I finaly recieved a knife I had designed by Jensen elite blades, in NSW Australia.
Its my personal survival knife that someone has now managed to bring to fruition for me.
A large knife (9" Blade) it combines both choping, cutting and digging capabilities.
It has some pedigree in the Brit D knife and Ghurka kukri as well as the QLD cane cutting knife.
Sounds a bit bizzare but it works for me.
Has a Micarta handle and a Kydex sheath which is held together with chigago screws allowing it to be stripped for ease of cleaning!
Will post a picture once I get hold of a digital camera.
I believe he is now selling the knife as the EVO Survival Tool?
I guess I shoulda patented my design?????????
Anyway that was the only survival gift I got for xmas.
Cheers all.

Pete, what is the sleeping bag like, I was thinking of getting one in the same range? Are they worth their money do you think, I know that they are good quality since they are used by Mountain Rescue teams?

Sorry, I haven't used it yet. I will PM you or post here when I get a chance to try it out. It packs small and is lightweight.

I got a Grundig FR 200 radio.It has a built in hand crank dynamo generator.Crank it around sixty times and it plays for an hour or so.It is AM,FM,SW1and SW2 bands.There is even a built in emergency light to boot.

i got a mora training knife, one of the british issue water bottles and a swedish fire steel. sound little tool but I'm not too chuffed with the striker.

chuffed?? Is that British english for impressed?<img src="images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I believe you are correct about the word "chuffed"

http://english2american.com/dictionary/c.html

Chuffed can indeed mean impressd but also to produce or move with noisy puffing or explosive sounds: “Switch engines chuffed impatiently in busy rail yards”. I think the first defintion is the right one here though:)

With the swedish fire steel I use the back of my knife to produce sparks.

Now my xmass presents were
3 pair socks <img src="images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
a shirt
a colourful boxershort

and also something which falls into the survival category <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> some chocolate.
I was impressed with these presents as we normally dont have presents with xmass. Must have something to do with living on my own now.

Reinhardt

* A colourful beach towel (for signalling)
* 2 prs "secret "socks (great for fire-starting)
* biltong (survival rations)
* money (so i can buy everything else <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />!)