Carving a Birch Bushpipe Part 1

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it's missionary survival today we're making a bush pug stay tuned okay so I have a great right here real young one and probably about a half dollar size a little bigger than a quarter so I'm going to take this down and I'll probably cut it around here somewhere and I'm gonna just my knife obviously may be a lot faster with my folding saw but I'm gonna use just my knife for this so I'm gonna just go around and make cuts into it and V it out make cuts in the opposite direction cutting towards the middle just as if I was using an ass I'm just going to use my knife so I'm just going to go all the way around

I'll get back to you all right so probably 30 or 40 pipes in here

all right so I have some common red grass right here all this in front of me and it's growing in standing water right there which comes off of a pond that's right right there there's a natural earth bridge right here slightly separating the two and the water just leeches through so common Reed really prefers to sit in water or sit in mud on the edge of water and what I'm looking for is the dead stalks like this one right here that one right there is dead because like bamboo has nodes and in between is hollow okay so here it is just grab them this doesn't feel like it's going to work out let's grab another one not a big deal so as you can see it's hollow until it gets to the node that's hollow again so I gets to the node so I'm going to just work on creating a hollow tube from this after I find a segment that I like that's pretty straight and just feels like it's the best one to use right it could be the caller ring it could be lots of things you know it depends on what lookey going for because some of these are really kind of dark looking and some of them are much lighter like this one right here so you can kind of customize how you want it to look of course you know I wanted to talk about wearing this real quick you know there's a river right here then there's a little swampy blog right here

while the regresses there's a swampy bog right here and then the big pond over in there now if you keep your eyes open you can see great places for trapping game trails here's one right here you can see the path goes right across see that one heads that way you know their heads that way right into that water right there if you follow the water towards the pond they will just keep going and it would access the pond there's another trail right there that goes to the pond up there so there's a as a path in the water and on the ground right here goes right across it's very easy to see if you just keep your eyes open so that would be a phenomenal place to trap especially down a hill right here and where it condenses alright so now to cut through here you don't want to put any pressure pushing down to cut through it because if you do you're going to squeeze this tube it's going to collapse and break on so what you want to do is just slowly saw through it we want to cut it you need to be really gentle and you slowly score your way through it and it won't break it okay cleanly cut now I'm going to make the other cuts so the tube is separated on this node back here I get back to okay so just got finished scoring through each side inside the node you can see it's a nice tube good to go all right I really didn't expect that tendon bundle to ignite that early I was going to walk it over to my fire spot and yeah they decided to go really but ended up not losing my bundle and still getting fire out of it now the next step is to take this piece of birch that I grabbed and I'm going to just find a spot that I want to put the pipe on you know I'm going to cut one way and the other I'll have that one little section

all right just what I have little birch barrel so I'm going to pick where I want the top and the bottom and then start carving

I'll get back here I like when they talk back whoa whoa all right so I guess I'm just working on rounding it off and making it nice got talkback though I don't see anyways huh

I'm gonna continue talking my little friend here and continue carving this get back to you Oh sometimes I call him all the way into my camp they fly like one or two trees over for me it's awesome this one keeps talking back he's interested hope you guys can hear anyways make it back to this bite alright so what I got so far it's actually wider and bigger than my pipe and I did that because I wish my can hold a little bit more so it's gonna be my top I'm gonna start working on that right now

being very light slow controlled cuts it's going around in a circle and slowly taking out material and force it my fun I'm going to get a little deeper a little wider it's outputting really any other pressure add it to it so it begins I get a little bigger I'll get back to you you