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I hoped you would show up and chime in...

them red gobules....yip I know about them...its a sulphur lump in the powder,got them in the first batch...not so much in 2nd batch.
I found the pushing through seive bit was painful with powder...

Welcome back mate....I have dearly missed your humour.

I pulled a dozen loads today...primers had gone funky...still havent worked that one out...its like verdegrease around primer and one was visably damp...Im picking the salt petre is sucking...

i dont grade it....I just use it as it is...

I also spread out my last batch of BP and gave it a couple of hours of sunlight..appears to have sucked in some moisture if indeed I had dried it completely to begin with.

I revisited my supplies this morning and put my remaining groundup charcoal through a seive....ummmm eye opening just how much bigger lumps were still in there...reground those bits till it all went...

we have bunnings here......

flower of sulphur is 99.9% and buy off trademe...saw it listed yesterday.....salt petre is still being sold garden supply places,hydroponic suppliers even better still

if you go back far...

230345 this is who I purchased my sulphur powder from.that is what it's labelled as too.i just went and looked....I've actually got all 3 ingredients sitting waiting for me to make another batch.

I think the key to doing this..is to be realistic,and enjoy the journey....you are making something that our forefathers have made for hundreds of years using very primative equipment in some...

my memory is telling me there is scene in movie of them doing it..sweet home Alabama is nudging me..... there are LOTS of videos of it about.

I just happen to know where quite a few bofur barrels are..not far from where Im sitting actually

Akaroa....I didnt think you had got my drift when I mentioned it...lol

take the head off your small sledgehmmer and sit charcoal in a pan,and just keep pushing down and turning at the same time...

ohhh goodie..... we can test some powder then LOL watching videos of guys doing it is hilarious....

what???? do you not have a blacksmiths anvil yet????

technically it should be CRACK willow.......
funny story...I have been looking at some roadside trees for ages,thinking it is the wood the swiss fellas use..my good gardening mate who is switched on...