I like to make things.

There are so many interesting things to learn. I’m Dug North. I love to make things and share what I have learned with others. Some of the topics that interest me most include the following:

  • Friction fire-starting and other wilderness skills

  • Making and using hand tools, especially historic tools

  • Old-school projectile throwers as small as slingshots and as large as trebuchets

  • Wooden mechanical sculptures (aka contemporary automata)

  • Metal, woodworking, and other fabrication methods

  • Mechanical clocks - spring and weight driven

  • Ancestral skills such as flintknapping