the pauite I think.
The next day theyy got into tracking, paces, animals, a lot of stuff, eventually we got into pressure realeases. What was pretty cool was the tracking line, which we did on fri i think, They had about 40 tracks marked with popsicle sticks, all different animals and they'd say things like, racoon left rear, and that's it. What was amazing is that they could find them, they were on the edge of some woods, not a large area, some were easy to see I guess and you'd see it more that u stared at it, but I was impressive that they could find them, one of the tracks was a mouse track ona stick, with a hair on it, nother was a robin track on some dead grassm u could see where the dew was missing and some slight discoloration ing grass from it being slightily bent.
My favorite instructor was billy, he did some good lectures and was a cool guy. There was a lot in the class, especially for a week. I'm going to be taking more classes, i've been working part time and finishing up my homeschooling. I want to do an apprenticeship or something like that somewhere, that'd be cool.
They covered the debris hut, and made one, and advanced shelters, they had some awesome slides, I thought the shelter me and my bro made was pretty decent, but theses were awesome. Especially the underground ones.
They covered some basic flint knapping, cooking, lots of different kinds. They also dis the hand drill and mouth drill, Kristi got a hand drill coal with 2 in half strokes, it was crazy, then blew it into fire. Myakka got a handrill fire with a partner. They also cover the mouth drill.
Covered some edibles, the big four, and more, talked about ways to learn them. Brain tanning, they showed some cool examples.
Throwing sticks, stalking, crawl stalking, weasel walk, fox walk etc.
They didn't get into double bows or snap bows, which was covered in the other class i took, or anything like that, that's in the adv std, i was a little disappointed but only so much time i guess.
I took about 100 pages of notes, and i didn't write down everything cause some i already have written down. I recorded a lot, i'm not sure how many hours off the top of my head.
They also had some good hot chocolate there
It was worth it. They give the tools you just gotta go out there and put the dirt time in! I recommend reading all of his books before hand, i've read all but 2. And also practicing the exercises in the field guides, cause you really learna lot from them, and that way when you go to the std you'll know a lot already, a lot of the students there had virtually no experience. Some never even read any of his books. For tracking, get the science and art of tracking and do they exercises in there. I think you can actually learn most of what he taught there from his books before hand, for the std class. But there id a lot there not in his books.
Tom was very passionate, in his last lecture there were tears in his eyes. He'd be yelling and swearing and moving all around. Some people say he's like a drill instructor. Although there was a story or two that was a little of the top, what it mean by that is if it was true or not he shouldn't have done what he said he did, like the one with the bird watcher in the train. Well anyways it was a good class, learned a lot, i recommend it.
One of my flights was canceled cause of the storm but they got me and my bro onto an earlier one, and we the last plane to leave charlotte cause of the storm.
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grant4353 said:
Oh man,That sounds great. I can't wait to go to the course.Hope it's this summer.
Frank
Yes. I have canted the handle downward slightly so as to better hit just forward of the radius, or hook. In addition, I intend to make the draw knife bevels a little wider (higher up toward the spine) so as to give that part a little finer slice. As posted above, these two modifications are from prospects feedback - both of which made good sense to me.
For me at least Myakka's chopped forward of the hook anyhow. The cant does make the chop a bit more forward though.
I have the first seven WSK's profiled, drilled and ready for tang tapering. I am hoping to get them all finished and sent to Jamie for sheath making by end of March. I think two of them are to be sent straight to the owner for sheath making; in which case they will get theirs a few weeks sooner.
RL (Roger)
For me at least Myakka's chopped forward of the hook anyhow. The cant does make the chop a bit more forward though.
I have the first seven WSK's profiled, drilled and ready for tang tapering. I am hoping to get them all finished and sent to Jamie for sheath making by end of March. I think two of them are to be sent straight to the owner for sheath making; in which case they will get theirs a few weeks sooner.
RL (Roger)
Ron,
Here is a rather poor pix I took a couple evenings ago of five of the profiled blanks: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=332656&page=2&pp=10 This gives a bit of a view of the handle kant. There are two O1 and three 1075 in the pix. 1075 is now the default steel for this knife. From hense forth other steels are by special request.
RL
Here is a rather poor pix I took a couple evenings ago of five of the profiled blanks: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=332656&page=2&pp=10 This gives a bit of a view of the handle kant. There are two O1 and three 1075 in the pix. 1075 is now the default steel for this knife. From hense forth other steels are by special request.
RL
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Roger,
You are Great,I love the pics and can't wait to get mine.
Frank
You are Great,I love the pics and can't wait to get mine.Frank