Mora Update #1

511/ 510 and wood carvers

Selection from my collection of Mora Knives:

The 511 and 511 modded into the 510 by removing the finger guard,

this makes it a great all around camp/ carving knife.

The sheath has also been modified to hold a fire-steel.

Wood carving Mora knives including the 120, 

the double edged spoon knife and

the classic number 1.

Carbon blades take on a great patina over time,

 patina was created on this knife by cutting an onion and

a tomato, the 510 also makes a great kitchen knife.

Electric Banjo (Swampocaster tm)

The electric Banjocaster/ Swampocaster tm.

1 mini Humbucker

and volume knob.

Fours string for electric slide.

Sounds like: 

A redneck altercation in a swamp.

Pygmy Puff Cage & Broom

Handmade Puffs by mum

Ready to paaarrrty!

Toothpick Exhibition

Selection of whittled pieces, (about 3 months worth of whittles)

Laid out ready for mounting

Poster for show

Hanging at the gallery

Work in context with Shackleton paintings and drawings

Final whittled piece in situ

Summer Shed

The summer has seen a lot of activity in the shed, the stove has been painted black with special heat paint and I have settled in to some serious whittling. 

Arranging whittled objects for an exhibition piece

A Selection of Recent Whittling

Hobo Cabin

The Webster family take full advantage of the hobo woodburner tm. 

Or a right good family ho (bo) down.

Tha's ma boy

hobo wife enjoying the stove and a good hobo vintage

(not meths)

enjoy the holiday x

Needles

Some net needles.

Not quite as good as my grandfather's

Edward John Webster

his whittled name stamp

used for printing his name on his duffle bag.

Hobo Cutlery Corner

Some reclaimed, hobo whittlers... 

Dispatches from the Shed

Hobo Woodburner is now installed in the shed and works a treat, just the thing for our inclement Easter weather. Burns very well and not too smokey.

befitting with the Antarctic feel, Shackleton keeps a watch over proceedings.

Happy Easter

Hobo Wood Burner Mk 2 (now with bread/ potato oven)

Some more adventures in hobo stoving

We have added a top section to the Hobo Wood Burner, a bread/ potato oven (section on ground)

The oven is now in three parts, the bottom section and the second section are the combustion areas, this is where wood is fed and burned 

Lighting the stove is easy, simply remove the other two sections and start fire in the combustion box

Spuds in and the kettle on

The top section (still coloured purple) is the oven, the heat from the combustion sections underneath heats the oven chamber, this is also heated by the chimney that runs up through the middle of the oven. This means that there is no live flame in the oven. Things are cooked by baking

It took about 12 minutes for a rolling boil in the kettle and just over half an hour for the spuds to be very well cooked

Hobo children waiting for dinner and a cup of tea

Spoons and Try-Sticks

Some Functional and idle whittling for you

Testing out the Mora Spoon Knife and the modified 511 (now a 510.05)

Weather breaks... we in the shed B¬)

Salt-Pig trial

Experiments with beech spoons

Types Of Wood DVD