Tony Needs Hobbies

When you own knives you need to keep them sharp. For that purpose I made this simple double sided paddle strop. It has top grain leather on one side, suede on the other side. That makes this paddle strop very versatile and perfect for honing the blades of your wood carving knives, pocked knives or

In this video I am making mead like the Vikings did back in the day – without the addition of yeast from a bag. All the yeast that fermented the honey came from the ingredients used: the elderflowers, ginger bug and the wildflower honey itself. It’s super easy to make as well and the result

Pearocello is a very easy to make drink that you make by following recipes for Limoncello. Instead of using lemons you replace them by unripe pears. Let them sit in pure alcohol for a month and add a simple syrup. But the resulting liquid in bottles, and refrigerate. Enjoy this greenish, peary and smooth drink

Recently I’ve acquired a very large vise that I am planning on using for blacksmithing projects. The vise was very cheap but there is one thing wrong with it: it doesn’t open. In this video I’m figuring out what’s wrong with this engineering vise. Then I am going to fix it by replacing the part

It’s finally time to make the @alecsteele Build-A-Knife-Box. I got the kit for a Sheeps Foot knife from the @alecsteelco a while ago. It took some time to gather the tools and confidence to start making it and it was totally worth it. With these kits it’s not too difficult to get started with knife

A while ago I made a leather strap cutter on this channel. Since then many people have asked me how the blade is installed exactly, since this wasn’t clear from the video. I hope this video shows better how to install the blade in the handmade leather strap cutter. Be sure to also check out

In this short I’ll quickly show you how I make strawberry jam from fresh homegrown strawberries. A while ago I made a rack for strawberry plants. This year they produces many more strawberries than my wife and I eat. To preserve a lot of strawberries I turned a part of them into delicious homemade jam.

Ginger bug is a mixture of ginger, sugar and water that has been allowed to ferment until it’s bubbly. It can be used to make all kinds of sodas and help with fermentation of mead. In this short video I’ll show you how to make ginger bug and how to use it to make wild

In this video I will show you how to make a beautiful hand tooled and carved bifold wallet. The wallet will get a Western floral pattern carved and tooled into it. Even with limited leather carving and tooling experience I’m pretty confident you can make a similar wallet too. Just get yourself some vegetable tanned

This time I’m making a sheath for a Leatherman Wave multitool. This wet molded leather sheath has two pouches: one for the Leatherman multitool and another one for the bit kit you can get for it. The video will show you the entire process how this sheath is made, so you can make one yourself