Hudson Bay fire starter kits

[craeg]

I may go ahead and sort out a group buy of Hudson Bay fire starter kits if there is enough interest on here and I need 10 orders for it.

This price including delivery would be about £42 from the USA but please add Paypal 4.3% fee.

I will also make a leather pouch to carry it in.

Anyway let me know and if we get the numbers I will go ahead with it.

ATB
Craeg

 

[Corso]

you know thats virtually the same price you can get them over here

http://www.sharkdesigns.co.uk/bushcraft/Products Folder/fire/Tinderboxes/hudson_bay_deluxe.html

 

[craeg]

As corso has pointed out they are available from the shop in his link for £55.95 plus £5.95 P&P but I thought I would offer a small group discount which seems by my reckoning to save you about £20.

 

[JonathanD]

Remember to add customs charges and import duty on to the price as you will definitely get hit for it.

 

[craeg]

This includes the customs import duty and VAT using an on-line calculator (give or take a couple of % depending on how the customs men categorise the boxes).

 

[Toddy]

That's a very good price Craeg

Slight hi-jack, but it's for brass tins and the like.
Pazyrk are selling off all of theirs for buttons if folks want to make their own. The table top ones are more the size. Kind of 'pretty' though.

http://www.pazyryk.co.uk/Brass_Tins.html

cheers,
M

 

[JonathanD]

This includes the customs import duty and VAT using an on-line calculator (give or take a couple of % depending on how the customs men categorise the boxes).

Aaah, that's pretty cool then.

 

[ammo]

I'm in. Put me on the list please Craeg.

 

[Ecoman]

Put me down for one please.

Is there a choice of finishes/materials or just the one in the photo?

 

[Corso]

As corso has pointed out they are available from the shop in his link for £55.95 plus £5.95 P&P but I thought I would offer a small group discount which seems by my reckoning to save you about £20.

Their price is £45.95 plus postage - the £56 version includes an additional leather pouch

Thought I was offering you a viable alternative not trying to scupper your deal

I'll butt out except to say they are lovely kits and well worth Craeg's price

 

[Monikieman]

After a great deal of internet searching for one, I managed to find a brass one in the UK for £39 but postage was on top.

That'll work out dearer than Craeg's but he's also adding in a leather pouch so all in it's a great deal.

Wish this deal had been on earlier.

Cheers.

 

[craeg]

Ecoman, it will be the brass version only.

 

[Goatboy]

It's a good deal Graeg, I finally got one for Christmas this year after coveting them after giving them as gifts a couple of years back. Got a copper one and I've been holding onto it since Christmas like a long lost childhood teddy bear. As well as being excellent quality and functional they are just so darn aesthetically pleasing. Is now one of my most prized things.

What does your pouch look like?

 

[almac]

are they really worth it?
I mean, I can just reuse a small tin for tinder and buy a cheap 4x magnifying glass for a few $$.
as much as I like these kits; IMO i'll spend my money elsewhere.

 

[Goatboy]

are they really worth it?
I mean, I can just reuse a small tin for tinder and buy a cheap 4x magnifying glass for a few $$.
as much as I like these kits; IMO i'll spend my money elsewhere.

I like mine from a historical artistic viewpoint. It's like any thing/toy, it's the value we put on it! Is a RM's Wooodlore clone worth £400, is a car worth £such and such, is somethings life more than another - ? But it pays that cost so we can eat meat! I love mine it was a present so have the added value of that, just as those I've given have that value to the recipients and to me as it's something nice I want ed to give. Only you can answer that. Though they are very well made and lovey to look at.

 

[craeg]

Remember almac, this thread is a group buy offer and not a thread to debate whether or not something is worth something or other.

Nobody is forcing you to spend your cash but lots of people in this forum spend lots of money on items like woody knives and Duluth packs when a cheap mora or millet's own rucksack will do!

That is 3 boxes so far then.

The design of the pouch will be decided when I get my box. Maybe drawstring or maybe stud or maybe Sam Browne.

ATB
Craeg

 

[wattsy]

i'll have one mate

 

[Ecoman]

Ecoman, it will be the brass version only.

Sounds good to me. I'm still in!

 

[stonehippo]

Put me down for one. Does this include the paypal fee?

 

[Midnitehound]

are they really worth it?
I mean, I can just reuse a small tin for tinder and buy a cheap 4x magnifying glass for a few $$.
as much as I like these kits; IMO i'll spend my money elsewhere.

You were hardly likely to buy from this group buy anyway being in Canada so personally I'm struggling to see the point you are making. Beauty and value are in the eye and wallet of the beholder and all that. Canadian currency is as useful as A$$ gas here anyway!

It is lucky I don't have spare money at the moment, I don't know what purpose they serve but they are shiny so I want one. Do they do them in Titanium?