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  1. Bark-eater

    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    Well the weather report is calling for a gully scrubber on Saturday, and a week of wet afterwards so, an executive decision was necessary. The blankets got heavily mothballed in trash bags as is and will marinade in poison gas until the next cycle of drying days comes through. Then I'll wash...
  2. Bark-eater

    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    What kind of Woolite are you using? I think they stopped making the original formula.
  3. Bark-eater

    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    I was using a cedar oil clothing spray, but its not available any more. I'm going to find and an alternative and do a wholesale treatment of all the wool I have sometime this summer. I'm sort of leaning towards running these 4 grubbie's through the washer and dryer with baby soap. Only...
  4. Bark-eater

    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    I just put a Hudson Bay blanket I got off ebay in the freezer. I'm going to have to push frozen veggies for a while to get room for another..
  5. Bark-eater

    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    Killing the moth eggs with out trashing the blankets or over fulling the wool is the primary goal. Moth ball are easy but it takes for ever to air them out afterwards. How ever I wash them, I think I'll use J+J baby Shampoo verses the Dr. Bronners.
  6. Bark-eater

    Salvaging wool from grubby motheaten blankets?

    I was just given 4 decrepit blankets. Their house blankets and 3 of them have satin trim on the ends. I did a burn test on the fuzz and there's no plastic in them. They have stains and small moth holes, and where in a mousy out building, so they need some sort of cleaning. 3 are...
  7. Bark-eater

    Gardening ..again

    Can't help with the timing, but I lived next to a small farm in Maine, that did shares. They planted potatoes in long raised mounds, so the also grew out of the sides. You could harvest from the sides also. I don't know all the rational, but being above ground level would keep them out of...
  8. Bark-eater

    Gardening ..again

    It's not a problem, it's just a more specific environmental description than zone 7.
  9. Bark-eater

    Gardening ..again

    Our garden is an ongoing soil building project in a low, wet spot that happens to get pretty good sun all day. Its grown slowly with loads of dirt, wood chips, cardboard, hay, compost, seaweed cover crops, etcetera.. We're up to about 1000sqft of loosely fenced garden. We've got a pretty big...
  10. Bark-eater

    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    Well its tasty enough that I'm going to have to do a self intervention before I eat the whole bag. It wont be a hardship to bring some of this stuff on non period endeavors.
  11. Bark-eater

    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    I found this stuff at a Redners supermarket. Its tasty and you eat can it right out of the bag.
  12. Bark-eater

    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    Sounds like some one needs to get a Junior Experimenters Kit....
  13. Bark-eater

    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    Soaks in and leaves a waxy residue in the wood cells. Kind of a ghetto wood treatment that I remember being used when I was a carpenter. I think the approved brand name product is called PEG.
  14. Bark-eater

    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    I'm still trying to figure out the difference between Tried and Trues "Polymerized" process verses "Boiling" I think part of the equation is the initial purity of the raw linseed oil. Tried and True might technically be a "Boiled" linseed oil but the initial stock is clean enough that much a...
  15. Bark-eater

    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    Soak it in antifreeze, let it dry and the soak in linseed. Of course antifreeze is all sorts of toxic. So maybe just linseed. I'd take the handles off first if possible to let wood swell, then rehaft.
  16. Bark-eater

    The Search for a Vintage Cornbread

    I guess it veers into bushcraft, but I would assume that the farther off the supply lines, the more foraging would be used to "fill in". First thing I thought of was cattail and dandelion root flours. According to google cattail pollen was also used as a flour and you can buy dandelion flour...
  17. Bark-eater

    Interesting long knife at auction. Relic or recreation?

    The line on the back is a shallow groove. Just one of the "details" There's a link with more pictures, including the spine.
  18. Bark-eater

    Interesting long knife at auction. Relic or recreation?

    Figured I'd follow up on this. I wasn't trying too hard to rationalize the knife being from 18th or 19th century for that matter, and I think the @tallpine might be on to something bringing up Argentina. That kind of fits with my impression that the knife was more contemporary but made in an...
  19. Bark-eater

    Interesting long knife at auction. Relic or recreation?

    Do the horn handle slabs date it? It has a full tang with the ball end. The rivets look to be nails peened over. The sheath looks 18th century-ish center seam with no belt loop. I'm assuming home made, but the decretive line on the blade is "artsy" Its well made and preserved but the...
  20. Bark-eater

    Interesting long knife at auction. Relic or recreation?

    I was thinking $50. There's also a WWII hatchet with a busted handle in the lot so someone might be after that also.
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