The duct-tape wallet
Image by greyloch via Flickr
As the T/S farewells pile up, and tears are shed and toasts are made (midnight July 31 is endgame; even Gawker gave kudos), I have realized one thing about all my outdoorsy bloggin’: I never once talked about duct tape.
The reason being is that duct tape is as regular as air and water to the outdoors person. You really don’t think about it. It’s just there.
Look, I don’t know if you can repair an SR-71 or a Formula-1 car with duct tape, but tonight I did indeed duct-tape shut the inseam of my bathing suit in preparation for a day of kayaking tomorrow. Is that a total bachelor move, or just pure River Rat? Yeah — both.
Check this out: The duct-tape wallet –
Like many of you, I’m guessing, I always have a roll of duct tape nearby. I carry a roll in my vehicle, training bag, and on the boat. I’ve used it to do everything from secure a pheasant wing on a bumper to patch a leaky wader during a duck hunt to cover a blister on my big toe in the backcountry. But while on vacation recently my older brother, Christian, showed me a new use for duct tape.
It wasn’t an emergency and it had nothing to do with dog training, but it was pretty damn creative. He made a wallet from a few strips of duct tape. Not a clunky, sticky bunch of tape but a genuine wallet. In fact, he’s been using his own duct tape wallet for two years.
To be honest, I’m not too sure of the benefits of a duct tape wallet, but I do know you can peel some tape off if you need it in a pinch. And if you get tossed in the pond after you win a field trial your wallet will be fine. Or if your dog takes a liking to chewing on it, the replacement cost isn’t very high.
Four feet of duct tape and a pair of scissors. That’s all you need
That’s from Dave DiBenedetto, who writes the “Man’s Best Friend” blog over at Fieldandstream.com, all about his training his Boykin spaniel, Pritchard (he also wrote a great striper-fishing chronicle, On the Run.) Dave’s your man when it comes to Boykins, fly fishing the flats, and, clearly, duct tape. Read on.
And with apologies to Caitlin Kelly and Laurie Essig, whose posts I’ve read daily since I joined T/S, the photo choices that the Wordpress service offered for “duct tape” were a plain-old roll of duct tape and a young woman who had made herself some duct-tape underwear.
I selected for creativity.
Oh, and here’s a Hello Kitty AR-15, in case you wanted one.
via What is the Ultimate Use for Duct Tape? | Field & Stream.
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No offense taken. I travel with a roll of packing tape in my suitcase….so I get it.
I have a duct-tape wallet. Duct tape is the MacGyver of tape. What’s your most unusual duct-tape use case?
I once duct-taped a fishing reel to the reel seat when once of the clamps broke, but that’s a standard move. Unusual? Oh, I repaired a collapsable sink with duct tape, so basically I made a duct-tape bowl that was water-tight.
In response to another comment. See in context »Oh, you got that photo from the photo service. Good. I was thinking, damn, Scott’s ex is gonna be pissed he used that photo.
I’ll bet that hurt coming off.
Yeah, the Zemanta photo service tossed that one up for a search for “duct tape.” It does prove that if you lose all your clothes in the wilderness, but have enough duct tape, you can fashion a limited wardrobe.
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