Fad items of Bushcraft

[Potatohead]

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This is what I'm on about. The rest of the knife is great.

I have a Boker Plus tech tool 6 as my EDC for years now, with the same serrated blade.
Its actually fantastic for cutting cordage and rope.

 

[Ozmundo]

I have a couple of the para cord reel things with cutter, lighter holder and such. Are they a fad?

Nothing you can’t do with a home made winder of course.

 

[Herman30]

I have a couple of the para cord reel things with cutter, lighter holder and such. Are they a fad?

Not in my opinion, I have one too. It´s a practical way to store and dispense rope without getting it tangled.

 

[Ozmundo]

Flexistove.

And no I haven’t heard anything about the pre-orders shipping yet.

 

[Sooty22]

I use a laplander. A silky is too fragile in some of the situations I worked, and not a tool to hand over to inexperienced hands.

I'm still using laplanders I bought twenty years ago, and they still work. Surprisingly easy to straighten out and resharpen too.

Totally. I tried 'hand saws', both with chain and with the serrated wire, dumped them in the bin. Since I bought a Laplander, I never bought any other saw, other than 2 more Laplanders and several spare blades for them (never needed to replace one yet actually!). By a country mile, the best folding saw I've ever used, and all my mates now have the same ones. The Laplander is most certainly NOT a fad item!

 

[bigbeewee]

Norrona Recon jacket. Was that a fad?

I got a second-hand one 2008 - ish. Still bombproof. I guess you buy one and it lasts forever.

I’ve just been in a Norrona store in Norway, with the idea to size test a Norrona recon…. They explained it had been discontinued as after June 2025 they shifted to more environmentally friendly processes in the material manufacture and the new version leaked/wasn’t waterproof and they had loads of returns.

Straight from the horses mouth

I’d try an find one online but there seem to be loads of knock offs/fakes online