Recent content by Greenbeast

if i was seriously smithing right now (instead of pig farming) i would snap that up!!!

Another idea might be a piece of sheet metal to stop the fire falling out when you open the door, just 2-3" high, does make cleaning out trickier though

I agree with Red, i do it from scratch. A much better and more 'natural' product.

We've been enjoying it, both islands :) The girls are pretty soft but it's interesting seeing the comparison

love this idea, never know what to do with my glasses and torch over night!

What a beauty, well done My mum has a singer collection, probably into the ten's now, but none of them have been touched, when i finally build my house i'm going to nab one with the treadle table and do a restore for display (and maybe use) purposes

Another site worth trying for meat (even offal) is greenpasturefarms, outdoor reared, high welfare, reasonable prices. Been using them for a year now, regurlary buy £100-200 in at a time for the freezer I just bought 4kg of ox heart (for my jerky making), £5/kg and absolutely lovely flash fried...

definitely!!

fantastic, i'll be saving this link!

cool, how difficult is it? probably be easier to form hot but then you've got a load of clean up to do, so might be even stevens time-wise.

do you work these hot or cold?

yep! and on the night before the forge-in!

Very nice!

i don't think Owen does a stock removal course (pretty sure not) but he does a brilliant bladesmithing course, i attended this weekend just gone and produced two forged blades: http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?121860-First-forged-blades...

i've given two belts, two or so coats of fiebings pro oil dye and then, thinking it was fine, i've given them 3 coats of neat's foot oil. however on closed inspection, in better light, i can see they're a bit pale in some areas. can i successfully add further coats of dye, or is it too late?