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I went on a kitchen fitting course years ago through a work scene didn’t learn much if anything and have looked at courses but it’s all stuff I know I just thought I could learn more but probably need some old bench joiner to shadow to get some new tips and tricks or just keep progressing at the...

must add I have no formal qualifications but would’ve liked to have gone through an aprentiship in bench joinery at the start

There were police there I informed them probably why he scarpered

I was at a car boot and saw a lot of Hilti dewalt Milwaukee etc power tools all at oddly cheap pricey all with different owners names on I asked if he had recites he got edgy I left 20 mins laitr hed packed up and left

Ha mine are just shy of over 5 inch spades they be haha

Is there anyone from the old days when courses were hard to pass and you were taught more than the very basics? I think I remember my grandfarther saying his course was 7 years including his apprenticeship although that may have been muddled with WW2 popping up at the same time. I was after a...

With many things I’ve made over the years and especially wood turning well let’s just say there was some well crafted fire wood at the ready so don’t beat yourself up

O haha I see now well I’ve just bought one lol

Why cow gowns lol

You mean an old oil stone or the cheap onse you can get ? I’ve got vintage oil stones I tend to use lord knows how much they’d cost though

Be hard to find an original would’ve ended up in the tag box but this nostalgia got to me so after watching the fork handles scene a couple of times I’ve ordered a brown one for myself

Wouldn’t bother with Waterstones I hadn’t got anyone to teach me so went the awful root of buying different things and hoping for best in truth if your after a cost effective way of hand sharpening and they are an investment mine but getting 3 different diamond stones is a good bet I wish I’d...

No more like holding a gun so three fingers in the grip and the index finger pointing along the saw I don’t know why I do this just makes sense I’ve never thought about it I find modern saws a bit clumsy if I’m honest I think there meant to be used with a gloves hand perhaps . But modern hand...

I made one like that with a tapered mortise many years ago but hasn’t got the weight in it for my likeing got this in the end as I could find any wood big enough for a large head

You still got the axe was it a small sortve boys axe and so between the brickwork you’d put a bit of wood in to be able to nail or screw into then

Only seen him with a small billhook posing if your really laying hedges they tend to be fairly overgrown these days and we all use chainsaws the romance of a man with an axe and a pipe in between his lips is long gone

I looked there usually £50 and over so went for a fisherman’s smock about £25

Sam all over sadly just cheaper to whack a fence up each year and there’s no standard so when a grants given it’s generally going to the cheapest quote which is sub par there’s a handful of good hedglayers about now a days sadly just the way everything has gone same thing for tools you want...

Got a roofer mate does the same thing keeps the water off them they work great for that

I’m the same with a large amount of boxwood I got ha was very please lovely stuff hard as a step mothers heart tho