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I get the impression it's considered kind of a bible, sorta like Nessmuk's book. I'm not particularly knowledgable about technical bushcraft stuff although I've spent a lot of time outdoors, but just flipping through the thing right when I opened it I learned some stuff. Tons and tons of diagrams, which I really like.
 
BRL said:
I get the impression it's considered kind of a bible, sorta like Nessmuk's book. I'm not particularly knowledgable about technical bushcraft stuff although I've spent a lot of time outdoors, but just flipping through the thing right when I opened it I learned some stuff. Tons and tons of diagrams, which I really like.
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It's a real good book. I've been using it for 6 or 7 months now.
 
Ended up getting a Surefire g2 LED, a Buck 55, and a SOG Fielder, that's all that you guys would want to hear.
Still have family gatherings tomorrow and Tuesday, so there's a chance I will end up getting that hawk.
 
I got a card that says I get to pick out my favorite mashax

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I'm saving the card because if these things don't come out soon she'll forget and I'll get screwed out of my mashax:)
 
mrn8 said:
BRL - Is that book pretty good? I got some Amazon GC's, because my wife didn't really know what books I wanted. I was looking at a decorative knot tying book for improving my paracord tying, and have been looking at some sort of bushcraft / survival stuff.
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All ready been answered, but I picked up the book about 8 months ago. It is a great book, Mors Kochanski Bushcraft is the bible of "Bushcraft". Buy it you can't go wrong.
 
I sure didn't expect to get any blades for Christmas, but lookee what my son got for me:

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The only knife that showed up before xmas....a sweet KFU bushcrafter....along with the matching EDC...

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Unfortunately i will have to wait until december 27th for the 4 other xmas knives in the mail...
 
No knives for me this year other than the Alox Bushcrafter. I did however get a 50s era Craftsman bandsaw and drill press. These old tools are killer when cleaned up, bearings replaced, and tuned. Plus they just look cooooool!
 
Finally got it! I was messing around with it earlier but if I start batonning in the middle of the living room (and pretty close to the middle of the night) I don't think I'll be too popular ;)

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Man, everybody is racking up. Warrior, you're gonna love that ESEE 3. I didn't get any blades, but got a new camera (took this pic with it), a new petzl rack and shunt that I've been wanting.

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Nice ***-3, Warrior. They are really great knives (mine's a RAT-3 which I believe is the same thing).

Where'd the liners come from though? Is that something *** sells or did your son get em from somewhere? You'll be glad you have em since the handle profile is pretty thin and you're a big dude.
 
tradewater said:
Man, everybody is racking up. Warrior, you're gonna love that ESEE 3. I didn't get any blades, but got a new camera (took this pic with it), a new petzl rack and shunt that I've been wanting.

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Thanks tw, looking forward to using it. It was an unexpected surprise, that's for sure. What's a petzl rack and shunt for? Grats on the new camera.

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Nice ***-3, Warrior. They are really great knives (mine's a RAT-3 which I believe is the same thing).

Where'd the liners come from though? Is that something *** sells or did your son get em from somewhere? You'll be glad you have em since the handle profile is pretty thin and you're a big dude.
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Thanks. The liners came on it. The handle fits my hand comfortably. I'm not used to flat scales, but still no issues with it. I like it very much.
 
I will post pics later, but I got a Condor 3 day assault pack. (it's not a knife, but is related to outdoors, which is related to knives :D)
 
I got a lot more from my girlfriend than this year that I expected. Back in November she had me open up a netbook that she had bought me to make sure that it worked because she could only return it within 30 days of when she bought it. After that I figured I would get a few smaller and less expensive gifts beings we usually give each other one higher priced gift and then a handful of lower priced things. Man was I wrong!! First I opened some allen wrenches that I had wanted and then a package that she kept saying was very breakable. It turned out to be a wall display case for some of the knives that I collect and inside the case was a bk11. I was pretty happy with the case and bk11 and figured that my other gift would be something smaller that I had asked for. I open up the next box and there's a big spyderco box in it. Its not the box that a folder would come in, but a fixed blade sized one, so I'm really getting pumped because I had kinda hinted for a while about a fixed blade Spyderco that I wanted, but really expected that I would be buying it myself. Anyways I flip the box to the end and read the tag that says "Bushcraft". I just got a huge grin on my face and almost tore the box into pieces getting it open. I've gotta say that it is one heck of a blade. It feels awesome in my hand and has some really nice weight to it and it even gave me a love bite right away when I was putting a bit of oil on it that night.
 
I got no knives for xmas. However, I got a lot of stuff FOR knifemaking. Dad is building me a new workbench in my garage tomorrow, and I'm getting better lighting installed too. Also got a start on an Xmas knife--my mom wanted me to see what I could do with a chinese cleaver design, so I designed that yesterday, and got a start on it today:

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