how to make a wooden bowl in the wilderness

Make a good primitive bowl for eating in the wilderness out of a piece of wood. Your friends will be tripped out and you'll have something in which to eat your grape nuts.

What you'll need:
A large rock
A small flat scrapeing rock
Fire/Coals
A chunk of dead, not rotten wood

Step #1: Build a fire and get some hot coals going.
Step #2: Select a branch or small log of dead wood to make your bowl. Imagine the final product when selecting your piece. The wood should be dead and dry, but not rotten.


Step #3: Flatten your wood by removing the bark of one side and pounding a rock against that side. A split log works well, or any piece of wood that already has a flattened side.
Step #4: Pound a rock against the flat side to create a small indention on that side, the side that you want the mouth of the bowl to be on.

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Step #5: Use a stick to remove a coal from the fire and place it in the indentation you had formerly created on your wood.



Step #6: Let the coal smolder in the indention of the wood. Aid it by blowing on it or setting it in the wind.

Step #7: Remove the coal when it burns itself out and carefully scrape away the char and ash from the hole with a small rock or pocket knife.

Step #8: Put a new coal inside your bowl indentation and repeat the process. Burn and scrape, burn and scrape, until an adequate bowl has been burned into your piece of wood.



Step #9: Do a really thorough scrape your final time, to get all the char and ash out. You may even want to carve it out with a pocketknife.

Step #10: Realize that it may take several hours to burn out your bowl, but it takes very little effort, so other things can be done at the same time. Be sure to wash before use... and wa-la you got yourself a caveman bowl!



Tips and Warnings!

• Speed up the burning process by continually blowing on your coal or setting the bowl in a light breeze.
• Hot rocks and coals can cause serious burns or forest fires. Be careful always.
• Avoid using wood of a poisonous plant. Although the burning process and deadness of the wood usually eradicates most of the poison, it is generally better just to avoid them anyway. Avoid yew, cascara, Osage orange and locust.

 

wow thats soo awesome !!!
thanks
I will have to try that out!!

 

That's a sweet tutorial nice work with the pictures too!

 

Thank you guys I think there should be a how to forum on here I'd make a million more tutorials

 

that is an awesome idea !! they really should have a "how to " forum

 

That is great! I will have to try that sometime