Thin, Sharp, Knives
If you look around the working world, at the knives that are regularly used to do work, you might notice some startling differences between those knives and what is prominent in the popular… Read More
Category Archive: Outside The Box
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The Woodswalkers Bag
My Playground: Empty, yet Full of Opportunity, to the Horizon and Beyond Living rurally, as I am currently fortunate to do, affords some great opportunities for the survival/resilience minded person. Foremost is that… Read More
A Visual Addition to Theory of Ultra-Small Combative Knives
Much of the attraction (and danger) of ultra-small knives is in the opportunities, often unconventional, they present for concealment. This would be much better executed with an appropriately sized locking folder, or a… Read More
DIY Adventure Gear: Field-Notebook Hacks
The notebook or journal as part of the adventurers kit is a compelling image: Leather and oilcloth bound journals, wrapped in a strap or twine, and filled with drawings of lost cities and… Read More
Thoughts on Fashion & Grey Man(nerisms)
For awhile now, I’ve had a running set of notes on matters of fashion as it relates to armed civilians and plain-clothes armed professional. In the last couple months, various things inspired a… Read More
Realistic Resiliency
“Solutions for Austerity and Hostility” – That’s what it says at the top of the page. But what does that really mean? Primarily we are interested in, and focused on, situations of immediacy… Read More
Things To Ruin A Perfectly Good Day
One of the ongoing projects behind the scenes here is to catalog the range of explosives used in mining, particularly in the old days. Particularly the varieties of form, and what happens to… Read More
"Its The Tribes, Stupid"
I posted this via the oft-ignored BFELabs Twitter feed, and managed to screw up the link, so I’ll just put it here and do a proper job of it. Steven Pressfield, author and… Read More
"Women Should Be Dressed in White, Like Other Kitchen Appliances"
I think by now we’ve all heard the line that is this posts title, and know the stink it caused when the honcho of Formula 1 said it about, and to, Danica Patrick… Read More
