As promised! Sorry it took so long, slipped my mind

I know they did a similar (tulip poplar) one on Townsend's, but imo my favourite looking dugouts are the ones they make in Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Wishing you luck on this awesome looking project!

And to keep it flatter wherever it's packed!

I got mine as part of a Patreon reward thing, I don't think they're publically available unfortunately

I received this awl yesterday and it's going straight in my kit! Previously I just had a bookbinder's awl shoved in a cork, but I really think they are essential. I debated bringing anything but a pocket sewing kit when I went for a three day camp at the end of last October l, but if I had and if I ...

I waxed a linen haversack with straight beewax, it didn't come off or rub even in the heat of summer. I melted it in a pot, brushed it on, then ironed it repeatedly while wiping away the excess - I'll post some pics later

a tip for a frog gig/fishing spear is a versatile tool for catching food, and takes up barely any weight in a pack. It is much more efficient, for that weight, than carving one whenever you need one. I have not seen *any* reproductions of medieval fishing spears and gigs, which means I would need to...

Merry Christmas!

So I suppose really it should be "non-grey company" Dunedain, since any Dunedain is going to be called a ranger by non-Dunedain

I wonder if non-ranger dunedain used rivercraft - it would be very useful for transporting furs, for navigating marsh any time there isn't sufficiently thick ice (if there ever is), fishing, etc. There are obv some rivers around there too, since that's what makes the angle lol

For weaoonsmithing, a few potential solutions. - they buy them. Most medieval steelmaking was concentrated in a few specific places and not localked produced by a blacksmith, so this fits However if they do make them in-house, or if they don't they still need to do ordinary blacksmithing and repairs...

Wool or goat, furs, maybe delicacy fish (roe?), leather, dried meats, etc. If we think about the kinds of trade seen in similar societies historically, they could even be trading for things like seal with the Lossoth and using or trading it on, maybe that's a stretch idk. I think it doesn't take agr...

I think I will! I think I will lanolize my hood much more, however, and go moderately for the cloak. My favourite thing about it, is that I can keep my hands under the cloak and just poke out through the slit the bowl and stem of my pipe, which has so far kept me from needing to use gloves so far th...

I had an idea while I was spinning [on the basis that my drop spindle was portable, unlike a spinning wheel, and I can carry it and spin anywhere at need] - what if all the Dunedain move around, rather than living in permanent hidden villages? It is easy to hide caches, gardens, camps, and the like ...

I think I agree with a lot of your points laying out essentially a criteria for Dunedain culture to meet When it comes to opportunism and hunting, I think it depends on what is meant by opportunism. As Aragorn correctly notes, "But gathering and catching food is long and weary work, and we need...

It bunches up slightly at the front and then stays put - I haven't noticed it as an issue so far (about a week) once I got the level of gathering/length of the thong right (I played around with it), and I think that's due to the high friction between the thong and the wool It's there because I initi...