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How to Cut Long Layers in 11 Minutes
Learn how to cut your own hair in no time at all! Keep your length and spruce up your own haircut. Save money, do it your self, and love your…
KLM Cockpit Tales
Sint Maarten has one of the most challenging runways in the world. Join Captain ten Velde on board of a flight to this tropical island. If you always wanted to…
Primitive Technology: Forge Blower
I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct…
Primitive Technology: Freshwater Prawn Trap
Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists of a simple basket with a funnel shaped entrance. Prawns easily find…
Primitive Technology: Firesticks
Making fire sticks primitively from scratch, making a fire using the sticks and making and firing a small pot to test clay from the hut. The species of wood used…
Primitive Technology: Water powered hammer (Monjolo)
I built a water powered hammer called a “Monjolo” (see also karausu (からうす) on google images). I started by making a water spout from half a hollow log to direct…
Primitive Technology: Baskets and stone hatchet
I made 2 types of basket and a celt hatchet. The first type of basket made was a coil basket. Bunches of palm leaves where wrapped in thin strips of…
Weaving and fiber
Woven Bark Fibre I made a rough type of textile from bark fibre. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don’t know its name. It…