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Chanel 4 coverage about this. Mostly referring to one fairly close to me, Knaresdale, near Alston. From what I hear its indirectly owned by Louis Bacon of Moore Capital fame who claims to be a conservationist. Satellite tracked bird of prey gets killed on Knaresdale estate (which is absolutely...

I've just spotted this on Youtube, now personally I've used wooden print blocks in a vice to deboss images onto my leather dog collar and lead that I made. Worked a treat and really wasn't hard to do. However this chap shows far and away more detailed techniques for doing logos and so on. His...

Made my pup a leather collar today and I've got some wooden 25mm stamps that I got off Ebay. Wet the leather down, fired it in a woodworking vice (yes, I'm English so it is Vice and not Vise) with the stamp and the leather collar. The little guy just wants to play with everyone and dead soft so...

A while ago I was looking at braces for my work toolbelt, seems American carpenters are right keen on them. Anyway, I bought some real cheapos to try out the concept, and yeah I liked them, removed a lot of weight (think, hammer, adjustable, roofing square, tape measure, catspaw claw bar...

I've noticed a bit of a trend with exotic woods where they start out with vibrant colours then tend to age to an indistinct brown after a few years so lets have a few pointers for what colours these woods go to with age. I have an Eklund knife someone on here made in 2006, its nice but the...

Spotted this on a floor of a place I was working at, took a couple of pics then forgot about them. It's in a wet screed thats set solid to cover underfloor heating pipes. There was a cat that could get into the place so its possibly something the cat brought in, no cat tracks alongside them...

I did an update to my app recently and following the update the app has been unusable, first thing was that it lost all the maps I had previously downloaded onto my phone. Then it wouldnt re-download them. Now I have one downloaded but it wont access them unless I have signal? The main reason I...

I keep seeing wooden printing blocks on Ebay for not much money and fancy trying them to wet stamp a few leather bits and bats. Mostly a belt for my granddaughter as Ive seen some designs she would like and making a belt isnt rocket science. Was kind of thinking about dampening the leather and...

Worth a watch if you fancy either repairing one, converting a blue handled one to leather stacked (they're the same under the handle apart from the metal endcap thats easy to make anyway) or even if you want to make a stacked leather handle knife. For the varnish? Well anything is better then...

I've been kind of putting this off for a while because this blog was by a woman I went to school with, she sadly died in her sleep on the 8th of may this year. To be honest, even though I read her name and knew the family members mentioned in the obituary somehow I kind of hoped it wasn't her...

Infinite Monkeycage, Radio 4 comedy programme (that does still contain a lot of facts) explains how pretty much everyone who is alive now is descended from everyone who existed in the 10th century and had descendants. Quite an interesting programme after it gets past the wisecracks.

Fits perfectly over the stove, just thought I'd mention it. I've had a Svea 123R for a few years now but never had the little aluminium cup that comes with it., I got one of those one litre Primus Eta pots with the heat exchanger fins on the bottom which is great but always wanted a cup as...

Japanese handplaning competition. Or how to turn a tree into 9 micron sheets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Ad6tBdLbM&app=desktop Well, I was impressed anyway.

O1, PM-V11, White (paper?) steel and A2. Honourable mention to PM-HSS as well. OK so its chisels but its an interesting review all the same. I've used O1 and A2 plane irons and the findings are in line with my opinions so far and am thinking of getting a couple of plane irons in PMV-11...

Just looking at boots, now I currently have a pair of the Meindl Desert Fox boots which are absolutely ace, really comfortable boots. Only problem is they aren't waterproof, now I'm a reasonably accomplished bog trotter and generally avoid stomping in water but sometimes its unavoidable...

New one on me, I'm still smarting over my Stanley Thru Tang chisel not having a one piece through tang and therefore only lasting a few months of very gentle work. Anyway, never seen these before and I'm calling "Gimmicky tat" before someone else does...

Spotted this thing in my local tool sales place last week, I'm usually fairly good at working out what things are for but that one had me stumped. Anyone know what it is and what it does?

Takes about a minute to get properly into it. Shame to bung em on the fire really... https://www.youtube.com/embed/1yWmqbltB-c Obviously its not me making them, I just spotted it on another forum.

Its mostly car related stuff like bead rollers, english Wheels, car rotisseries, bead blasting cabinets, sheet metal benders whatever but there's also a few vice stands, and several decent sanding machines, belt grinders which might be useful for the blademakers. Its a long thread at eighty odd...

Whilst perusing my local secondhand tool sales place buying things I'm not entirely sure I really need but are mercifully very cheap I spotted this thing. Now I can usually work out most things there, even when they are about as random as it gets but this ones got me baffled. Anyone? Its got a...