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cheers everyone , got to get on and make some sheaths now :dunno:....leather work's not my thing really.

Nice thanks for that.

I like that alot. Do you have a link to the tutorial you mentioned ?

At £299.50 I'd fully expect to be happy with it too :yikes:

Here's two knives I've just about finished over the weekend. Made from a set of garden shears .I'm not sure what metal that is but they make good knives. Handles are made from Tufnol.

Oh , I just remembered if you proceed as is with the knife you'll need to temper it in the oven. 220 celcius for one hour. Do this so if you drop it it won't shatter(basically it softens the steel a wee bit which is what you want). You can get drill bit that will drill holes through the file...

Wow , I likey :cool:

Quickest I ever woke up was in a fire......the girl friend at the time was a fan of those tea lights . it was alight and too close to a curtain....which caught fire. Very scary moment but I quickly put it out by grabbing the nearest thing which was a duvet and smothered it. Was a close shave...

That's not too bad that , your second and third knife will be better and you'll be able to see your improvements. Would be far easier next time to anneal the metal first though then do your heat treatment. Good work all the same.

I can only see a hat on a stick ! Am I doing something wrong ?

Well I enjoyed the program 'the good life' the first time around , but the thing that set us going (as in moved way up north) was 'start a new life in the country'. Now we live 6 miles from the nearest shops...and oiks ;) and rubbish etc.

I think i'd have bought it anyway and took the risk :D My first khukuri I bought at a boot sale , paid something like a tenner and it's a good user. Not pretty by any means though but good steel nontheless.

An excellent thread thanks to Shaggystu and toddy for the great info. goodjob

Jimmy fingers :lmao::lmao::lmao: It's Jimmy pockets......dunno yet Gazza says he'll be joining the forum.

Like the cooker would be good to see any developments you make.

Andy's wasn't a wheel by the way but if that's what your going for just place a piece of circular steel in the hole. Try using what ya got for now but don't go too thin (it'll burn through too quickly). ;)

I don't know about you Nags but that forge set up at Comrie is/was about as easy as it gets....very impressed with the simple enginuety (sp?) Hiya Chris , we'll have a meet-up sometime of that you can be sure.

Pictures ?

The make that comes to mind is Brother. I got one off ebay a couple of years ago , set me back £100 but it was a brother chinese clone. I looked in the local sewing shop and could find no differences. Have a looksee on ebay for industrial sewing machines.

The kilt is a mans garment , every man has a right to wear one if he chooses. There are kilt wearers all over the world let me tell you . Check out Xmarksthescot forum if you don't believe me. Think it like this.......you don't have to be a cowboy to wear blue jeans do you ? The only reason...