Wooden Tent Pegs
Standard Sweet Chestnut cleft and drawknife finished tent pegs 9" or 12" - £1.20 each. 15" are £1.50.
I can make the pegs to any size (within reason) and they are surprisingly not too expensive to post either, usually in bundles of 24 or so. The perfect way to hold up canvas tents, Safari/Bell or otherwise. Sometimes a set of the smaller 9" compliment a dozen or so 12 " well, depending on the tent design. The go-to 'good' all round general size, if you're unsure, is the standard 12" (30cm) tent peg.
Making tent pegs with the drawknife on the shavehorse is something I demonstrate at Wood shows. Often nowadays wooden tent pegs are sawn or made using a stock knife. The sawn ones are slightly weaker as they don't work with the grain. The stock knifed ones (derived from a clog makers stock-knife being a large knife held at one end to a block by a ring and handle at other end, used to slice downward with force) are great, if a little less refined and are done in as a few as 18 cuts.
I like to do them the same way the hundreds of thousands were done in the Chilterns during WWII for the allied troops, although they used Beech wood.
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I can make the pegs to any size (within reason) and they are surprisingly not too expensive to post either, usually in bundles of 24 or so. The perfect way to hold up canvas tents, Safari/Bell or otherwise. Sometimes a set of the smaller 9" compliment a dozen or so 12 " well, depending on the tent design. The go-to 'good' all round general size, if you're unsure, is the standard 12" (30cm) tent peg.
Making tent pegs with the drawknife on the shavehorse is something I demonstrate at Wood shows. Often nowadays wooden tent pegs are sawn or made using a stock knife. The sawn ones are slightly weaker as they don't work with the grain. The stock knifed ones (derived from a clog makers stock-knife being a large knife held at one end to a block by a ring and handle at other end, used to slice downward with force) are great, if a little less refined and are done in as a few as 18 cuts.
I like to do them the same way the hundreds of thousands were done in the Chilterns during WWII for the allied troops, although they used Beech wood.
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