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Here's one tip I came across in a sailmaking book. A really great alternative to the pre-waxed polyester thread used with the Speedy Stitcher, is to get ones hands on a half fathom of 14mm diam. 3 strand polyester rope as source material and strip the whole thing down to the sewing thickness...

By accident and as a puppy, our Lab got shut into the garage for a half hour and ate most of the clip-on accessories of the vacuum cleaner, which was dead easy for him, having already digested most of the kitchen floor covering. Ceeg

Ships binnacles were fitted with soft Iron spheres each side of the mag compass, unless it was an aircraft carrier, which usually had just 1. Maybe possible to find from a Nauticalia/Junk store. Ceeg

I do the wire splicing for 2 locally based Historic ships, nobody seems to have the know how, anyway, the strands tend to flick back and savage my wool shirts, that and getting tar over my clobber.

Ah that makes a lot of sense, I just did mine likewise, thanks for info Ceeg

Hi, R.V. Reference Pockets on the inside of the apron , is that so as not to foul the workpiece ? Regards Ceeg

Or...you could bin the stitching altogether and use a large, slack handful of round headed,copper-effect upholstery nails. Made one for a mates old hickory, four parallel rows of 'em, down the back edge. Looked fantastic with a triangle hole for carry inboard of a belt. Weighed a ton! Ceeg

For the two loose ends, I can only speak of my own ways of joining up the sections. It really depends on the type of sheath...f'instance the only way of sewing a leather upper to a wooden lower, is to mark out the stitches and literally haul the two edges together. Same thing applies with a...

Charming. I have never before seen anything quite like that. Is it some modified form of sword matting? I am all ears. Ceeg

My wife is resolved to changing the colour of a hardly worn, but treasured jumper, from off white, to an assertive shade of violet. Never having done anything like this before, she has ordered some Dylon dye. "It's got salts in it and you just chuck it in the machine", apparently . Anyone...

It's done for the reasons just as the fellah's say. Personally, I boil up a tall tin and just dip the item for 3 or 4 seconds, having learnt the hard way that any more dipping time than this,will tend to bring in some pretty dramatic amounts of shrinkage. I found it best to hang the item on a...

Ref that finger-guard. I had to dock the end, a few mm, having found that due to a bit of shrinkage, it wouldn't fit into a hot-waxed dipped sheath. Ceeg

If your rope is a double-braid construction, then, for practical purposes it's as well to be aware that once it has been subjected to any sort of significant loading, it is almost impossibly difficult to make a good job of re-splicing it. Been there, tried it many times, with many types of...

Howaay, divn't haud yer breath for folk getting shot of one. Ceeg

Have met him a couple of times at the WG ( going back a bit).....if time had allowed ,I could've easily spent the next week or five , just listening and learning Ceeg

The image http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlar...aking-Tool.jpg, referred by Janne, has come to my mind very often. There was always something about it that I never could quite grasp, always on the tip of my tongue, as it were. Today I was using a 5 inch long serving stick, a three holed gadget...

That's the one, Alan 13~7 Ceeg

I remember my Gran doing her Monday laundry , part of which was a pot-bellied and corrugated, galvanised barrel . As I recall, those many years past, clothes and ( hopefully)hot water were put in the barrel along with soap flakes and a chunk of Sunlight soap and the whole lot was agitated with...

Boe-lin, not Bow-lin. Grummit instead of Grommet, Shivs not sheaves, tay-kel not tackle are some of what I grew up with, but the list is both long and varied, as per country, region and all the trades and establishments therein. Ceeg

A very' Happy Birthday', to you. Ceeg