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Because any profits from the exploitation of the design should go to Garcia. Of course, this only makes sense if you go along with the principles of ownership that underwrite the idea that you own your own house, car, or any things you invent and have proprietorial rights over. If not, have away...

This is just from what I recall at the time, Erbs. Garcia designed the Skookum and showed it to Kochanski and asked him to endorse it, which I understand he did. Kochanski's published descriptions of a suitable outdoors knife are made in pretty broad strokes. Essentially something with a 3 1/2"...

I am glad this thread popped again. I have recently moved city and there is a great big 'bare-assed' hill not far from me which has no light pollution and therefore offers terrific opportunities for observing stars and space junk. I don't want something for all night, just a low and light...

But, do you think that something like that would reasonably apply in this case, Erbs?

He's not using it properly so we'll steal it off him? Well, that's quite an evolution in any theory of property :) I quite like the knife. Not a lot, just a bit. I put my name on the list in 2009 expecting a two and a half year wait at that time. Got an email about a year later saying it was...

Yes, we got the first chilly night last night. Mind, it was supposed to have arrived about two weeks ago :)

There's a cheap Barbour Westmorland here...

Coach, you'll likely find that as you use knives more, imperceptibly, your visual tastes may alter. Also, you will possibly find your criteria change to more haptic ones; which may in turn affect your visual appreciation.

Like a lot of us here, I have several to pick from, various smocks and combats, but the old Norrona Arktis cotton jacket is a favourite. I have an eye out for an Austrian army jacket - the one with the daisychain on the front. But I really like that Dutch jacket of yours, Walker. There's a...

This one is a Jukka Hankala Lastu, Coach. Much venerated by makers. I was lucky enough to have picked up a few of his blades several years ago. When I ask makers if they could handle and sheathe them, the responses have always been along the lines of feeling awed and honoured. This knife was...

It's just about permission, whether you have it, from whom and on what terms. Otherwise, copying, especially for profit, is still taken to be fine, I suppose. It's just that trying to justify it makes you look like you are knowingly in the wrong and wriggling, often hotly and often uncaring...

Don't much care for canned worms. :) Sometimes sounds like someone is uncomfortable with the implications of a debate going in unmanageable directions. It is not as if this particular item, the Skookum, emerged from an anonymous collective consciousness, and therefore becomes the exploitable...

That is a fact

The answers are going to be different for everyone, I suspect. But I like spotting grasses; much more so now that I have moved to more or less a high prairie. This is OK, but there are a load of others...

It's their own brand clothing that is the really appealing stuff. Burly and affordable - jackets ant trousers, merino henleys, linen shirts. Difficult to know where to start. They had Dutch army, wool bear fleeces the other day, but I missed out. Bit of a grrr there :)

Price of propane has jumped here. Anyone know what it's doing in the UK?

These screw-ins for fishing boots are good, though considerably more aggressive than they need to be for ice. There's littler ones out there too. Unless there's a layer of slsh or snow over it, you only really need ice spikes to be about the same size as grit. (Being aware that is pretty much...

That is a lovely little collection you've built up there, Broch. I really like that small, brass, table-top one. :) I have just recently moved to Calgary, and there is something romantically Western about the place that makes me feel I should have some indoor oil lamps too. You can still see...

Thanks, I'd appreciate that. :)

:lmao: ha ha ha .. good one