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    Made this up from rough sawn roofing boards. Torched it with blow torch once it was all fixed together and brushed the charcoal off with a stiff natural bristle brush. Melted bees wax in a pan and brushed on while liquid. Gently torched again to get the wax to soak in then buffed up with a couple different grades of natural bristle brush. It was a bit of an experiment and am quite pleased with the finish given the original boards looked only fit for fire wood.
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    Nice!
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    Very interesting, keep postin your progress. Have you tried melting it in a pan of cooking oil on a hob? Just wonder if more heat would make it bind together better?
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    Agree with Greygamefowel nice to hear others comments. 100's of views not many comments. Guilty myself, enjoy reading the posts often don't comment. After Gaf's "Where have they gone" post, trying to be a bit more pro-active myself & post. Can loose heart a bit if you post and get no replies, makes you wonder why bother.
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    Yep the folder has "A.J Wilkinson & CO Boston Mass" stamp and Fixed one "Dunlap" 10 and BV on the back
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    Nice! Hardwood wedges are a nice detail.
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    I will check tonight, think it is American at a guess Boston or Conneticut , was my grandfathers and that is where he is from.
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    Hope it all works out midnight. Been nice to see your work posted on here, keep posting pics of your work even if you go up market.
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    Beuty of a knife that, a bit of a beast to cary around though.
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    Thought a picture of a couple of my draw knives might be of interest. The folding one is a bit unusual but very handy.
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    Put a pic up of the finished article. Nice old draw knives you got there.
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    Was given this pair of antlers by a friend for handles. Hung around for a while as i thought they were too nice to cut up. Eventually knocked together this sculpture and hung them on my shed wall. Wood is just cuttings of cheap pine that were lying around, nailed together & burned with the blow torch, brushed and waxed.
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    Knocked this together with my boy from some old plumbing fixings. Material cost £0 took a couple of hours. Takes any soft fruit, muzzle load and ram-rod with a dowel. Will amuse you for hours shooting down towers of cans. At 60- psi it generates serious power. It will smash a chunk of potato through both sides of a plastic paint bucket so be carefull if you make one. And if you decide to put anything other than soft fruit in there it is not on my recomendation.........google is your friend there.
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    A bit of the afternoon and a couple of hours in the evening so recon 5 hrs max. Head scratching time included in that so a second one would be faster.
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    Thanks guys, it was fun to make and now having had a chanse put it through it's paces it is every bit as usefu as it looks. Makes short work of roots, grubbs up stones well and just general digging/earth moving. Definately a satifaction in using a tool you made yourself you don't get from buying one off the shelf. Even got an unexpected request to make one for a mountain bike enthusiast who says it would be the perfect trail building tool!
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    Needing a decent hoe/grubber so made this up from a land rover spring and a reaper tooth yesterday. No fancy forging just a welder and angle grinder.
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    My uncle allways said a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into! I realised the truth of this when i rebuilt 15.5' clinker built dingy. I got the boat for nothing so thought i was on a winner. Paint alone was £120 other bits £100 and about 100 hours labour, steaming & bending all new ribs, repacing gunwhales, stripping & painting etc etc. not so cheap at the end of the day but is was a fun project,
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    I use eley wasps in my HW 35 the ones in the blue tin 5.6 rather than the purple 5.5 even though it has 5.5 cal stamped on the barrel, tried the 5.5's but just didn't get the power or accuacy. I have tried various more expensive pellets over the years but allways gone back to the 5.6 eley's. My 35 is a similar age bought in 1980 and had a lot of tins through it over the years never had any issue with accuracy using the eley's although a lot will knock them as cheap rubbish. I guess it comes down to whatever suits your rifle, if they work why change! Happy plinking.
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    £399 is an expensive pigeon pie!
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    They are feral, hope that put everyone's mind at rest, thanks for the concern.
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    Thats a bargain, i couldn't get a 300bar second hand one anywhere a couple of months agoe so ended up paying 150 for a composite one, nice & light though so looking back glad i got it.
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    Nope definitely not woodie's they are a lot smaller. Either feral pigeons or rock doves don't know how you tell them apart. Not much in the way of woodland and definitely no motorway bridges for them to roost under on an offshore Scottish island. Maybe try again later another night and experiment with a filter, it would be nice to have more than one pigeon in my pie! Thanks for the tips.
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    There are a few derelict buildings in barley stubble fields around my house. During the day there are 100's of pigeons either in the fields picking up barley or sunning themselves on the roofs of the derelict barns. I assumed the barns would be full of roosting pigeons at night so couple of nights ago i took my lads out equipped with a torch and the s410 & 2 full mags (and ever hopeful a handful of pellets in my pocket too) thinking we could fill a bag. First barn only 2 pigeons and they flew as soon as the lamp hit them so didn't even get a shot in. Second barn 2 pigeons, dropped
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    Used to use marbles all the time as a kid. Got many a rabbit with them. Watch if you hit something solid with them though as they will bounce. Once hit a stone wall with one and i can still picture it coming straight back, just dodged in time to avoid a marble betweem my own eyes! At least lead dosn't bounce.
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