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grogimus said:
Burned out a spoon for the first time while I was on vacation, worked pretty slick.

Roughed out, I think it was aspen but won't swear to it.
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Little more carved off, made a trough for the coals to go in.
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First burn
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Took a break to stuff our faces, the Knorrs packets with canned chicken or Spam are easy and pretty darn tasty.
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Last bit of smoothing for a while.
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Went to a few spots on the AuSable river with my buddy and his girlfriend. Apparently there is no hidden switch that makes you start acting boring after turning 40, that's a relief!
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Back at the cabin I did 1 more burn with a bunch of little bitty coals then used a stick then a brass brush to clean out the char. Then I rubbed a couple coats of mineral oil in.
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Not too shabby I suppose. Left it behind for my buddy's mom as a gift, she'll dig it I'm sure.
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I brought a couple good sized chunks of birch back home with me, I want to try something similar with making cups or bowls.

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Nice spoon there Grog! I hope you had a good time and I'm glad to see that I won't be boring when I hit 40!
 
I felt pretty stupid when it hit me to use the coals, I was scratching my head trying to figure out how I was going to carve the bowl without a spoon knife or gouge. A definite 'doh' moment.

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Thanks for sharin!
I also want to make a spoon sometime....coals are a good idea to hollow out spoon,works!
 
Thanks guys. There was definitely some char taste at first after just dipping it in some water, that was when I decided to be done with the primitive aspect of it and go to the brass brush. That took all the char taste out, then it got a couple coats of oil.

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grogimus said:
Thanks guys. There was definitely some char taste at first after just dipping it in some water, that was when I decided to be done with the primitive aspect of it and go to the brass brush. That took all the char taste out, then it got a couple coats of oil.

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If riverbed nearby, can use sand/gravel. That's what we used to clean heavily dirty pots/pans in Scouts and other outings. Think it'd work here but you may need to use a large-ish stick or something to kind of grind the sand/gravel into the char in order to break it up to remove it.

Have fun on your ventures!

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That's a great idea, basically treating it like a mortar and pestle to grind out the char. [emoji106]

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grogimus said:
That's a great idea, basically treating it like a mortar and pestle to grind out the char. [emoji106]

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Most welcome. Now because of you, I'll have to fit making a spoon/bowl into my already crowded DIY schedule!!!! LOL

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Very cool spoon Grog! I like seeing what everyone does while in the outdoors, lots of clever ideas!
 
Got home to a burn ban, that's a bit of a bummer. I've got 2 3 foot'ish sections of birch that need something done with. I need to mess with trap triggers again so I suppose I'll do that if I can't burn stuff.

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Knowing I had some new knives coming, I wanted to learn a fancier knot for a small lanyard. The diamond knot looked cool and "just fancy enough" for my woods tools, but even though I tried following along with the steps to tie it on multiple youtube vids, it never turned out. FINALLY I found that one of my preferred youtubers had done a video on this knot. I followed along and through his instruction I actually got it! I practiced until I could do it from memory. Here's the vid!

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Pics of my handy work to come!

EDIT: Not that I feel inadequate seeing the masterful paracord work below, but as promised, here is my humble submission. Note the old school knot on my old spec 5.




On a side note, the Walmart-bought UST paracord I got to match the cerakote motif is made in the USA!
 
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I tied this diamond lanyard knot this morning. I have done about a dozen of them, and had not done one in a while. I had to go back to the video myself. The camo paracord is called a King Cobra lace. There is over 6 ft. of paracord in that lace.

He's is one on my 5.1 and I have a nut on it that I slide to the end of the lanyard forming a loop. When the nut is up as in the photo, there is no loop to catch brush or anything while walking through the woods.

 
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Didn't seem too hard for you to outdo me in the paracord department ;)

Not too shabby!
 
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Cool stuff fellas. I seldom use lanyards, but sometimes like one on a chopper. I like your sliding nut lanyard Mac, as I don't like open loops that can catch on brush etc. To combat that, I asked my boy to build one for my SYKCO 711 that wouldn't hang up. I knew he was familiar with the cobra stitch, so he built this one for me with a slider on it so that when it's not in use and the loop is closed there's nothing to catch. I dubbed it the DTG Split Cobra Lanyard :)

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Thumb loop slid closed for carry:


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