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This. Totally this. Focusing on the wider elements of "bushcraft" not just knives. A knife is one tool amongst many.... and not always the most useful for a job. My Fiskars bushhook, my old vintage kindling splitter, my craft-orientated knives see just as much use if not more. And if I use a...

Why don't you take a look at Dave Budd's site, and drop him a note? This is the sort of thing he makes: https://www.davebudd.com/axes-adzes-saws He makes really great tools, and of course is a long-standing member and mod on this forum. I don't (yet) have one of his axes, but I have a knife...

Thinking out of the box here.... the website indicates that the Bushcraft Store is one of their event sponsors, so maybe contacting them to get a more reliable contact...... ..... if they are an event sponsor (and trader) chances are they place advertising in the mag, so one would expect they...

At the time we looked at a number of options, but our proven useful work always lost out to those who were better at selling unicorns....... then my IT mate moved onto other things and I was on my own, a microbusiness and couldn't risk losing the (returning) day job work. The market was...

There's also some you-tube videos using cathodic rust removal (electrochemical methods). I haven't tried it, but it looked interesting. (Was looking at ways to remove rust from old tools without changing the metal temper through overheating from abrasive methods, and I fell down an...

The ex-Housing minister was a typical urban policitian, and IMO it's an urban vs country thing not a north-south thing. She also came over as a typical labourite who doesn't care where food comes from so long as it's cheap, and who regarded country folk as rich toffs to be squeezed and looked...

Well I finally cleared the stream overflows...... I ran out of time on Saturday, and we had, ah, a wee bit of rain yesterday..... over an inch in a couple of hours, maybe more. The stream came up as high as I've seen it since the storms of last February, the makeshift "diversion dam" I cobbled...

Shortened a couple of sets of curtains. They are fully lined so it was a bit of a faff. GC

Indeed. I am glad it's not just me that dreads wrestling with the duvet cover! I have my extra quite on top of the bed now, but at some point I will need to extract my winter duvet from its storage case under the bed (It's a M&S duvet, and they rather helpfully supplied it in a zipped case...

Yeah, Flexcut tool ssre still sharp. My carving tools are the sharpest I have. Next after that, my Woodjewel puukkos. Close to carving sharp out the box. GC

I am not burning lignite coal or peat. The "lignite briquettes" are not actually lignite coal...... they are manufactured from wood waste and they are a low-tar, low sulphur fuel for use in woodburners/multifuel stoves. Here is the stuff...

It's that time of year again. The nights are getting chillier, last night we lit the log burner in the sitting room for the first time this year. Only for a couple of hours, but still. We have had the (mains gas) central heating on for an hour a couple of times this week too. Today I had my...

One can choose to use a lower impact washing up liquid such as Ecover. It's more difficult to get products which are similarly lower-impact for dishwashers, as they need extra substances to compensate for the lack of mechanical washing actions. Also..... I wouldn't use the description...

Really good video that @British Red There's a chap with a field over the road keeps emus (and has a feral cat- Rat Girl), and just down the hill someone has chickens. So useful tips. The anti rodent spray for wiring and the caulk looks interesting. GC

Following on from a thread in the Homestead forum..... Do we coddle kids too much? I guess it s a bit wider than that, and more about trying to pack kids (and young adults) in cotton wool so they never experience any "bad things" whether that be a hurty word, experience of nature red in tooth...

No, not at all petulent, and I totally understand the frustration. You are not insensitive, just practical. But unfortunately there's a bunch of people out there on t'internet who are over sensitive, and who have led charmed lives with no real hardship- so manage to find something to make them...

Take out of the boots as much as you can- insoles usually removable- and open right up with laces out. Stuff with newspaper and leave in a dry place (ideally indoors) for a few/several days, just keep changing the newspaper every so often. They will dry eventually, and drying slowly reduces...

It's a difficult situaiton to manage online. @Woody girl : I don't disagree with what you say. However...... ........this is a forum with public access, and these days a proportion of the public are looking out for ways to be offended. This is the challenging world that Tony and the other...

Indeed. Many, many years ago, I was privledged enough to be involved in the wedding of a good friend of Indian subcontinental extraction. She took me shopping in London with her when she was selecting her wedding (dowry) jewelry. Along the way, she explained a lot about how it all works...

It's naturally OK so long as you don't leave it out in the rain for more than a few hours, I made it with all brown (bark on) willow for this reason. Bear in mind that brown willow is soaked for days in a tank of water to make it pliable for weaving. Whereas buff (bark off) willow soaks for half...