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I got one with the lathe I bought when I very first started turning. My findings echo the post above. I don't really use it any more, I hollow with my gouges.

Probably not what you are after but I have used it to make charcoal. It's good for that.

Also. One further point. Your avatar is Ron ******* Swanson and you don't think you need to own a cleaver. You need to take a long look at yourself son.

I cull deer for a living. In the larder we use victorinox knives. I use victorinox knives for butchery and I use them for cooking as well. Personally I wouldn't buy a made uo set but just get two small ones, a bread one a medium size one and a breadknife. As you don't eat meat I can see why...

This year is huge for Acorns around here. I had my daughter collecting some for me the other day I plan to germinate and plant out in a couple of years time.

Well indeed. And I do, kill my own that is. We eat venison 3-5 nights a week. As well as rabbits, hares, pigeons other game, fish that I have caught we very very rarely eat bought meat, or anything that wasn't wild. That route isn't open to everyone though.

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Damnit!! Any idea of the P&P to Suffolk?

e All the supermarkets use NZ venison. Often branded as UK but it won't be 100% from the UK. The Supermarkets all need a product that is uniform in size, colour, flavour and texture which you just don't get from wild deer which is why, the majority of deer culled in the UK end up on the...

Or that lack of flavour may be that the venison in Waitrose is farmed from NZ. Even some of the burgers etc that say UK venison will have a proportion of imported meat.

Don't buy beef... Buy venison! Tastes great, Low Cholesterol, high in Omega 3. The market for UK venison is dire at the moment. Even in a good year the majority of our wild venison is exported to the continent while the stuff you see in the supermarket is most likely imported from New...

Tease.

I have heard the same. I hope it is true and in 15 or 20 years the resistant trees emerge and are making progress. Can you imagine uk woodland without Ash?

I don't know if Chalara affects the whole tree or individual limbs but... If the tree and adjacent trees have dieback that suggests an abundance of the fungus, then you leave large open, gaping wounds in the tree by removing the limbs? I assume that if you did manage to "cut all the disease...

Ash is an incredibly prolific tree. There will be resistant trees out there I am sure. Personally I think we should be encouraging ash to grow as mucj as possible, everywhere. The trouble now is that the prospect of having mature or even semi mature ash trees for a landowner is not very...

dag nabbit!

Where abouts are you Les?

I do occasionally turn things. More when I get a request or I need something round. Last thing I turned for myself was a fishing rod handle in Yew. Also turned a small float for a friend's duck feeder out of the same piece of wood.

Oooh. I know it's been said already but be really really careful sawing off a ladder. Massive no no. (Although I have done it and had some pretty horrible near misses.) Also be careful cutting Ash trees with dieback. make sure you have your eacape route ready, look up! and aren't under any...

I would have thought that if you burn the paint out a paint tin would be fine.