On this rainy Sunday morning I'm compelled to return to that 1948 Handbook for Boys (1953 printing) and what it has to say about edged ...

Presented with a cold and rainy Saturday, yesterday Mrs. KintlaLake and I spent a half-dozen hours visiting local garage sales and second-ha...

Here are two more vintage Marble's advertisements, both from 1922. "For Campers" ( right ) comes from the pages of Outing ...

Until this morning I hadn't browsed Google Books ' collection of vintage out-of-doors magazines in quite some time, and it's bee...

Dear Parents and Carers: During the next few weeks we intend to pursue traditional Scoutcraft, teaching our Scouts about axemanship, bush ...

I devoted the previous post to Outing , so this go-'round I thought I'd give equal time (sort of) to another venerable outers' ...

It's quiet here in the KintlaLake household, as I'm the only one who's stirred at this hour on a Saturday. Sitting at my desk, ...

It's the perfect winter's morning -- there's snow on the ground, the sun shines from a clear sky and the winds are calm. Bitter ...

Because sharps has been the most popular recurring theme here on KintlaLake Blog , and by request, today I'm posting a few two-page spr...

It's been almost six years since the folks up at Bark River Knife & Tool (now Bark River Knives) gave us their Mini-Axe. Actually a ...

While I was on the phone this morning, expressing my habit of doodling in three dimensions I picked up that old Estwing hatchet and began t...

Each and every time I've wandered the maze of aisles at an indoor antiques mall recently, a certain old-school tool has caught my eye. Y...

Having nothing of substance to say on this, the first day of March -- and being too busy to say it even if I did -- here's one more Marb...

While taking some hard-won time today to unwind, I stumbled across a digital edition of a turn-of-the-(last)-century magazine called Outing ...

When today's outdoorsmen talk of the tools and the mindset that they take with them into the woods, more often than not they'll invo...