Show off your homemade gear....

[troutfisher13111]

Racerx2oo3, thats a nice looking sheath. Especially since its your first with kydex.

 

[Diomedes Industries]

Hey Spooky - what kind of knot is that in your lanyard. Chain Sinnet?

Thanks,

TF

 

[DaleW]

I'm going to try and find some Aluminum Black to blacken the rivets....
Sean

You could make a press with carriage bolts and wingnuts if you don't have enough clamps. Or just get out the sheetrock screws! Great idea with that foam-- I'm inspired to try myself.

As to the Chicago screws in black: http://www.hardware-elf.com/ Click on "fasteners." This is one place I found that sells small batches-- most have minimums of 100, etc. I found a few sites that sell plastic screws--- wonder how they would work.....

 

[penls]

Do modifications count?

I bought hard handled erikssons with gaurds, but I didn't like the long gaurds so I trimmed them bown a bit. And right now I have one bathing in mustard for a patina

 

[Racerx2oo3]

Got my hands on some scrap titanium rods at work today. I decided to put them on the grinder to see how they would do as tent stakes. Attached is the outcome. I heated the tops with a propane torch and bent them over once they got bright cherry red. Not too bad. What around the home or office items have you turned into useful gear?

Meant to mention how much I liked those stakes. You should heat color the entire stake (woln't add much functionally, but I love the look.)

Sean

 

[DOC-CANADA]

Jute sling

Reproduction of a West Coast Cod net (jute)

Snapping Turtle trap (jute)

In case you're noticing a theme here, when learning anything that uses cordage, jute is a good bet because it is relatively strong, it is a natural fibre, and it's cheap - $1.00 Canadian for about 350 feet.

Doc

 

[DOC-CANADA]

Forgot to mention - Sean, you did an excellent job on that Kydex sheath, especially considering it's your first one.

Doc

 

[2dogs]

Nice work everyone! Can I borrow some talent, any kind, for a few days?

 

[Ebbtide]

Guard, handle & buttcap on one of Ragnar's Brusletto carbon blades

And the sheath as well

Here's the big brother that's almost done

Stromeng carbon blade, leather & bit 'o stag

 

[DH1]

SpookyPistolero, how did you close up the bottom of that pants leg bag? I'm thinking of making one with an old pair of jeans..

 

[North61]

I'll Play...

First a wood stove for the snowtrekker, made from 7" stove pipe

A Brusletto Morseth in Hickory

A smaller stove for light trips.

Pack Frames for me and the kids

Saw made of sticks. (practice)

Roycroft SnowSki

 

[bikermikearchery]

not responding

 

[pict]

Ebb,

That leather handle is inspiring me to try it. I have a large Bowie blade in need of a handle. I was going to make a wood coffin handle but that leather is calling out to me.

That stang handle on the Brusletto is something else, that's about the best looking piece of stag I've seen on a knife in a long time. Mac

 

[pict]

All of my home-made projects could be reproduced with trained chimps. I like to keep it simple. I use a home made water filter made of PVC pipe and fittings, filled with activated charcoal. I also use home made alcohol burners made from Gamo air rifle pellet cans.

My leather sheaths are pretty utilitarian. I made a sheath for my 12 inch Ontario machete. It is intresting in that the stiff leather belt hanger extends down the back of the sheath and forms a pocket for a file. Butt ugly but it works well. Mac

 

[North61]

Second opinion on Ebbtide's stag handle---awesome. The Stromeng is looking pretty good too!

I share Pict's manual philosophy (find the inner chimp). That's why I like building with sticks.

 

[2dogs]

North and Ebb your work is awesome. More, more!

 

[Ebbtide]

The leather handle was not that hard to do.
In fact, fitting the leather washers was easier than tapering a hole in a block of wood.
Once it was all glued & peened it worked/sanded much like wood....
Only messy-er. A good thing to do outside or with the po'boy dust collector (wifey's vacuum) running.
And a RESPIRATOR!
The leather makes a talcum-like dust that clumps, but blows everywhere.
It must be lighter than wood dust :dunno2:

Here's a down and dirty riveted sheath for my Magnum Kukri machete.
Used the usless CS sheath as a pattern, a hole punch and was done in about 45 minutes or so.

 

[North61]

Ok...you asked for it.
Brusletto blade in curly birch/ caribou and birch bark. Sheath with fire steel

Stromeng in hickory and birch bark....Great snow knife

Making an igloo.

Ancient crafts..the atlatl dart and throw

The boy's roycroft frame

And finally homemade spaghetti in the rain..one of my favourite homemade things.

 

[Return of the J.D.]

Ok...you asked for it.


Ancient crafts..the atlatl dart and throw

My kids (and, recently, wife) have lately joined in my interest in atlatls. What kind of accuracy do you find you can get with that? And what material for the atlatl itself? And the dart?

 

[North61]

About as well as I can throw a ball. I am afraid I cheat on materials and buy them at the hardware. The atlatl is made out of 3/4-1" birch dowel.

The darts are made out of 3/8th and 7/16th inch dowels scarfed together. The heavy end goes forward. The dart tips are made of some 0-2 with a cut off 7mm Weatherby case as a ferrule.