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    Recommend me some good boots.

    possibly contraversial but i pretty much only buy karrimors, there pretty cheap and can generally always be found on sale some where, i find them really comfy and even though i tend to break at least one eyelet within the first couple of weeks tend to last me for at least a year, which is...
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    Bushcraft combi knife/saw idea.

    surely with that though when your using the gut hook both blades are pointing up, unless they do one with a symmetrical handle that could be turned over once the blade is rotated, what about the gerber exchang-a-blade, this seems like a good idea, as the length of blades isnt limited by handle...
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    kids and knives

    as far as i see it civilisation was built with knifes and axes, before them we were stuck in caves, so i will definately be encouraging my daughter to sensibly use knives when the time comes, especially as i've been camping with people before of mid to late 20's, given them an axe to chop wood...
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    High Tech Friction Fire

    thats awesome, i kinda thought you were gonna pull out a cordless drill when i read the title, but i doubt it would have been as quick
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    best charity shop purchases

    german issue trousers, free, they were binning them so i said i'd take em british army knife, £2.50, nearly 60 years old and use it daily waist coat, £3 pound, searched all over for one cause for a job i was doing but couldnt find one, probably made 4 or 5 hundred quid out of it, i also once...
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    Who Cant STAND It????

    i'm jealous, i never used to get the well done, my old boss would litterally never talk to me unless it was to moan, which i wouldnt have minded if it wasnt for the fact he only got the job because he was the big bosses nephew,but then i got sacked, and took a leaf out of his book by working for...
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    how-to-make-folding-bucksaw [Pauls Kirtley's blog]

    in my experiance bow saw blades are all pretty flexible but i dont like by expansive replacement blades so maybe you need to get cheap ones, as for snapping theyonly really snap if you try to fold them, if your only curving it you should be alrigh i was in home base the other day though, and...
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    Firesteel contraversy!

    this is thread is awesome, so many fire ideas its great, theres one thing i cant believe no one else has mention though, i havent smoked for nearly a year, but when i did, i would often find my self without functioning lighter for some reason or another, which lead to some interesting creativy...
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    No English Dictionary has...

    thats a popular misconception, it is in there, its just that they spelt it wrong, if you look through all the g's you'll find
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    New member in east sussex

    mr tumble and makka pakka are really annoying characters in kids tv shows, we try not to let meg watch the stuff, but shes only 8 months and shes a nightmare in the mornings (she gets that from me) plus at the moment shes teeething, so often we'll put her in front of something annoyingly noisy...
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    a point to be made

    having or carrying to much kit isn't a problem as long as your not dependant on it, i like the quote they keep saying on dual survivor, the more you know the less you need, with emphisase on the need, just because you dont need something doesnt mean you dont want it, i like a healthy amount of...
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    New member in east sussex

    hi i'm nick, i just joined a few days ago, i live in eastbourne, and work in lamberhurst kent, i repair furninture at the moment for my parents company, but am a qualified mechanic, and hope to get back to that some day i've been interested in bushcraft and the like since i was a a kid...
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    Good quality monocular ?

    i just bought one on ebay, it was under £10 with the postage, has 15 to 55 magnification, and seems pretty robust, size is about 5 inches long and about inch and a quarter wide and comes with a belt pouch so good for carry, it als o has a tripod mount screw hole on it, so if you could knock up a...
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    Wild Camping in Kent

    i work in lamberhurst kent, in buildings on a farm, theres alot of wood lands on and around the farm site, which i can imagine people think would be good for wild camping, but i can guarantee its not, me and some friends asked if we could camp in the woods over a weekend, and they said no, but...
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    Lathes and wood turning

    this handles are awesome have you ever tried dual centric turning, where you reposition the wood in the lathe after starting the turning so that you can take wood of off just one side, you can use it to make some amazing ergonimics in handles,
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    Five pound sharpening kit

    hi, i'm new to this forum but i have been doing carpentry and furniture repairs for a couple of years now, and cant stand blunt tools, especially when wood turning, and i have always used more or less this technic to keep them sharp, it practically costs me nothing as i get alot of free off...