Hi Folks

I just noticed how long it has been since I last wrote a blog and thought it was about time I put pen to paper, ( well finger to keyboard).

I am lucky enough to have been busy with all sorts of knife and knifemaking projects over the last 18 months or so since my last blog.

My (makeshift) workshop, a largish but very old garden shed was partly blown down in a nasty storm this February so some hasty rebuilding was required before all tools and machinery got damaged by the elements. As always when you start a job it always throws up more jobs required 🙄

I will soon be building a much more suitable workshop sometime in 2025

Last winter I was in discussion with a local butcher. He runs a superb shop in Lavenham, Suffolk, and as it turns out, does plenty of hunting to be able to offer his customers some excellent wild meat products.

So of course we started talking knives. The results of this discussion are a couple of new designs that will be on my website as soon as I’ve decided what sort of sheath to make for them. So let me know in the comments the way you carry your knife when out on a hunt.

I have changed my traditional coke forge for a gas forge as this suits the way I work much better. It’s still not quite right as the burners are naturally aspirated meaning they are noisy and use loads of gas. After Yule I’ll start work building a forced air gas forge that addresses these issues very well; no suppliers here in the UK so it will have to be all self made. I’ll let you know how I get on.

Enough of my ramblings. Hopefully I won’t leave it for another year before I write again!

Have a fabulous Yule 🌲