{"id":2725,"date":"2019-03-04T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/2019\/03\/04\/folding-bow-saw\/"},"modified":"2019-03-04T19:17:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:17:14","slug":"folding-bow-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/folding-bow-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"Folding bow saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went down a rabbit hole in the last month as I started to plan a winter camping trip with the kiddos. I think it started at 4 season tarps, continued to canvas tents, then to hot tenting (people put little wood burning stoves inside a canvas tent &#8211; mostly Canadians) and went to too making and this obscure corner of YouTube around &#8220;bushcraft&#8221;, which I never knew existed. From what I can tell, it&#8217;s modern men who fantasize about living like neolithic soloist in the &#8220;boreal&#8221; forests (it&#8217;s got to be boreal&#8230; the videos always mention that point).<\/p>\n<p>My cursory analysis is that it&#8217;s a backlash against technology and being always connected &#8230; and scratches an itch about living in a sod hut in the forest hunting small game&#8230; or something. I&#8217;m not knocking it &#8211; it&#8217;s making me want to try my hand at subsistence farming in the boreal forest&#8230; somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a folding bow saw (for cutting firewood? I guess?). It&#8217;s hickory and finished with boiled linseed oil. The pieces fit together with a mortise and tenon on the long arm and the blade folds into a saw kerf in the handle.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m going to feel like a real frontiersman when I pull it out of my pack on a backpacking trip (I don&#8217;t even make campfires when I backpack).<\/p>\n<p>Before I rounded it off and cut the curve on the cross brace:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2720\" src=\"https:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_3331.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2721\" src=\"https:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_3332.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finished without the cord:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2723\" src=\"https:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_3346.jpg\" width=\"3938\" height=\"2956\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2724\" src=\"https:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_3345-1.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went down a rabbit hole in the last month as I started to plan a winter camping trip with the kiddos. I think it started at 4 season tarps, continued to canvas tents, then to hot tenting (people put little wood burning stoves inside a canvas tent &#8211; mostly Canadians) and went to too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}