If the handles are in bad condition, rehandling may be an 'added value' option if you can do it without making the tool too expensive. Remember that most woodland workers aren't very flush with money.
If we can we always get Elwells as they are good quality and although pretty old, work beautifully. Not sure you would get the sort of mark up you would like as most woodland and craftsmen don't earn much, but if you got them for free or virtually nothing, might be worth while.
Notice the underside of the head Chris,it is curved like an Elwell,another Hatchet maker Howell`s of Pontypool made a similar Hatchet with the curved underside,they were taken over by Elwell`s in later years,in comparison the Whitehouse brand of Hatchets had a straight underside,all of them top quality steel.
If we can we always get Elwells as they are good quality and although pretty old, work beautifully. Not sure you would get the sort of mark up you would like as most woodland and craftsmen don't earn much, but if you got them for free or virtually nothing, might be worth while.
Notice the underside of the head Chris,it is curved like an Elwell,another Hatchet maker Howell`s of Pontypool made a similar Hatchet with the curved underside,they were taken over by Elwell`s in later years,in comparison the Whitehouse brand of Hatchets had a straight underside,all of them top quality steel.
That particular Holcombe Hatchet is 6 1/2lbs,a repairers Hatchet for cutting out timber above ones head,a Whitehouse Colliers Hatchet is heavier at around the 9lbs mark for notching heavy timbers.
That looks like a really nice axe Ty Gwyn. We have a modern splitting axe and an old one, of unknown source for small jobs like kindling, although I do use it for cutting twiggy things, what we call Hampshire pimps or firelighter bundles, to length sometimes.
I am glad to report that Sainsbury's seem to have overcome their logistics problem on dried fruit at the moment, so let's hope they continue to do so.
Reading that report, I am unsure about the section on bees. One report I read seemed to indicate that someone was bringing in full hives of bees, which has for some time been banned by the UK to prevent importing bee disease. Even queens and nuclei have to be inspected before being allowed in, and this has been the case for years. It is probably correct about the problems with exporting honey.
The traditional way is using a batten and a special 'needle' which looks a bit like a variation on a simple weaving stick shuttle. I have done it, but can't remember quite how to do the knots.
That joke may now be East German, but during WWII it was an 'in' joke as well. My father told me that people used to join a queue as they were sure there was something 'off ration' at the end of it.
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