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Hi Just been looking at The British Museum website and the have currently an online exhibition running called Arctic Culture and Climate which looks at how indigenous peoples cope with the Arctic Worth a look Stay safe Gary

It’s all ergonomics- we have to fit stuff round people to be comfortable!

Hey Interestingly I used to lay hedges too The measurement is actually at your finger tips Put your first stake in the hedge put your elbow against the first stake and hold the next stake in the same hand , as you drive it into the hedge that’s a cubit spacing the two stakes two I f these make...

I do similar but make my own Get a big ordinary plaster and cut a slit through the sticky bit bout half way across up to the dressing bit you then have 4 sticky tails which wrap round a knuckle or finger tip very nice Then if needed a wrap of tape - any tape !

Hey Richard Don’t have any drawings it was all developed as I went along I will post some more photos soon to give some detail Gary

The videos are worth a watch I have some of bens knives for carving and really Like them He’s done a lot of work to promote craft and build his and Lois’s business Wish him and Lois well

Hi Mesquite Nowt so clever, the shave horse mechanism has a bolt through it to lock it all off , then you place your feet inside the two nearly vertical arms and press outwards which moves the jaws together with about a 20:1 mechanical advantage so you can put a whole lot of pressure on the...

Hi Everyone Hope your all well Not posted for a while - I was hospitalised with Covid 19 got over that and 6 weeks later my appendix burst , back in hospital for emergency surgery- so I’m limited to stuff I can do at home (like most of us I guess) so had a go at making a spoon mule attachment...

Thank you for your kind words There is a larger more animated Groot in the pipeline not bush craft but using good knife skills Pictures to follow in a while Gary

Hi Everyone hope your all well So my post Covid list goes something like this 1 catch covid 2 Spend 10 days in hospital on oxygen 3 Learn to breathe again ! 4 Buy new knife (see above ) 5 Whittle new porridge spoon (left handed) 6 Whittle a baby “Groot” character for granddaughter So it’s...

Thanks for the comments They’re all carved from Lime painted with acrylics and finished with linseed oil with some burnt umber oil paint as an antique finish The Santa’s are similar to those we carved at the bushmoot (for those that were there!) Happy new year Gary

Hey Long time no posts Just a few bits I’ve carved for friends and family for Christmas Hope you all have a fine festive season and a great bushy new year Gary

Great work I love joints that are pinned with tenons without metal fixings Gary

Hi Bit of an amalgamation but it does allow me to disassemble quickly etc etc

My wife would say the bloke driving it is eccentric enough

Hi folks Well the pole lathe is finished (took a bit longer than I had expected) something called the “bushmoot” got in the way And I’ve turned my first item....... ..... it’s a garden dibber from sycamore graduated in inches or units of 25.4mm if you prefer any way my wife loves it . I...

Hi Janne I used really green wood a piece of branch wood about the right diameter The important bit is the hole which needs to be about half the diameter of the branch this spreads the stresses at the end of the cut stopping it splitting further with the grain running straight along the piece...

Hmmmm Lavazza with you on that ! Thank you

And what is a pity about the coffee prey tell

Hi guys Quick whittle straight out of Barn the Spoons new book “Woodcraft” simple little clip / peg from a piece of Acer about 25mm dia and 100 mm long just right for a bag of coffee beans and probably better than a bit of plastic Whaddya think ? Gary