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    Leatherwork question: how do you skin a cat.......

    Salt on the hide removes the moisture as well as help hold the hair roots in place - before the tanning process
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    Leatherwork question: how do you skin a cat.......

    There are really three ways to skin a cat: 1 - A cut down the stomach before peeling off the skin 2 - A cut down the spin and lift out the body 3 - A cut from one ankle to under the tail to the other ankle and remove the skin in a tube The skin then needs to be shaved back with a knife to...
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    Highland horns (Not long horn)

    Recipe for making a wax that is very hard as a coating for the horn. Melt 50% bees wax and 50% candle wax in a pan over water. Get rosin and melt this into the wax mixture (the rosin might need a blow touch on low setting to melt it) about 1 cm cubed per half pint of wax. Pour the wax...
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    Highland horns (Not long horn)

    More project .... but you wont be bored :-) Will it get you out of doing DIY.
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    Highland horns (Not long horn)

    Thank you. By the way, I have numerous pairs of unfinished highland horns for any budding whittlers out there. PM for details. Thank you Laurie
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    Highland horns (Not long horn)

    Does anybody in the forum know the "pattern" for making a highland cattle horn into a blowable horn.
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    Bradley Wood camp

    If the majority of people hold CRB (especially scout or other similar youth organisations)then I will ask if the child protection policy is necessary in light of the comments made here. Maybe I could negotiate with the site. Let me get back to you all. Laurie
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    Bradley Wood camp

    Hello, The policy would not take much to sort out, copy somebody else's and then publish it here - this will cover BCUK for future events. CRB checks are about £35 pounds but some people can get them through their work if they volunteer for childrens charity stuff. etc. If poeple are...
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    Bradley Wood camp

    I have spoken with the site and they have made the following comments: (Please bear in mind that the scouts would be on site at the same time as the camp) 1 They would need a copy of BCUK child protection policy 2 People camping would need to present a CRB certificate 3 Axes and knives...
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    How 2 whistle?!

    Sorry did i forget to say - practice on your own and try to avoid spitting on people as some people can be upset by the whistling-in-the-ear-whilst-spitting-over-their-face thing. Well done Addo it not the easiest whistle to learn but is very shrill as your wife has found out
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    How 2 whistle?!

    I have a sheppards whistle which is a piece of metal bent in half with a hole in it but I still find my two finger whistle louder. The whistle is laid on the tongue and the lips form a seal around the edge. Positioning the tongue near the hole gives different whistle pitches. Kindest...
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    How 2 whistle?!

    The other method you could try: 1 put index and fourth finger together (almost touching) using just one hand 2 insert two fingers into mouth 3 WIth tips of fingers push the tip of toungue almost double over (towards the top of your mouth) 4 Cloase lips gently around finger roughly at...
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    Iron pyritese

    Goodluck. I'll check my Geological log to see where I found them - probably in the dorest region I memory serves - it is a long time ago now!!!!!
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    Iron pyritese

    On the shore line, where conditions are right, they are long dark brown lumpy "pebbles" about 2 inches in diam. some round and some oblong. With a hammer, break them open and you will see that the crystals are radial ie there is a little blob in the middle and lines going to the outside. I...
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    Iron pyritese

    Iron pyrites (or fools gold) looks like gold when it is first exposed but the pyrite crystals are actually cubic in shape. You can get sea bed pyrites but PM for more info. Pyrites does rot after a while (oxidation) but I do have some at home (somewhere!). Otherwise call into a shop that...