• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

maw

..we perfect wood




  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
You are here: Home / Uncategorized / #No Comment & Cheap Tools

#No Comment & Cheap Tools

February 5, 2011 by Omoba Odusanya Leave a Comment

Two things here…

There seem to be two different types of comment boxes on Blogger blogs.

The ones which appear like this I have no trouble leaving a comment on…

But the ones that look like this…

No matter what I do and even if I’m signed into my Google account, I can’t leave comments.  I have no trouble with WordPress blogs.
Anyone else experience similar problems or is it just me?

Anyway Sean Hellman’s blog is one that I can’t comment on and he made a post on Thursday – “Quality Tools – Cheap Axe” – this is my comment.

I’m going to be running courses at our Greenwood Camp this year for up to four people at a time so am looking to buy some more tools especially lathe tools – spindle gouges, skews etc.  I asked for a quote from Ashley Iles and they came back with £180.  I looked round on the web at various other tool suppliers – Axminster etc – and found I could get the same tools for just over £100.
Now Ashley Iles is a family run company based in Lincolnshire and their tools are  “Forged, ground and tempered by timeserved craftsmen using the traditional methods of the golden age of tool making.”  The other tools are, I suspect, made in China (as Sean’s axe most certainly is).  It’s a bit like buying locally produced, organic food or “buy-one-get-one-free” Polish chickens from Tesco.  I’ve got nothing against the Chinese (except perhaps their human rights record and exploitation of workers) or the Poles but I think I will be buying British and supporting our economy and our craftsmen.

***

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • A BODGER’S NEW YEAR NEWS
  • BODGER IN THE SHADE OF A TULIP TREE
  • A BUSY TIME FOR A BODGER
  • MILL GREEN WATERMILL – A 17th CENTURY GEM
  • HEARING VOICES IN TREES!?

Recent Comments

    Copyright © 2021 · Genesis Sample on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in