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Bronte moleskin jacket. Silent, warm and tough. Wouldn't be without mine.

Watch Kris harbour on youtube he has a fantastic setup all homemade iirc

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The top one appears to have a sub hilt handle usually found on fighting knlves. Nice pair and still a lot of useful life left in them

Try your local mens shed https://menssheds.org.uk/

The downward curving hooked knife is a lino knife.

A slack handful of barley sugars

There are some lovely tools on the kestrel site and the videos are informative too. I think i'll give an adze blade a go with my own slant. Thanks for posting that. Oh i had to search up Holm Constantnever heard of it before. Every days a school day

They are superb. Did you make them?

Homemade hatchet mild steel with an en9 carbon steel bit welded on. This has been equal to anything i've needed to do not the best for splitting but for carving work its great. The handle is from a downed ash tree and i thought i'd bung a ferro rod in the end always handy to have along. This was...

Found this might encourage you https://hvartial.kapsi.fi/coracle/coracle.htm

Nice one mate. 30 wands thickness of your thumb 60 weavers for the gunwale and away you go.

Aye bit of a loooong paddle that. Shame though.

Thats the spirit mate. It was lovely to drift on the river early this morning with the birds singing, in a boat made by our own hands. Can't wait to see yours up and running good luck with it be sure to post some pictures.......Cheers

Im in Northumberland near Morpeth

Thanks mate. Hows yours coming along?

Got out this morning no drama's went really well a vast improvement on the one we built a couple of years ago. This is my son at the helm. We will have another in the slips by the end of the week and after a bit more practice we have plans for a little drift down river.

Great! Looking forward to seeing yours restored. I think there is alot to be appreciated,they are a superb little lightweight craft ideal for exploring quiet back waters. I'm about to start another so my son and l can run 5miles down our local river to the sea i would imagine we will be the...

Nice one mate. Thanks for putting that up.