Recent content by Aristotle

Those are excellent. The "ski parka" and flight jacket look particularly good.

It is very impressive. You have some good skills. Do you have photos of other things that you have made? I'm tempted by a Helikon-Tex SAS Smock -Obviously not as authentic and probably not as well-made.

Interesting that they did replace it. I would just have repaired it myself.

That looks and sounds to be excellent. Great stuff. It probably needs a separate forum thread. I know that you wanted a period correct smock, but would you not have preferred a modified version with adjustable ventilation (if you are going to use it whilst being very active?)?

Could it have fallen from something nearby, broken its neck and writhed around until it expired there (or was dragged there by another animal)?

Good choice. Brilliant knives. https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/in-praise-of-the-svord-mini.164083/

It reminds me of song from nursery school. "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly" Where would it end?!

A stainless steel spork is what you need. Etch your name on to it for group camps. If necessary, lash a stick to the end of the handle! https://ebay.io/m/a20SHF

I have now taken in the elasticated waist a bit so the waist is no longer huge for me. The sizing of these trousers is quite unusual. Then again, many people have a big waist nowadays and probably don't have big leg muscles.

They will need to be more like bludgeons and carefully locked away and tamper-proof.

Kitchen knives will be banned first. All food will need to be pureed in a safety food processor

My 160mm long Wilkinson Sword folding saw blade was too short for the 10-"12" trunk on the ground. (I have ordered a Vonhaus folding pruning saw for a bigger blade and a better design). Edit: Returning with a bow saw did the job. It was hard work though. Two cuts through at the limit of my saw...

I will take a folding saw too, but I think that a bow saw will be more effective for the trunk in question

I went for a walk in our local woods. A number of trees and boughs had fallen across, or grown down to, paths. Mostly only partially blocking them. I whipped out my Swiss Army Knife, opened the saw and went about cutting them back. The bigger ones were first partially cut through and then...

I made some repairs to the DIY bush shirt yesterday. There were some places where the seams had come apart, some where cloth had come apart near seams and the stress point corners of the kangaroo pocket where my hands enter. I darned the repairs with some sort of synthetic wool that I found iny...