Bud,
I am 72 in april, I have been around for a while, that is one thing. The other thing is that I have been living close to, or in to, the nature nearly all my life. What formed me most I think was my 20 years in the mountains where I meet my first wife and where my three sons grow up. It was happy years, I was young and the area where I lived was far away from civilization.
To give you a idea about how nice, and sometimes hard, this are can be I show this photo. In the bay to the left and in the far end of the lake, was my home. There I lived with my family during the summer. there are many miles to the nearest civilization. Here are no roads, no bridges over water, it is only nature.
To live here gived me a lot of things, perpersctive of life, knowledge of nature, handeling of all types of edged tools and how to sharpen them so I can trust them with my life, and so on. I become a pagan and I belive in my forefathers, I am profe of their existens - and the nature are also a part of this.
Short: this years formed me.
After those years I satte down in the middle of Sweden in parish Jamtland qnd out in the Forest. I still lives there after 30 years. I do not like citys. I have carry a knife in my belt all my life and I still do and knifes are still my main tool when I do something.
Knifes for me are tools. Knifes are like a hammer, screwdriver, saw, chissel, and so on. Just a tool - but a very useful tool. knifes are not a big thing for me really - but they are usedul and they make my life easyer to live. I am not interested in knifes... But I cannot live without them - and I think that old knifeknowledge is soon totally forgotten - and I try to keep it survive.
Simple things can sometimes be very useful and save your life. Have you for example been in so strong fog that you cannot se the sun that you so nor know whats East or west? Do you know how to find the sun direction with a knife?
Put the tip of your vertical hold up knife in the middle of your thumbnail. Turn slowly the knife around and study the shadow the tip if the knife give on your thumbnail. When the shadow is the smallest, the edge points at the sun. This is a good example of knife use - and allready the vikings find the sun in this way on their travels. Try it in strong fog and learn to use it
I walked once in strong fog, I could se about 3-5 meters in front of me, for around 10 houers and I got my direction this way = your knife can work as a compass.
So, i have lived my life about in the same way as my forefathers did and I like functional tools, not fancy tools.
Thomas
I am 72 in april, I have been around for a while, that is one thing. The other thing is that I have been living close to, or in to, the nature nearly all my life. What formed me most I think was my 20 years in the mountains where I meet my first wife and where my three sons grow up. It was happy years, I was young and the area where I lived was far away from civilization.
To give you a idea about how nice, and sometimes hard, this are can be I show this photo. In the bay to the left and in the far end of the lake, was my home. There I lived with my family during the summer. there are many miles to the nearest civilization. Here are no roads, no bridges over water, it is only nature.
To live here gived me a lot of things, perpersctive of life, knowledge of nature, handeling of all types of edged tools and how to sharpen them so I can trust them with my life, and so on. I become a pagan and I belive in my forefathers, I am profe of their existens - and the nature are also a part of this.
Short: this years formed me.
After those years I satte down in the middle of Sweden in parish Jamtland qnd out in the Forest. I still lives there after 30 years. I do not like citys. I have carry a knife in my belt all my life and I still do and knifes are still my main tool when I do something.
Knifes for me are tools. Knifes are like a hammer, screwdriver, saw, chissel, and so on. Just a tool - but a very useful tool. knifes are not a big thing for me really - but they are usedul and they make my life easyer to live. I am not interested in knifes... But I cannot live without them - and I think that old knifeknowledge is soon totally forgotten - and I try to keep it survive.
Simple things can sometimes be very useful and save your life. Have you for example been in so strong fog that you cannot se the sun that you so nor know whats East or west? Do you know how to find the sun direction with a knife?
Put the tip of your vertical hold up knife in the middle of your thumbnail. Turn slowly the knife around and study the shadow the tip if the knife give on your thumbnail. When the shadow is the smallest, the edge points at the sun. This is a good example of knife use - and allready the vikings find the sun in this way on their travels. Try it in strong fog and learn to use it
I walked once in strong fog, I could se about 3-5 meters in front of me, for around 10 houers and I got my direction this way = your knife can work as a compass.
So, i have lived my life about in the same way as my forefathers did and I like functional tools, not fancy tools.
Thomas