Is there no end to this man’s talent/skills?

It's now official, you are the coolest bushcrafter on KZfaq 👍 absolutely fantastic Stay safe Keith

every time I watch one of your videos I learn something new thank you for the videos

What an amazing idea, Simon! Thank you for making this video and sharing it! The potential for us bushies is unlimited!

really appreciate the craftsmanship with everything you make and of course the Food, many thanks

Very nice build! Thank you!

A most excellent build! Will be great for elk camp this year.

Excellent idea, you did a wonderful job. Cheers

Thank you so much for the great content and fun videos. I spend a good bit of time out in the bush and your videos and ideas always help me to think outside the box. Cheers Mate!

How incredibly interesting and clever and impressive!

brilliant...well designed. AWESOME

Love your DIY videos. You are a very awesome person. Thanks for all your great videos! D

Quality mate, I'm forever making stoves with my nippers and been toying with knocking up a camp oven. Never thought of a reflector type. Thanks for sharing Simon

simply great ! now i know what i have to do this weekend

Hi Simon. Great idea. I just love your make it videos.

Just watched this one Simon. Great piece of work. Inspired me, now on the lookout for scrap ally sheet 👍👍👍

Hi Simon, just came across your video & loved the reflector oven you built. I'm in a suburban area in New York, USA & really don't camp. I have a Coleman Camping Oven I use to bake outdoors with & works for me. I thought that if you built a metal cover to put around the fire that angled to the front of the oven you'd grab more heat. Almost like a heat shield. My friend made me a shield from welding blanket for my Coleman to cover the slot holes (losing heat) & cover the propane burner against the wind. Thanks again for sharing your idea.

Hmm I have to say this is a brilliant idea!! I love it! Cheers.

Really enjoyed Simon. Think I'd like to try making one myself. Thanks for the inspiration. Bread looked amazing also!

very clever. nice project!

Love all the inventions. So useful too!

Going back through your videos I really enjoy watching your inginuity ( being a cabinet maker/joiner now site Carpenter rmyself ) the diversity of your skills and the materials you work with is impressive. I have even thought of getting a sewing machine to make canvas pouches etc to my own specifications.

Loved that video... I am definitely going to make one.

WOW! What a great video, so glad i came across your channel. You have some amazing content and your mods you have done to some of your kit are great ideas.

well done, great idea and simple

Nice work and good idea salvaging/repurposing materials from your military surplus find. Thanks for sharing!

What a fantastic product you have turned out there. The scale and finished article both look spot on 👍 I might have to have a go at one of those in the future.

This reminds me of my flat pack UCO fire pit grill. I love this!

Grand job there Simon! Jumped over from the Onion Soup video! Loving your work, mate.

Simon I love your channel! I've been camping most of my life and only recently started watching others videos, yours are some of the best!!! I love how you are able to teach us new skills. Thank you for sharing your ideas. My daughter and I are going to be making one of these to try and bake a cake this summer:) Thanks again

Good job Simon ! You nailed it once again !

Great show really glad I found this channel

Great video! I'm always amazed at the inventive abilities of bushcrafters! Your reflective oven certainly seems to fit right in with this and it certainly seems to work quite well! Simple and effective design...always the best! Again, thanks for sharing and safe bushcrafting to you and yours ALWAYS!

I am so glad I came across your video. I'm going to be doing a lot of videos on my own channel soon, and I was going to try to find a reflector oven to do some camp cooking videos. But after seeing your video, I will be making my own as well, and when I get that video made, I'll be giving your channel a plug on mine since yours is the inspiration for mine..it also works out really well for me to make mine the same way, because I am a scrapper, and I come across metal items all the time that people are throwing out to the rubbish here in the US. Rather than see it all end up in a landfill, I grab it and recycle it at the local scrap yard. And even if I never come across the pieces for projects like this while I'm out scrapping, I can often find the things I want at the scrap yard, and only end up paying scrap price for the metal, which is pennies on the dollar. So again, thank you for sharing your video, and I'll be sure to check out more on your channel soon. And from what I noticed from a quick glance at your channel, I'll be spending some time there, and so, I subscribed your channel. Best wishes, and hope to see more great things on yours.

Great bit of engineering Simon. Keeping it simple and lightweight. A replacement for the Dutch oven that's actually viable for backpacking. That bread looks delicious!

I have been tossing around the ideal of make a reflector oven and your is fantastic my friend I like the way yours goes together

Very slick, been looking at reflector ovens, came across your video, would prefer it over the ones I've seen. Really a good job.

Deja vu, I was just about to chuck out my old battered oven pans when I saw this video, you are inspiring, thank you, I am also inspired now to look at dual purposing a lot of other junk I have. I'll really have to sort out my shed now!

You are a true inventor you should sell these,I would definitely buy one.

I'm very impressed!!

Nice work. Simon. Looks like one from a shop. Top handcrafted.

Great Piece Of Mechanism . . . And . . . Engineering . . . Skill . . . Enjoyed This Educational Video . . . As Always . . . Great Job . . . Cheers . . .

Very nice job my friend.

Great job !! I welded a propane tank inside of an old water pressure tank (double jacket) and stuck a rocket stove under it. Works great but too heavy to be truly portable. I like the simplicity of your build...Never even thought of a reflector oven. Time to break out the scrap metal...thanks for sharing!!

Always a pleasure, Simone!

Great job and video !

Simon. Having followed you for a while, I thought I would check out your older videos. This one makes me think of an additional collab with your friend Richard Outdoors and his products. Thanks for the entertainment and good luck in Scotland soon.

Great Job Simon!

What a really smart idea!thanks for sharing.best regards,Paco

Loving the show and the King of the Hill style music to speeded up section s...lol. In your fire series I missed part one. I was hoping you'd cover the best woods for fire i.e. for heat flame etc. I take a pack of wood with me; a bunch of kindling with a fibre nest inside I simply light with a lighter and it's good to go, fire in 30 seconds and full in 5 minutes. I am hoping to get some more work soon to buy some parts to build my bike camper and trailer - it takes the camping gear and then opens up into a cabin when put together, I got the idea from a guy designing small bicycle campers for touring - the thing I do. Camping allows me solace from the world and it's craziness and my mental health issues, I was always more at home in the bush. Thanks for your great videos sir.

I remember as a scout our troop made reflector ovens and then took them on a winter camping trip, guess I should make another for the nostalgia lol

Great idea, loving your channel. Steve.

I am inspired, you did a bang-up job on both. I just saw a video on a simpler way to make it.

Simon, I have looked at many designs and yours by far is the best I've seen. Good job! Would you be willing to post a schematic of your oven on line? I'd love to build one like yours with my grandson.

Subscribed on the roast chicken.. Absolutely sold on the oven.. Looking forward to your library.. Cheers from Canada

Neat! Shared on a Danisk bushcraft forum. I have two simple suggestions for the oven, that would make it easier to assemble: 1) Round or angle the corners on the tabs that go into the slots on back plate. 2) Do the same to the corners around the slots that join the plates - sort of like a "funnel", leading the pieces together.

Nice I like it thanks

I am absolutely making this.

nice work thanks for sharing good diy project

Better than you could buy at the shop!

C.A.D. Cardboard added design.

Excellent job!!

Great project and works like a charm ,now I hungry lol

Nice one, Simon. Looks like a great bit of kit. I have to agree with other comments, the bread looked amazing mate. Jalapenos, Cheese...Yum. Thanks for sharing. Take care.

out standing video, can't wait to see this inprodution

Simon I always wanted to make an oven , this cool

Nice work 👌

I came here looking for info on a reflector oven. I have seen old time pictures of these ovens being used by hunters and lumberjacks in my home province. I have to say I'm quite impressed with your work. Definitely subscribing.

great video really enjoyed it

Thoroughly brilliant. Thank you! :)

Simon, Very nice especially if this is your first try at building and using a reflector oven. Over the years I have purchased and built my own using various designs starting from one that did not fold or come apart in any way. That first one worked great (I still have it) but in the canoe it was always strapped on top of all my other gear and looked out of place. I have since streamlined my ovens (usually take two) and made them easy to pack. I love using them and if you don't mind I will give you a bit of advice I have learned the hard way over the years. You already found out that you need to have a hot fire and keep the oven close to the flames, for that reason I bake first and cook the main meal over the remaining coals. Next, a handle or some way of picking up your oven (must be rigid enough) to turn it around to check and rotate your baking. A leather glove is a must but it still is not good to be reaching over the fire (experience). If your fire has rocks on three sides and the oven is placed in front the heat is directed better and will require less wood for cooking. In addition to the logs for the fire keep a pile of small wood that will burn easily and produce a large flame then you can adjust the flame easily while baking. Wind is not constant from one direction but try to set your oven in a way that the wind and ash is not blowing into the oven. If you put your bread etc. in the pan so it does not rise above the pan when cooking you can place a small piece of screen over your baking pan to keep small sparks, ash etc. from settling on your food. Anyway, those are a few suggestions and I hope they help. Great job, I enjoy your channel!

Great job! I am very much enjoying the channel.

absolutely ingenious. is there no end to your talents.

I could almost smell the bread...! Very innovative Simon, I like that. ATB PaulC

Very nice.

This is great, subscribed

This video made me subscribe. I live across the pond in the Adirondacks. Love canoe/boat camping. I appreciate that you like great food camping while some go sub-par. Great videos! Try out the Mora Kansbol w/ the multi-mount as a secondary knife. It does everything that an axe doesn't. Prep the fire then make dinner. It'll slice a tomato after using it to start a fire. Cheers and thanks!

It is all about the infrared light. Great design. You are right about needing a hot fire. It will pay to experiment with the fire to produce a large infrared face on the side facing the oven. It needs to be a tall fire that is fed wood from the side opposite the oven and has no wood blocking the light from the glowing coal to the oven. Such an oven would be great when your fire is just too large and hot to cook on gracefully. Maybe a parallelly stacked log fire could be scaled down to work.

Love your reflector oven. Wish I could have joined you sampling that jalapenos cheese loaf looked amazingly delicious. Seems your oven didn't only just bake the loaf to perfection I just bet it had a nice smoke flavor also. I love smoked food.

Ahoy Simon. Nice project! And a very delicious bread. Greetings, Azze

Nice project, looks like you put in a lot of work.

Great design and excicution. This is the type of thing I like to make for my channel. I haven't had time to make any new videos for about a year but I hope things settle out soon and I can give this a go. If I do I will certainly give your channel the credit

That was a really nice build. Simple yet efficient. I subbed to your channel for sure. I really applaud your use of the used items to make your oven. The cardboard mock up serves as a template for future making if needed. Great job. PS...Is a must to include the recipe if you're making something that really looks good. Cheers.

Hi. Am i glad i seen this video. Just made a camp stove. Now i want to make an oven. You just taught me how. thank you very much. But there is a funny side to this comment. I watched your video and i was so intrested that i forgot to subscribe and lost your video. Just spent two hours looking for you when all i had to do is learn how to use my phone. So thank you twice. The oven and my phone. Been watching you for some time and each time i forgot to subscribe so there it is.

Cool thanks Simon!

Ordinary kitchen/bathroom cleaning paste with a very fine-grained abrasive component works fine to polish metals, I got a nice shine on some brass trinkets I made for friends with that.

Clever stuff.

Awesome idea, came here from the crusader lid another very good video thanks

Well done, lad!

Nice reflector oven and great use of recycled materials. I can't wait to see it in action in a future video. I've seen people cook fish in them.

God job my friend!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇧🇷

That was pretty good...A little bit heavy for a backpacking 🎒 but , I think 🤔 if it was smaller, it might just work great 👍 THANKS ..A great video

Hello again Simon, really well made device. I saw the video where you could not maintain a heat in adverse conditions and also Wilshire mans comment. To combat this if you can find moss as an insulator for the main outer surface area this will help. Obviously you can't have it made from 6mm cold rolled steel so for thermal retention and indeed secondary radiation moss may help. You can also form a baffle at the top sir. Fold some aluminium foil across the top covering the top inch or so, this will "confuse" the thermal dynamic i.e. the heat rolling in around the back and right out the top. In theory it should keep a more stable micro climate around the food. Keep up with the great vids mate, you have already inspired me to buy a 3 man tent for me and my dog to "test the water" in the back garden to start as he doesn't like change to much (a bit like my old dad haha). I used to love camping and simply stopped with work and generally life hitting me in the face like a sack of bricks.

You earned my subscription.

Reminds me of a folding reflector oven I built from Boy's Life magazine plans circa:1948. Remember Reynolds do-it-yourself aluminum? Good job!!!

Well Done!

talented handyman

Great job, it looks as good as any of those you see for sale and durable too. It sure baked that bread nicely didn't it. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

I made one years ago out of 2 pieces of flat sheet with key rings at the top so it folded flat and under it I had 2 flat pieces held together but with a nut between them to give an air gap so that what ever was cooking would not burn all the heat was reflected back on the top from the 2 big flat pieces that are held together with the ring holder set up like a tent over the top later I enclosed the ends a little bit to help keep the heat in and I watched many roasts and cakes and also dampers through the open ends

Brilliant