Hello guys,
Ive been eyeballing several Bushcraft belt pouches and while most of them are really nice they are because of the handwork involved quiet expensive regularly going over £ 50 (about $ 100.00).
I bought a nice small beltpouch made by Mr. George Wilson who can be found on the Made in Cumbria site (www. madeincumbria.co.uk) and his belt pouch is very nice, decently made and price wise, only £ 11.50 including postage to Europe a real bargain.
I really like the small belt pouch from Wilson but it was just to small to store my big mobile phone (a Nokia 6600) with some bushcraft items as a SAK, Firesteel, Recta box type compass etc.
Well being Dutch I natuarly always look for bargains and when our Scouting group was present at a spring market/event last Sunday where there were a lot of people selling their old junk I had a ball and I spend the whopping amount of less then £ 7.00 for a shopping bag full of goodies.
I saw this nice little womens handbag that was made of super nice strong cognac brown coloured leather and had a very nice simple and reliable closing mechanism.
I only need to remove the long shoulder carry strap which is easy as it runs through a stitched channel and I plan on either shortening the long shoulder strap to form 2 belt loops with the middle piece going through the stitched channel, so that the pouch can hang a little below my belt.
Now for the whopping price I paid for this very nice Bushcraft belt pouch . 0.10 YES only £0.07 ! the 2 other very nice handmade leather womens shoulder purses cost me another £ 0.14
So for 30 Eurocent I had 3 shoulder purses 2 for my wife who was very happy and one for me to be made into a very nice Bushcraft belt pouch.
I wont even mention the brand new Ray Mears hardcover Bushcraft book that I bought for 1,- (£ 0.66) and a leather sewing kit with leather glove with cast iron piece to press needles through the leather together with a complete set of leather needles an thread, leather punches etc for 2,- (£ 1.40), a brand new unused stainless steel thermos bottle 0.5 liter for 2,- (£ 1.40) , old 8 by 5 by 4 40 year old strong box for 0.50 (£ 0.33) and some other goodies, I had a ball I can tell you that
We had a lot of visitors at our Scouting stand where we had different activities for kids and it looks like we got a good number of new kids that will be joining our Scouting group.
My advice go bargain gear hunting on these spring markets or as you probably call them car booth sales go early and you could be surprised by what you find
Best Scouting wishes from Holland,
Bagheera
Ive been eyeballing several Bushcraft belt pouches and while most of them are really nice they are because of the handwork involved quiet expensive regularly going over £ 50 (about $ 100.00).
I bought a nice small beltpouch made by Mr. George Wilson who can be found on the Made in Cumbria site (www. madeincumbria.co.uk) and his belt pouch is very nice, decently made and price wise, only £ 11.50 including postage to Europe a real bargain.
I really like the small belt pouch from Wilson but it was just to small to store my big mobile phone (a Nokia 6600) with some bushcraft items as a SAK, Firesteel, Recta box type compass etc.
Well being Dutch I natuarly always look for bargains and when our Scouting group was present at a spring market/event last Sunday where there were a lot of people selling their old junk I had a ball and I spend the whopping amount of less then £ 7.00 for a shopping bag full of goodies.
I saw this nice little womens handbag that was made of super nice strong cognac brown coloured leather and had a very nice simple and reliable closing mechanism.
I only need to remove the long shoulder carry strap which is easy as it runs through a stitched channel and I plan on either shortening the long shoulder strap to form 2 belt loops with the middle piece going through the stitched channel, so that the pouch can hang a little below my belt.
Now for the whopping price I paid for this very nice Bushcraft belt pouch . 0.10 YES only £0.07 ! the 2 other very nice handmade leather womens shoulder purses cost me another £ 0.14
So for 30 Eurocent I had 3 shoulder purses 2 for my wife who was very happy and one for me to be made into a very nice Bushcraft belt pouch.
I wont even mention the brand new Ray Mears hardcover Bushcraft book that I bought for 1,- (£ 0.66) and a leather sewing kit with leather glove with cast iron piece to press needles through the leather together with a complete set of leather needles an thread, leather punches etc for 2,- (£ 1.40), a brand new unused stainless steel thermos bottle 0.5 liter for 2,- (£ 1.40) , old 8 by 5 by 4 40 year old strong box for 0.50 (£ 0.33) and some other goodies, I had a ball I can tell you that
We had a lot of visitors at our Scouting stand where we had different activities for kids and it looks like we got a good number of new kids that will be joining our Scouting group.
My advice go bargain gear hunting on these spring markets or as you probably call them car booth sales go early and you could be surprised by what you find
Best Scouting wishes from Holland,
Bagheera
