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Any update on Le Prevo / Decorum / etc. GB?

Looking at the line pointing left marked 80°-70°-60°-50°-40°-30°-20°, Jupiter is roughly where you'd find 0° if I'd cropped the image a little less severely. Banding and four of the moons should be visible through binoculars. It's a time in the orbits of the planets when it's particularly...

Flappy and currently superfluous; I've yet to find anything to fill them: Solitaire and firesteel slip through. I'll report back when the new <muttering> torch arrives... and doesn't fit either.

Prompted by having to replace a Charge, I have finally shed-bodged one: what I choose to term an awl, rather than a smooth-shanked marlin spike or a blunt-tipped reamer. Leatherman Awl Tutorial 1. Select a spare or unused Leatherman, or equivalent, driver. (I chose to use the square...

Sorry, I'm no expert - hence the plea for clarification. http://www.leatherman.com/accessories/family/Sheaths

October 14th this year?

Stowed pliers. Note new Leatherman awl. I say 'new' and 'Leatherman': I made it yesterday from one of the spare square drives I got with the replacement. http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22513 Torch <muttered curses> in transit.

Looking at your original post, hasn't the choice come down to: - Where can I reach? - What will reasonably fit there? - Is that what the locals have learnt to use? Referring back to wreck diving, keeping it high (realistically, a shoulder strap if you don't go for the spear=lobby hook...

Another vote for the bushcraft orthodoxy. I only replaced my aged original after dropping it mid-cleaning (it spends its life in the same pocket as a bag of tinder). Somewhere on my shed floor, hidden in swarf and sawdust, is the tiny part that made it work. My only problem filling has been...

I've just ordered a bl##dy new torch, now. Pathetic.

I'll give it a try today, as it's useful to have the pliers securely to hand (to remove jams from a hedge-trimmer). I remain unconvinced about the rest of the layout and construction, though: too many weak points. I won't be pressurised into buying a new torch; and my battered old ferro rod...

With bigger flaps: it can be seen on the LM website. Are the flaps/pouches for a torch, then? Until I'm recruited by SO19, or move to a country with more liberal EDC laws, I'm happy with a Photon or a head torch. The new Charge currently sits in its old (unconfiscated) pouch; awaiting a...

Is anyone able to explain the new(?) Leatherman premium sheaths? Are there photos anywhere on the Internet? I have just been given a birthday replacement for a confiscated (don't want to talk about it) Charge, and am struggling to reconcile what goes where. It appears as though the driver...

Lever, sled, car, rolling, hand-winch, cargo strap, truckers' hitch using a garden fork as an anchor... I've tried them all. Mostly, I've used rolling and patience for all but the most awkward or the worst terrain. Having said that, 200m is a bit further than I'm used to. Can you get hold of a...

Flogging that winged horse, an illustrative zoom: green-to-red-to-yellow.

Being iPhone-less, I sketched this up to supplement the likes of Collins. It highlights some of the easier-to-spot constellations, and collates various pointer lines between them. The route to Andromeda is an illustration of how I use it.

I'm still interested. I've got a spare hobo shield (one of the prototypes) sitting in the shed, if anyone's interested in making their billy can heavier.

When looking at a planet, the moment that your mind's eye changes the image from a disc to a sphere is similarly awe-inspiring. It's at times like this that comparisons such as 'the atmosphere is no thicker than the varnish on a globe' start to make sense. We really are affa wee.

At the risk of dragging this out, here are those two halves of a beech log I mentioned; showing the change in colour due to deep-frying.

If anyone... a) is interested b) manages to download the images from Picasa (I've tried, I think that it should work) ... the 'instructions' have similar advice. They also give planet-finding hints. If you are naturally South-facing, the advice is superfluous.