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I'd buy this if it were a fraction larger. There is tons of this stuff M&F on Etsy...

The German army parka - remarkably hard wearing item. I wore one to school. It had a removable quilted liner for Winter. Would have liked the fur liner, but you could wear the quilted liner alone, with a bit of elan. I am still sentimentally as well as practically attached to them. I bought...

I am just worried it is going to break. Can't be good for it all the time.

Slowly working through Patrick O'Brian's novels. I missed so much of the nuance first time. Also, probably inspired by watching the slightly disappointing Odyssey, re-reading The Oresteia. Light reading, like :)

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)- or really anything at all that was directed by Powell and Pressburger. They did A Canterbury Tale, too, 49th Parallel, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp etc. All beezers. Both Blade Runners were good. Any thing with Alastair Simms. The Rules of the Game made...

Nice pile, Herman30 I am gradually parting with various GBs, Plumbs, Skramas, billhooks. I am just keeping the two Roselli axes. Though the GB little hatchet ... I might keep that one too.

I rather like the Lion Steel M4. There is an M5 too.

When I was a kid in the mid 70s we'd often rendezvous on the coast with a family who had a roof tent on top of a Landy. (We had a big family tent and a Cortina estate:)). We were all big on kayaking and surfing, especially on the Welsh Atlantic. So, that's how we ended up friends. Often the six...

I am hoping to get a proper look at that Peltonen M23 sometime soon

A Kifaru Woobie is currently 370USD - about £275:lol:

Handy round the house at times too :)

Oh, do you mean to keep it open ... no so much to keep it closed? I assumed your friend had just put their hand in their pocket and encountered a partly open Opi #5.

Maybe a silicone or rubber sealing ring ... like you get for torches/plumbing etc. About 12mm Or, stitch together a slip case from chamois or that 1mm-ish leather they use for book binding - you can get that cheap as scrap. I use it all the time for the same job...

:) It's why I left.

I like the Peltonen, Herman30. To the OP's question A flat ground, carbon steel fixed blade of some kind. About a 3 3/4" length blade, 1/8" thick. Wood handle for preference A folding knife with a 3 1/4"-ish blade. Maybe a large (4 1/4") carbon steel stockman. I.e. something that can do...