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I've only been to their 'new' big Axminster shop once and their old highstreet shop a few times, back in the day of those fabulous 20mm thick A4 catalogues! I've got a couple of of Dick catalogues (from before they became Dictum) and they are a similar thick porn mag with such nice prices

well that's a relief :) and that the Axminster store will still be open!

probably only turned into an angel because the idea of a throne was taken

Oh no! I've spent an awful lot of money with them over the years. For so long in fact that when I first went to their shop it was the only one and was on the high street in Axminster town centre. They had their wood stores some way down the road and around the corner, so if I wanted wood I had...

as an additional comment to my mentioning of the change of technique. I saw a video on socials a while ago of a Japanese carpenter being given a western saw to cut some joists with. Despite (apparently) many years in the trade, he struggled the same way with the idea of pushing to cut and it was...

I use both pull saws and push saws for carpentry, depending on the job. If it's a thin kerf I reach for my pull saws and for most other things I use a push saw. Partly it depends on how I am holding the workpiece too (if I'm holding it down with my knee or hand, then a push saw is much easier!)...

I think I've got some pre-warning label Golden Virginia tins if you are still in need :)

Looking good there! I do like a bit of hawthorn :) And I approve of the first use too

I had a kelly that wasn't used for a number of years and it tasted a little odd the first time (but it also had spiders living in there, so I was mostly trying to get them out!). I boiled it a few times with changes of water in between and it solved the problem. I suspect that your problem is...

Normally I would suggest Danish oil, but if you can't get boiled linseed then that is likely out. Tung, etc as suggested are often used for outdoor furniture too. In reality ANY oil will be better than nothing, though vegetable oils often go sticky until they dry and mineral oils often a bit...

I've not tried it (nor any intention to, I like my milk to mammalian and preferably bovine rather than starchy plant or nut juice pretending!) but I'm told there is a very good powdered oat milk out there. Apparently you can make your own too by grinding oats very finely too

I used to visit River Cottage quite a lot before it got quite so corporate, I even used to sharpen their knives in exchange for an evening meal for two. Hugh has several of my knives in his own kitchen and a number of the staff past and present do too :-)

I used to be an archaeologist, of the cold/hot-wet and muddy, dig up the dead variety. Then having been distracted during the early years of the whole bushcraft movement, I ended up getting into Experimental Archaeology for a spell. But some 20 odd years ago I set myself up as a knife maker...

I have a bit of a billtong/jerky habit, so have also been down the rabbit hole of making my own. I've made small amounts with a standard kitchen dehydrator, but it didn't last long. So I built a drying cupboard from an oil drum and an LPG pilot light from ebay. Lots of space to dry lots of meat...

Pleased to hear that you are enjoying it already! :) Thanks

I couldn't imagine living in a town either! That looks very similar to my daily walk to work, though I see more cows than bees

Welcome! I too am an experimental archaeologist, well I did the experimental Masters at Exeter 20 odd years ago :lmao: If you've not already done so, I suggest talking to Prof Linda Hurcombe, aside from running the Msc at Exeter she has an interest in prehistoric fibres.

tengu, if you think that's probably-useful-clutter never look in my sheds! I've probably a small warehouse's worth of stuff in various sheds around my woods! :lmao:

i experimented with the auger tapping myself, since I have a lot of mature birch trees and 15-17 years ago had the time to to that sort of thing. I tried dry wood and fresh wood, wax, plastic, and rubber bungs. The best success for survival was amongst the trees that I just left the holes open...

I remember when they were just a decent hardware/tool shop in the town of Axminster (Devon) :) One of my first visits to the shop (when they only had the one!) involved me rummaging through their wood store and then wandering around the town trying to find my way back to the actual shop with...