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I don't carry anything with me in my daily life. So my EDC is a pair of hands really. All my tools stay either in the tool box drawers or garden shed. And when I do a particular work, the necessary tools are taken out to be used. Storing the tools in the old wooden garden shed proved to be...

A few strops to the leather, the Opinel was hair shaving sharp. A great classic utility tool around the house and in the garden.

B/Bury Multi Tool and Opinel No.8 both from Amazon. The B/Bury MT is a budget Chinese clone of LM Surge, but surprisingly a good tool, solidly made and working great. I sold all my Opinels in the past, and missed them for whittling and light carving works. Ended up buying a new one, and felt...

My DIY project back in 2009 - a bushcraft blade from recycled vintage sawblade. The wooden handle had been put on at the time, but after having been stored in the garden shed for 10++ years, the wood had gone bad with the damp, disintegrated from the blade and fallen off. Will just wrap around...

Or maybe there are a lot more complicated situation with the issue. I was not aware of them. I read more about the situation, and realise that there could be mammoth amount of uncertainties, grey areas and red tapes and grape vine stories. I think I have been lucky with my purchases so far...

I got this a few days ago from the forum, and it is now my one of the favorite blade for wood processing. Due to the hollow aluminium handle, the knife feels feather light giving excellent grip and balance. The leather sheath is 1st class well made by the Italian workmanship, and the blade is...

Mine was £1.50 per a pack. Works well. At first I was worried on its possible toxicity, but it seems OK. There was no bad smell at all while the wood logs were burning in the stove.

Yes, it says it contains kerosine in the lighter. (in very small print)

Have been buying long billhook, and grass sickles from eBay and Amazon this year. No problems with ageVerification or anything at all. RM delivered them with super reliability and no problems. I am still not understanding what they are trying to do. Why try to ban work tools? The whole...

If it is, it sounds organic. Maybe the wood ashes can be put down to the soil for the plants.

No, it doesn't have a cleaning access at the chimney. It is a simple basic chimney, but installs and comes off fast and easy, no leaks of smokes, and 127mm diameter, which seems efficient so far. It is a bit fragile due to thin metal structure. Yeah, no probs. Take time, and whenever you...

Yeah, I forgot to film the firelighter. It was tossed into somewhere in the shed. I will try to remember next time going into the shed, and take a photo of it, and upload here. I found it very effect firelighter. It would light fire to wet woods no problem. It smelt like paraffin actually...

I have been using mainly Bosch garden and power tools for years, but this year I bought some nameless 21V Li-On clone power tools from Amazon for their lower price. They definitely lack the power of Bosch, but still are doing the job OK without breaking or going dead.

Moras get to the original sharpness just by stropping on the leather for a few minutes, unless suffered some unusual damage on the edge. No need to use any stones or other sharpers into Moras for sharpening. And Moras are the work tools which don't need to be immaculate in the looks. The...

Picked up a BBQ Fire starter from Azda over the weekend. It was only £1.50 for a packet, and looks like white chocolate board, which snaps off into a bar of bits in adult finger size. It worked really well. By just one lighting on it with some twigs around, it started fire no problem. I am...

Just registered to https://edgematters.uk/ I was unaware of this site for all this time, but it looks cool. See yous there too.

My garden shed is very damp, and all the stored woods in it go bad in 10+ years of time.

Now I prefer some sort of non-wooden handles for my knives and tools. Because, the wooden handled knives and tools I stored in the garden shed for 10+ years have gone bad due to the dampness. Some wooden handles fallen apart or detached from the blades. I must now look into rehandling them...

It arrived this afternoon. Took it out to the garden, and did some chopping test using the holly tree logs. It did great job. The saw back worked great too. Really liked the feel and balance of the blade thanks to the forged aluminium handle. It was still paper shredding sharp after all...

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