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Looking good, but don't drop it on your toes!(pic 2)

Rowan's non-toxic and sauce can be made from the berries, if memory serves.

Hey, as part of their festival of the tree from August 18th-25th Westonbirt Arboretum are having a woodcraft exhibition from the 22nd-25th (this coming weekend). Here's the description from their website: "‘Woodcraft Exhibition’ from Friday 22nd to Monday 25th This woodcraft exhibition...

Is the visitor a horned toad? (I know it's a lizard but I think that's the common name for them.) And if so, am I right in thinking those are the ones that can squirt blood from their eyes? Lovely bushete!

Really lovely stuff, I had a dream last night I'd found a huge sheet of birch bark. So sad it was just a dream.

Treadle lathe? Old-school sanding belt?

I'd second the opinel recommendation-cuts very well and has a lovely wooden handle (which is what I was searching for primarily).

I really enjoyed that, cheers for posting. My opinion of him has soared after hearing he likes the "Porky's" films :lmao: .

That's really something else Robin, beautiful shape to it, interesting style too (the seat plank extending beyond the arms), is that something you made up? Excellent stuff!

I love slow worms, I've only ever seen one once but I think they're great. My brother used to see them in the garden of my house some years before I was born, but never after (my rugged charm must have intimidated them!). Great golden colour on the juveniles in that pic.

Nicely done, I've used these as wasp traps when I was younger by putting jam/honey/other sugary solution in the bottom section. Wasp goes down the funnel for the sweet stuff and can't get back out. Not the fairest way of getting rid of wasps but it was very effective. Didn't ever think that...

I really like that, very pleasing shape to it. If I recall correctly, bananas don't grow on proper trees, but on big plants (the largest herbaceous plants, according to Wikipedia). So I guess it's called banana wood for different reasons. Mike

Haha, no secrets there. In fact I was the least successful person on the course, I was so slow I had to take mine home and finish it the next day :P

As all these chair threads are going around, it seems like a good time to show this one: Made it on a day course two saturdays back. It's composed of around 32 hazel spars of different sizes and 60-70 annular nails. Wish I'd given it a sturdier back but it does take my weight (it's my new...

I've never used a mini but I can definitely vouch for the wildlife hatchet as a great spoon making tool (I was making a spoon with one twenty minutes ago). I also think the extra weight would be a bonus for this light camping use you mention, I split a lot of small rounds of wood with mine.