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A Master Smith In The Making
YouTube, the school of YouTube – “It’s almost unfair,” says Grumpa (Graeme) about his grandson, Mack, as he tells of the process required to make a Damascus-style knife. This is a guy who is 14 – yes, 14 years old – who has been making knives for two
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Bakelite
The substance later called ‘bakelite’ was produced for the first time in 1872 by Adolf von Baeyer. Later, Leo Baekeland began experimenting on strengthening wood by impregnating it with a synthetic resin rather than coating it. In 1907, by controllin
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A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit Of That …
Off-grid living consists of a never-ending list of to-dos, which in turn get prioritised by urgency – or sometimes by the looks she gives me! Over summer, I’d been avoiding the list to concentrate on sailing, so there was a bit of a backlog. That was

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