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The nice ones were made for when they dressed up for special occasions like market and church visits, weddings and such. Working knives were much planer. Today most are made by artists, and very ornamental. One wood that in fact was never used was curly birch ( masur birch) as the only two...

We did a lot of cr@p like that. Once we ended up in a left wing newspaper, front page. Aaah, the teenage years! Today, I am just happy sitting under a mango tree, polishing bits of metal to my binoculars, or working with wood. With a cup of Decaf coffee..... @Kepis , I will copy that...

TLM, I have tried to self combust cotton rags + flax oil, Cotton fiber + flax oil. Even blew some pure O2 on. Did not make it burn. Then I applied a spark from an( empty of gas) BIC lighter. Together with the O2 gas - spectacular! Almost as nice as placing a tea candle behind a Gasol bottle...

RV, try butter wood oiling and see what you think. Mr Charles Law maybe had a cook and never ventured into the cook house? :)

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High enough so you can sit in it and the feet touch ground? ( I only use a hammock in the garden. One of those multicolored jobbies. Strung up between two Mango trees. People think Coconut palms are ideal, but a falling coconut, even a small one, can kill you)

Different countries, different customs! Wonderful! Weirdly enough, I do enjoy Marmite. Must be only a handful of Scandihooligans that do that.. but my tastebuds are not refined enough to taste the difference, or have a preference between Vegemite and Marmite. Even Bovril is OK. ( yes, I am...

Traditionally they used half tanned reindeer leather, did the twisting etc in the wet stage. IMO nicer than a metal D-ring. Still very, very strong. I have seen in museums sheaths (Saame work) made from untanned leather, and the hanging part looked like dry tendon. 1800' stuff. But they...

Fantastic! So you did everything, including the tanning? Which technique?

How many kilos do you estimate you will fill it with?

Had some rain last night, which should not happen. A bit windy and chilly today. Blue skies and sunny though, so no gardening or being outside after work!

Ah. We do not mix. We use spoons or similar for jams. I guess you are used to the added flavour on the butter knife, as Juniper is not as common? Marmite. Will not that flavour really soak in? Marmite is an interesting preparation.

Juniper is used because the wood is ‘oily’ so does not absorb the fat from the butter. The butter fat goes rank quickly. I think oiling your birch knife using flax oil meant for cooking should be fine. It is a nice design, your butter knife!

Nice. Those bits of multicolored fabric, what are they for? :)

A sinkhole can also happen because of an earthquake. The wet, ‘solid’ ground turns to liquid. Think tixotropic paint. It is called liquefaction. We get it after earthquakes.

Weird how everything has to have a name these days.. Not only that, it seems we need to be able to choose from dozens of brands, each with dozens of models ( each with a catchy name! ) Ant the name / expression ‘knife’ is not enough. Puukko. Seax. Scrama. Knife. You need one knife. Learn to...

Remember, in worst case, you have a spare kidney! :)

For sure NHS will have to foot the bill. So does the Swedish and Norwegian 'NHS' when a Brit breaks his bones skiing. It works both ways. No doctor, dentist, hospital or ambulance service in Europe will refuse a patient. Professional Ethics. Guys and girls, if you break a leg when skiing...

Good Luck and an uneventful recovery! ( have a calcified area plus a cyst on my left kidney, both well monitored)

Marttiini make great knives. Be careful if you buy a model with the varnished handle. A bit slippery is sweaty or wet. Sandpaper and BLO fixes it well though.