I am quite pleased with this...I wanted to capitalise on the natural bend in the top of the hazel which proved to be somewhat problematical but I got there in the end...finished with a four braid...
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I could make a makila...!!!
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MightyBoosh, decoying is certainly worth doing...we shot parries over sillosocks last year...worked really well...here is the link... even allowing for exchange rates, the decoys are reasonably...
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I am quite pleased with this...I wanted to capitalise on the natural bend in the top of the hazel which proved to be somewhat problematical but I got there in the end...finished with a four braid...
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Tobacco pouch...just got more burnishing and finishing off to do and it is done... 44253 44254
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Now that I have gone the 20g way, I intend to make an ammo belt...made this pocket camera pouch yesterday to go on the belt as well... 41797
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Made this glasses case today...still the burnishing to finish off...lined it with pigskin...the 12 gauge snap is possibly a bit over the top:) 41699
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:D you are right!!! here's one I made a couple of years ago...the collar and ferrule I sourced from England... 39776 Some of the hazel rods we cut...the only problem with it all is the year...
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I make sticks... thumb sticks...big brother over here for a couple of weeks from Oz so I dragged him along to cut hazel rods and was telling him about the fact that as soon as I could possibly afford...
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Sent this lot off to the Olde Country yesterday...five plait flats, four plait rounds... 43031
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Now that I have gone the 20g way, I intend to make an ammo belt...made this pocket camera pouch yesterday to go on the belt as well... 41797
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My dogs are keen on pheasants...but the calies are their real bird of choice...:)
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