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  1. Bark-eater

    Best early "trade axe" commercially available?

    I'd like to get a reasonably accurate early trade axe. There are lots of tomahawks out there that fit the general description, but are any of them a match for a bog standard trade axe? Second question: A lot of the hand forged hawks I see are left a little on the "rustic" side with...
  2. Bark-eater

    Awfully quiet over at Kiblers.

    I'm hoping the stock geometry will work with a rear sight, and some one here will try it first...
  3. Bark-eater

    Trying to lighten the cookware

    I dig the look of soldered copper ware, but am leery melting solder or tin while I burn my dinner. An un-tinned spun brass or copper kettle would let you fry or bake with some sort of lid, but I will say that verdigris is real, and I have a couple pots that may have to take sand paper too...
  4. Bark-eater

    Size variations in replica dog eared brass trade kettles?

    I went ahead and ordered my self a dog eared brass trade kettle, even though my inner backpacker is cringing over the weight. The volume wasn't listed but the dimensions given where 4x7.5" which corresponds with other vendors listing for a 1/2 gallon kettle. What I got is a 4.375x8" kettle...
  5. Bark-eater

    FOR SALE Wasp nest

    Is saw this thread a while back and remembered that there's a wasp nest back in the hedge. When I gave it a poke, a bird came rocketing out. I was a little startled, as my first thought was uh-oh that's a big wasp.. I let the bird keep it
  6. Bark-eater

    Kibler Fowler

    Not so much of a negative verses the barrel profile being heavy for a "musket" and now the discussion is that the "Fowler" barrel profile might be light for a "musket" As some one who is in the market for a "musket", I'm just trying determine "What gun" is best for me personally. I don't...
  7. Bark-eater

    Kibler Fowler

    I was reading up on the Kibler Colonial, and there was some opinion that the barrel would be to heavy a profile to run as a smoothbore.
  8. Bark-eater

    Kibler Fowler

    Is that from one of his video updates? Could I assume that a 20 gauge would be "less unsuited" for an unpatched ball?
  9. Bark-eater

    What sizes of linen thread to use?

    I went ahead and ordered 3 different weights of sewing thread: 18/3, 35/2 and 60/2. I may have some heavier linen for leather work somewhere, but, @ZUG I will check out the Barbour's when I get to some leather work.
  10. Bark-eater

    diamond shelters

    I'm planning on doing multi day hikes, so finished weight is part of the equation. I'm looking to buy 3 different drop cloths to make a Diamond fly, a ground cloth and a Loyalist Dave "Patented New Model Lean Too" I'm looking at drop cloths because their already seamed together. So far...
  11. Bark-eater

    diamond shelters

    Looks like RK lodges has a 8"x8 natural 10 oz canvas "Lean Pee" for $148 https://www.rklodges.com/lodges/accesories.html Factoring in the cost and weight additions of Linseed oil or Thompsons to water proof a ground cloth, that's getting close.
  12. Bark-eater

    diamond shelters

    So thinking about weight savings over 10 oz canvas, I started shopping around for 7 ounce cotton duck drop cloths to use as material, and the better stuff is of course more expensive. So I guess I should ask how much a canvas diamond shelter costs to buy ready made?
  13. Bark-eater

    diamond shelters

    That could get pitched as a campfire tent, lower and closer to the fire. The "awning" half could be folded back over to make a double back wall with an air space creating insulation. Not a Whelen....
  14. Bark-eater

    diamond shelters

    I'll suggest the plausibility of some one cutting the end and doors off of an old wedge tent to have a big tarp...
  15. Bark-eater

    Elk Neck Range MD

    I'm just going to say that this is the sketchiest place people wise, I've ever shot at.... last and only time I was there, Some guy walked out on a hot range, and other guys were handling and loading guns on a cold range, everyone ready to argue and some "kid" "who lost his his ID"...
  16. Bark-eater

    diamond shelters

    I've got a semi permanent lean-to in the back yard with a fire place . I added 2 small winged out tarps to the sides and pretty much have a Whelen tarp. Its a 2 pole rig with lots of guy lines, and an embarrassing amount of overlap from the side tarps. So, I have 3 tarps pitched in a Whelen...
  17. Bark-eater

    diamond shelters

    I'll play.. How big a tarp does it take to cover a pack on a horse? I've camped under modern 5x8 poncho tarps and a 9x9 flying diamond tarp extensively solo. A civil war shelter half is 5.5x5.5 and I'm sure someone got paid to come up with that size. Which happens to be what Wilde came...
  18. Bark-eater

    What sizes of linen thread to use?

    I've been meaning to learn to sew for a long time, and now I intend to make myself a "Suit" and sundry accoutrements. I've collected a good stock of wool, linen and a bit of leather, so its time to get started. I fired up the internet to order some linen thread, and was confronted with a myriad...
  19. Bark-eater

    When did deep frying come along?

    Well.. you could track down the earliest occurrence of the cast iron "Chicken fryer" Mines a #8 and the only other mark on it is a small #2.
  20. Bark-eater

    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    I've had god luck with a cedar spray and air tight Hardig cases, but every now and again I find a hat or something that got lost for the summer, and its tore up by the moths.
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