Recent content by durhammaker

I make the scorps too ,i did a batch for Lee before he got Nic involved with them, Chris Grant made the origional one and i did a small run for Lee at the 2011 bushcraft show in Windermere, they are one of my favourate tools to use, i make 3 different sizes too i think Lee only has the large...

Liberion finishing oil or Tung oil works great on cups .

loads of it down on the wear, keiper wood just out of Durham ,or Finchale woods opposite the priory, on the river bank trees all around Durham really.

Well as i make knives and collect knives, and over the years of camping and hunting ive used most types and abused most types of knife, the Mears bushcraft knife was designed to be "a knife for non knife users" and that was his origional brief to Alan Wood, i suppose the "scandi" grind everyone...

Dont think Ray pretends to use it for the camreas,the bloke has done it and still does it on tv as well as for real, he still instructs and leads the Arctic courses so really thats quite a glib statement.

So let me get this you get to be shown how to by someone who was in the TA SAS, acts like a goon on TV, and is a Scout..*** get real £2,999 can but a whole lot more like....6 woodlores!

I have seen a one Alan Wood had years ago when he lived at Slaggyford on the farm, not sure if he still has it but ill ask him the next time im over, think it was a Sheffield made one too.

cant get on either.....damn!!

Saw this reveiw on british blades, and its a great knife love the lines and how it flows, a survival knife and not a seration or sawback in sight thank the lord!

Is a parang worth £335........nope!

Tbh buy a parang when you get onsite or get one made for a fraction of the price before you head off into the ulu by a local maker.

I ve had stuff stollen at both Bushcraft shows but the wilderness gathering was great for me, nothing went , think it will be one bad egg to spoil it foreveryone else, hope the knife turns up too.