You Still Need To Carry Your Shot Pouch.

Even when using a cartridge box, you still need to carry your shot pouch and powder horn. You don't know how long you are going to be out there or what may happen. Always travel fully equiped if you are going any distance.

Making A Crow in the 17th Century.

Spare Lock Parts & Tools in my Knapsack.

Spring vise, screws, lock springs, hammer, & wad punch.

Carrying The Tomahawk[trade axe].

My thanks to Elmo for asking about the carrying and safety aspects of tomahawks. As far as the covering of blades is concerned, I think it was a personal choice based on experience. I told Elmo about the trapper who slipped on ice and fell on his tomahawk which had no blade cover and was carried under his belt. The blade cut his hand off as he tried to break his fall.

The typical and most common way for a woodsrunner to carry a tomahawk. This woodsman has removed the blade cover because he is using his tomahawk to construct a shelter.

Again, you can see the tomahawk through the back of my belt with a linen cloth cover on the blade. My half-axe is secured under the ties on my blanket roll.

This tomahawk frog belonged to a close friend of mine who went under some years ago. His persona was that of an ex Ranger and no longer needing to carry a bayonet for his Brown Bess musket, he ellected to make this frog to just carry his tomahawk. This shows my wife's belt axe in the frog.

http://www.tattershallarms.org/gear.html

This is the type of frog carried by some Rangers and light infantry.

This mid 18th century carrier is home made and designed to carry under the arm with the strap over the shoulder.

This I believe is a copy of an original late 18th century tomahawk blade cover. I would not take this to be one of common usage.

How I Made My Pan Brush.

I recieved an email today from one of this blog's followers, asking me how I made my pan brush. So here it is.

I made my pan brush with horse hair. I gathered it as you can see much like the head of a birch broom, then bound it with linen thread. The chain is attached using copper wire.

This is my youngest son's pan brush, which belonged to a close family friend of ours, the late Shane Murphy. I can't say if it is an original or not.