The beginning of the warm weather has pushed my activities to getting the garden and animals settled for the season. This has drawn most of my time away from my normal focus on bushcraft. I’ve got the Mora project sitting on the workbench under a bunch of other stuff and a list of other reviews and videos that I will be getting done over the summer. Please stand by.

In my last post, Happy Holidays!, I said that I would be posting my first video review about now. Well, it’s not happening. I’ve been messing with and re-recording the video since before the holidays and I keep hitting two snags. First, while the camera I have is a 720p HD camera and does take nice video, the microphone built into it is severely lacking in quality. I guess that is to be expected considering that it is a sub $100 camera that I got for free. Second, the camera outputs video as a MOV. This is really not a problem but it does add that extra step to the process, which is the conversion of the file to another format that is better suited for editing. MOV is crap and should the format should be eliminated all together.

I’m not giving up on video though. I will get my hands on a decent camera in the next month or so and get started with them then. In the meantime, I have a large list of items to review and will pick back up with the good ol’ written review, which should actually go easier now that I have gotten Dragon Naturally Speaking up and running on my system again.

Beannachtaí na Féile!

I just wanted to drop in a wish everyone Happy Holidays!

I’m currently sitting in a beach house on the coast of North Carolina with my wife’s family and I’ve been having a great time. Not much bushcraft going on though. Before we left for the coast, I was working on my first video review and I will post it soon.

This was a major piece of construction that included a bunch of my favorite shop activities; welding and metal fabrication, prop construction and problem solving. Please pardon the crappy night vision graininess from my cheap HD camera.

Well, It is truly the season of madness around here as I continue to get ready for the ToT’s on Halloween night. For those of you that don’t already know, I go a bit nuts this time of year. See Grimrot Cemetery to get an understanding of why. There are major changes going onincluding the biggest prop I have ever built under construction in half the garage, pics will be posted eventually. On top of all this we are running a double feature movie night for about 100 folks (mostly kids) on Friday the 30th as well.

I don’t expect to have much time to post until after the big day so stick with me. Thanks.

After several false starts at blogs over the years I think I have finally figured out what I want to do with one. So here I go…

I use all kinds of crap in my daily life from computers & software to fishing gear, books, Bushcraft tools, backpack/camping items,  and power tools. I’m just going to let you know what I think about them all right here on DadOfAllTrades. I’ve come up with a rating system that is pretty simple. On a scale of 1 to 5 in I’ll rate them on Cost, Quality, Performance, Durability, and Overall. The rating box will look something like this:

Cost:
Quality:
Performance:
Durability:
Overall: