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I love making my handles for my tools. I am a bit of an axe junky and like nothing better than buying up old hatchets and returning them to quality working tools. I usually use ash but have recently made a few from pear, it doesn't feel as bomb proof as ash but its holding up well in daily use...

They sure do save an awful lot of time removing waste wood. Are you still getting a Swedish carving axe too? Good blade selection at axminster by the way.

So its not just Mike with a secret stash of osage!!! Mate that is a cracking bow. Glad your injury has sorted itself out, lovely full draw pic:)

Flipping amazing mate! I have this on my list of things to make, yours really do look great. Thanks for posting.

Twist together two or three strands of stiff-ish garden wire and put it in an electric drill, start a small pilot hole and drill slow feeding in the wire. You can drill long pipe stems like this no problem, once you start the pilot hole it goes really smoothly.

I have just got my first chainsaw a couple of months back. I got a member on here who is a tree surgeon to give me a good long tutorial on how to use it. Truth is it really does get through the logs fast and a bit like aircon in a car I wonder how I did without it. Then it broke down - several...

glamour shot? Best tool and axe justification shot I have seen in a long time.

Could not agree more. I have bought loads of old axes from ebay, taken off the old handle and made a new one to my own design and specifications. They are the best axes I own.

Stay away from the chainsaw type. They require a vast amount of energy to use, mainly because you are taking away so much wood with the cut. The only job I have found for mine is removing burls from trees (on my own trees!). After much outlay and many hours of frustration I have concluded that...

Nice job on the finishing mate, love the colour & the makers stamp on the handle just tops it off. I have just finished a little boo backed laburnum, I should post some pictures before I sell it. Hope that elbow sorts itself out soon.

Try Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson. A Novel of the ice age, it has floated my boat for a week or so. Lots of bushcrafty stuff in it.

Wow that's one hell of a statement. The only trouble with it is that you imply Mr Robin Wood is somehow in on some marketing ploy. Maybe you don't know him, I personally have never met him. That said I know of his reputation, I have corresponded with him with regard wood properties and I have...

Wow that is really sad. I have just contacted the team with regards one of these and agree with you totally with regards price - well worth it if you use it every day. I have read your blog and must take my hat off to you for your gracious offer, I really hope someone takes you up on it and...

Picking the fruiting body of a mushroom is like picking cherries on a tree, just because the cherries are gone the tree does not die. In fact picking mushrooms distributes the spores far wider than the wind could do.

Now that's the kind of draw weight I think you really start to see what a all wood bows can do. I bet that spits an arrow out, I can't see your fingers in the pic but I bet you could only manage about three or four shot out of that bad boy before your fingers started bleeding, even with a glove...

Constructive criticism - you need to make more:) you cant simply have one that nice you really need a set. Nice crisp lines and tool marks I love that style.

Ooh that's very nice, skilled use of tools and an aesthetic eye for design. Love it.

Jews ears Auricularia auricula-judae are an interesting one. Firstly they have (reputed) medicinal qualities, suck them for sore throats not to mention cancer fighting properties. And the name is intriguing too. It could be because in the middle ages the Jews suffered very bad persecution in...

A few years back I found a patch of shaggy parasol mushrooms so profuse that I am still using them in sauces and gravy's to this day. If I find a lot I always stick them in the dehydrator then store them in an air tight container, they will keep for years like this. I personally love foraging...

As has been mentioned bags of lesser quality routinely sell for a couple of thousand pounds. That is a true masterpiece of craftsmanship.