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Good find! There are pictures of the back, showing how the strap attaches. https://www.dearoldblighty.com/en-GB/all-items/ww2-1941-officers-haversack-1937-pattern-webbing-/prod_18452

How much kit do you take out? I imagine it varies, depending on whether it's a trip for a specific subject or technique (landscape doesn't require the same kit as mushroom macros). But I've found that if I'm just out for the day and don't have a specific aim I end up taking a lot of kit...

Yes, it's a very interesting buckle. It looks to me as if you could release the strap by pinching it narrow enough to slip through the little gap.

Just before Christmas I bought a fresh octopus in the market and put it in the deep freezer. A couple of days ago I defrosted it and yesterday cooked it in the oven on a low heat fire an hour and a half with tomato, red and yellow pepper, olive oil, salt, pepper, white onion and a splash of...

This thread prompted me to get these two out off the cellar to do a comparison. Two cans of different brands of mackerel in Catalan sauce. Curiously, one can is the opposite way to the other, by which I that both are ring-pull, one (Saupiquet) has the printing on the can that reads with the...

I have one of those, somewhere...

The Mk VII bags at SoF have a different kind of fastener, looks like two press fasteners or buttons on the corners of the flap, rather than a central buckle...

This is a puukko that I made up from a Kankaanpää blade, a piece of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) that I cut in the forest, a piece of elforyn and a piece of brass. It sits next to the fireplace with a rough little cherry board and a stick of maple; I put a foot on the board, hold the...

I've been wondering about a chest rig for carrying camera gear. I find that a Maxpedition 1 litre nalgene bottle carrier is a good fit for a 70 - 210mm zoom lens, a second one carries a 50mm and a 35mm with room to spare. I've had these bottle carriers clipped together with grimlocks and on a...

304 is not soft compared to brass or copper, but it's still soft compared to something like hardened and tempered 12C27. As I understand it (and I only have an elementary knowledge of steel metallurgy), chromium in alloy steels gives harness and wear resistance when it forms carbides, which...

After reading the first two pages of this thread I found myself transported to a well known web merchant who will, tomorrow, be sending me a Cold Steel "frontier hawk" and a BeaverCraft "AX6 Compact Bearded Hatchet". These will be my second ever purchase of any kind of axe; I bought an Estwing...

This afternoon I was *very* glad that I'd taken the time yesterday to sharpen my two most-used kitchen knives. Butternut squash is a bugger to cut with a butter knife.

The most widely used grade of stainless steel for kitchenware is 304, it's very low carbon (0.08% max) and cannot be heat treated, hardness is typically 70 Rockwell B.

I repaired one of SWMBO's belts, one of those with a buckle in two parts (a rectangular "eye" and a hook). Originally one end of the strap had just been doubled back on itself and glued. I doubled it back a little bit less, making the belt about a half an inch longer, then put five stitch holes...

I'm in the process of putting together a repair kit for when I'm out riding (horses, not bikes, so it is for emergency temporary repairs to tack and clothing). I've modified an awl handle (a minute on the 2" x 72" grinder) and moulded a piece of beeswax so that they fit into a small tin. I'll...

Here's a link to those needles on Tandy's EU store, where they cost €6.59. https://tandyleather.eu/fr/products/s-curved-sewing-needle?_pos=3&_psq=aiguilles+S&_ss=e&_v=1.0 And also at Déco Cuir, where they cost €3.95. https://www.decocuir.com/products/aiguille-carrelet-en-s-tandy-leather-11193-00

There are loads of snowdrops in the woods around where I live, one daffodil in the front garden has a flower, the others front and back don't even have buds yet, and the leaves are still short. Primroses and dead-nettles are just starting to flower and the mimosa has been a riot of yellow for...

SWMBO's Minnetonka moccasins needed a quick repair last week; a bit of stitching had come undone. I managed to use a crochet hook to pull the thread through them holes but it wasn't ideal. I'll need to do it again at some point, so bought some needles with big eyes.

Like this? https://kohka.fi/products/bundeswehrin-kenttaaterinsetti-neljaosainen-ylijaama?_pos=5&_psq=kentt%C3%A4r&_ss=e&_v=1.0

I finished this a few days ago. The story begins with a Japanese photographer accompanying a group of climbers in the Himalayas, and getting his hands on one of the two Vest Pocket Kodak cameras that were carried by Mallory and Irvine on their fatally failed Everest ascent of 1924. Before...