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My surname Arnold is an ancient one, it is a combination of the Germanic words for eagle and power, lamentation of the women notwithstanding.

I don't know anything about Thornwood forge at all, I am not promoting Alex from Hammer and Hound Forge because I got a discount or anything but because I like his work.

Somehow I guessed that would be Maen Llia. It is atmospheric to say the least.

I don't know about you, but I have seen Dave Budd's work in the flesh as it were and Hamish who was mentioned in another post I have seen on Etsy so essentially I agree there are alternative channels out there.

They do have a better weight to edge ratio too.

Wilkinson sword double aged razor blade back in the 1970s when I started shaving :) I have had many knives that start out sharp but don't stay so so it is a bit of nuanced question, it is all about your ability to maintain a blade really and I confess that I am not very good at it.

I have noticed recently that a lot of them seem to come from French numbers, I answer them in French that puts them off, I am not sure that French is taught much as a second language in the Indian sub continent where the accent betrays the scammer to come from.

I have a Fiskars axe beaten to buggery it is well nicked and chipped but it has no style, the thing is I am in a position to afford a custom axe now so why shouldn't I?

Not the best of pictures but will have to do, the haft of the big one is still a work in progress https://photos.app.goo.gl/WyKkwvAordHquUjt5

I can remember a good few and then some years back pouring scorn on expensive blades like Ray Mears knives and Gransfors Bruks axes but here I am a decade and some later forking out good money for custom blades. Now I still reckon Gransfors and co are a racket, but I have just forked out £170...

I have made one or two flutes, flutes are one thing whistles another. I once had a conversation with Bernard Overton, who pretty much invented the low whistle and I asked him to make me a flute, he said that he could not do that because he did not know how, so I made one for myself, as for...

Yep I am older generation now and feel justified in making comments about the kids of today, I figure though that compared to my parents generation experiencing the depression and the war, we never had it so good, to quote a certain Prime Minister :)

Definitely, I have been going on brisk morning walks with the temperature around 12 to 14 degrees and I have not yet had to put a second layer on yet although for some reason when I go out in the evening the temperature may be the same but it feels much cooler. I guess the difference is that in...

You are not wrong I would not be posting here if the Darwin awards had have claimed me.

yes but that is an entirely different situation and of course I would have dry clothing in such a case.

FWIW I am not being irresponsible as to what you should wear for hill walking or exposed areas, the sensible prepper says have something dry to change into as soon as the opportunity presents. The physiological calculus says as long as you can produce heat to a greater extent than you are losing it.

Reading the various threads about waterproofs got me just now to be thinking the whys and the wherefores with regard to "bushcraft" not to be confused with hiking. Today I was working in my little woodland clearing brambles wearing a pair of polycotton trousers and a T shirt. I got caught in a...

I think that is Dutch if I am not mistaken a good find.

Best thing to do is ignore that and let it act like it was always supposed to, proofing it defeats the very object of ventile. It is the weave just as it was with gaberdine and tent canvas. The Keela smock has an artificial inner layer so you really should not worry about the outer, it is the...

I am still wearing mine, I have had to do some minor repairs to tears and the cuffs are now reinforced with suede but it is still as functional as it ever was.