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To: Noumenon

Add a thick, glass mag lense, about 3” - works as “glasses,” and will greatly diminish need for matches.

Dip your strike anywhere matches in candlewax... dip a whole box of them and stick them together in groups of 10/12 while the wax is hot (dip just the strike tip and a 1/4th inch of the wood. Wrap the bundles each in wax paper, sealed with wax. Distribute to belt/ packs/ truck, accordingly.

Heh. Got all the way to the bottom before I found a bowie and a tommy... Don’t forget them...

On the tommy: I prefer a customized pole axe to a “weaponized” short-handled tommy - an Iroquois blade with a real hammer on the reverse side, custom made to fit a Vaughn hickory framing hammer handle.

Because of the blade shape of an Iroquois, the lower point of the blade can be used as a climbing aid (ice or trees) - needs a boss under the hammer head to attach a temp lanyard for that purpose. It can also be used for leverage rolling logs and etc.

On the lower edge of the blade, a sharpened “vee” will be handier than you can imagine.

That tommy is more important than any other thing.


48 posted on 03/24/2010 5:19:55 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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65 posted on 03/24/2010 6:35:29 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: roamer_1

I like your take on ‘hawk configuration. I’ll check it out. Can’t hurt to have another one tucked away.

What I like about the SOG Fusion is that it’s light, fast and razor sharp. It doesn’t have quite the utility of what you’ve described, though.


186 posted on 04/26/2010 2:37:05 PM PDT by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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