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Suggestions from a long time wood/metal turner... Only turn legs for three-legged stools/stands. Don't think you can make money turning... leave it as a hobby - it's fun! Don't carry woodturning practices to metal-turning! Wood chips are warm - metal curls are hot! Avoid using metal lathe 3/4...

I have a knife-enthusiast friend who got a $30 BG folder as a recent Father's Day gift from a grown child. It really is cheesy - more like a checkout rack $5 PRC-made knife than anything I'd want to depend on. His child, like so many others this year, was 'sold' by the BG advertisements in the...

My Dad was in the USCG in WWII - in the S.Pacific - and carried a USN KaBar. I used it in my youth as a camp knife - later added a Western 66 hunting knife my Mom got me with S&H Green Stamps. The KaBar was, in retrospect, a bit much - hard to carve a flute or a spoon with it, that's for sure...

Great info - explains why my mentholatum (camphor chest rub) soaked dryer lint wouldn't ignite. Used it with Q-tip cotton heads years ago - easily ignited (Needed more volume to ignite tender... should've bought cotton balls!). The sizzling lint stunk - probably the seven indoor cats here...

I guess here in the states, things are a bit different. Survival would likely include an unintentional stay in the woods, from, say, a day hike gone bad. I carry a Victorinox 'Farmer' SAK. It's not the world's greatest knife, but it includes a saw, awl, and screwdriver for help in splitting. It...

I found my Dad's old USN-marked KaBar, his friend from the S. Pacific in WWII, in my grandmother's closet back in the early sixties. The copper rivets in the sheath had turned green - and the blade had this blackish 'corrosion' I tried to remove, only to find later that it was a Parkerized...

At least Les Stroud, when he carries a knife other than the one with his multi-tool, carries a Buck 119. That's available at my local Wally World for $34. A week with him and his harmonica in the boonies might get old... That Bayley knife did start my 'ultimate bushcraft knife' quest a year...

After a friend's insistence on how much better 'Benchmade Cutlery' is than my usual Buck & Kershaw fare, I relented and bought a 551 (440C then) nearly six years ago from a local dealer. I loved the heft - and the Axis Lock. Sadly, I didn't check it's edge - it was quite dull - and brand new...

I nearly choked last fall when I saw the Bayley's price... but it is still the same 350 pounds from them - for either the original plain or the newer coarsely serrated variant. Why would anyone buy from someone other than Bayley - much less at that 500 pound level? My interest faded when I noted...

From across the pond - near Birmingham, Alabama - where our sheriff won his post by promising to reduce the concealed carry pistol license from $20 to $7.50... Our knife laws here are changing. While at a shooting range a few weeks back, I was told by an off-duty deputy that my transporting a...

In my former profession (I am a retired college teacher.), I did my best to keep the 'sleepers' more than six feet apart in class, lest their snoring wake each other! My handle, 'Stainz', is the name of an 0-4-0 Austrian meter gauge steamer... and was the hallmark of the now gone LGB G-scale...

The sibling to my 005GYS arrived yesterday. It is the 005RWS model - with a checkered rosewood grip, brass guard, polished CM154 blade, and wet-molded leather sheath - for ~U$D 92 delivered. The sheath is tight - and made for a vertical orientation while on the belt. The knife looks too pretty...

Wow, that monster should have free delivery - at that price, it should be robotic and find your home on it's own! I have a vew Vic SAKs. By far, the best one for me on a hike - or at the grocers - nowadays is that Alox handled Farmer. It's a convenient size - with a few useful goodies...

I have been on a quest - for the proper bushcraft-lite - or woods-walker - knife since seeing the Bayley knife Mr. Grylls uses of late. I started innocently enough - I never knew a Vic SAK wasn't appropriate - or my Buck 110 - or, later, my Buck 192 Vanguard. I have been enlightened. I now have...

Maybe Les Stroud, the Canadian 'Survivorman' on the 'Discovery' channel here (NE of Birmingham - Alabama - USA), will sign some of the Buck 119s, available unsigned here at Wally Worlds for $34, or the Leatherman multi-tools. He is the 'real deal'. Grylls did start me on my 'bushcraft knife'...