Recycle Challenge

j williams

j williams

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Awhile back Joe did an assingment to recycle something into a piece of kit. I thought it was cool, so I say we give it a go again!!!

Challenge runs this week. Post pics of your item here.

Could be a pepsi can stove, a billy can, revive an old chete or axe, anything. As long as its an item that was all but trash, and now it has new life, and it was made this week. :cool:

Im gonna dig up something. Made so many stoves lately that im gonna do something differant.

The prize????

Im not one to judge "art" so, everyone who participates will get a chance through random drawing.

The Prize???

A well stocked FAK to treat all your boo-boos this season, complete with genuine used in the line of duty EMS shears. :cool:
 
missed this- whoops :)

old hacksaw blade -> into knife/striker

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Some how I missed this one to, Mine's a lid for my canteen cup, made from one of my wife's cake pans that had a hole in one of the corners.

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thanks for reviving this guys, i missed it to.

a steel drum lid (i think) into a small fire pit thingy so i can make safe fires by my house without burning down the property (its all oak and dry leaves).

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Thanks for posting guys.....I was wondering why nobody wanted to participate...

We can run it till this friday for everyone who wants in.
 
not from this week, but I had an old AAA maglite that was broke, made it into a waterproof capsule for a sparklite/tinder tabs

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Does this homemade sheath (I didn't make the knife sadly) count? From this:
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To this:
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Here's the full thread:
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Her is my teapot/small pan. It is made from a chicken can and coat hanger handle. I intend to make a bigger one when I find the right can. BD Sorry for huge pic.
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I can take some pics of stuff later. If you let it run to friday I can enter :)

I made a strop from a leather belt, new handle for my firesteel from some cherry wood that my dad was going to throw away (also used some of the cherry to make handle scales for a different knife but they didn't turn out so great).
I also make sheaths from nylon straps (like the straps on backpacks). I like them as belt sheaths.
I use the blade from an old Sodbuster as a firesteel striker, too. And then there is some more stuff like lanyards from old shoe laces. I try to re use most of what I am planning on throwing away.

Edit: Billy that's a great idea. Will try to make something similar if I've got a can lying around.
 
It's nothing impressive but I like making stuff and giving it a new life. I think I included most of what I said in my previous post, plus a small pitch fork (though it doesn't really have much practical use).

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Carabiner salvaged from some old pouch, with a shoelace lanyard for my Atwood prybaby (which coincidentally I got from a friend because he was about to throw it away)
 
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Well made a batch of these up today, thought I'd post it here just for ease of not trying to think of a thread title! Not my idea, saw it some where but not sure.

Asked at the bar for some bottle caps, so that I could get all kinds of different colors, and used some steel bb's inside to add a rattle to it. And the rest is pretty straight forward. Only tool I used was the awl on my SAK.

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Thanks for the chance buddy !

Here is a prawn/shrimp trap made by my son with a little help from me using an old bike wheel.It's not fully finished yet.

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address sent. thanks so much, i was just researching putting a fak together and now i won one. this is to cool.
 
Here's my "recycled" bushcraft knife. It's a $5.00 flea market find, purchased about 7 years ago in a flea market in Southern Indiana. I was visiting my Dad and found this old, beat-up Western L66 trailing point hunting knife. The guard and buttcap had been reground by the previous owner, and the stacked leather handle was rotted away. I removed what was left of it, installed some elk stag handle scales, and re-ground the blade to a drop-point shape about 4" long. It feels good in your hand, no matter which way it is being held. The carbon steel blade takes and holds an awesome edge.

Here it is!
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