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My first workshop was a summer house when I was about 8 years old, so I've never had a workshop as small as yours (though I always feel that I don't have enough space!). I would see a 6x4ft shed as more of a large tool box/cupboard. There's not really enough space to have much in the way of tool...

odd coincidental timing here, I just sat down with a hot chocolate! Actually, it's hot chocolate wine, based on an 18th century recipe that a friend of mine has in one of his cook books. The recipe calls for fortified wine (sherry, port or sask) since french wine was often tricky to get hold of...

just as others said, they aren't an alternative to lots and lots of cold water, but I do use burn gels quite a bit in the workshop. I use them in the same way as Toddy suggests: to relieve the discomfort of a non-serious burn. Mostly because they all have a local anaesthetic in them ;) I...

There are a couple of ways to stop the edge hitting the brass, but you might have to look carefully to see if it does or not. The ones i sell don't touch, but my own does at one end (i cocked it up, hence keeping it!). It doesn't blunt the edge noticeably, certainly not as much as me using it to...

I've got a bunch in the works right now, but are a way down my pre-TORM to do list

mostly I have a 30 year old SAK (might be the executive model), one of the mid sized ones. It has tweezers, toothpick, scissors, electrical screwdriver and blades; basically everything that I need in a pinch and can't fetch a proper tool to do the job. I made a sheath to carry it horizontally on...

I always use Endicotts in Exeter (Kev posts stuff out and his website is very good too). I'm afraid I don't know of anywhere in your neck of the woods though (I used to use the Trading Post in Clacton when I lived there, but they closed about 15 years ago!)

As said already, RM will happily send knives if properly packaged; it's just the jobsworth in the post office that might get their info wrong. A lot of it stems from the fact that until recently the signs showing banned items used an image of a knife to illustrate weapons. My local PO has...

They should work fine as long as you press rather than hammer them. Lots of folk are using 3d printed stamps too these days tgat way

Eyed augers for sure ;) These are made from modern power auger bits, but reground and sharpened to work better under human power than they would otherwise, as well as putting a ring on the end of course I also make spoon augers in pretty much any size :D I'll drop you a pm drektly

hello there! :) I've got them in a few sizes these days, mostly in 150mm lengths (that's the drilling depth, so add a bit for the eye). I'll have a did around and see what I have, but I mostly stock 12mm, 16mm (sometimes), 20mm (or 19mm), 25mm and 32mm diameters I'll drop you a pm ;)

i rather like that. Nice job! :)

I would just apply a paste furniture wax over the top of the oil that you've used already. The oak is open grained and without coating it with something that will chip off, the best you can do is to give it a bit of glide ;) Some good old Briwax or other hardwax furniture polish (or osmo oil, a...

i've just had a thought about it too, but can't tell from the pictures. Is the underside of the front section still toothed or is it smooth? I ask because the end of the file looks like it may have been ground sharp like a chisel, or more accurately a scraper. It could be a home made engineering...

that's what I'd noticed too. I was given a half bottle years ago and aside from buying a small bottle on the net a little while after that, I've not tried very hard to find it

My local gunshop hadn't evem heard of balistol (mind you, they ard a pretty rubbish little shop!), but theh have Remington gun oil which is also pretty good though doughtful food safe. I've had balistol via the interweb in the past and it is goid, though i don't like the smell myself

i would think the bend mid length is because whoever made it needed to reach across a span before getting down into the spot to be filed ;)

Here is a modern float for woodworking. I've used similar for broaching the mouth of hand planes (truing up and widening the opening of a wooden plane where the blade goes), but luthiers and the like use them too...

Its a float or rifler, for filing into recesses. I've not seen one that large before, so could've been user-made/modified from a flat file. Woodworkers might use one to clean out a mortice and metalworkers for the bottom of a keyway, for example. Its one of those tools that you rarely need, but...

I was watching the pictures come up on farcebook whilst you were there. Made me more than a little envious of those that aren't cash and time poor like me! I shall just have to explore the world vicariously through you instead!