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You might have seen that I recently moved on a 1950’s butcher’s knife. I didn’t sharpen it but if I had I would have used a sharpening steel as would its original owner. I use a sharpening steel on my kitchen knives and on the big carving knife. Opinel recommend a sharpening steel for their...

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After discussion here and a little information from Taylor Eye Witness - were I to keep it, I would probably thump the cutler’s rivets back into place and leave the patina and the chipped rosewood handle as they are. I might then intend to use it but I probably wouldn’t. My current all...

@mrmike and @Tengu (in another thread) have suggested fruit/Dundee cake. I was serious in my suggestion of pork pie. We are talking keeping going, not lifestyle so a tin of Dundee cake and suet pastry pork pie would do it for me.

Flares smoke quite adequately to be spotted by helicopters. The RNLA use a single flare type - simultaneous flare and smoke - in their dry suits. That’s what I carried Edited to add: No fire danger at all. You hold them in your hand until they are exhausted. You sometimes see them misused...

When I asked here if anyone carried flares (sometime last year) the idea was 100% rejected but that didn’t stop me buying a pair :lmao:

If you are going to run courses in anything please learn to teach first.

Yeah. I looked at an illustration. 198 was spot on! Too good to be true. It’s got a 8 - 10mm flange. The Kelly Kettle wouldn’t fit. Pity because your pot is good value.

I have heard this so often from employers. I deeply regretted the merger of universities with the polytechnics but by the time it happened it was too late. Polys were by that time offering Masters Degrees and Universities were attempting vocational training. They’d eroded this specific...

Can you tell me what is the internal diameter? I’m looking for something that a big KK can fit into and still fits in the bag.

How large is the repair? What do you lose if the repair area isn’t breathable but the rest remains so? Can you sew and proof a repair?

I don’t think that they are made to accommodate a Y chromosome! :lmao:

The world is ahead of us all!

…….. but why isn’t it affecting a compass? I’d try to polish a surface to be sure.

Yes but it’s got to be the camo on trend!!! Would you want to be seen in 95 pattern THIS SPRING??? I think not!

I’m trying to remember the name of aTV programme that looked at the bee population visiting three different gardens: One formal and somewhat sterile layout. One planted with mixed annuals, perennials and shrubs. The third was just left wild. ?Surprisingly? It was the mixed planting that...

That’s a kind offer @Broch. Let me think about it a little. You guys have sort of sold me my own knife but I think it will just become a drawer queen. I’ve written to Taylor for information. Let’s see what they say. Give me a little space and I’ll consider.

Breaker 1-9 You are also going to need a handle :lmao: Iron Lady has been taken! You’ll be the first Iron Age breaker in the world of breaking. 10.20 is your location but I don’t think that there is a 10. Code for the Century that you are in.

I’m inclined to agree. Problem is that I cannot be (insert past participle of choice) -ed to go through shaping and heat treating a lump of metal when junk shops are full of it ready to use. If I keep it or restore it then I’ll have a fixed blade knife that I’ll never use. It’s had a hard...

I’m certain that it pre-dates stainless steel. I can’t imagine that it is anything special but it is an effective looking knife. Thus far I haven’t even tried to sharpen it. I am confident in the manufacturer even though it’s a mass produced item.