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Here's the scope: I've got a ton of odd soapers stuff lying around, and a fair amount of random bushcraft juice. Though I'm out of Neatsfoot oil, It's clear that I can get some pure oil easily. There's also Shea butter, Coconut butter and oil, Almond Oil, Tea tree oil and other random...

I ran across this while gathering some material for a journalism class that I teach at the local University. It seems as though Papa wrote a piece about camping for the Toronto Daily Star in 1920 that contains an interesting take on cooking Trout. I must say that after reading it I desperately...

After watching one of Survival Lilly’s often-misguided-but-completely-entertaining YouTube videos, I decided to take a stab at making Really Big Matches. The idea is simple enough: Use a small piece of fatwood to make a match, then all I need to do is strike the match, let the fatwood...

Fellow babies, As some of you know, I was looking for someone to rehandle a Cegga, but after a bit of advice, have decided to simply recondition the haft and make a collar guard myself. I normally keep all my thumbs attached to my feet, and don’t have much in the way of tools. This is my...

I picked up a second-hand Cegga SFA a couple of years ago that has a bit of haft damage below the head. It has never really bothered me, but I'm looking into having it re-hafted. Does anyone on the board do this?

In the everlasting search for a perfect cookset I have been been beset by disappointment. Pots and pans are either too tall, too wide, too deep, too small, too messy, too crazy and typically are best matched with a particular meal and a particular stove. I have long wanted to pack a cast iron...

SWMBO has asked whether anyone else leaves "razor sharp knives" sitting on the sofa where "femoral artery thingies" can be "severed, causing [her] trouble with important bodily functions." I told her that I would ask, so I'm asking.

This is driving me nuts. So: Who loves their Puukko? I've got a Joonas Kallioniemi 90mm, distal taper, flat grind 90mm Birch Bark-handled puukko waiting for the end of the month when I've time for a quick overnighter. I haven't used it yet, and it needs the woods!

I'm looking for an overnight this month, and can reasonably get to anywhere in Beds. I'm in Luton and could really use a night out. I should even be able go during the week :)

I've owned a few custom knives in my life and I believe in one simple rule: use them; they're good tough knives. I can always sharpen and polish them, and they always look and perform great. But Damascus has me puzzled. I'm finally considering a Damascus knife, but have no idea what they look...

I found a lamb roast in the freezer that's rolled and tied into a perfect three inch diameter tube that's filled with stuffing. it has a good thin layer of fat around the entire outside. The stuffing is about 1.5 inches and runs right down the centre of the roast. My guess is that after it...

Would anyone know if the MSR MugMate coffee filter would fit inside the Kleen Kanteen insulated 500ml bottle? I don't mean to store it inside; I mean to use it. Will the MSR drop in? The websites offer no dimensions, so I was hoping that someone has tried this out. I like my Kleen Kanteen and...

Before I go about investigating torches to feed an inexhaustible gear addiction, I'd like to ask a couple of questions about the colour of light that these LED things put out, and going to the CandlePower forum seems like a mess that I'd rather not step in during this early fact-finding phase...

I recall reading somewhere (and am now unable to find) that there were two distinct product lines at Wetterlings, with one being something more akin to hand-forged and the other more automated. There's nothing on their website that would indicate two manufacturing processes. Have I confused...

As someone in the process of changing my camping regime from the luxury of 4wd Colorado mountain trout-fishing excursions to more minimal Suffolk bushcraft minor-backpack adventures, I'm struck by the number of YouTube videos, forum discussions and blog recommendations that connect very minimal...

I picked up a surplus leather ammo pack that's worn on a belt that was in very dry and awful condition. After a few days of applying neetsfoot oil, it's now supple and dark brown. My sense is that it's found its life again. But now I'd like to waterproof and find a a shine, and faced with the...

I just received a new Gransfors Mini, and would like to treat the handle, but have no linseed oil. So: I've got all sorts of other stuff, like neetsfoot oil; kitchen cutting board oil (mineral oil?); there might be a bottle of mineral oil somewhere, but finding it won't be fun; Ren wax; Camilla...

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some advice on a surplus sleeping bag and was hoping you all could help. I've been looking at too many sleeping bags, from too many countries and too many websites and ebay listings, and would like a recommendation. I'll be trying tarp camping for the first...

I'd like to say that though I've read this forum for some time now, I've only recently joined, and have found everyone to be interesting, friendly, and appropriately opinionated. It's a damn fine forum. I'm an American ex-pat University professor that hasn't been camping since leaving Colorado...

As an ex-pat American living in England, I have no access to my usual gear that's stowed back in Colorado, so I've been slowly putting together camping gear here in the UK, one considered purchase at a time. It's not my intention to fill up a shed with tons of gear; I simply don't have the need...