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  1. Longstrider

    Draw Knifes

    :lmao: There you go ! Push-knives eh ? Never knew that. Might be because I've never had one (of the Frosts) I tend to just whack stuff with a bowie and hope it turns out right :lmao:
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    Flint

    You say that you told your young daughter it was a pirates finger that had turned to stone... Therein might be a clue to why it doesn't work.. Is it slightly conical and very round ? If so it could well be a fossil of a marine worm-like thing (can't remember their real name) rather than a...
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    Draw Knifes

    Frosts style straight handles will not give you anywhere near as much control over the angle between the blade and the workpiece as the ones your knife already has. All the 'twist' of that angle is transferred to your grip with straight handles. With handles at 90 degrees to the blade, that...
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    What do you actually do with your knife?

    Opening mail Whittling various sticks Skinning and gutting various game Food prep Trimming trees and briars Making pea sticks Smoothing off hacksaw-cut ends of plastic strip Building pigeon shooting hides More 'specialist' tasks :rolleyes: recently have been.. 2" x 4" wood against...
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    What is the utilmate breakfast in the Bush?

    Can't beat a proper full english :) If you want to make it into a 'bushy breakfast' then forget the mushrooms and substitute with a 3/8" slice from a nice big fresh giant puffball, fried in butter and used like a platter to put everything else on. Superb ! :)
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    Opinel Saw

    Let's say it's done a few miles ;)
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    SS wire and brass ferrules - sources

    If you ever want solid stainless wire (as oppsed to the braided stuff you'll get with brake cables) look in the Yellow Pages for a local 'Fabricator and Welder'. Stainless welding wire comes in a variety of thicknesses and is amazingly useful stuff or all sorts of projects. A professional...
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    Opinel Saw

    Around camp, or on a dedicated wood-cutting trip the Bahco Laplander is a better tool. I have both the Laplander and an Opinel saw. Mine is a slightly different design Opi to the one you've shown in that it doesn't lock closed and has a standard Opinel knife handle shape. The Opinel gets used...
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    British Blades Forum - down

    I reckon I know why we've not seen Fluffy here.... He's disappeared off to the Bahamas for a week on the money he's saved since yesterday morning :lmao:
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    knives

    Buy something not too expensive. Then learn to use it. Properly. Then, and only then, will you truly understand how 99% of tasks can be achieved with 99% of knives. It's how easy those particular tasks are to complete with a particular knife that determines the right knife for you and the work...
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    Advice for cutting round nails

    If there is any chance that you will ever want the same tool again, buy quality and only buy once. Knipex make the best cutters I've ever used and they last for ever. These will make very light work of a 3mm nail. I carry my own set of these when pike fishing with jerk-baits. They'll cut a big...
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    spear fhishing

    Just as a word of caution. I'm certain that spear fishing in fresh water is against the law in the UK. I know that in many US states the carp is regarded as a pest fish, in fact there are places where it is illegal to return a caught carp to the water alive, but you get spotted spearing carp...
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    Help please, black leather dye

    Fiebings won't rub off if you get it properly dry before use Toddy. Just don't polish or buff it after application and it will keep a matt finish.
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    Survival Air Rifles?

    Sorry fella, but there isn't a single 'legal without a licence' air pistol in Britain that would be anything like humane to use for hunting live quarry. Air pistols are limited to 6ft/lbs muzzle energy by law in the UK (Air rifles are limited to 12ft/lbs) and this is nowhere near enough power to...
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    British Blades Forum - down

    Kawasemi, I'm on BCUK as well as BB :). PM here if you need to get in touch. "Hello, my name is Longstrider and I'm a BB-aholic" Hope you can put it all back together again soon Martyn !
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    Survival Air Rifles?

    If you want an air rifle to help cope with a **** situation then you need to stick to your original plan of something that does not rely on pre-compressed air or CO2 'bottles'. The golden rule with any **** situation preparedness kit is K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid ! :) ) If it can break it...
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    Charcoal

    Newspapers, fire starter matches :confused: Surely, you use your bow-drill to make an ember, transfer the ember to your tinder bundle and blow it to life, then add that to some secondary tinder+twigs and use THAT to light the charcoal ? Well, that or a jet-flame lighter ! :lmao:
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    What would you change about your mora clipper?

    As if I'd stir things up ;) Only three things I'd change with them really.. The blade, the handle and the type of grind :lmao: Who says I don't like 'em ? :)
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    I need a Squirrel recipe!!

    Just take the back legs off and roll them in some beaten egg, then Paxo breadcrumbs. Deep fry them as you would chicken drumsticks and eat as the same Yum. If the cull goes really well you might want to think about saving the tails, especially at this time of the year when they are full and...
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    favorite round the fire ,drink.

    Camp isn't properly set up until the first brew of tea is made ;) That having been said, omce the sun is over the yard-arm and the evening chill begins to decend, it simply has to be good Jamaican rum, and no shortage of it ! :)