Ron Hood "Woodsmaster" Videos on DVD
Produced by Ron & Karen Hood
Volume 1 - Spark Based Fire Starting
The Firebow! Now you can learn how to make fire by friction! Learn
how to use Flint and Steel, the Metal Match, and a Flashlight Fire! This tape
covers materials selection and amazing special tips. This is essential
information for any woodsperson. (70 minutes)
Volume 2 - Survival Shelter Selection
Learn the survival priorities and how to meet them! What is the rule of
threes? You learn the heat loss mechanisms, site selection, pine log shelters, the
Firebed, and more incredible Woodsmaster Tips, Lore and Techniques. (80 minutes)
Volume 3 - Making and Using your
Outdoor Survival Kit
What goes into a Survival kit, How to carry it. Discover how to make
and use the amazing Mini Kit, it's so small it almost disappears in your
pocket! The Maxi Kit, It's still small but it gives you so much
to work with. Learn Wire Snares, Fishing tricks. A bee and a bird trap with a
coffee can, animal hooks, the Delbow Pocket bow and arrow, the twitch up
snare, tube tent tricks, a snare wire compass. Discover INNOVATION, and a bunch
of special Woodsmaster tricks and techniques. This information can save your
life! (95 minutes)
Volume 4 - Primitive Navigation and Wilderness Travel Techniques
You'll learn the Ottomani pocket Sun compass. Night navigation, Shadow stick tricks, "Self Tracking", The Vietnamese Montegnards "bu cat" walking stick technique, the Plainsman stride and lock step, more techniques for telling direction, distance and height, trail travel energy saving techniques, hydration information and a ton more... Including the beginnings of the Lithic arts (Stone tool making)! (84
minutes of navigation wisdom)
Volume 5 - Traps and Trapping
Trapping is one of the most important wilderness
skills! After shelter and water, food is the key to survival
living in the wilderness. This video covers the basic "engines" of
machine type traps, techniques for setting and using snares, and much more. If
you can't feed yourself after watching this video... you need a supermarket! (88 minutes)
Volume 6 - Primitive Weapons
Technology
Learn about the Viet Cong cross bow a simple and elegant solution
to getting game and defending yourself. Learn how to "tiller" a
functional bow and make arrows. See how to make and use an atlatl. Learn the
skills and techniques of the sling, the throwing stick and a bunch more! Learn
some basic hide tanning techniques and more information on the Lithic arts...
Pressure flaking. (107 minutes)
Volume 7 - Jungle Living Skills
Hoods Woods went to the Amazon rain forest to practice the art of jungle
survival! Learn to make an authentic jungle blowgun, make a bowl from mud to
mug, learn how jungle beer is made, learn to prepare a monkey, construct a
jungle trap, capture and eat alligators and more. Learn how to call jungle birds
to your dinner pot, how to prepare your gear for hot-wet conditions and you will
see how an isolated tribe of natives, the Chapra-Candoshi live in the heart of
the jungle. This is a ground breaking video. Discovery with an attitude! (96 minutes)
Volume 8 - The Fundamentals of Tracking
One of the most important -- and most difficult -- skills of the
Woodsmaster is the ability to track. In this volume of the Woodsmaster we
examine the fundamental skills related to the art of tracking. We show you the
ìFour principles of sign,î how to read ìAction indicators,î and ways to
learn the age of a track. Youíll see how to make and use a ìTracking pitî
and exercises you can do to sharpen your tracking skills. Since light is
critical to effective tracking youíll see the secrets of good lighting as well
as dozens of Woodsmaster tracking tips and techniques. (98 minutes)
Volume 9 - Primitive Knife Making
In this video you learn the secrets of materials selection, forge building,
tools, techniques and tempering so you can make your own terrific tools or
blades at home or in the field. Why buy expensive knives when you can make your
own...from JUNK? Once youíve seen these techniques you will have the
knowledge to make metal tools in the field. Find a horseshoe, build a primitive
forge and a fire. Then, with a rock or a hard stick, you can heat and pound that
piece of rusted junk into a usable and effective tool or weapon. You will learn that you donít need electricity, power tools or boat loads of money to make beautiful, functional and durable knives or other metal pieces. You will see that you can build a forge in your own back yard and you donít need Arnieís arms to hammer hot steel. Itís all in the techniqueÖ (1 hour, 45 minutes!)
Volume 10 - Survival Camping
In this video Ron and Karen Hood take you and 12 folks into Idaho's River-of-no-Return Wilderness area for 8 days of survival skills and gear testing. What you will see is a no-holds-barred record of their experience. You will see how to tell time by the North Star, build a wilderness sauna and make a primitive forge from trash. You will learn how to make and use Bannock for food, make wilderness drills, body-bag hammocks, how to use a rotting carcass and how to fashion a fishing pole from your mini-kit parts. You will see how to prepare rawhide and tendons and trap game. You will also learn how to prepare your pack for when you want to go into the woods to test YOUR skills! (1 hour, 58 minutes!)
Volume 11 - SOLO: The Quest for Survival
Follow Ron hood as he travels deep into the mountains of
Idaho for a two-week test of his survival skills. During his adventure he is
poisoned by bad food, attacked by a moose and finds that a forest fire has
destroyed most of the small game and fish. To top it off the summer weather
quickly became a two week winter storm. With less than a pound of food for the
two weeks and only a blanket and a tarp for shelter in the subfreezing
temperatures you will learn how even a planned survival test can quickly become
the ìReal thingî (1 hour, 58 minutes!)
Volume 12 - Arid Land - Vehicle Survival
In this video you will learn the tricks and techniques needed to get your vehicle out of trouble and back on the road. A broken down or stuck vehicle is the cause of the vast majority of survival incidents reported each year. With these skills you can avoid becoming a statistic. (1 hour, 44 minutes)
Volume 13 - Desert Survival; On Foot
This video covers the tricks and techniques for survival on the ground, in the desert. Topics covered include travel, shelter, water, physiology and much more. You will see first hand the process of constructing a "solar still" and a "transpiration still" and be able to decide for yourself if these techniques are worth the effort. You will also learn about some of those "movie skills" seen on popular programs... Is it cool to take off your shirt in the desert? Find out... (1 hour, 40 min)
Volume 14 - Crafts for the Field
Discover new skills to make useful crafts for the field. Learn about the thermoplastic called Kydex and how to mold and use it. This video shows you how to cover a Kydex sheath with leather to give the sheath that Woodsmaster look without losing the safety of Kydex. You will also learn how to make a small concealed carry holster from kydex, as well as how to make leather buttons, a ditty bag, and a special Woodsmaster fingerless glove. (1 hour, 45 min.)
Volume 15 - Sticks, Stoves and Stitches
Join Ron Hood and friend George Michaud and learn how to make Buffalo Hide Moccasins close--up from beginning-to-end. Learn how to make a pattern from your foot, learn the proper stitching techniques so you will not "walk off" the stitching once you begin to wear the mocs. Learn what materials to use and what a "glover's needle" is good for. Learn an improvised thimble and how to prepare the sole for your sandals as well as other intricacies that will help you to make extremely comfortable footwear from thick rawhide.
Also meet "Fire God" Alan Halcon as he teaches you step-by-step how to make the Halcon Mini Alcohol Stove. This stove is made out of 2 aluminum cans and is so small it will fit into your back pocket (not recommended!) It is so effective it will boil water in a flash. Alan also demonstrates how to make a long-lasting coal with the easy-and-fast-to-make Fire Drill. (1 hour, 20 min.)
Volume 16 - Buffalo Butchers: Meat and Material from Large Game
In this video Ron Hood takes you to Salmon, Idaho to visit wilderness instructors Joe and Denyce Bigley (Aboman and Abowoman) of Salmon Outdoor School. With the help of Lakota-Sioux and local butcher Dallas Dupree, they harvest a buffalo and show you the steps Native Americans have taken to harvest, process and use almost every part of the animal.
Learn how to skin the animal starting at the back, how to make an expedient stone tool for skinning and butchering, how to butcher it using both stone and steel tools, how to preserve the brain for future brain-tanning, how to remove and prepare tendons for sinew, and even how to prepare the stomach for use as a cooking vessel. This video is a companion to Karen Hood's Cave Cooking Volume V: Buffalo Butchers--Primitive Cooking.(1 hour, 25 min.)
Volume 17 - Buffalo Butchers: The Final Chapter
This video covers wraps up the Buffalo Butchers mini-series with the basics of hide tanning. Using some buffalo skin, deer hide, and an old badger hide Ron and Karen Hood along with Joe and Denyce Bigley demonstrate a variety of tanning techniques. First they tan the hide of the badger, harvested and salted over 20 years ago. Then they take a deer hide from its raw state through hide scraping, de-hairing, braining, grain breaking, and finally to its finished, smoked and pliable form. The video covers tendons and how to prepare them for use and how to make a primitive pouch using leather "extras". The video also includes more lithic arts: percussion, pecking and pressure flaking, as well as tools and safety for the tool-making process, plus making char cloth, and a look at Razorback knives. (1 hour, 40 min.)
Volume 18 - Bronze: Molding, Copying, and Casting
Bronze is one of the cornerstones of civilization. Ancient metalworkers learned to manufacture this metal around a simple campfire. The skills they discovered and the techniques they uncovered are all explored as Ron takes you on a tour of Romania's historical artifacts and treasures. You will see the process as copies of some of these ancient artifacts are made for later casting into bronze. In this DVD you will learn, upclose, the basics of modeling, copying, mold making, casting and aging of bronze. Watch Ron get his face cast into a bronze life mask from start to finish. This DVD does not include instructions for constructing your own foundry, but it does teach you, up close, all about preparing and casting of Bronze as you watch and learn. (1 hour, 45 min.)
Volume 19 - Bronze II: The Home Foundry
In this volume of the Woodsmaster, Ron teaches you to begin building the materials you need to start your own foundry business or hobby. Topics covered include: setting up your home foundry, introduction to sand casting, setting up the foundry area, safety precautions, building and testing a propane burner, precautions for burner, how to make castable refractory cement, building an adaptable Flower-Pot furnace for propane or charcoal, and dozens of close up tips and techniques to get you started. (2 hours.)
Volume 20 - Bronze III: The Final Steps
In this third Bronze DVD, Ron Hood teaches the final steps to starting your own foundry business or hobby. Join Ron and let him teach you all about making green sand, the importance of "riddling," making a frame or "flask," making an indexing key, using an electric kiln as a furnace, what a "cone" is used for, why the magnet is your friend, low cost or free sources for brass and bronze, how to cast fragile items in plaster, and how to make a wax impression. Watch two actual molten bronze pours and see how it's done, while Ron shows you the tips and tricks to use a microwave in casting, re-use your plaster, help your plaster molds with borax, re-use your bronze shavings, and turn your pour "failures" into cool successes! The DVD includes all these skills and more up-close, detailed instruction to complete your bronze casting lessons. (1 hour, 49 min.)
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