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My oldest cheese slicer needed a new handle, used birch and kept the bark, coated it with epoxy then polyurethane.

"Toy" planes with a light pilot/short distances ok, typical jets with people and luggage haha!

Over here batteries are all the rage, a lot of people believe that everything can run on batteries, planes included ...

Wind turbines? Before the age of fossil fuels we were a lot fewer and our footprint were a lot smaller, when the oil etc "runs out" we will return to that state. The world seems to be powered by technology but technology depends on cheap energy and fossil fuels are the cheapest large scale...

Nice work Wayland! In the reconstruction of "The Myklebust Ship" there's one chest for every oar, seems right to me: About "The Myklebust Ship": https://sagastad.no/en/the-myklebust-ship/

Before all the fancy ready made stuff "Pors" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrica_gale ) was a popular flavour in Norway. I have made it a couple of times, good stuff.

Good to hear you're having a good time!

Yr is as good as it gets. https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/206550539-Facts-about-Yr

I'm more of a sewing machine and fabric man so I guess my coffee will have to go elsewhere. Lately I've used an electric machine but a muscle powered model is oiled and ready, great tool:

This one's in my shoulder bag, had to put it to use right away.

Finally made a Sami style pouch. Like this shape a lot, think I'll have to try out different sizes, maybe wax them, we'll see ...

Great! The missus like this pattern (another pair in the washing machine as we speak) and she's happy to have passed it on, enjoy your slippers she says!

How about 40 instead of 60 C? Please report back on the result.

Size 8: Red = 56 stitches, green = 18.5 cm, blue = bind off 4 stitches on each side, yellow = 20 cm, pink = as post above.

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Nice!

@Woody girl About 150 grams.

Wool for a thick sweater, make sure it can be fulled. Single knit and sorry, "column" should of course be "row", post edited.

Old denim sounds good, thank you!

Slippers like these are my favourite. Haven't put soles on them before but will sew on some kind of fabric this time to make them last longer.