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  • BushMoot: Come along to the amazing Summer Moot 31st July - 5th August (extended Moot : 27th July - 8th August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
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    Pattree reacted to dnarcher's post in the thread I have too many bags with Like Like.
    You cannot have too many bags, merely appropriate bags for circumstances you don't know about yet...
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    Pattree posted the thread Sharpening in Edged Tools.
    For someone who probably uses a knife less than anyone else on the Forum I’m spending a lot of time here in Edge Tools :lmao: On the...
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    Pattree reacted to JFW's post in the thread Old ali bottles and meths stoves with Like Like.
    You could always make them into meths stoves. plenty of designed on the web. Cheers JFW
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    Pattree reacted to hughtrimble's post in the thread Sharpening steels with Like Like.
    The strop is abrasive though, so isn't just cleaning teeth, it's removing metal? Unless you're not using any compound on it?
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    Pattree reacted to Falstaff's post in the thread Emergency signalling with Like Like.
    Not a lot of mountains or marine around my way, and if you are in the woods (lots of those), then a smoke bomb or possibly a flare will...
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    Pattree replied to the thread Sharpening steels.
    I use a fine mill-saw file to repair or reshape a working knife blade. Fine it down with a carborundum block or puck. I finish it off...
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    Pattree reacted to stonepark's post in the thread Sharpening steels with Like Like.
    Stones are sharpeners for removing material, reprofiling bevels and for sharpening knives from blunt to sharp. Steels are hones...
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    Pattree reacted to Seagull's post in the thread Sharpening steels with Like Like.
    I've a old, horn handled steel, hexagon in section and of cast iron. I think it is probably a hone...but it easily restores a...
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    Pattree reacted to John Fenna's post in the thread Sharpening steels with Like Like.
    I often use a steel before a strop but I find using diamond bench stones more meditative :)
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    Pattree reacted to PSBurton's post in the thread Is this fatwood? with Good job Good job.
    Thank you to everyone who has replied. With the advice from this thread I have now managed to start finding fatwood.
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    Pattree posted the thread Sharpening steels in Edged Tools.
    You might have seen that I recently moved on a 1950’s butcher’s knife. I didn’t sharpen it but if I had I would have used a sharpening...
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    Pattree reacted to Chris's post in the thread I have too many bags with Haha Haha.
    I refuse to accept the premise of this thread. - Sent from under a pile of bags I definitely need
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    Pattree reacted to Tengu's post in the thread I have too many bags with Love Love.
    Made by Hidesign. The fittings are brass; I checked. needs a good hide feed and Im ready to go. Im told it a carry on bag (whatever...
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    Pattree reacted to Toddy's post in the thread Bug out coffee with Like Like.
    They wash and are resuable if they're made of the fabric.....I did say that the 'good' ones can just be burnt. I just use the filter...
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    Pattree reacted to Falstaff's post in the thread Bug out coffee with Like Like.
    The ones you found are made of what to me are questionable plastics. I'd go for paper or natural materials ones. My vote is for the...