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Hi guys. Hope you won't mind signing this- signing will help to keep water company information open to the public, there's been a lot of issues with water quality and something needs to be done https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/633609

This has been used only a handful of times, sharpened once, selling due to needing some spare cash sadly. Fantastic carving blade, 100mm long for seriously long shavings and beautiful facets. Adam's blades are highly sought after. The handle is pear, with a leather liner followed by oak burl and...

First up a brand new mora 162 double edge spoon knife £16 Inc PayPal fees and postage (the top knife pictured below)

Hi folks. I'm wondering if any of you can put me onto a maker of hollow ground spoon knives? I've enjoyed my wood tools spoon knife a lot but with such regular use it's becoming a pain to sharpen so often. I've checked Nic Westermanns site and it seems there is a huge waiting list. I'm really...

Has anyone got one of these they want to move on? All conditions considered. Cheers!

There seems to be plenty of folk using trangias on here. I love my 25 and use it atleast once a week, sometimes way more than that and it's a versatile setup with 2 decent sized pans and a frying pan/lid. I think its about time we had a thread on meals done in a trangia, we have a thread on...

Came across this piece of cherry in a mates log pile, destined to be firewood- I couldn't ignore how nice and straight grained it was so I begged him to let me have it. Radial cut spoons tend to need to be from a larger, quartered log, so I new this one would be ideal, I definitely prefer...

I've been doing a lot of carving over the past year, and I'm really getting into it. My Robin wood carving axe has been a solid tool to use, but I've been wanting of more weight and a longer cutting edge, so I'm considering the purchase of a larger carving axe. The first one that springs to...

The first one was a quick spoon... I'm not sold on the shape to be honest. The proportions don't feel right to me, but the wood is lovely. I do atleast like how the heart and sapwood separate out nicely. The 2nd spoon is a chunky little number, which had some tricky knotty grain in the bowl...

I've been unhappy with the sheath on my mora 106 for a while now, it tends to fall off easily, it's kind of big and clunky too, which is ironic considering the quality of the knife itself- I was hoping to be able to harvest some decent amounts/lengths of birch bark to make a simple folded sheath...

This is the first spoon I've completed this winter, and from some radially cut pear that's been seasoned from last winter. It's the first time I've tried carving seasoned wood, definitely tougher, atleast on the knives, the axe seemed to lap it up though! My first asymmetrical design too. Hope...

A tweak on the traditional recipe, with a bit of cauliflower fungus, hedgehog fungus and porcini in with the bacon, loads of home made porcini dust in the egg mix with a good sprinkling of dried wild garlic and ground jack by the hedge seeds for a bit of mustard bite. Absolutely insane umami...

Part of my personal skills development this year was to try and learn more about preserving, especially wild foods. The last couple of years has seen me concentrate on my foraging skills more and more, and it's great to find wild edibles, but so often they are fleeting harvests, and once picked...

It's been a while since my last spoon, and after a clear out in the garden I found a cherry blank soaking in a bucket, so I thought I'd better have at it and finish it. My first carve with cherry, I've heard it has a tendency to split, so I covered the rough finished spoon in a plastic bag so...

For sale is a standard Horizon HX300E vhf radio, bought new around 12 months ago. Its been out to sea maybe 3 times but never dunked (fully waterproof and floating anyway). It's still running on the original charge and the battery is still full. There is slight wear on the screen but nothing...

Several books for sale- priced at £3 each, plus £5 postage Inc. All fees, postage price will be the same regardless of the number of books bought I.e. if you purchase 3 books that's £9 plus £5 postage so £14, or 10 books £30 plus £5 postage = £35 all in. Buy the lot and I'll drop the postage...

Just had a lovely weekend up in the lakes and spent some quality time with my better half yesterday on a traditional stool making course. I wanted to share the experience as our course leader Gareth Thomas was brilliant and his family business Woodmatters deserves to be shouted about. We got...

A first for me in two ways! I can highly recommend the kayak spoon style for beginners, it's very quick and simple to carve, and strong to boot. Alder a great wood to carve with, soft enough to be easy on the hands, yet dries strong unlike willow, very similar to birch, I'm impressed with the...

I managed to catch my first wild brown trout of the season on my first trip of the year this evening, and in honour of its life I gave it a special send off in the form of a foraged dinner. Served with tempura style hog weed shoots (dried wild garlic in the batter) and pickled chanterelles...

I figured we could use a thread for the seasonal species and other interesting bits that happen throughout the year. For me today it was a walk on the moors, seeing lapwings and curlews that have come in from coastal regions to ground nest. Both make plenty of noise but watching the lapwings...