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Project 180 A pair of four legged stools This was meant to be a matching pair... but thanks to an incompetent angle spotter "helping" me when I was drilling the leg holes one is very much asymmetric ... Ash tops, Rowan legs.

Project 180 A pair of four legged stools This was meant to be a matching pair... but thanks to an incompetent angle spotter "helping" me when I was drilling the leg holes one is very much asymmetric ... Ash tops, Rowan legs.

Hello and welcome! I like making gear :) I can literally spend a weekend in the woods wearing and using nothing that I have not made myself - from hat to shoes, tarp to stove via all my clothing, hammock, plates and bowls and billycans ... and now I am learning wood turning and Green Woodworking...

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Ah - the good old books get read to pieces! My wife works in a charity bookshop and they get a lot of trash books (eg 50 Shades of Grey) that get recycled before the spine shows any wear at all! Quality tells!

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Led Zepplin at the Foret National in Brussels - I was "hearing impaired" for days after.... And Steelye Span at the Mwldan in Cardigan. Wide range of musical tastes...

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Ah - mine was 100% cotton canvas...

I dyed a T3 using tea and coffee with good results.....

Your load depends on what you want to do, how you want to do it, when you want to do it and where you want to do it ... I have done weekend trips that only needed what I could fit into one cargo pocket and equally I have done weekend trips that needed a full van load of kit... Any fool can be...

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Powered - I am still not skilled enough for the pole lathe to turn out anything worth keeping! :)

Project 179 A nesting bowl set My first good bowl has just been joined by others to make a nesting bowl set.... all from Ash the two bowls that fit inside each other from the same round of wood...

Project 178 Saw Horse and Cleaving Break from cleft timber To service my growing delight in green woodworking I decided to build this saw horse and cleaving block from wood cleft with my new froe ... they both work OK but the next ones will be better... I then made a new mallet (broke the old...

For my permanent site - used about 6 weekends a year with up to 6 people at a time for two nights - I dig a trench and loo roll is burned and the ash and deposits are buried. Once the trench is full a new one is prepared. There are no water courses near-by. The land owner approves of the method...

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Project 177 Carving and/or chopping block I am having fun with wood! But to work wood you need a certain amount of kit and so decided to make a carving/chopping block from an old round of Oak and some lengths of Rowan I had around... The uneven original saw cut (plus a scrap of pine, screwed...

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The bowl is made from a random round of Ash ... basically re-purposed firewood - I still have the other, larger, "half" to play with for my next turning project :) This wood turning thing seems a bit addictive!