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My most used tools are a set of four chip carving knives from Proops Bros in Sheffield. https://www.proopsbrothers.com/index.asp?function=search ( Type “Chip Carving” into the search ) Cheap, decent steel and easy to sharpen. Not the “best” or fanciest, certainly not the most expensive tools...

A bit too small for that I think. There was a pack of very good sail needles, a turned needle case and what appears to be a belaying pin.

A seam rubber was the only thing I came up with. The other thing it could be used for is wrapping line around for extra tension when whipping a rope end, but I usually do that with a Marlin Spike.

I picked up a lot of sail making needles and a needle case from eBay and they came with this oddity at the bottom of the picture. No guarantee that it is connected but everything else in the lot seemed spot on. The Navy Marlin Spike is just for scale. Anyone recognise it?

I shan't be going this year but thoughts are drifting back to my Arctic Trips

I’ll have to dig it out again. :lmao:

The Wayland figure was this years Moot project Tony

Beard and long hair I guess. Most of us re-enactors resemble each other at a distance.

That is my hope.

Sad news indeed. Last saw him at the Bushmoot and as always he had time for one and all. A great loss.

It is still my hammock of choice when just using a tarp. Good bit of kit.

I usually use Rustins wood dyes. Dark Oak or something like that.

I think this page on my web site describes my journey into wood carving best: The Wayland Kista

I’ve collected a few from all sorts of places. Most are usually described as chip carving knives but I find the shapes useful.

Always preferred good Cider to beer but partial to a good Merlot or Mead as well.

I hope so. The intention is to have them as small God figures to go with the cloak that Debs is working on for story telling. The more visual elements we can provide will add multi sensory depth to the sessions we run in schools.

I’m not great on wood ID but I think Thor and Wayland are linden/lime. The Valkyrie is Bay from an overgrown tree in our yard and I have no idea what Odin was but it is light. I generally use a dark wood stain and then follow up with Fiddes Jacobean Oak furniture wax.

I used to mutter about not being able to work with wood. I used to think that as a Metal botherer I lacked the different mindset needed for wood. Generally you can beat a price of metal into submission but wood requires a more collaborative approach in my opinion. Anyway, a few projects ago I...

I still pop my head in but rarely post these days so mea culpa. Over the last twenty years my fitness has declined somewhat. I don’t get out as much as I used to and the nature of my interest in camping has changed as well. My photography has become more studio based so not out in the...

We do try...