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    I'm in the process of painting, and treating my garden tools before the season.

    I've a long-handled forged steel fork which is 40-60 years old and has a broken ash split YD handle. It is secured to the ferrule by means of two rivets. I think my dad left it outside
    It has rotted where the handle (straight bit of the D) was attached and there's not the material on the curved bit of the D to attach a new handle. Besides my neighbour who has a lathe is now is a care home.
    Looking on the web for a replacement handle I can't find a split YD that is fully ash.
    The Faithfull brand ones have a metal (curved bit of the D) an ash handle (straight bit of the D) and an ash vertical

    The ones I can see which are fully wooden are made of Toona / Toon, which I think is, perhaps Toona sinensis syn Cydrella sinensis(Chinese mahogany).

    Has anyone any experience of this type of wood. Is it as tough as Ash? (which we'll be seeing less frequently for tool handles as Ash dieback wipes out stocks. Does it take raw linseed out better without looking skanky?
    Is hickory, which is found on hammers and adzes suited to long-handled garden tools or it it more for impact tools?
    This could get awkward at the wholesaler as I do in fact also need plugs, hose, a foot pump, tap washers and a billhook.

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    Four candles??











    Sorry, I just couldn't help myself

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
      Four candles??
      My thought exactly Scarlet

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
        Four candles??











        Sorry, I just couldn't help myself
        No, I have candles.

        Yes, that was indeed the meme I referred to thusly:
        "This could get awkward at the wholesaler as I do in fact also need plugs, hose, a foot pump, tap washers and a billhook".
        I don't need peas because I sowed them last week and I'm not taking a parrot back to the local shop..
        Last edited by JustPotteringAbout; 02-05-2018, 02:22 AM.

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          • #6
            You might want to try contacting any local wood turners near you to see if you can get one made - not particularly difficult and people like to use their skills.

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            • #7
              Would this do?
              Bulldog Ash Capless YD 28", Straight Blunt End, (Replacement Handle Only)

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              • #8
                Forgot to say it's a Spear and Jackson, tapered ferrule and I was already in touch with them

                I asked about Toona and hickory but thanks for your response.

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                • #9
                  Is it a Spear & Jackson No.3 - like Eric Olthwaite's?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                    Is it a Spear & Jackson No.3 - like Eric Olthwaite's?
                    I had no idea who that was until I looked him up and ...
                    Eric Olthwaite is so boring that ...
                    ...talked excitedly about shovels and precipitation
                    ... terminally boring Eric, whose mind-boggling tediousness
                    "Oh God", I thought "that's me sometimes isn't it", before I was drawn into watching every episode of Ripping Yarns I could find..

                    I cleared my neighbour's abandoned garden of Taraxacum on Sunday and borrowed a broom from their neighbour's garden.

                    Three sweeps and SNAP!
                    I guess that answers that question about using handles for tools that aren't Ash or Hickory.

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                      Eric's parents pretended to be French so they wouldn't have to speak to him
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                        My Blackberry isn't working -
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