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  • Fishing: Understanding How To Choose The Right Fishing Line
    To be a successful fisherman, you should start with getting the right fishing gear. Part of this gear is the all-important fishing line. You surely don't want to be losing great catches just because your line keeps snapping off.
  • Fishing: The Importance Of The Fishing Lure
    Many fishermen just aren't able to catch fish. They just don't get it. They blame the weather, their tools or even the fish. But most times, it's as simple as choosing the right fishing lure.
  • Carving Pumpkins: Jack-O-Lanterns Of The Twenty-First Century
    Every year at Halloween, jack-o-lanterns are everywhere. Many of them don't even look like a traditional jack-o-lantern anymore. They could look like a graveyard, a haunted house, a witch on a broomstick or bats flying through the air. They're really fun to make. So let's go make one!
  • Climate Change: Burning My Valley
    Isn't it disturbing that the collective burning of vegetation all over the world is still a major contributor to global warming? For the survival of our race, we have to change how we do things. If we refuse to make it happen, will anything matter in fifty or a hundred years?
  • Carving Pumpkins: How To Carve A Traditional Jack-O-Lantern
    If you ever wanted to know how to carve a traditional jack-o-lantern, here it is. It's a really nice skill to pass on. It's very simple, very easy and it can be done in an hour.
  • Wood Carving: How To Make A Gouge Honing Board
    When your gouge has lost its razor-sharpness, one way to bring the edges back to pristine condition is to use a gouge honing board. You can easily make it yourself in less than an hour. And it works very fast.
  • Wood Carving: How To Sharpen Straight Chisels
    If you're going to be a true wood carver, you really should learn how to sharpen your own tools. And straight chisels are the easiest carving tools to sharpen. Once you know how to do it correctly, you could sharpen any other straight-edged tool in your collection.
  • Wood Carving: Bevels and Cutting Angles
    When you know the fundamentals of how cutting angles on beveled edges affect cutting efficiency, you'll know so much about any cutting tool that you hold in your hand. Simple mistakes can be avoided and you'd be well on your way to becoming a skilled wood carver.
  • wood Carving: Choosing The Best Tools
    If you're going to be a wood carver and not just a whittler, you'll need to select a number of tools. You could use just a handful and work with small projects. Or you could use a variety, including power tools, to work on really large projects. There's just no way around it. So what are the right tools for wood carving?
  • Wood Carving: So You Want To Be A Wood Carver
    Wood carving is a special craft that's been around since the days of cavemen. With time, it has become quite an impressive art to behold. It's also very relaxing, often exhilarating and extremely satisfying. If you decide to become a wood carver, there'll be several styles to choose from. So how can you know which style is best for you?
  • Whittling: Whittling vs. Wood Carving
    Whittling is the most basic form of wood carving but it is not actually the art of wood carving, as it is done today. If you have no care to rush, you want to take your time and see what happens, whittling could be for you. But if you'd like to see just how skilled you can be, how good you are at bringing out details, wood carving may be just what you're looking for.
  • Whittling: What It Takes To Become A Whittler
    Whittling is an ancient craft that's been around since cavemen. While the world has changed by leaps and bounds, whittling has basically remained the same. It's still the journey that matters more than the end result. If you have no care to rush, if you want to take your time and see what happens, what're you waiting for?
  • Rock Climbing: Understanding The Basics
    You've decided to become a rock climber. Yet all you know is what you've seen on television or in movies. Not a problem. Here are some basic tips and suggestions to help in your understanding of what it takes to engage in this extreme sport.
  • Rock Climbing: So You Want To Be A Rock Climber
    Rock climbing is an extreme sport that leaves no room for guess work. There are several styles to choose from, with the level of safety ranging from very safe to life-threatening. You need to know just how far you're willing to go.
  • Machete: Choosing the Right One
    When it comes to surviving a jungle, to breaking out of a tangled hell, there isn't anything, anywhere that can compare to the magnificent machete. So, how do you know what to look for when it's time to get one?
  • Machete: The Marvelous Machete
    If there is another tool out there that can take you through dense, tangled, never-ending underbrush better than a machete, I'd have a hard time believing it. There isn't anything, anywhere that can compare to the magnificent machete.
  • Insane Ocean Swimmer: Your Knife Is Your Only Defense
    Ocean swimming is a courageous thing, quite probably a crazy thing. There's no protection out there. Having a sharp knife sure makes me feel better when I'm surrounded by all that blue. Many times, and for things that matter, you've just got to do what you've got to do.
  • Knife Sharpening Experts: Amazing Ceramic Knives
    Ceramic knives are quite amazing. They can hold their edges for months at a time without needing any sharpening. They're much harder that steel and so are the strongest knives around. Even knowing that, isn't it curious how cutting bone in meat can chip the edges? Find out why.
  • Tree Climbing: The Safest Tree Climber
    The greatest kind of tree climber is all too aware that he or she is the visitor, only a visitor, and not the keeper of what is surveyed. In the end, when the climbing is done and you're standing on the ground, the greatest kind of tree climber leaves with not the littlest indication that he or she was there.
  • Knife Sharpening Experts: Electric Knife Sharpening's Come A Very Long Way
    Electric knife sharpening has truly come a long, long way. Would you believe that an electric knife sharpener could never detemper your knives? That you needn't ever worry? Would you believe that it could achieve an exact sharpening angle, all by itself? How about an electric knife stropper?
  • Storm Preparedness: Securing Outside Your Home
    There's a powerful storm coming your way. You'll need to secure outside your home. When you do a good job and secure well, you'll be safe and without concern the entire time. That's the best way to endure a storm. Worry free.
  • Mountain Climbing: Crazy Mountain Climber
    Mountain climbing is absurdly dangerous. You really will risk your life, over and over. But, oh, to stand on the summit. To be so high, to know that you stand where few have gone before. Very few things come close.
  • Darts: Sharpening vs. Rounding
    Sharpening and rounding darts for sport or for competition is a good skill to develop, especially if you're a player. The points aren't actually meant to be sharp, even though they may be when you first buy them. Who woulda' thought?
  • Let's Climb Trees
    Tree climbing is an exciting way to stay fit and active. High above the ground, maybe in mid-air, your whole perspective changes. If you know what gear you need, how to protect and not damage trees, if you know how to climb them safely, imagine the heights you could reach. The peace you may find. And you don't have to be an athlete to do it!
  • Tree Trimming Before The Storm
    Everyone knows that a storm is coming. Standing outside your home, looking over your place, you realize that you've got to do something about those beautifully large trees. You've got to make some time to prepare your yard to protect your home. If you don't, you could be real sorry. Don't be.
  • Mountain Climbing: So You Want To Be A Mountaineer
    To be a mountaineer, you need to know what types of terrain to expect and how to manage them. You need to know what types of shelter are available and what dangers to look for. You need every part of yourself for this one. When you've learned what you must, and have mentally and physically prepared for it, the world becomes your mountain.
  • Knife Sharpening Experts: Sharpening Stones
    Knife sharpening experts use sharpening stones? Most definitely. Despite the amazing selection available for knife sharpeners, sharpening stones could still be the fastest and the most inexpensive way to sharpen knives. It all depends on just how often you need to sharpen your knives and how long you'd like them to last.
  • Field Dressing: So You Want To Field Dress A Deer
    When it's time to field dress a deer, you've got to be ready. It's a gory job, after all. You'll never forget it. Straight up and to the point, here's the fastest way to properly field dress a deer.
  • The Sharper Knife: Forged Knives vs. Stamped Knives
    Forged knives have usually outdone stamped knives in the past for the superior quality of their blades. No question. But times are changing and so is the quality of many stamped knives. Did you ever think that a stamped knife could be better than a forged knife?
  • So You Want To Be A Knife Thrower
    How to become a Knife Thrower, including how to choose a knife, the grip and the throw.
  • The Safest Knife Thrower
    How to be the safest knife thrower in your grip, your throw and your target. Also how to be safe in how you feel and in your surroundings.
  • File Sharpening For Your Yard
    Descriptive instruction on how to sharpen lawn mower blades, chain saws and axes using a sharpening file.


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