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I've just discovered I have to work on the Sunday morning, I'll still come for Friday night but I think I will have to leave on Saturday. That sucks, but at least i will get to meet spend some time out.

I want to replace the handle on my Frost Mora, it's the 740 modle which I bought from BCUK, the plastic handled one. Any hints or tips would be great, some specific questions I already have are What's the best way to remove the moulded on handle that the knife came with? Where do you...

prior, planing and preparation, prevents p*ss poor performance :)

Onion skins give a nice yellow colour

Nice job! :)

I noticed you have put the rub rails on the inside there. I thought from looking at the plans they would be on the outside. Is it a choice thing or are they supposed to be on a particular side?

Fair point, well presented. I understand that flat bottoms sit very high in the water so the chances of contact with underwater stuff "should" be reduced, as for dropping heavy stuff in I don't suppose it will be worse than a skinned canoe, but not as as good maybe as a solid fibreglass one...

Well what I've done so far has taken about 3 evening sessions, so about 12 or 14 hours, but that has beenover 4 weeks because of weather (I'm doing it in the garden) and sometimes you just don't have good weather when you have time. It seems that work ect often gets in the way of my life :)...

1st picture Coating the outside with resin 2nd picture Adding new fillets to the inside seams, these were made using resin mixed with sawdust from a local place, they gave me a big bag full for the price of taking it away :) 3rd Picture the fillets wetted out with more resin 4th...

Apparently from what I've read flat bottoms are very stable but don't track too well so I intend to resin a runner on the bottom to help with directional stability, but I'll let you all know when I get it wet.

I had my doubts to but after adding the resin fillets/woodflour fillets and the fibreglass tape it's quite stiff, and I've the rub rails and breast hooks to go on yet. The 2 plywood sheets were about £10 each, I started of buying fibreglass stuff from halfords. but that is stupid as it costs...

1st picture A detail of the inside resined and the starts of the fillets. I started to use P38 compound to make the fillets on the inside of the boat, unfortunatly it is very expensive so I gave up on that idea, in the end i got a big bag of sawdust from a local timber place and mixed that...

I think I like the look of the wet form sheath, so probably that but if it's a pain to get the leather I guess I will go for something else.

This is the two 6mm plywood sheets cut out with the but blocks ready to be glued in place, I used contact adisive to fick the butt blocks, according to the plans you should use a mixture of wood flour and resin but I didn't have any woodflour. The second picture shows the but blocks in place...

I'm in the process of building it, would you like to see pictures of it so far?

That is preety funny, if any body thinks this is real try submitting an order, it gets even funnier

That is a beautiful knife, one day I hope I too will have the skill to make such a stunning creation. Well done

Ok I've decided to have a go at making a leather sheath for my new frost knife. I've never done any leather work before so I have a couple of questions that I haven't seen the answers to yet. 1 What sort of leather should I order from say, Le provo, how thick, what treatment ect 2 I...

Susi, your post is well thought and concise, however I am left with the feeling you think I am in some way advocating foreign bushcrafters desending upon Finish forest to wreck havoc on the birch population. Let me assure you that is not the case. The use of the phrase "I suppose" was...

Hello Susi, I seemed to have caused some offence here, let me assure you that was not my intention. While I did say stripping a Birch tree of bark in Finland would have no enviromental consequences I did not intend to imply that everybody should just feel free to do so. Maybe if you had read...