TEXT BY TIM STETZER, PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE MANUFACTURERS
01 Bobby Bushcraft Beads
If you’re a gear junkie, you probably like to have unique things, and also a way to tell your gear apart from other folks. Especially if you have a popular piece of kit, be it a knife, a fl ashlight or some sort of tool. Custom lanyards are a good way to do that, and lanyard beads are a great accent piece to really make those pop. Bobby Bushcraft currently o_ ers 7 di_ erent beads including a Bushcraft Backpack, a Bushcraft Lantern, a Bushcraft Anvil, a Bushcraft Piranha, and a Camp Fire bead that all embrace various aspects of the outdoors like hiking, knifemaking, fi shing and camping. There are also two beads that channel Native American lore including the Bison, which is a symbol of health, strength, stamina and stubbornness and the Rabbit, which according to Native American legend was a great hunter and a trickster. The beads are exquisitely crafted with fi ne detail and sized to fi t paracord or similar lanyard materials.