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There may come a time when you need to make an axe or hunting knife sheath. Maybe it got lost or damaged or perhaps it wasn't much good at the start. Anyway here is how I go about doing a sheath. Just about all my work in leather has been done with Tandy Leather and tools; there may be other sources of supply, I just don't know of them. I'm sure there are better ways to work leather but this one works for me. The words that go with a photo are printed under it, just so we're clear. I'll...

Lots of talented woodworkers are here on the forum. Hoping folks will use this thread to post some of their scrap wood project ideas. I'm looking to pass the winter by using up my pile of hardwood cutoffs. Just finished making a sanding tool modeled after the "MacFarlane Bow Sander". Mine has walnut for the handles with a flexible strip of sassafras for the crosspiece. Some smaller sassafras pieces were shaped into squarish dowels to hold a standard 1" x 30" belt sander strip in place. Here...

As I've been thinking about doing more tripping, I've been thinking about the issue of food. I know some of you guys go the freeze dried route. But I want to be able to eat more of the stuff I eat when I'm at home, whether that means steaks, hamburgers, chicken, etc. That means I need a means to preserve some food while camping. I'd love to buy a YETI or other high end cooler to bring/keep food fresh on a trip, but the prices of those high-end coolers are astronomical (I guess that's why...