Recent content by Longstrider

Thankyou Pattree. Sharp enough is sharp enough. Those who know me are aware of what I can do with an edge. With good steel a hair-whittling edge can be achieved with the correct approach and the right tools. I do it often. Making mini-feather-sticks with a human hair is fun, but it's not a...

If you are keen to move over to a natural stone you will do a lot worse than a punt on an Arkansas stone. Small and light they are all I used until I discovered DMT Diafolds. If you want performance and lightweight then the Diafold takes a LOT of beating IMO. If you go for a double-sided...

This is BIG news ! There is a huge difference between white eggs and brown eggs ! White eggs are white. Brown eggs are brown. If it was an honest world (BIG 'If' ). I think that the statement from Sainsburys would have probably read more along the lines of .. "We have signed a lucrative deal...

That's a clever set-up. Do-able where I go to play but it would be a whole lot easier if I had hazel available there. I guess the trick is making sure there's no "residue" in the bits of jerry can before you light up !

One of the best campfire feasts for me was a huge (14 or 15 lbs) joint of gammon provided by our host for a group of about a dozen of us. We had an excess of oak cut-offs like wooden house bricks from a sawmill to use so we had a slow fire about 3ft diameter and 18" high burning 24/7. The gammon...

So much talk of titanium this and unonbtainium that as cooking gear makes me wonder how many here still enjoy the simplicity of a green stick ? Bangers and cheesy dough cooked on green sticks is one of my own favourite things to do with a camp fire. Make the dough up at home and take it in a...

Just boil a load of water in it then give everyone a Cup-a-Soup each ! :) For a group armed with sporks you can worse than a big pot of boiling water and selection of rat-pack meals they can heat up in the pot. Not only a filling bit of grub but each person can choose their own meal...

That doesn't look like something I would let any of my knives anywhere near TBH, BUT as long as it doesn't run too quickly and the water/parafin dribbler works, with modified guides it looks like it would be just the ticket for things like garden shears, assuming you don't have a belt grinder...

No fella, you just need bigger hands and the gaping maw of a hippo. I don't find it a problem personally ;) :lol:

I have carried a SAK Huntsman in my left front pocket virtually every day since I was at school. I have found good use of every tool and blade on it so many times I'm glad I had it when I wanted it. It has been all around the world with me and has, on more than one occasion, been the saviour of...

This raises questions in my mind. Many of their claims sound like the sort of bunkum pseudo science that automatically triggers my BS Alarm. They may be making a decent product but such claims, by their very nature make the whole enterprise seem somewhat 'iffy'. The fact that most axe usage...

My favourite combo is an ivy hearth and a drill of either hazel or elder. My bearing block is a 'cobble' of boxwood with a good depression in it. The bow can be any suitable bit of wood I rummage up on the day.

I like walking with a stick. I don't need a stick yet thank goodness, but on a wander I find uses for a stick that wouldn't have occurred to had I not been walking with one. Turning over stones or logs as I pass, flicking twigs and debris from the path as I go, sticking any litter I find, or...

Sharp (It had to be 'sharp' from me didn't it ?) :lol:

Really ? I never use anything in my Kelly Kettle that is much thicker than a pencil, and I can easily find all the dead twigs I need for that, and snap them in my hand. Are you sure you are not just making work for yourself, or are you splitting deadwood down for the fun of it. If the latter...