Recent content by MrEd

I have 4 now I use for different things, great little ditty bags

Yes basically

I use a pair of bundeswehr flecktarn and leather gloves - leather palms and fingers, and cotton canvas back. I wear them when doing anything heavy - carrying cutting etc.

Yeah and we still had enough leftovers for 2 families for another meal. I always over do the portions!!

Had it 15 years, I love it, it’s such a fun multi-purpose vehicle (if you are prepared to put up with the agricutural-ness)

So a few months ago an old friend of mine and I were talking about campfire cooking. We go family camping every year and want to upgrade our cooking game. So a practise was in order. We arranged a June weekend date when we were all free and both our families traipsed up to my permission woodland...

Nice, I have a 90 owned it for near 15 years. It’s a 1990 plate, will be buried with me I think, I love it. Been tooling around in it like this in the recent heat…. Those fl2 are pretty good tbh? Much better than the fl1 in terms of robustness of the drive train

I just carry a simple boker plus tech tool 1, have 2. Love them. Super simple pocket knife. Like the kind I remember my dad and grandfather carrying, just a blade and that was it.

I will have this please @Nice65 will pm you

Boiled leather is amazingly tough, I have used several discs of boiled leather for years as a jacking pad on a car jack. I have also successfully used it to make ‘reinforcing sacrificial straps’ for a wooden crate, screwed in place and folded round the corner. I also made a cover on a wooden...

Actually @m73user - a question about Singapore import laws - can I send a collectible 1899 military folding jack knife to Singapore? What I have read says ‘not without police permission’ so have sent it to my colleague for friend as I fear it being confiscated

It’s a big shame there isn’t an alternative to trademark. They services and repaired my ww2 one (mkiii?) probably 20 years ago. I used to actually carry and use it, but have retired it as a display item now. It’s still accurate. Lovely items, I can see why you are smitten with them

Hello and welcome, I have a couple of Francis barkers - a 1916 lensatic and a 1942 liquid filled prismatic

I have had good success with char cloth made of old 100% cotton shirts and old denim

Welcoming me back, hope it all heals fast!