Tweaks..

Wasnt happy with the guard on this poker..

Found som flat stock and made a new one.

After a coat of vinegar/salt and mustard..

And a night outside..

Next step to Perfect the forced patina is to use it so the rust rubs of in the right spots.

 Much better..

Episodes

Dumpster find.. 90's city bike with Sachs Penta Sport shifters and fauber cranks and 650b wheels.

Some good stuff and a lot of dead weight.

The goal is a robust vinter/camping bike without spending a $ / €

Three some trash parts on the frame..

The wheels a crap but will do for now.

Need to true and repack the front and get a three speed shifto for the rear..

Ignore the blue tape, its a idea that has been bugging me for a while..

Not here for the cool but for the weird..

 

Its endless..

Latest version of the bike trailer..

Platform to cart some sheets of ply for another project..

Made of pallet wood..

I also found a box of decking screws on one of my walks wich came in handy..

 

Grav grav

The new tyre needed a bigger fender..

Found a moped one on the local market place app..

Made a cut, welded some nuts to some flat bar.. Back to my good enough shitty welds work ethics again..

Looks kinda neat, I just eye balled the cut and nailed it..

The fender stay looks kinda chunky but it is what it is..

 

Remember..

..long before the sword where the bone needle..

And the needle is the most powerful piece of metal in your arsenal..

Replaced the zipper in my Mountain Hardwear "Scrambler"

Stole the zipper from a pair of gaiters i never use, given that it will probably snow like hell this winter..

Anyways, sometimes i surprise myself and do reasonably tidy work..

 

Hobo bucket

..for fires in delicate areas, wich is pretty much the whole damn forest as of lately..

Aggroed some stabby holes for air flow..

Added some leggy things to get it of the ground..

One of those fire logs are good for 4 hours i think..

The bots have gone wild again.. Some days this place has 900+ Visits.. its fucking strange and i hate it..

 

Hello dimplings

 Aggressive crimping..

It fits but still rubs when cornering at speed.

Might cut the chain stays and fit a "spreader plate".. or just crimp the hell out of them and reinforce the chain stays from the outside..

Boop..

See? The dimples are on both sides, no biggie but if i take it further the rear section gets floppy..

Diy dimple tool.. If I had the time, patience and did care about things like this I would add a bit of pipe on the other side to prevent double dimpling the stays..

..but I dont..

Lids

The bottom of your empty prope-cans makes great lids..

..for your Trangia kettles..

Just use tin snips, clean then up with a file..

Dont spend to much time on making the wooden knob to fancy, they will get chared anyways. 

This is one i made for one of the kids..

And this is how my looks in its chared and tared glory..

Yeah its heavier than a Trangia lid but whatever nerd..

Its a theme..and stuff about %

 More pack assery..

Since my daily carry pack (DCP™©) Mountain Hardwear "scrambler" is on its last legs I bought this crappy one to use as a place holder sort of while finding a proper replacement..

I present the Kuma Hiking Lodge 25l (its a promo bag made by a snuff pouch brand, but it was cheap with a "15% off your first buy" coupon, and it was Coyote brown so here we are..)

Just look at it..

Its fucking retarded.. This is what a back pack looks like when the designer had zero clues of what features a backpack needs..

So me being me...

100% less stringy fuckery going on .

Stringy fuckery has a tendency to snag on absolutely everything going through the thick stuff. 

Also if you need to strap 40% of your stuff to the outside of your bag you are carrying the wrong bag, get a bigger one..

Also one of those i have no clue features, the slanted bottom.. Yep! Now its impossible to stand it on the ground..

Overall construction lands it in the flimsy Territory.. 

Meet me down the trail for further updates..

The End

 I have moved/removed the patches on my pack a bunch of times due to some vague felling of one of them not aligning with the others in colour/direction of the graphics etc 

See how those skeleton guys face each other and how the arch on the upper ones are mirrored by the arch/rounding of the lover ones?.. 

I also added a small strip of leather to the "Not All.." patch to cover a logo/brand scribble.. And it also tie it tigheter with the one below..

Very fucking important dickings..

Now they tell a story..

Edits..

So this is a Edit of a old project..

The handle on my yakut knife was to short so I grafted a extension to it.

Just some random bit of wood and some Gorilla glue..

I decided to paint it, makes it easier to find plus it will look super cool once it gets some "patina" (such a ass word)

 

Pack works

Replacing the strap buckle on my Exped Thunder, got a spare from the EU 

Customer Support..

Added some mountain man flavor to the straps..

Got a sternum strap to buy im not sure if i dig it.. That pipe fit is sort of dubious and the leather and bone one i made works really well... Its dog proof..

 

I usually clip dogs leash/carabiner to it..

Thats also how the original one broke, dog bolted after a deer and ripped it clean of..

 

Bones..

 Bike dickings..

A piece of deer bone..

Bone shifter. Might tidy it up a bit with some sandpaper.. Also i might not..

Boatys

 Packraft repairs.. A customer put a bunch of holes in one of the boats.. No biggie just something to deal with 

Spodaggler

 For poking around..

Food forest planting tool