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I don't even think of a SAK as a knife. It's a compact, lightweight multi-tool which goes everywhere I go.

According to the news there's a wildfire three miles away from a nuclear power plant in Suffolk. Hope everyone's ok and they get the fires under control.

China normally have to be a net importer of oil to cover all of their needs. As they have now become a net exporter I assume they are probably steadily depleting their reserves to enable them to do it. I wonder how long they can keep this up for?

Nice. :) What are we looking at here?

After reading the Elusive “One Knife” for Bushcraft thread it got me thinking how no single knife could ever really be good at all tasks big and small. However I do think that two well chosen paired knives could come close to being able to to everything to a very high level of competence. This...

They say a picture paints a thousand words. Here are some charts which caught my eye.

For safety reasons saws, secateurs and hedge trimmers are my preferred tool of choice over something like an axe, machete or other chopping style of tool when trimming hedges or doing the other 'adult' jobs that need to be done around the fields. Still, when it comes to 'playing' with knifes to...

This is a very commendable sensible approach. Unfortunately the child in me actively looks for any excuse to chop and cut things because it's fun. :D (I bet most of you lot are the same too ;) )

I know of people (both men and women) who feel the need to add extra security to their homes and keep self defense weapons in their house, in their car or even on their person when going outside when just I few years ago they had never felt the need to do this before. In some areas the elevated...

I agree. That's true. :) I've probably never actually used the finger guard on a knife in my whole life but I still like to have it there as a bit of extra security to protect me from my own potential stupidity in case it's ever needed. Say for example during a momentarily lack of concentration...

I always like to have a small finger guard on my knives. Just for that a bit of extra security and peace of mind rather than an actual necessity really. Nothing huge like you would see on a fighting style knife but I find the small nub like you see on things like a Mora Companion or Fallkniven...

I once lent my forehead a little too hard against a large glass window without realizing how extremely easy it is to smash those old single-glazed picture glass windows that you get in Victorian era houses. My face went straight through the window taking the whole thing out as several two foot...

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Despite being polar opposite I think there's some truth to both of these comments and the reality would lie somewhere inbetween these two extremes. My guess is that if there were prolonged power outages and shortages of essential products and services a huge portion of the population would be...

Oooh a full tang Mora. Nice!

I've learnt two useful lessons from this thread so far. 1. Don't attempt to do a risky job when tired. 2. Don't attempt to do a risky job in poor light.

Indeed! I don't doubt that for a second. When push comes to shove never underestimate the power and ingenuity of the human spirit and what some people are capable of when required. Still, given a choice between having a pair of rough, handmade shoes constructed from pieces of car tyre and old...

Spare shoes too! Interviews with people who live in countries which experienced long term shortages due to a currency collapse have mentioned that there was also a shortage of replacement new shoes as well as other more expected things like food. The people who couldn't afford a new pair of...

I once twisted my ankle in a deep tractor track while walking without paying enough attention and ended up with a bit of a limp for a day or two. Last week while brushing a dried thorn bush leaf from my trousers I got a nasty splinter which required help from my girlfriend to remove (I squealed...

We seem to be hurtling towards a mass global oil and fertilizer shortage. I struggle to imagine what a world without plentiful food and energy will look like but the way things are going it seems probable this will be the situation we will find ourselves in a year or two from now. I hope people...