Recent content by Billy-o

Oddly, I did the same just the other day. Found a load growing in a back lane. Not far from a patch of horseradish I sometimes visit. Drying them out now

Yes, we usually find ourselves making jelly about now

It is a full-tang, micarta & VG10 one that I picked up used a long time ago. Here I think. The standard F1 isn't full-tang (as you know) and has a slightly different, burlier grind. The H1 is the knife I keep in the garage for all jobs. It is great, though I have thinned the stock behind the...

Good place to start - round £200-250. Can get things second hand though If Englishness isn't that high on your requirements, there is a ton of really excellent French regional knives, often very well-priced for what they are https://couteaux-courty.com/en/102-french-cutlery#/page-10

:) brought back some pretty visceral memories Thanks for posting the pics.

I bought a couple of cheap chamois skins for my first projects. The bags and patches I made then are still in use. Doesn't need specialized equipment like leather needles, punches etc. It stiches up like cloth

Here's one to add - Garmin Oregon 700 GPS Idly, I went to look and see what a replacement would be while maintaining weight and/or compactness. Hoping for a bit more speed and a slightly larger, clearer screen. But, nothing. Good job I checked. I was going to just sell it in the expectation...

I try to keep my regular pocket contents to a pen, knife, lip balm, AAA torch, bit of string, wallet. I go though phases of having a coffee spoon (strangely handy) and have recently added a 2" folding x5 lens - partly because I like to inspect bugs and plants but really because I keep forgetting...

Yes, Nessmuk's fixed blade knife in the trio is a slicer, not a wood processor. Bacon, bread, also skinning/butchering etc. The hatchet and the moose slipjoint for the wood, I guess. That even ender Moose is no tiddler either. If the scale is accurate, it maybe up to 5" closed.

We could go to pre Uncle Ray days. I can kind of remember this from Nationwide in 1975 Found this too - more like Nuts in May :)

Too soon :( :)

Difficult to stop quietly swearing under my breath. Lovely. You must be in Nirvana

I getting quietly addicted to that stuff, especially in combination with the new ultra wicking Polartec fleece materials. I am trying to convince a US seller on Poshmark to ship a lovely, old (also cheap) Rab Equilibrium Pertex jacket to me in Canada. I think he won't.

For practicality today, you are right they are out of date. But, there aren't many things more interesting than old maps, even if they are only just out of date. Riveting documents The topography itself doesn't change much, except at the edge of the island. And for historical and other details...

Vape, phone and credit card. Times have changed