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Not a problem. The damage done if a puppy chews on it will be minimal as you would have plenty of time to stop it before it eats the canoe. Norwegian Jens Kvernmo had a black bear chew on his Ally canoe on an expedition to Canada two years ago. The canoe was left unattended when he was...

I have an Ally 16.5 DR (since 1997), and cannot praise it enough. I have used and abused it extensively for all those years and it is still going strong. Some might think that it cannot cope with extreme canoeing and wilderness use, due to the rubberised cloth used as covering. I guess those...

You could also try to contact Fredrik Haakonsen in Norway, but I do not know if he use that exact steel. Fredrik has a PhD in metallurgy, and is a specialist in heath treatment. He has access to some very sofisticated and advanced tools for heath treating, that other knifemakers can only dream...

The book "Vikinger i krig" by Oslo University historian Kim Hjardar will answer most of your questions, and is definitly worth a read if you are interested. It has been translated into english and published with the title "Vikings at war" (in 2016 I think ?). Quote from the publisher: "Vikings...

As a kid I used to go barefoot a lot in the bush. Some of my mates were african herdboys, and they certainly did not use anything on their feet when running about in the bush (as a kid and some of them as adults). As I grew older I started to use and wear lightweight tackies and veldskoen...

Where I grew up (Swaziland - siSwati is more or less a dialect of seZulu) the word isagila refered to the type of club with a carved head protuding to the side (hard to explain, but I can post a pic if anyone is interested ?), while iwisa was the type of club with a completely round bulbous...

Wow RB. That is really nice. Great work mate :super:

Very nice pics. Actually that's not a Zulu word, but the english (South African) word for the Zulu fighting and hunting club. The proper seZulu word is isagila or iwisa depending on what type of club it is. Another word is ikilabhu. An ordinary stick is called izinti. As a kid I always...

Both. I know a couple of guys (one PH in SA, and two trackers also in SA) who have been mauled and I have seen their scars. I also saw the mauling of one of the trackers. I was visiting a friends hunting concession to help setting up treestands and digging blinds for bowhunters. One evening...

Not very bushcrafty, but for eBooks in general try to have a look here www.gutenberg.org More than 13.000 titles.

Very nice work Snufkin :biggthump Smart thing to do to the spine of the blade too ! I think I'll have a go like that on a S1 for myself in the near future :o):

Very nice work leon ! RB there should be no problems getting the blade blanks yet. At least that is what my distributor (here in Norway) told me some weeks back when I bought my last batch of blades.

While I hope that the kitten will be caught alive without harm to it or anyone else, I would strongly suggest your mate use something else than 00 Buck in his scattergun. This will only make the kitten pretty annoyed and angry - this also applies to the smaller spotted kittens as well ! Believe...

Nice pics RB. PackPals rock :o):

Iv'e used the straight handled Frost drawknife a lot for bowmaking some years back. It is good and sharp and works ok, but these days I prefer to use a drawknife made by Svante Djerv (SD) from Sweden (the smallest one in the pic). It is of better quality (although I've had to rehandle it once...

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I made and gave my kids their first knives when they were 6 and 7 years old. Taught them how to cut and carve by sitting down with them carving "minkepinner", miniature bark boats, and small branch figures and then let go. None of them have ever cut themselves seriously, and the only real cut...

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Ive seen it done a lot of times (done with a bit of wax, a zebra mane / tail hair and a tiny piece of a leaf), and tried myself a couple of times too. Prefer to do it to the stingless species of the African honeybee :lol: That real Croc Dundee fellow was Rodney William Ansell, and he...

Their tents are very good. Never personally used their sleeping bags (prefer Ajungilak and Mammut) but the kids have one each. Never had any problems with them (the bags that is :o): ), and they are warm and comfortable. Personally I would take anything that someone sponsored by Helsport says...