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Sorry, bought it while there.

My new knife, from 20p Land in China. Stabby, slashy and looks cool, on parcel duty and doing a fine job, but a bit flimsy for anything else. Got another one too, better quality blade but not very pretty.

I'm guessing wind could be a problem. In the vid he says it's 10kg so weight is not so much of a problem. Also as a camper, parking on a residential street would be quite legal for the night, couldn't do that with a tent, as far I know there is no free camping on Offa's Dyke and and also none on...

I have a strange urge to make one. I always wanted to do Offa's Dyke end to end, tempted to do London to Offas Dyke in one of these things next summer. I wonder how practical this would really be? Any ideas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiejAhol4Ps He made his from Coroplast boards, we...

Great video, my one problem with the method is the speed the powder burns and the likelihood of burning yourself. So I tried to repeat your experiment with a little improvement/modification. I made some fresh black powder but only lightly mixed it for a few minutes, it's really slow. This had...

Sounds like he's turned a state school into a forest school. Forest schools are the best education for children, but private. Running a state school as a forest school is just not profitable (financially speaking) which is a the main drive in state education these days, so kudos to him for...

Done a bit of Exarc myself. Rather than a general book on Exarc I would suggest you decide which area you're interested in and get specialist book on that area. For example if you're into Beaker pottery a specialist book on Beaker pottery manufacture would be more useful than anything else.

Burnt flint looks quite different and it doesn't look like the stained flint mentioned above (I put a vid of it on my youtube channel [link below]), I'd have to agree with Jasper having worked with it a lot. However I've never heard of Jasper in England and definitely not chalky Suffolk, plenty...

I use punkwood so the on top of the flint isn't and option. I spread the wood on the ground for a wide coverage area, however I don't strike the flint with the striker though as the sparks tend to head upwards I hold the striker near the punkwood and strike it with the flint.

I got my pyrite from Ebay. If you do a google picture search you'll see what it looks like. Black and white flint tends to knap well and grey flint poorly.

I have been experimenting lately with pyrite (which is an iron sulfide) and marcasite (a purer and more durable iron sulfide). Striking two iron pyrites together as much modern literature suggests does nothing. Prehistoric finds are of a single piece of pyrite along with a flint striker. Using...

It's scales don't look like they are keeled which would mean it's not an Adder, Grass or Aesculapian snake, the only British snake without keels is the Smooth Snake. Albinos are also bred by owners and very sought after pets, most likely and escapee.

Do you ever stop practicing any of them. At the moment, firelighting in the wet with only natural finds and flint and steel, wood carving and plant recognition.

There are parts of Europe with no flint as well as parts abundant in it. England for example is full of flint but it's rare in Scotland, Scandinavia has a lot of flint, but none in Finland,Germany and Austria have little flint while France is full of the stuff. So flint got traded a lot, I heard...

I picked some of these up at Maplin a couple of weeks ago http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/rolson-diamond-sharpening-blade-set-twin-pack-n28cy

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This is an idea I had for a natural method not using a tin. I just thought someone may have already tried it and wondered if it worked or not. That is burying the wood in the ground and lighting the campfire over it. This would hopefully create an airtight environment where the wood would char...

Both American Indians and Australian Aboriginals tended to use the glass insulators from the top of telegraph poles, in fact the problem of them climbing the poles and nicking them was so bad, telegraph companies left broken insulators around the bottom of the poles. Also must be remembered...

I don't think kind of steel is the issue with a ferro rod, pretty much any hard material will spark it, I often use a piece of flint on mine.

There's no real difference in knapping glass or flint except glass is much easier as it is softer. However apart from slag glass it's difficult to find nodules so mostly you will be pressure flaking only with it. If you do get nodules it can't be hit very hard, stone works but copper or antler...