Having fallen into pine forest duff with my tomahawk in its loop on my belt with its mask, i can say that falling with a load of gear is going to suck but when you get jabbed by a sword handle/knife handle/axe head too its definitely +2d8 bludgeoning damage to your ribs and side. i fell once with a ...

draw tempering is the method used by a blacksmith to bring down the brittleness of the steel in a thin tool used for work. this guy is solid, not a great orator, but a good smith and explains this fairly concisely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwU0ojMcGw this is how a blacksmith of olde would ha...

a forge grampa (highly respected) demonstrates forging a fire steel: https://youtu.be/_kbe4QFqDFc the techniques nwprimate uses for his modern blades is only a little different than the technique for a firesteel'n'flint, watching Grampa finish the steel will illustrate the difference between the old...

a playlist where a bushninja strikes fire from steel with chert several times, often or mostly from the back of a modern heat treated and tempered blade. a personal buddy and an amazing resource for many many skills and practices:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL40l ... P0tK3C6Nt4

i have a leather worker mentor, bought one of them $100 chinese cobbler's stitching machines and we haven't had much luck getting it running. he bit the bullet (the nearest leather dealer's store got a new cute manager lady) and made a substantial new leather stitching machine purchase and i am feel...

goodness gracious! you went full detail! your attention to detail is outstanding, i am going to have to reread this a buncha times before i get all the way there!! soo many thanks for all of that work, both designing the pattern for the bag and the grade A+ write-up!!

Elleth wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:41 am You did the experiment though, and that's great!
A day learning something is never wasted.

thats the ticket!! hada try and see, of course. hence the search for one forged from this forum. would be a fitting addition to the kit!!

ForgeCorvus wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 12:25 pm Is this not something that could be published on the Wiki?

Seeing as you've gone to all this work Elleth?

and the patterns are soo great that i feel like they deserve it! then, everyone who decides to build kit can have much similar gear!! both snapsack and quiver!!

doesn't look too difficult, but im terrible at measurements guesstimation. the urthgard thread images vanished so that may be the only 'pattern pic' there is if your pattern is lost in limbo (as many of mine usually are).

Welcome, it's great to see a new face! You'll find more pictures of the pattern pieces and some assembly lessons learned on the original thread, here: http://middleearthrangers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3749 Will that serve? Good luck! going to look, lesse!! still getting used to the forum...

also, steels with many of those 'additives' like chromium and vanadium and such bring the steel further away from 'high carbon' and closer to 'stainless' and that removes the ablity to generate the spark in the first place. the spark is a flake of steel oxidizing very fast, generating heat in the pr...

, its the heat treating that allows the stone to peel a flake of the steel off, the flake of steel oxidizes and heat is generated. the chances that your pommel has been hardened is very low, as that is the portion of tool that would need give in case it was struck by anything. if that was hardened e...

when im planning to involve myself in a camping/bushcraft type adventure [close as i come so far to trekking out in ranger kit] the emergencies i'm likely to face are the same as if i were out rangering and disaster struck. few things mean disaster, like a chop into flesh or an unexpected dip into t...

that toggle tie is genius and i cant wait to get the pattern for the snapsack to make my own! im really diggin the way the snapsacks add to the capacity, and i am excited for the prospect. my as of yet unfinished quiver setup will have a three point connection s there will be plenty of strap to hang...

Yeah, personally I use a setup very similar to what Elleth has pictured above. I roll up my blanket and ground cloth, making sure to fold it up so that the waxed ground cloth totally covers the wool blanket, run a leather shoulder strap through the middle, and secure it all with two separate buckle...