Other Traditional Gear?

I like it all, apple grinders, cast iron skillets, draw knives, spokeshaves, forges, single action pistols, lever action rifles, and single shot shotguns. I love using traditional hand tools, and building as much of what I need as I can. I like wool clothing during the winter, and wooden snow shoes. I am slowly learning more and more about cross cut saws. Pretty much if it is traditional I am willing to learn it and use it. Joe
 
Axes, tall Lace up Boots, Guns, Cast Iron cookware, Small wood stoves for tents, Backpacks with wood frames, hats, what we used to call Wall Tents, Kerosene Lanterns, Wool Blankets,
 
I just prefer natural materials for certain gear. Wood, leather, wool, it all has character. It's hard to fall in love with nylon.

My fly fishing set up is an old fiberglass rod with an automatic Kalamazoo Tackle Co. Model E reel.

A mountain bike with one gear.
 
Lots of good ideas.

I'll add a brass compass to the list.
 
Long bows and cedar arrows. A kitchen full of Griswold and WagnerWare cast iron stuff. The thick wool of a Filson Cruiser and the wet-proof of Filson Tin Cloth clothing. Red Ryder BB guns.
 
Some of my favorite things - 1911, fountain pen, mechanical watch, and straight razor.

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gotta have my zippo, and my bandanna. and you can't go wrong with an old smith and wesson model 10, or a decent quality 1911 pattern .45. also love ruger single actions. dang i'm a fossil.
 
Sweaters.

Not that thin fleece stuff, but a real knit type old fashoned sweater. Its warmer than just about anything else under a jacket when it gets really cold. Wool is great, but even a bulky knit sweater made out of synthetic acrilic is very good, and can be tossed in a washing machine on gentle like the fleece stuff. Maybe its the air trapped making for good "loft" as its called. Its no coincidence that fishermen and scandinavian folk still preffer a old fashions sweater. Karen and I tried the new fleece stuff, some Polar Fleece by Malden Mills. The real stuff. After a few winters we gave the stuff away and went back to our sweaters. We got tired of being cold.

Waxed cotton.

I tried the Gortex coat. Very good for a couple years, then leaked. I took it back to REI were I bought it, they sold me a bottle of their special cleaner to wash it in. I followed the direction on the bottle and the whole parka fell apart. That was it. I went back to wearing my old waxed cotton coat in bad weather and never got wet again. About every third or fourth year I rub some more of the stuff into it weather it needs it or not. Filson has not been around as long as they have by selling junk.

Zippo lighters.

Being a pipe smoker I always carry a lighter. A couple of years ago I switched to Bic's and retired my Zippo after 38 years of service. Got tired of it running out of fuel at the wrong time, or leaking in my pocket if I filled it too much and giving me the red leg burn. but if I'm going out in the woods or camping I'll fuel up the old Zippo and stick it in my gear. I know that it will always work if I want to smoke my pipe in the middle of a hurricane for some reason. A Zippo is like the old Smith and Wesson model 10-it always works when you need it.

Smith and Wesson model 10.

They've been making this gun since 1899 and its still one of the best guns you can have. In our family is one that is from 1938, an old 6 inch modle with RCMP on the frame that Karen's dad brought home from the war. He got it up in Alaska in 1942 while his PBY squadran was stationed up there before going to the Solomans. It gets shot alot because it is such a nice gun. It's like the .38 revolver I have from 1969 that has never malfunctioned. Not ever. Show me any of the wonder pistols of today that that can go a half century of shooting with zero failures. Like the K frame K22 Karen's dad gave her for High School graduation in 1962 and has never malfunctioned. A revolver is old time reliable.
 
I have a Hamilton 23 Jewel Railway Special watch that belonged to my granddad. I also have a custom made recurve bow.

This saturday night I'll put on the carhaarts, strap on a Bandit box light and a Colt Woodsman 22 pistol, throw a stag handle trapper in my pocket and take my 2 dogs coon hunting. Is that old school enough?
 
A 38 cal. Smith, a marbles brass compass, ham radio, light, grind my own wheat and bake my bread.
 
My marine sextants...

An old Technics turntable and about 500 LP's, all picked up at car boot sales in the past ten years...

Money boxes. I've got about 450 of them, all between 40 & 200 yrs old. These took me about 20yrs of visiting car boot sales to collect (started when i was ten)...
 
Natural rope. Braided manila or sisal is really versatile stuff, and way better than the commonly available synthetics.
 
Nice thread :)
A part from carbon steel slipjoints, I like mechanical (automatic) watches, woolen pea coats, leather shoes, carbon steel kitchen knives, steel mountain bikes, polyester longboards (60's style), ..
If I would have a motorcycle it would be a Triumph Bonville
If I would have a sportcar it would be a 912 Porsche
If I would have a sailboat it would be a wooden shooner
:)
regards
surfer
 
Wood slat packbaskets, traditional muzzleloaders and bows, Newhouse traps, wooden snowshoes, old well made hand tools, wool clothes, canvas packs.
 
Tube amplifiers!

The new stuff just doesn't sound then same as the old 100% tube, point-to-point hand wired tweeds amplifiers from Fender and the like.
 
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