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  1. FGYT

    Smallest Usable Knife Blade Design??

    put a short lanyard on it with a knot in the end that reaches just outside your little finger makes it feel like a bigger handle
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    Knife Making Supplies

    you can certainly make a knife with materials that would cost a lot less that £25 (My first had less than £10 in it ) but may have to spend more and have spare left over as well as any tools you need you haven't got which still can be minimal hand tools . are you intending to...
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    Mess tins

    Egg n chips is easy in my Wok and a good Bit of Oil easy to clean Stir fry is ideal for Bush camping as it was developed to cook food quickly with minimal use of small Fuel ie twigs Before a mass shortage of Wood fuel China's Cooking was quite different more Pots of...
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    Mess tins

    problem is the shape they are that shape to fit in a rectangular Pouch on the webbing belt, not to be easy to clean (especially burnt on Aluminium ) or Heat evenly from a small central Heat source. they have a low fill height with a proportionally large surface area so heat dosnt go...
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    Mess tins

    Used Mess tins for military stuff modified it too the small mess tin (stamped 1947) and bottom cut off large on for lid has a Tupperware sealed box that fitted it inside perfectly had brew powders Chilli salt etc it boiled water for Brews or boiled water and heated the Small tins...
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    The Strangest Sheath...

    yes quite right However its not illegal to Study and practice martial arts with Live blades in private and many do
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    The Strangest Sheath...

    Plastic Fantastic is your friend stop messin about with that horrible Cow skin stuff ;)
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    11th Wedding Anniversary Knife and one for a friend Both N690

    For an old school friend who likes to travel this time wanted a larger blade strong but slicey in stainless but still slim and lightweight for a treck round India later in the year From one of my Extra long pre cut hardened banks in 4.75mm N690 but more pointy than a Woodlore...
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    11th Wedding Anniversary Knife and one for a friend Both N690

    Special knife finished and delivered for an 11 Wedding anniversary (Steel ) gift to her husband parrrently for chopping up meat n sausages at summer BBqs . Laser Logo is a design he did of their Initials and the date of the wedding they both have this as a matching Tattoo. I put in 11 satellite...
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    Oh dear...

    Sausages are easy to make :) Rowan to his last pig at the drop off (abattoir takes in sunday night and beds them down ) " I do love you Stinging Nettle" (his name for his piggy) ........ Chucks apple in ......." But i love sausages more" goes back to the car..
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    New Bushcraft UK T-shirts

    I dont like Big prints on the front so much any more (must be be a getting older thing ) But happy with the small logo on the breast and pretty much any ofthe big prints on the back
  12. FGYT

    Condor HD Kukri - Owners Opinions

    It is high carbon steel But if it throws good sparks off a piece of flint it will be tempered to hard to do its job as a Big chopping blade most knives need a bit of spine squaring to get a ferro to strike as sharp edges are usually removed for most use (bar the important one )
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    How to pick the right machete?

    Depends on the Golok ;)
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    O1 Steel edge angle

    no a 22deg scandi is fine on O1............... IF you get the HT right if you get it wrong then nope (Correct HT dosnt just give a Rc hardness of 58 etc) will be good as a carver if left zero grind and fine as GP user with a micro bevel
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    I'm in the market for a crook knife

    if it was a bowl knife it was probably one of my Blades tho I haven't made any for him in a long time his bowl blades he makes in Sheffield as i couldn't do the Qtys he needed BTW i consider a Scandinavian Spoon Knives (Crook Knife) used to hollow spoon bowls ie shaped like a Sheppard...
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    'Bury the hatchet' ..and ruin your temper!

    yes but you need to pack the edges with lots of Damp clay right up to teh Eye and large mass to keep cool and wck the heat as it moves thro the metal definitely not how he did it
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    Knife type?

    well it might be a Pencil Knife (as opposed to a Pen Knife)
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    Passed DSC1

    Waiting on my rifle have an action being built a sort of Semi custom Remmy 700 new stainless action custom stainless barrel 16.5" Went for 6.5mm for calibre and the 47mm Lapua for cartridge Unfortunately its a reload option only as there are only a few very expensive...
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    DIY crow decoys

    THink you an temp convert Pigeon deek to Crow by stretching some black tights over it
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    rehandling a parang...

    can always soften the tang wit ha blow torch