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I have not made any youtubes for a few years but have just done a few including how I sharpen a hook knife. There are obviously lots of ways of doing it and no one right way but this works for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cac949WVIog

Just heard that the Time Team special on the Dover boat I helped build which goes out Sunday will be the last Time Team ever, end of an era, glad to have been part of it even if right at the end.

I have been working on some new tools specifically designed for spooncarveres but the axe may be of interest for folk looking for a nice lightweight pack axe. I live near Sheffield which helps when developing new tools. The hook knives are laser cut there and rough ground, then I put the bend in...

I have been in Wisconsin USA for the last three weeks working with my friend Jarrod Stone Dahl building a birch bark canoe. It's been on my bucket list since seeing the incredible film Caesar's bark canoe nearly twenty years ago.I have limited computer and wifi access here but have done a few...

Well they are a busy team so it's been a long wait but my new carving axe is nearly finished at John Neeman's and I have to say it looks good. Can't wait for it to arive and put it through it's paces. If there is anyone that doesn't know their work this video shows how they work...

Last year I spent 3 months building a half scale replica of the bronze age Dover boat, the oldest seagoing vessel in the world. It went on tour as the centrepiece of a major exhibition on bronze age life to France and Belgium but now is back in Dover and we just spent three weeks turning it from...

On Monday I visited the Wetterlings axe forge in Sweden, a very interesting though all too short tour of the factory as we had a plane to catch. Here is the big interesting news. I knew that a few years ago Wetterlings were bought by Gabriel Branby, the man that bought Gransfors as a small...

I don't often jet off to the sun on environmental grounds but just had a week in Majorca and it was blissful. Gorgeous scenery idyllic wild camping, perfect weather. Here are a few pics the North coast is mountainous, wild and has a long distance footpath running along it's length, perfect for...

My new boots from William Lennon arrived, they are the business. http://www.williamlennon.co.uk/

The DCMS are currently proposing dropping craft from their list of creative industries. "We recognise that high-end craft occupations contain a creative element, but the view is that in the main, that these roles are more concerned with the manufacturing process, rather than the creative...

Nice short film on my mate Barn and his spoon carving on the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22467510 Barnaby Carder - who calls himself Barn the Spoon - spends his days sitting in a London shopfront, painstakingly whittling wooden spoons. After being apprenticed to a wooden furniture...

A birch spoon made from a nice crooked branch.

I have always been a bit dubious about hamocking. Hoping this vid will show up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w-ayHsvWwg

It was mostly filmed around here, not having tv I have not seen it but just found it's on iplayer so might try and catch up, is it any good other than for spotting places I know?

Today I visited William Lennon traditional bootmakers, they have been making boots pretty much the same way for four generations. This is the sort of boot they do amongst others leather coming in clicking "closing" Pat has worked there over 50 years This machine sews through close...

can anyone guess who this is helping me make a bowl at the workshop today.

This was last year but has just appeared on youtube, making wooden bowls with Paul Martin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXa-5WLYho&feature=youtu.be

This is a week before Easter not the time I expect serious drifts but there are some bonkers drifts around the Peak district at the moment. Even after 4 days digging with all the JCBs, snow blowers and quarry diggers on the job there are still loads of roads that are full of snow wall to wall...