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If i ever have a suspect piece its soaked in wood worm killing stuff for 24 hours then applied daily until my dreams of my stored timber turning to dust are gone. I store quite a lot of walnut and this is on a six monthly cycle of treatment for woodworm, none of it has woodworm but its just not...

Hoping my pictures work! Doing this from my phone so it's not easy!! Thanks for all the responses, going to take a bit of cleaning up but I'll get around to it!

All interesting Andy thanks for your research! The WL and co part of that stamp are identical I would imagine that the tool are by that maker or brand, I imagine the stamp on the tools I have was a stamp they used on their smaller tools as a simple explanation. You are probably right as to...

Thanks for the reply - it's not a lot to go on at all! It very definitely says W.L & Co ( the 'o' of 'Co' in subscript with an underscore beneath ) the stamp contained within a single line rectangular boarder. The tools have some age to them to be sure but I couldn't possibly guess at how...

Nice find! thanks for sharing, where i grew up there was a "spooky house" on the outskirts of the village - the old game keepers house which had a barn attached that we used to play in. This barn was full of vintage farm machinery in later years it was all dragged out and left to rust in a...

Hello, First post here, i hope you will forgive! I recently picked up a nice complete set of carving chisels - had a good spattering of decorators caulk and silicone sealant on them and in their current state not much of a chisel. Some of the handles missing ferules and a bit rusty but...