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THE OVERLANDING CONVERSION OF YOUR BAKKIE’S DREAMS, THE CDC TOOL YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED AND A SILKY BOY FOR BUNDU BASHING

Photo Jana Snyman of cars.co.za

ALU-CAB – CANOPY CAMPER

After a festive season break, no doubt you’ve got a stack of New Year’s resolutions and we wager somewhere near the top of the pile is a promise to spend more time in the Great Outdoors (fishing obviously). Then your enthusiasm wanes when you think about the ball-ache of finding all your camping gear each time you want to head out and the tedium of putting up and taking down a ground tent every time you want to explore a little further downstream. A brilliant way of getting around all that is by turning your bakkie/pick-up into your home away from home by converting it into a proper overlanding vehicle with overlanding gurus Alu-Cab’s revitalized Canopy Camper, the original iteration of which came out over ten years ago. The new one is ridiculously feature-rich with a dual-layer canvas rooftop tent, a flip-away bed (for ample headroom and standing space), side access canopy doors, a 270-degree shade awning and the ability to house a range of handy camping gear from a foldaway table and chairs, to a solar panel and charging system. We’ve seen this thing in action and we’ll be honest, the ease with which the owner set up everything in minutes, found everything he needed and packed up again when it was home time, made us green with envy. alu-cab.com

SWISS CDC – MULTI-LOOP TOOL

Looking to up your CDC skills? Take a gander at Swiss CDC’s Multi-Loop tool. About the size of a bobbin in hand, this nifty stainless steel tool uses a completely different technique to the usual V-shaped loop tools, allowing you to easily make mixed material parachute hackles or strong and diverse dubbing strands incorporating different materials from dubbing, to flash, peacock herl and wire. swisscdc.com, streamandsea.com

SILKY – POCKET BOY

Got some off-the grid bluelining planned for this year, with a generous side of bundu-bashing? Then for those moments deep in a remote valley where there’s no way through the thickets of alien vegetation but forward, you’re going to want a compact lightweight folding saw like the Silky Pocket Boy. Nicknamed ‘Little Giant’ due to its extraordinary cutting capacity, this sleek Japanese saw features a rust-resistant, hard chrome-plated, taper-ground 170mm blade with an impulse-hardened non-set tooth design for greater cutting efficiency. The blade locks securely into one of two open positions, in line with the handle and flush cutting. A non-slip rubberised handle provides a sure and comfortable grip. Perfect for clearing a path or getting firewood. justlikepapa.com

“NICKNAMED ‘LITTLE GIANT’ DUE TO ITS EXTRAORDINARY CUTTING CAPACITY”