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The worst accident I suffered when alone was a dislocated right knee/torn muscles and ligaments - when half way through a Land's End to John O'Groats attempt ... I strapped myself up and had to complete a 15 mile hike with full pack to reach civilization ... Saw a GP the next day who diagnosed a...

To the tune "That's Amore" If it is shiny and bright And the grip is just right That's a Mora If it is a Scandi grind And the sheath is just fine That's a Mora If it stabs in your thigh And you bleed out and die That's A MORA! Sorry ...

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I am almost ready to roll! First thing on Monday morning I will be hitting the road to the Moot - pausing on the way only to buy my fresh foods ... so who else will be there? As per normal I will be trying to raise money for Ty Hafan Childrens Hospice , so please thing generously :) I hope to...

I managed to stab myself in the left palm whilst re-profiling a blade (too tired to do the job really) patched myself up and healed in 3 days .... very sharp knife so a clean wound! Saw a student badly slice a finger ignoring instruction on how to draw a Mora from it's sheath - hospital job to...

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Many thanks! I drew up the pattern myself, so adjusting it was easy, I just looked at pictures of the original smock and applied the styling to my basic block. I went to art college just to learn pattern cutting and came away with an OND in Fashion Design and did a bit of design work for...

Some seriously good looking kit there! I too do a fair bit of sewing my own kit and my favourite jacket design is based on the old SAS smock - but with a full front zip - 1960's model I think ... I have made it in several different fabrics but my favourite is Ventile - but that one is wearing...

Got myself a set of carbide tipped wood turning tools and a "bowl polisher" - I am really getting into this wood turning thing (see my "Covid and later projects thread!)... tomorrow I try them out both on a power lathe and a pole lathe ...

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I just wandered up into the woods I have a semi permanent site - and found one of the local young foxes is a bushcrafter! As I wandered around the back of my usual pitch, I heard a crackle of vegetation and as I looked toward the sound I spotted the cub :) He looked at me - I looked at him...

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Project 182 Champion the Lumber Horse Not my name - it is the designer' name for this flat bed shaving horse - honest! 4 x 8' lengths of 2x4inch treated lumber lots of screws and some scrap for the foot bar and bed, plus a Hazel pivot rail. My collection of tools and equipment grows ... soon...

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Project 181 Spoon knife Blade from 01 steel, ground on a linisher jig then heated in a forge and bent around an old pipe and water quenched ...tempered to "straw" colour in a domestic over and quenched in engine oil. Now all I have to do is sharpen it and carve a spoon!

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The Peltonen knives are my "go to" ... at the moment ...

I have just selected the wood for a future project - a coffee table for home - and the grain patterns in that put the stools to shame ... watch this space! A couple of things to finish before I get onto that one though :)