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Hiya Grizzly, you'll love it on here, everyones very helpfull and you can learn loads from having a good old read too. I did my training last year and got 60% funding from the government through train 2 gain. Even though you have no work at the mo you're still self employed, so you should be able to get it too.

Hiflex type C, ok up a tree but real warm on the ground.....they'd maybe be a bit cooler if I didn't run everywhere, got to run though, can't help but run, run run runny run!!!

If be interested in doing the course if you can get one together?

Watch this one [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k&feature=youtube_gdata]YouTube - Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro[/ame] and then this [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPtbG0vtkHY&feature=youtube_gdata]YouTube - While My Guitar Gently Weeps(ukulele)[/ame]

I just put the grease you get with it in the little grease gun and use it for both. I've heard before that husky can be a bit funny with you if you don't use their stuff and something breaks....

Na I'm not one for the docs unless I really really have too, so just let it run its course. Was all good after about 3 or 4 weeks.

ooooops sorry, that's just a normal photo............... haha not really!! It got loads worse than that over a week, could hardly open me gob and everytime I did I got massive splits all over my lips. My eye lids also split up big time too. S[ent the best part of two weeks bleeding most of the time. My mates found it very funny indeed, if I had a penny for everytime I heard "heeey yooou guys" (from the Gooneys), I'd be rich haha. Can't remember the name of the wood. It was some exotic stuff from a wood turning shop. If I find it I'll post it up here so people know not to eat any haha

I was at the sanding stage of a wood carving and got the dust on my lips. They burnt a little but didn't think much to it really. After about an hour this happened:

tee hee:lol:

Hello chap, I don't think I have but will have a gander in some boxes that are still packed from moving house (a year ago..haha). A few peole have asked about them so I might set the shed up and start carving a few again. Which sort do you like?

Hey-up bud, I went to go and see the Yew this morning - it is grand isn't it!! Had a funny old time there really, a lady was struggling with a box to the church so I offered to help.....ended up lifting stuff around and setting up flower displays for a couple of hours haha!!!

Now there's strange - what is it you're doing to it? I've not heard about or seen anything like that before?

Haha I think not Ian, when people come round my house and see the carvings and things, they always go to yours first and say "nice, how long did these take to make", I'm like "ummmmm welllllll, bugger - they're the only ones I didn't make....haha! Still chuffed I won them:thumbup:

Hiya David The one with the white bit on top's made of Cocobolo, Ebony, Padauk and the white bit's made out of the nut of a palm tree or some-kind. The one made out of loads of little bits of wood is Spanish Olive wood, a wee strip of veneer, Ebony and Padauk. Not sure what the outside of the other one was but it would have been something you'd not likely bump into in your local woods......I got it all from a shop at Tideswell for wood turners.

Cheers bud:001_smile: I've been doing a bit now and then for years really. The rings were an idea I had a couple of years ago and seem to have gone down really well - I've made loads for people. Even the boxer Mikkel Kessler's mum and sister have one over in Denmark....claim to fame haha:001_smile:

I'm super thanks buddy. Yes please, that'll be fantastic - really enjoyed the last day with you - felt like things were starting to come together well:001_smile:

Cherres Mozza

Thanks bud How's it going? Hope you're well:thumbup:

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hahaha I dread to think....... Cheers buddy:001_smile: I'll try and put a few more up

Here's a few little bit's I've made...

Wowzers you've been a busy bee bud, they look wicked!! Nice table by the look of it too, haha. Have you blisters on top of blisters now??

Works of art dude, works of art:thumbup:

Since ancient times some have believed that the first man was created from the branches and flesh of the Ash tree (and also of the oak). The Ancient Greeks thought that at the beginning of time cloud-ash was produced spawning small melia which came together and resulted in humanity being created. (The oak was thought to produce the first man and the trees themselves were called the first mothers). Perhaps if it can create man this is also why the ash tree was thought traditionally to hold many curative powers. Stories and legends abound for this tree. Some connected with the supernatural and often with negative energies, whilst others have a root within specific belief systems such as Paganism or Christianity. One mythological belief focuses on when Christianity was brought to Northern Europe, the Scandinavian gods of the North were obviously affected by this new belief. They were transformed into witches and the ash became their favourite tree. In 'Phantastes' Dr. George MacDonald tells how the 'Forest of Fairyland' was a place visited by witches. There was an ash tree in the forest which was thought to be an ogre, or at least people thought that evil forces dwelled there, and on 'Walpurgis Night' it was said that the witches ate the tree buds so that there would not be any on 'St. John's Night'. To keep 'Askafora' (Eschenfrau) or wife of the ash content an offering had to be given on Ash Wednesday. She was seen as a particularly evil spirit who wrought havoc when not satisfied with events around her. The seeds of the Ash have long been used in love divination. If the seeds did not appear on a tree the owner was thought to have been unlucky in love, or a future venture would not be successful. By repeating the following traditional English (UK) verse the inquirer would soon have the identity of their intended revealed: Love Divination Verse 'Even-ash, even-ash, I pluck thee, This night my own true love to see, Neither in his bed nor in the bare, But in the clothes he does every day wear.' In the North of England (UK) it was thought that by a woman placing an Ash leaf in the left shoe, she would be fortunate enough to meet her future spouse immediately. Another traditional English (UK) verse was held to have the power to reveal weather information: Weather Changes 'If the ash leaf appears before the oak, Then there'll be a very great soak. But if the oak comes before the ash, Then expect a very small splash.' To ward off negative energies and personal misfortune the following English (UK) verse was thought to aid those who came upon an Ash tree and picked a leaf from a branch: 'Even ash, I do thee pluck, Hoping thus to meet good luck. If no good luck I get from thee, I shall wish thee on the tree.' Having found a leaf by chance, success and happiness would be doubly assured if the Ash leaf was kept upon the person or worn openly. A wonderful Norwegian love story tells of 'Axel Thordsen and Fair Valdborg'. The two were never a couple in life but upon death they were buried close to each other. An Ash tree was planted on each grave. As the trees grew to the same height the branches inclined and became entwined. In the story of 'Lay le Fraine', that translates as the 'Adventures of the Ash' or the 'Lay of the Ash Tree', a twin is deserted by the mother. It is left at the door of an abbey underneath an Ash tree. This French romantic tale says that the infant is found by as abbess. She called the child 'Le Fraine' because of it being found under the tree. Another legend from Scandinavia tells of how a giant once gave an Ash tree to a community. He proceeded to instruct them to place the Ash tree on a church altar. The giant told them that he wanted to destroy the church. Rather than follow this perhaps sacrilegious instruction, the people deposited the Ash tree on top of a grave. It immediately burst into flames. There is no Ash tree in the churchyard of 'Nortorf, Holstein'. According to Saxon legend one may eventually grow into a tree, as each year an Ash shoot appears. On 'New Year's Night' each year it is cut down by a white horseman riding a white horse, and every time a black horseman with a black steed tries to stop him. The white horseman thought fends off the black horseman's challenge. It is said that the tree will grow when the black horseman succeeds in challenging his opposite. When this happens the tree will be tall enough for a horse to be tied underneath it, and so the king will be able to fight a mighty battle with his army. The horse under the tree will belong to the king and will stand there all the way through the battle. If this happens, the king will become more powerful than before.