Recent content by Robin DuBois

thank you very much! i'm third hand borrowing it from a friend of a friend, its called a travel forge, and i think it says it was made in london in 1942. quite small but large tray on legs with a hand cranking fan.

hi, wow thanks for all the positive feedback, i must have my notifications turned off i didn't think i'd had replies. Yeah I've lost hours doing this its so engrossing. I'm hoping to get some leaf springs next time i get the opportunity to forge, first step is replacing my fixed blade, then a...

salt, never leave home without it. :-)

mine uses what was sold to me as a 'trauma pouch' which contained a couple of basic dressings, including a sealed head wound dressing to break out when the real ****. I carry this everywhere, literally, and it has been useful too many times to count. its about to get restocked, its...

got to use a 'travel forge' this summer, here is what a few days produced.. this firesteel was an attempt using very inferior material, pretty much just iron i think, and despite trying to quench it in oil it is nowhere near hard enough to produce a spark, so, just shaping practice...

be great to see the finished item. a belt sander for sure, and a new ring from opinels website perhaps. i love restoring these knives, the tips so often break but can be resurrected by an amateur like me, very satisfying indeed.

Here is my 1951 A.B.L. Colasse Royal Navy Knife. a cheap as chips knife that was made in 1951 and was new till it was sold to me for 7.99 gbp. Nothing locks or is over 3 inch, so it is totally legal, and does me very well for cutting rope and tape, and small cutting tasks with wood, though I...

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new on here and to the idea of talking 'bushcraft' online etc. I thought I might start what could be an interesting beneficial discussion. As the person out of my mates who loves making fires and camping outdoors etc the most (pretty much) so I'm always the one who has...

i've never understood why £100 and over sleeping bags lack the feature that most army bags have which is a waterproof base. I wouldn't swap my french army bag with its waterproof base and showerproof to with a chunky zip for any £200 high tech bag that would be ruined by a night sleeping rough...

I've just ordered a pair of bobster bugeye goggles with amber lenses, for about £12 from the US. Can't wait to have sunglasses that can't break, that will keep smoke out of my eyes while tending the fire. :-) been needing a solution to that for years. Also ordered a fiskars sw75 10" saw, the...

my first aid kit is a army surplus trauma pouch i got for £8, designed to hold not much more than one sealed bandage kit, so i carry that, as a provision for major injuries, plus iodine tincture, antiseptic spray, saline eyewash, a range of plasters, gauze, scissors, bandage roll, antiseptic...

couple of things, savlon apparently gets tested on animals, so i heard. And iodine tincture is great to have in my opinion. I splash a bit on any open cuts if I'm worried about contamination, and am glad to have it as its apparently one of the most essential things to have if a nuclear fallout...

I spent a few months living in a very heavily tick populated area, and removing ticks from dogs and people was a daily thing, I must have taken 10 or more out of my own legs and groin. We never used anything more advanced than tweezers but these are risky. The main worry is lymes disease, which...