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    Modify your karrymore Delta 35

    Yes, modify it to be the best ruck sack ever. It is great however it is very souple, and in summer, the back really glues to the back , and once really charged just turns into a bawl. So I made my own frame using aluminium tubing, a modification that will take an hour of your time...
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    A few bushcrafters

    A long time I have not posted a new tread here... time to remedy ;) Nordic versions : Curly birch, Poul Strande Damas blade Plum handle, Bjorkman 12c27 blade JM Blade in 2.5 mm udelholm steel, rosewood and reinder handle.
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    Quick picture of my leuko

    I have finished a sheath for this thing kankanspaa blade 5.5" handle reinder, fittings Maillechort (Nickel Silver, brass button) This is a 5mm thick leather!!! the inside along the edge has been covered with shellac. There is an added security that clips on the plug at butt...
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    Pine resin/pitch uses

    I have collected this week some 2 kg of mostly dry pine pitch on a few sick trees that have it running in big quantities along their trunks. I plan to make my own danish oil, and glues. (danish oil with linseed oil, glue with coal) Does anybody here has any other use or recipy to tell me...
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    A bit of (almost) primitive forging

    Well, almost, because I used a compressor for air, but I may try to make a wood box blower someday. Gravel bed, and refractory bricks, just layed out, the red tube goes to compressor, away because of noise. My forge holder, can't be cheaper, 2.5 euro Yep.it is hot I think I am...
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    Dry Jerky

    [another one taken from OM,which can be of interest here] I to day decided to make my usual beef jerky, here aresome picture and a recipy: You need beef, a good knife, some fish sauce, some soya sauce (mine is mushroom soya sauce, a little garlic, and jeera (cumin). Cut the beef thin...
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    preserving and canning mushrooms

    [taken from OM, but I think it can interest you ;-) ] here is my recipe: It works well for saffron milk caps, hedgehog fungus and chanterelles. You need oignons, garlic, lots of olive oil, salt, thyme, optional: lemon. Clean the musrooms, remove dirt, for hedgehog fungi, remove their...
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    Outdoor shop in the reading area

    Seems I am soon headed to Reading for business, is there any good outdoor shop in the Reading area, I am specifically looking for a karrimor sabre delta 35.
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    Hedgehog Fungus

    Hi friends, I do not know if it is of interest to you, but I continue my little visit of different mushrooms: Here is today's collection of Hedgehog Fungus, Hydnum Repandum, Pied de Mouton (Sheep Foot) in French. They are slightly bitter raw, but excellent once cooked. They grow under large...
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    My very own fallkniven A1

    Reworked the blade to make it convex, as from factory it would not cut butter so the edge was thick. Handles and sheath in the same teck bar. Bamboo plug that secures the blade tight, Rafia home made rope (good training to make rope).
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    Chanterelles- girolles- cantharellus cibarius

    And after the blood milk caps, the season follows with what the Brits call chanterelles, and we French also call girolles, because chanterelles for the French is often the smaller specie of similar musrhoom (cantharellus tubaeformis) brown caps, and orange folds and feet, much stronger but...
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    blood milk caps- lactarius sanguifluxus

    We call them sanguins (bloodish) in French, because of the red-wine/blood colored sap they produce, which is a factor in identifying them. I went in the woods today for my prefered autumns food amongst mushrooms, the blood milk cap (sanguin). It is a lactarius, so procuces a milky sap, and in...
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    US Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 -- Online

    Hello, friends, I have recently put online on OM an html version of US Army Survival Manual FM 21-76. I know this manual has it's pros and it's cons, but it is one of the few that can be put online. There are anyway chapters that are relevant to bushcraft, so I would recommend people to...
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    Wetterling long hunting axe VS Gränsfors Bruks small forest

    Another article with Jack's gear. http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_article=147
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    Saber Cut Saw from Ultimate Survival a review

    Hi guys, happy to see you are back up! Here is the pointer to a review on this cool saw. http://216.120.249.70/s_article.php?id_article=146
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    A guide to choosing the right Edged Wood Cutting Tools

    http://outdoors.free.fr/s_article.php?id_article=77 and tell me what you think ? If it is useful or not?