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I hadn't come across a hardtack cutter before, so stuck the name into google and looked at the images thrown up. Lots of simple ideas there, including one that is made by taking a square (with rounded corners) of wood, nailing a strip of metal (a tin can would work) around the outside and a...

In that case, I suggest you never visit my workshop and look at the tools I use every day! :D lol Same goes for the whole 'tidy space, tidy mind' attitude to a workspace. I clear up enough to work and not be a safety hazard; I only go to any extra effort when I'm teaching (I need more space...

People (especially on or thanks to the the internet) get too precious over axes and how the wedges look. To me even the finest handmade axe is still just a tool and if it needs a load of ugly extras added to make it work, then it saves me replacing or totally repairing it for that much longer...

with them in, but to be honest, once all of the oil is out of the chilis it doesn't get any hotter. The flavour does change though

I've not made any in several years. But i think i still have some left

Come on people, this is a real deal! If nobody takes it soon, i'm going to have to drive further than i have in over a year, go to the next county over and have it all myself!

I'll certainly be there (as will my old man I should think!) :)

Chances are that if there is no hole in the socket for a pin, then it isn't designed to have a wooden handle at all and the socket is in fact the handle. You could fit one happily with good epoxy, but a pin is easier.

Belt grinders as people think of them these days are quite new in the uk. I had been a full time knife maker for over 5 years before i got one. Before that i used various belt/disc sanders for woodwrking (the 100x915mm things). They are rubbish, but i got very good with an angle grinder and...

bank transfer just gives you a discount ;)

it is worth asking them about the tarred stuff in the link. Dan is a proper craftsman in his own right and can give you better advice and details than he has on the website ;)

how about asking Dan at 'traditional materials'? He has various twines listed on his website, but might be worth giving him a bell :) http://www.traditionalmaterials.co.uk/html/ropestwinethread.php

You can actually get rucksack style bow bags that have extra pockets and stuff that you can fill with bushcraft gear

people clean their SAKs! Who knew? I think I gave one of mine a rinse after it got covered in the guts of a deer once! :lmao: :lmao:

I think just sling them into the scrap bin mate. If you've had them kicking around that long, then you are never likely to need them! I use a lot of screws, bolts, nails and other fixings and the ones that have come with furniture and stuff, as free gifts (multipacks like those from...

Granted I tend to make mine, but whenever I do buy ready made axe (or other tool handles) I go to a local hardware store or agricultural supplier. Like the others have said, you can inspect the handle yourself to ensure straightness/grain/size are correct or to your liking. Most of them these...

as soon as I saw the picture of the braided strap I knew the text would say that it was loose. Of course it was loose, those braids almost double in length when stretched out! :lmao: Not the right thing to put on a retaining strap! Even if you are able to re-plait it, it will never be...

And yet they are not seen in shops, museums or books of old tools? Ive only ever seen pictures of those made by that chap or a couple of home made efforts that didnt work.

Ive been asked to make them for people in the US, but they would be silly expensive. The tube has to be slightly tapered like a tine cutter and the tube would need to be thicker and tougher than off the shelf pipe (the bloke that makes them in the US turns them from billets of tool steel)...

I've been giving the idea a little more thought too. The easiest way to make it from solid would be to bore out the handle portion and then either grind or forge the blade end. If i were to make it from two sections, then the pipe could be forge welded (which is how i often make spear heads)...