Right guys. Going to the big Essex boot fair on Saturday if it doesn't rain. Hoping to pick up some bushcraft bargains. Just wondering if any of you have recently picked anything up from boot fairs which you consider to be a bargain.
Boot fair bargains?
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Spoke Shave for 10p and some rather nice Turn Screws for £1 for 6 of them, looks like they have been heated though but easy fix.
Highlander Thermarest ultra for £2.50 and a Highlander 1-2 season doss bag for £2.50 also. Had some mega bargains before.
Our lass goes to them on a regular basis and often brings me goodies back
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whenever i go its just tat. i get proper depesssed reading some of the boot sale bargain threads. I want to meet lots of thick people who know not what they have but all i seem to get are muppets trying to sell stuff at way over the odds.
on the upside though i always find something to turn into something else that i need but then it goes in the cave and doesnt see the light of day for 10 years
Happy hunting
on the upside though i always find something to turn into something else that i need but then it goes in the cave and doesnt see the light of day for 10 years
Happy hunting
whenever i go its just tat. i get proper depesssed reading some of the boot sale bargain threads. I want to meet lots of thick people who know not what they have but all i seem to get are muppets trying to sell stuff at way over the odds.
on the upside though i always find something to turn into something else that i need but then it goes in the cave and doesnt see the light of day for 10 years
Happy hunting
Sounds like we go to the same ones !
Rob
Full length waxed stockman coat - £2.50.
Mohair/wool blanket - £3.00
Cast iron frying pan - £1.00
Mohair/wool blanket - £3.00
Cast iron frying pan - £1.00
How was the pan??? I never seem to get them working for me, food sticks to them and burns all the time... maybe there is something i'm missing?
I went to the car boot sale in Täby Galopp, near Stockholm earlier this month and I got a second hand one of these for 40Kr (less than £4):
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(Bushcraft Store linky)
Annoyingly, I didn't know just what an awesome bit of kit it was until I got it home and Googled it - the guy had two of them and I only bought the one!
I also got a knackered old stick tang Mora knife for 2Kr and last week, I hacked off the plastic handle, reground the blade and whacked it into a nice new piece of Elm so I could use it to rough out my spoons before I get out the little carving blades.
I can heartily recommend Swedish car boot sales
(Bushcraft Store linky)
Annoyingly, I didn't know just what an awesome bit of kit it was until I got it home and Googled it - the guy had two of them and I only bought the one!
I also got a knackered old stick tang Mora knife for 2Kr and last week, I hacked off the plastic handle, reground the blade and whacked it into a nice new piece of Elm so I could use it to rough out my spoons before I get out the little carving blades.
I can heartily recommend Swedish car boot sales
A roll of Aluminium foil tape for making pot cozies, a couples of files and a set of trangia style nesting pans / kettle are recent bargain buys. Total £2.80
There's been a lot of junk lately though
There's been a lot of junk lately though
Seems to have been an awful lot of tat at our local one lately, but I did get a flexible drive for £1
A Berghaus Munro, beaten but usable £3. Swedish Army M35 style (the rare 3 pocket ones, I say style as not too sure if it is original.) pack, leather needs attention, £2.50. Brand new bergen side pocket liners and sleep system stuff sack 50p each. Get lucky a fair amount but most of the time its tat!
No oddly it was a little crappy one in a Tesco Carpark, it was on the one and only stall worth investigating amongst the people flogging of kids games with most of the bits missing and the guy selling soaps, I could tell it would be worth investigating ans the proprietor was smoking a pipe.
The big one I go to is Berscough (sp?) that has a mix of tat to serious wonders for sale I got a rather nice Hardys split cane rod for about £3.50 with a reel a few years ago, a Stick welder hardly used for a £5 with full safty kit and tons of other bits and bob's you just have to keep your eyes peeled and learn to recognise what stall's are useful and what others are selling chess set's with 22 missing parts and used kilts.
