Making a Spruce Bark Basket
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2017
- Using hand tools and materials gathered in the forest, I build a spruce bark basket. I gather bark, cut the shape, sew the edges with spruce roots and add a wooden frame around the top edge. I hope you enjoy the video ! Too minimize my impact on the forest, I gather the bark from a tree that had already fallen after a severe windstorm.
En utilisant des outils à main et des matériaux récoltés en forêt, je construis un panier en écorce d'épinette. Je récolte l'écorce, je découpe la forme, je coud les coins et j'installe un cadre en saule pour renforcir le panier. Pour minimiser l'impact sur la forêt, je récolte mon écorce sur un arbre qui avait déjà tombé à cause d'une tempête récente.
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Beautiful work!
Thank you very much!
That is a high skill level on show there, loved the whole process, excellent stuff, basket and the bow drill too 👍👍
Ótimo trabalho 🇧🇷
Oh thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and hard work. This was very enjoyable to watch. The experience shared here is amazing!
👍🏼 thanks for sharing the rewards of your day, a very satisfying day for sure.
Amazing video thank you for sharing! 👍
Take care
Roo
Quelle maitrise de cet art ancestral, merci du partage, je suis admirative!
Teacher SBD merci ! :)
Good job, that shines.
Absolutely beautiful.
I watched it again and loved it.
Beautiful basket. Spruce is a pretty useful tree. Nice job.
Thanks man I appreciate it.
I am impressed that you were able to split that stick in half. I usually tear too much to one side
Awesome work, Well done
I love things like this and this just amazing you are so talented 🤯
Beautiful. I would love to make one of those for my mom. She would put fresh fruit In it and decorate the kitchen. Thank you for this amazing tutorial Sir.
Thanks ! :)
Nomadic Woodsman I loved this video. What a great job you did on the basket. God bless you.
Thanks so much Carol-Ann !
That is a thing of beauty. Not as easy as you made it look but got to have a go in our wood!
Very nice! Quite a talent you have.
Great craftsmanship! Beautiful details and certainly useful. Hope your summer is going well. I'm definitely looking forward to your autumn videos soon!
sionnah bailey Thanks :) fall is just around the corner !
Turned out, awesome man. and the bonus of a bow drill fire! Brilliant!
Jaxx Drinkwater Thanks Jaxx !
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Was not aware spruce bark could be made like burchbark. Thanks. Great job.
Yes, the thing with spruce bark and many other barks is that you need to work it to shape while it is green. Once it dries it becomes very hard and brittle. Birch bark is best when worked green but the key property of birch bark is that even when it dries, it holds a certain level of flexibility and suppleness, making it the best bark for baskets or canoes as it can take a bit more abuse or use without cracking.... Thanks for the comment !
Great job, nice basket!
Thanks for checking it out ! Love your content. Cheers man and have a great new year.
Well done.
Really Nice Work on the Basket. And, who started the fire was Very Quick at it too. I think it was the fastest I've ever seen to start a fire using those tools. NICE!
Danny Walker Thanks Danny. Appreciate it :) bowdrill goes well when you have ideal conditions and ideal materials, works like charm !
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wow this is neat thanks for showing us
potatothorn Thanks ! :)
excellent !!
Many thanks!
Très intéressant! De belles techniques! Lachez pas.
Martin Pitre merci !
You have a great channel & the craftsmanship is awesome. You have a new subscriber. Thanks!!
Pinetree Line Outdoors Thanks ! Glad you like the content! :)
Молодец! Прикольно.✌
Really cool
Thank you.
Really cool!
Thanks ! Please share and subscribe :)
This is amazing. Love your videos
Thank you so much!
@@NomadicWoodsman I have just subscribed to your channel.
C'est de l'artisanat !!! Qu'elle patience mais beau résultat.
Yan explora Merci !
I love it! Beautiful work. Will you be using it?
TheWildYam Thanks. For sure, Will be using it at home for now. Alot of work in a basket like this. Mostly decorative use for the moment... but definetly sturdy and solid enough to go foraging with ! :)
If you don't split the spruce root, will it lay flat as you sew with it? Does the outer bark try to crack? It looks much thinner than red pine bark, which so far doesn't seem bendable. Perhaps nearer the top?
No it will not lay flat. It is best to split it so it is a flat shape and more flexible when split. The spruce bark does dry out and is a bit more fragile than birch bark which remains flexible after drying.
That was an awesome tutorial, but I really wish your basket had a handle, that would have been good to see how you would do it.
I haven't seen many made with handles. I know a piece of tanned moose hide lanyard could be passed over each side. But for this, the shape of the basket would be more round than rectangular, more so like the one i made in birch bark in another video.
That turned out beautiful. How or what do you use to seal it so it doesn't start to come apart? Or does it not peel ?
Rinny Rainwind Hi thanks for the question. No need to seal the bark with anything it is naturally resistant. If the proper bark is selected it should not separate itself or laminate.
would be nice if you said what you used to bind basket and how to prepare it. Also what tree branch you are using for the rim.
The binding material is spruce roots, I have a full video called "spruce roots" on that subject, search youtube : Nomadic woodsman spruce roots. You must harvest them from the soil, clean them, boil them, strip them of bark, and split them. Use them as binding while they are wet. The tree branch is a simple willow straight branch with no knots. Used boiling water to help bend without breaking. Hope that helps ! Steve
Thanks for this wonderful video! What do you use for the rim of the basket? I'm hoping to make these in the winter (in Virginia) with spruce bark that has already been harvested, I just need to rehydrate it. What material from the forest could I use in the wintertime for the rim? Also for the stitching? Thanks!
The rim in this one is a small willow sapling, collected green and bark removed. I then put it in water and boiling water to bend it. You can watch my other video on making a birch bark basket, I use a spruce splint for the rim, I had split a spruce log lengthwise a few times to get a thin piece of wood. This could easily be done in winter and you could use cedar as well. The stitching is all spruce root, it helps to boil it to remove the bark and make it soft to split lengthwise. Hope this helps ! Have a happy new year !
I know with Spruce bark it is preferable to use it when green and freshly harvested as it hardens once dry. I haven't tried re-hydrating any yet. Let me know how it goes. I would leave it in water a few days.
Very cool! How much Lestoil did it take to clean up your skin? Even Lonnie would have been impressed with the friction fire. did you split the roots before using them as twine? Thanks for the video.
mushercdn haha thanks ! My hands were extremely sticky after gathering the bark had some on hands for a week after lol. Yes I split the roots in half.
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Beautiful Work, Did you then use some Pine Pitch to waterproof the inside seams? or leave it natural?
BlackKnight6667 Not for this particular pot. I could indeed gum it if I wanted to carry water. Cheers.
Yeah love the design. I'm going to try one with my elm bark. Do you pencil the outline on first or just free hand it? Have you ever done a canoe? That's kind of my ultimate goal.
Yes for this design I outline first, the key is having the 4 sides perfectly the same or symetrical, this way your basket will be nice and equal and not all crooked. It's good to make a cardboard template if you can. Of course if you would be out in the forest with minimal gear you would have to free hand it or make a template with other bark.
That's what i figured. I 'm going to try to find some spruce bark. Most i have near are very branchy. thanks for the reply.
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Just harvested some pine bark and some of them have so sap!! Any recommendations?
The shape of these bark baskets is always very nice, as if designed by a top notch designer. Just one remark though, it seems you mistranslated the tree's name, because in French SPRUCE is named ÉPICÉA.
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Thanks, you are right, Spruce is in fact french Épicéa from it's latin Picea. In Québec it is called Épinette, possibly called Épicéa in France. Different expressions/dialects for different areas. It is surprising how France french is different than Québec french. Thanks so much for the comment and info. Cheers.
Yes I noticed myself the great difference between the French from both countries.
Brilliant, what species of spruce are the roots from? Are any species of spruce used?
I use both white spruce and black spruce roots. No notable difference in either species. I would say the type of soil and just sheer luck gives you longer / nicer roots depending on where you gather them.
Is the water suitable for drinking,,?
What wood did you make the cordage out of?
Split spruce roots without bark and soaked in water :) Thanks for watching !
what clamp is that?
корнем какого дерева сшиваешь?
ель (ель черная или ель белая)
Are you able to sell me pine bark?
Don't think so unfortunately.
Well done.