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It is probably a Marbles Expert, or something similar. It looks like the guard may have been reduced in Waterwalker. A biography of Bill's mentions that he carried a "Calvin Rutstrum Belt Knife". Calvin Rutstrum recommended the Marbles Expert knife in his classic book "Way of the Wilderness"...

Thanks for such a thoughtful response Goatboy, and best wishes over this season as well! Maybe you will come up with a variation of this so we can have a look!

They are fungus toggles made from birch bracket/razor strop fungus (Piptoporus betulinus). Ötzi had two bits of it attached to strips of leather in his kit. One of them was a disc shape. This fungus is easy to shape when fresh but it is very hard and lightweight when dry. It would have...

A while back I posted about a belt attachment system that Ötzi the Iceman may have used. My friend Phil recently showed me his great Slatts Rescue belt, so I figured it would be interesting to combine the two: This belt is great because it can be unravelled into 50 feet of cordage in a...

FASCINATING folks! I had no idea that modern versions existed. It's amazing how bushcraft reinvents itself.

It would be great to see what you come up with! Thanks.

Yes, I am sure that would work Esteban! Are you going to try it??? I'd love to see it working.

Hello everyone, I would like to reintroduce an elegant belt design that I believe was used by Ötzi the Iceman over 5000 years ago. It is a design that I hope you will consider integrating into your bushcraft kit as it is simple to make and extremely useful. For those of you that are not...

I think we agree on the position of the the belt Ogri... here is a short quote from the paper I wrote at http://outinthewoodsofcanada.wordpress.com "The position of the belt loops is directly over the hip which is a great location for carrying game. This point of the body tends to stay...

Thanks for the comments and the welcome Ogri... I never thought about the position of the pouch being a good one for keeping his firemaking kit warm and dry. What exact position on the waist were you thinking the game would have been hung?

Regarding clothing it is often useful to look back into history to see what people were wearing thousands of years ago. The discovery of Ötzi the Iceman gives us a window into the clothing of the past. Being a bushcrafter I decided to do some thinking about the Iceman's belt and I think I have...