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  1. 17 hours ago, Styla247 said:

    Hi guys, thanks for the interest. 
    Unfortunately all of the guns are taken for this season but we may have 2 guns available next year. 
     

    @Walker570 you are correct, I personally think its a great little shoot. Sure it could probably be better but it’s always fun and its a good group of guys. We are also next door to the Lowsonford shoot, we often share birds so to speak, 😜

    Good evening pal,  

     

    Would be really interested in a place for next year and happy to be part of the work parties, if you want a chat happy to send you my number.

     

    All the best Jamie 

  2. 5 hours ago, DUNKS said:

    Hi can I respectfully suggest you leave it as it is. It has a lovely patina. Difficult to sharpen if it's really blunt. I would use experience and a small hand held stone then a steel. I have a similar knife used by my old dad and he used to sharpen it on the area of the ceramic sink that had worn through. Lovely thing.

    I think you are right looking at it, I will just try and get it Sharpe again 😉 

    4 hours ago, Stonepark said:

    The handle is likely celluloid plastic, and appears to still hold the correct colour and whilst it can be brittle with age, it still is useable as long as you don't put it in dishwasher or start chucking it about.

     

    On a tidy up project such as this I normally use a Dremel with a brass wire brush to remove rust, then buffer\polishing bit with polishing compound to bring back original mirror finish.

     

    On sharpening, I would start with 600 grit on the bevel it is already sharpened to and then 1000 grit if needed.

     

    It should be easy to sharpen as the Steel is quite normally quite soft.

     

    P.s. if you put a 12 inch ruler in background of photo, it gives an idea of the scale.

    Great information,  so when you say the 600 and 1000 grit, are these the whetstone on ebay?

    1 hour ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

    Hello, I agree but if left as is it will preserve the blade and handle

    I will give this a go to protect it for longer

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  3. This knife use to belong to my granddad, it was used each Sunday to calve the roast joint and brings back some happy memories of spending time with him and the family around the table usually enjoying a meal where most of it had come from his garden.. After he passed away I had the knife to use at home with my family... However as you can see its looking sorry and is now quite blunt, to be honest looking at the knife I'm not even sure it's a carving knife....

     

    Could someone advise on what I would need to get the metal looking shiny, restoring some colour back into the handle and also what I would need to sharpen it?

    Also any recommended you tube vids on the correct sharpening technique? I looked on you tube but there is so many different ways and with different tools..

     

    Cheers Roadkill

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  4. Quick update, she's 90% done and looking like new again, hopefully she will be on the road and attending local shows by the end of this month. I would like to take some credit for the rebuild but I cannot,  life changed and I ended up in a new role at work which meant spending 75% of the year in Europe away from the family and bike.  I found a local ducati company in Coventry who have done the restoration rebuild.. I'm sure the bikers will love these pics 

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  5. 25 years ago I did my apprenticeship in welding and fabrication, I continued this trade for a few years until I moved into aviation and have been there ever since... I would like to start playing around and making a few different projects.. I would like to make things like the picture attached and wonder what kind of welding unit would be better... in my days it was all gas, mig and stick welding.   I now see that tig is quite popular so really unsure what unit to purchase...

     

    Cheers Jamie 

     

     

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  6. On 29/01/2022 at 21:37, mel b3 said:

    You cheapskate , I was paying my cleaning lady more than that 14 years ago , and I always used to clean up before she got here 😁.

    My wife cleans up before the cleaner comes, I just don't get it!

  7. 21 minutes ago, TRINITY said:

    Dont be too hasty. France is not too much of an issue, free channel  crossings and UK government will meet you on beach with fish and chips, pay for your PCR and put you up in 4star hotel till negative, sorted 👍👍👍😁

    I will dig out my old lilo 😆 

  8. 9 hours ago, Ricko said:

    Hmmm, I was hoping to travel around a bit. What format is the passenger locator form in? Do you have to log on to something?

    I don't ever print it off, always have the option to download to phone as pdf.. you just need to set up an account on the gov website then it's plain sailing from there on..

  9. 42 minutes ago, DUNKS said:

    With a bit of luck and a following wind my son and I will be there Sunday. We go about 2pm now. We dont shoot competition. We just have a bit of fun

    Last Sunday was hammerguns and black powder. Lots of smoke and flame and frightened clays. I am the old fella in a black hat! Be nice to see you there.

    I'm back in the UK on the 19th, so will definitely be dropping in on the 21st. Will look out for the black hat

  10. Been travelling back and forwards between France and the UK, all I need to enter France is either proof of the double vaccination or a negative covid test. To enter the UK I have to fill out a passenger locator form and purchase a day 2 covid test 

  11. 4 hours ago, scotslad said:

    Considering the thread is about euthanasing ur own dogs ur now calling for all hunting to be banned???

    From wot i can gather the didn't do it after or during the meet or take them down the local high street to do it, they done it in wot should be a private place out of the publics view and by all accounts very humanely.

    Also dunno how good the footage was but how can u tell the hound was 5 years old?? U mention that quite a bit, hell i struggle to tell my own dogs ages by looking at them without getting the paper work out. Yet u can tell a strange hounds age from short video clips. Impressive

    Dont know much about the mounted packs but with the guns packs i've been out with hounds were a lot older than 5 or 6, really just coming into there prime at that age.

     

    U say all hunts dont act illegally but still call for it to be banned?

    Following on from this logic u'd also ban greyhound and horse racing as some animals may be 'retired' earlier than natural.

    Wot about working farm dogs many of them will do the short 1 way walk when to old for work.

     

     

    I'm so glad u don't have anything to do with traffic enforcement/driving, with ur logic all driving should be banned as some cars speed.

    Or banning drink as some folk get drunk, become alcholics.

     

    There is lots of things i dont like but i don't automatically want them banned.

     

    No wonder fieldsports are on such a shooglie peg nowadays, the anti's must be absolutely wetting themselves that threads like this exist.

    8 pages about someone shooting his own dog/hound so ill had to be carried.

    U just couldn't make it up.

    Divide and conquer.

     

    And if u think the antis actually really care about this or would stop if/when hunting gets banned ur sadly mistaken.

    Just move on to next target, driven shooting as there doing with grouse at minute, then rough shooting, gun ownership and fishing will all be targets further down the line.

    They will never be happy until we're all eating tofu and soya grown in a cut down rain forrest o the other side of the world.

    U know all to save the planet and that

    100% spot on, I think are generation is the last to enjoy such past times as hunting, fishing and even racing, such a shame my grandkids probably won't enjoy the same freedoms as myself. This post is a fine example that even us on the inside can't agree and this will eventually be our undoing and the end to all field sports 

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