Here is our replica bronze age boat in the courtyard of Borlougne castle. Read about the building of it here Our job now was just two of us had to get it inside the medieval building behind. We had been told it wouldn’t fit and we would have to dismantle it and rebuild it inside, it looked to us like…
The Old Police Station Edale is now up and running as a wonderful holiday cottage. I’ll share a few pics below and feel free to share the website with friends via blogs or facebook…..I need some bookings.Regular blog readers may remember me starting the work converting it knocking the first wall down back in December Well now it looks like…
The last 3 weeks have been hectic but fun. First I worked at Hever Castle in Kent, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, an impressive Tudor castle with fantastic gardens created by Lord Astor in the early 20th Century. Is this the best spot to work a lathe ever?and these are the porringers I made on the first of four…
I am just back from a couple of weeks working in France and have some nice work pictures to share, first though how about a couple of French tarts. Why is it that the French do these so well? Tarte au citron and tarte au framboise, just yummy. The culinary highlight of the trip however was a trip to a…
A few weeks ago I was demonstrating turning at Hever Castle in Kent and fell in love with these huge pots. Doing my research afterwards it turns out they were collected in Italy by Lord Astor in the early 20th Century and are thought to be from Pompeii. Wherever they are from I adore the presence of them, the gorgeous…
The time came yesterday to launch the Viking ship replica I worked on last November. I would have loved to be there, she looks beautiful on the water. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5-F3eMzcQE] Here is the link back to the blog posts about my time working on the build. and for anyone interested in traditional ship building I thought it would be fun to…
I just found these photos from a great tour of the Morgan car factory last year, hope you enjoy them as much as I did the tour. Looking down on the back wheel of the new 3 wheeler. and from the front, can’t beat a big V twin engine. I quite liked the WW11 fighter style paintjob parked outside was…
After our replica bronze ago boat failed to float on it’s maiden dipping we had to tow it round to the waiting crowds and assembled press on a trailer where there were speeches and a bottle of bubbly cracked over her. She was named Ole Crumlin-Pederson after the archaeologist/shipbuilder who gave much advice and inspiration for the project but sadly…
After 3 months work May 12th was scheduled launch day for our replica bronze age boat. We had been working flat out just to get the thing together in time and had no time to test if it was waterproof and make adjustments as planned. We had a relaxed start for the first time in 2 weeks, if 8.30 after…
Having knocked off at 4am last Thursday night we were back at work at 8am Friday am with 30 hours to go to boat launch and lots of work ahead. All we need to do is fix the 4 top planks in place. Pete Clark the organiser of the whole project spent the day pacing outside like an expectant dad…
