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Camp isn't properly set up until the first brew of tea is made ;) That having been said, omce the sun is over the yard-arm and the evening chill begins to decend, it simply has to be good Jamaican rum, and no shortage of it ! :)

SAK saws are great for parting the pelvis on muntjack and fallow. Makes butchering them, and removing the bladder+'pipework' intact from bucks easy. If you're careful about the way you use it, you can use the saw to cut poles/logs up to twice as thick as the saw is long without problems. I...

If you can find a local (to you) supplier of stuff for theatre use, or a friendly techie from a theatre or drama group, try asking for a little red 'gel' ;) Gels are the coloured filters used on theatrical lamps and will withstand a good amount of heat and hard-ish wear if you don't need...

Bless ! :lmao: Let's hope that some kind relative bought him a nice new Laplander for Xmas so he can deal with dead 3" "..some sort of local hardwood" properly next time :lmao:

Hi Toddy, 440 is a fairly typical stainless steel used for lower-cost blades. Not an especially good steel, but perfectly serviceable. The fact that it's advertised as "Toledo steel" is a throw-back thing. Toledo was the traditional 'home' of steel in Spain (Like Sheffield here) and was...

What type of sheath did your knife come with Mike? I have a couple of Vanguards that came with leather sheaths and to be honest I liked them so much I ended up copying them when I made my own sheath for one of the knives. There is a very slim ( I mean very slim) chance that I still have the...

The only punky wood I use is the dry,dead pith from within the trunk of a willow tree. It's often easy to get at as the trees split themselves open with age, and stays dry because it's protected from the weather in there. It works great as a coal extender but is usually all but impossible to...

I wish I could rep you for that mate. That's one of the best explanations of the reasoning behind the purchease of a quality tool that I've ever seen on-line. We think alike ;)

I'll revive this with a little of what I know on the matter as a lifelong angler and once time Head Bailiff for a fishing club.. Virtually any freshwater (coarse) fish, if not all, can be eaten.... if you're hungry enough ;) There are obviously some that are far better eating than others...

You could dry everything out in front of the fire ! :) No, hang on, there's a subtle flaw in that plan isn't there ? :lmao:

It's actually Stuart M's father in-law who makes the stamps. He can do them hardened (for stamping steel, i.e. knives before heat treat, or not so hardened and just perfect for stamping leather. He made me one for my leatherwork in the pattern of my avatar above and it's a beauty...

Having let my Full Membership lapse :sad6: I paid up again last evening, but I still don't appear to be a Full Member ?

I spoke with Richard Starkie of StarkieSharp this morning and ordered a few things for myself (Moot left me short of supplies :rolleyes: ) The StarkieSharp website is down temporarily at the moment, but will hopefully be up and running again in short order. In the meantime, Mr Starkie can be...

10 days :D For : Only one event for Tone and the guys and gals to organise. Opportunity for those who cannot make the whole duration to attend for shorter stays. Workshops spread across the days to allow better attendance. More time for bimbling and exploring in between workshops and...

I'd like to add my Good Lady (Sandy) to the list please. Don't know when she'll be able to take the workshop so I'll put her down as a 'floater' for the now. Thank you. Sunday Morning session Womble Mesquite Chas Brookes Stooboy RussT x 2 Twoflower (as he promised to bring his hang over...

Hi Mark, I find it best to sand the edges of any areas of multiple thicknesses of leather and to round off the corners of both multi layered sections and single layered sections with an edging tool (usually a #2 or a #3). Once I have them sanded down to about 800 grit wet-n-dry I...

No mate, but not too far up the road from you at Luton. I was on the Duke of Bedfords Estate at Woburn Abbey.

As the article suggests, these seem to be just a natural variation of the ordinary grey squirrel. Nothing new there, other than the numbers that seem to now be in evidence, perhaps due to the females prefering the black males as partners resulting in higher numbers of black squirrel births...

Aha ! *small dim lightbulb begins to glimmer in the dark recesses of my long forgotten, and oft unused brain* I can't see that the blade would need to be curved in the second plane as well as bent into a hook shape. As long as it's not too wide you'll be able to get it in, and around the bowl...

Sorry guys, should have up-dated my post earlier. CANOE, AND ALL SUNDRY ITEMS SOLD Apparently the system let me post the thread in the classifieds when it shouldn't have done, so now it won't let me edit my original post to show it as 'Sold'.