For a long time I only made leather sheaths for blades but over the past year or so more customers have been asking for wooden blade boxes and I have now started uploading a selection of mixed sized TWCA Cam boxes to the web shop. Below is a quick overview of how I make them. Finished box Firstly select the wood for the base of the box. Here I have used some mahogany as it is easier to work than other woo

Over on one of my recent Instagram posts, we had a bit of a discussion about how fungi can affect trees, and create some amazing colouration and patterns in the timber. Since then I've had some questions about the topic so thought I'd put together a couple of blog posts on it! Polyporus squamosus, otherwise known as Dryad's Saddle, is a fungus that forms in clusters and tiers on broad-leaved trees with the fruiting bodies appearing in summer and autumn. Although edible the fu

One thing that bugs me is clean and tidy woodlands where every piece of deadwood is cleared up and windblown trees are cut up. Wherever...

I thought I would kick off my first woodland blog with a large beech tree felled this week. This tree was planted probably 100 or so...