Scythe Blade Sheath

[Ferryman]

Yep instead of going on foreign holidays, when I retired, I bought a field LOL

I think they do, but I am not a farmer just someone who likes a little bit of paradise while it still exists. I have a 9 mile drive each way to get there but when I close and lock the gate behind me I am in a different world.

What part of Kent are you ? I was born in Wrotham Heath

 

[toxo]

21 minutes ago, Ferryman said:

Yep instead of going on foreign holidays, when I retired, I bought a field LOL

I think they do, but I am not a farmer just someone who likes a little bit of paradise while it still exists. I have a 9 mile drive each way to get there but when I close and lock the gate behind me I am in a different world.

What part of Kent are you ? I was born in Wrotham Heath

 

Great stuff. That's what I should have done.. Just missed  some land with a stream once. Would've been in my element. Many years ago me and the wife and kids house sat for a cousin who was off to the Canaries for a holiday. He had a small stream running past the back of his garden. By the time he came home "his" bit wasn't so little any more/ I'd dug it a bit deeper and dammed both ends. Then I went upstream catching lots of wild trout and putting them in his bit. He was a baker and used to feed em any unsold bread or whatever and they got quite big. Well you gotta have a project haven't you.

I'm in Gillingham.

Edited August 8, 2020 by toxo

[Rahere]

First trick, from knife sheath makers. Leave about an inch sewing allowance on the cutting edge, and use some 3mm back hide in a fillet to protect the stitching from the edge.

Second trick, use an oil-retentive leather to protect the blade.

Third trick, use a 2" plumbing washer on each side of the rivet at the point. 

Don't forget a pocket for the whetstone.

Mine's in North London.

[Ferryman]

Hi Rahere

 

Do you have a photo of yours ?

 

Thanks

Tony