In a crockpot, you have a controlled temperature so can avoid burning the wax. I turn the crockpot on before work and it is liquid and settled by the time I get home. As the wax liquefies, the impurities settle to the bottom and what is on top is pure. I use a ladle to scoop the top layer and pour i...

I am so jealous of people who make their own quivers.

I try and try and can never get the thing to look or work properly.

We have lots of options as to canteens, none cost a lot in cash, just a bit of imagination and some time. I have a Kracken Rum bottle with carry-rings that I am thinking of making into a canteen but there is that glass-in-the-field thing I try to avoid. The bota is really common but has a few proble...

Look in the yellow pages for a local beehive! Beekeepers always have plenty of beeswax that they are willing to sell. Failing that, I have a crock-pot filled with leftover beeswax candles. Tell me how much you need and I'll melt you a block and mail it out. It will be black but pure beeswax. well, a...

When I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath, I found that flint was the rubble of choice along all of the English roads. I came home with a dufflebag filled with 'rocks'. The solution is to find a friend in England who can pick you up a few and mail them to you really cheap. Does it matter if you get the...

Some good ideas but he makes a few mis-assumptions: He puts too much reliance on the wind direction. I don't know about England but out here, the wind changes with the time-of-day and season and climate so just because the wind 'generally' blows from the SW during the summer does not mean that it al...

We all need tools. How do we repair our arrows without a fletch-kit? How do we repair our clothes without a sewing-kit? So I was thinking of this and put this together. http://rick-johnsons-writings.webs.com/mer296.jpg http://rick-johnsons-writings.webs.com/mer297.jpg The Phillips screwdriver came f...

I own a couple canoes and have done multi-day trips out of them. BUT, they are plastic boats and I do not have the tools or space to make a real wood canoe. Nor can I find any paint that will stick to the plastic to make the canoe look like wood or bark. I've been thinking of ranging along a river o...

Sorry for the new profile. I posted the explanation in the Prancing Pony. last year I found an ad in Craigslist for archery gear $20! I rushed out to the middle of the desert to find some guy with a box of heads, tools, shaft sctions, etc. There were over a hundred arrowheads both glue-on and screw-...

Sorry for the new profile. Check the Prancing Pony for the reason. am probably going to bring along some kind of toilet paper, because that's one area where I'm totally willing to deviate from authenticity in favor of comfort and cleanliness. As for rations Any suggestions on camping food for this p...

When my work computer crashed (we got hacked), all my passwords were lost in the rebooting. By the time I was able to log-in, MER had decided that my password no longer was valid and the admin people were unable to repair the problem nor were they able to give me a working password. So I had to re-r...