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Just been looking at The British Museum website and the have currently an online exhibition running called
Arctic Culture and Climate which looks at how indigenous peoples cope with the Arctic
Worth a look
Stay safe
Gary
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Interestingly I used to lay hedges too
The measurement is actually at your finger tips
Put your first stake in the hedge put your elbow against the first stake and hold the next stake in the same hand , as you drive it into the hedge that’s a cubit spacing the two stakes two I f these make...
I do similar but make my own
Get a big ordinary plaster and cut a slit through the sticky bit bout half way across up to the dressing bit you then have 4 sticky tails which wrap round a knuckle or finger tip very nice
Then if needed a wrap of tape - any tape !
The videos are worth a watch
I have some of bens knives for carving and really Like them
He’s done a lot of work to promote craft and build his and Lois’s business
Wish him and Lois well
Hi Mesquite
Nowt so clever, the shave horse mechanism has a bolt through it to lock it all off , then you place your feet inside the two nearly vertical arms and press outwards which moves the jaws together with about a 20:1 mechanical advantage so you can put a whole lot of pressure on the...
Hi Everyone
Hope your all well
Not posted for a while - I was hospitalised with Covid 19 got over that and 6 weeks later my appendix burst , back in hospital for emergency surgery- so I’m limited to stuff I can do at home (like most of us I guess) so had a go at making a spoon mule attachment...
Thank you for your kind words
There is a larger more animated Groot in the pipeline not bush craft but using good knife skills
Pictures to follow in a while
Gary
Hi Everyone
hope your all well
So my post Covid list goes something like this
1 catch covid
2 Spend 10 days in hospital on oxygen
3 Learn to breathe again !
4 Buy new knife (see above )
5 Whittle new porridge spoon (left handed)
6 Whittle a baby “Groot” character for granddaughter
So it’s...
Thanks for the comments
They’re all carved from Lime painted with acrylics and finished with linseed oil with some burnt umber oil paint as an antique finish
The Santa’s are similar to those we carved at the bushmoot (for those that were there!)
Happy new year
Gary
Hey Long time no posts
Just a few bits I’ve carved for friends and family for Christmas
Hope you all have a fine festive season and a great bushy new year
Gary
Hi folks
Well the pole lathe is finished (took a bit longer than I had expected) something called the “bushmoot” got in the way
And I’ve turned my first item.......
..... it’s a garden dibber from sycamore graduated in inches or units of 25.4mm if you prefer any way my wife loves it .
I...
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Janne
I used really green wood a piece of branch wood about the right diameter
The important bit is the hole which needs to be about half the diameter of the branch this spreads the stresses at the end of the cut stopping it splitting further with the grain running straight along the piece...
Hi guys
Quick whittle straight out of Barn the Spoons new book “Woodcraft” simple little clip / peg from a piece of Acer about 25mm dia and 100 mm long just right for a bag of coffee beans and probably better than a bit of plastic
Whaddya think ?
Gary
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