Recent content by MyKneesHurt

Petzl tikkas, with the 'red light' mode for night vision. They in combination with a Luci Light have worked out really well for me.

That may well be the case. I love mine, though. I made it through a Vermont winter in them and they did great; I would say they've got rather soft soles and I resoled mine with zero-drop vibrams a few months ago. (I walked a lot in them, so the original soles had several hundred miles on them...

I wore Lems for years, until the umpteenth nail went through my foot working. Get yourself a pair of Jim Green Troopers. JG also make a moc-toe very similar to those Lems Summits. In my experience decent leather properly loaded with something fatty - bear fat, sno-seal, otter wax, whatever -...

I love skin-on-frames. It looks like you've established your rib lengths by some system, how did you establish lengths?

^Picture's worth a thousand words!

I have never built a stripper but I have worked with a massive amount of wood in my life, and have steamed a great many skin-on-frame ribs where grain orientation is important. As far as I understand, the strength of a stripper comes more from the glass than the wooden shell. If you get...

I have friends who have self-sutured with dental floss. Much more convenient for repair than dental floss is artificial sinew, used in skin-on-frame building and indigi-craft; a sort of waxed nylon megafloss.

Just to remind everyone. I am a human! I enjoy doing human things like breathing and walking with my legs.

I played guitar four hours a day for twenty years, until my wrists gave out. Fly fishing, primitive skills and bushcraft got a decade out of me. Building furniture and fancy cabinets probably has another decade of good work to go. Now its deer. Firearm culture, especially pistol culture, has...

I have very limited exposure to Ally canoes but I found one this summer. It is an older model 15' boat, weathered but serviceable, and it surprised me by actually being a boat I wanted to paddle. Setup time is probably in the 30 minute range, requires a rubber mallet, and fairly easy for a...

Surely you mean "old-form long-nosed Ojibwai"!

I don't need an excuse to go back to Camden...I don't need an excuse to go back to Camden...

I used a tumpline not an hour ago! They are NOT for carrying significant weight by people unaccustomed to using them. I've made several, the fanciest a fifty-hour plant-to-product project out of agave, and they are a lot of fun. I have a WWII-era haversack with what's essentially a tumpline as a...

Found an interesting book in the boxes @sweeper gave me called How to Read Water, by Tristan Gooley. I picked it up to flip through with low expectations, thinking - I can already run rivers - but it's a far more interesting and in-depth book. It looks at how water behaves in all aspects, from...

Can I ask your height and weight? Does it oilcan at all?