This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the
PEM curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the Straw badge in
Traditional Skills.
Carrying drinking water around in a clay pot is fine but if the pot breaks, you're in trouble. Let's make a leather canteen!
Here's one way to do it:
Minimum requirements:
- Make a watertight canteen from leather
- Including a strap or means of hand-free carrying
- This bb can only use materials that existed 200 years ago
Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 min):
- The leather you're starting with
- Midway through making the canteen
- Finished canteen
- Canteen visibly full of water above a surface that will easily show leaks (paper, dry cement, etc)