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  1. John Fenna

    Introduction, hello from the U.K

    Hello and welcome!
  2. John Fenna

    Introduction

    Hello and welcome!
  3. John Fenna

    New to the forum - Hello!

    Hello and welcome!
  4. John Fenna

    Newbie introduction

    Hello and welcome!
  5. John Fenna

    Greetings from the Cairngorms

    Hello and welcome!
  6. John Fenna

    My Covid-19 and later projects

    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.
  7. John Fenna

    My Covid-19 and later projects

    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.
  8. John Fenna

    Hello from the state of North Carolina!

    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...
  9. John Fenna

    Thanks for letting me join

    Hello and welcome!
  10. John Fenna

    A Long (re)Introduction

    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!
  11. John Fenna

    A Long (re)Introduction

    Welcome back!
  12. John Fenna

    Best Concerts Youve Ever Been Too

    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...
  13. John Fenna

    Farm Boy.

    Hello and welcome!
  14. John Fenna

    Dyeing a Tilley Wanderer T3?

    Ah - mine was 100% cotton canvas...
  15. John Fenna

    Dyeing a Tilley Wanderer T3?

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

    Am I carrying too much gear.

    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...
  17. John Fenna

    My Covid-19 and later projects

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

    My Covid-19 and later projects

    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...
  19. John Fenna

    My Covid-19 and later projects

    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...