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The black-handled knife from Crete as Apotropaion
In my relatively...ummmm...vast? . ;-) collection one can find among many others these two knives. For the one below I can safely state that it is a knife from Crete. The one on top MAY come from...
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Nature Art EN-just some impressions from an unusual exposition
Nick and Kathrin had called the other day if I´d wanted to come along visiting the nature art EN expo in the Hülsenbecker valley with them. This is a most interesting expo, for along the lines of the...
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The German hunting knife as an everyday tool and apotropaion
This is somewhat of an edit of an ancient post from way back then. But as is, the times have changed a lot, and so has my perspective on the topic, albeit not THAT much. Still the German hunting...
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A most extraordinary weekend with Martin and a bunch of other quality people...
So, many of you might have wondered, what this guy´s about not posting that long. ;-) Now, apart from new challenges, this is mostly due to this post. I postponed it again and again, so to say ;-),...
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This is somewhat of a very sad post. I have decided to end an era by quitting my mountainbike club. It´s a bit difficult to say I got mobbed out, because it is more complex than that. So I won´t rant...
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New project - Saving the Ahlhauser Hammer ironforge
Let me introduce you to Ahlhauser Hammer ironforge. The smithy, which was mentioned first in the Ironforge Journal Ennepetal in 1592, is situated in the lovely green valley of Ennepetal. The region,...
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Into the dusk with the magic troll;-) -Lovely hike to the Marburgian...
Last weekend I was in desperate need of some flight reflex;-) and made for Marburg in a frenzy... we had a great time as usual, and on Monday we made for the hills to do some foraging. In an old quarry...
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Iron hike
Just wanted to show you the state my local woods are in. Good for me, of course, but BAAAD, if you get my meaning, for the trees.Every little patch of the trail is stuffed with iron, steel, junk and...
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A hike to the ironforge and cleaning up a mess - Ahlhauser Hammer
On the Friday of the week before last week I made for Ahlhauser Hammer ironforge and decided to take the bus and walk the final miles. The weather was not exactly all it could be, so to say, but I...
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It´s here
So, we all have talked about it in the bushcraft and survival community. We have marvelled about the ins and outs of catastrophe with a sick and morbid fascination. I had not exactly a part in it,...
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A very interesting take on a field knife - Walther FBK
I got a new knife for reviewing that is really stunning. Yeah, you all know I don´t like ´em tacticals any, but there is no mistaking there are a lot of dead functional designs out there. Let me...
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Progress on my En - Nep
So, this is the En - Nep I started some time ago. Made from ancient (150years+) leaf spring I found in the woods, 10,4 cm long, 4mm thick. The layout is drawn along a whiplash line making it very...
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Hippocras that should keep me drunk for a while ;-)
So, the world´s gone insane-and alcohol is not a solution, but killing off brain cells helps a bit to decrease the gap of stupidity*ggg*, just kidding, of course.I have a new run of Hippocras/Theriak...
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New Gallo-Roman strikers for Tina
Tina, a friend of the magic troll´s and a mutual acquaintance wanted a striker, so here they come... Two firesteels inspired by Roman finds. File steel, of course... and selectively tempered (no...
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On the bench: Grosses Messer / Bauernwehr machete
Some novel inspiration came upon me with the venue of a 150 kg Beché power hammer (I have heard that tends to happen;-)), so I forged out the preform of a Grosses Messer, but without a crosspiece or...
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I can fly again;-)
So, well, the world is ending, word. And still I got a new bike. And still I got a huge grin on my face. Not really a sensible one. Not bike nor grin. But still. I have long contemplated getting a...
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Two projects on the bench-and some musings on the fiercer aspects of the...
Germany is entering into the so-called "War On Terror". This means we´re fucked. I recently read the musings of one strategy specialist on a dpa press site about a ground offensive. He went into detail...
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The Nightmare of the North - a skóggangr trail of twilight
Strong is the call that is rising beyond the boundaries of the cities. From tree and grove and wood and hill there is this song that rises with the mist. Autumn had come, and stayed with colours and...
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In the thicket
The sun was up and the weather was warm, and I was fleeing the city again for a hike into the woods. I walk into the deepest woods, through thicket and underbrush to seek for solitude and a tiny...
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Over old hills and far away;-) - RIDE.
Yesterday the weather was fine and the hills were calling violently. Now it has been some time since I just went on a ride into the foothills of the Sauerland, just so, just to ride, and it was about...
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