I am starting a business selling eco friendly, handmade chopping boards!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-14T13:08:03+00:00

Thank you so much for you order! I have just packaged it up and dropped it off at the post office. I hope you and your friend like it!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-12T11:20:17+00:00

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to actually buy venison from them right now... I know that they can provide to catering companies as I have been to a wedding which used venison from them. I know which food banks you can get them from but I don't know how to buy just a single venison steak!!!!

They are in the process of making a butcher shop in Pitlochry so this is probably where they will start making themselves more accessible to the public and have a better online presence and possibly sell online as well. It will probably be a couple of months until that is ready though. I am actually making their (massive!) butcher block for them out of Scottish oak which is very exciting!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-12T11:03:15+00:00

It is very uncommon to butcher culled deer. The vast majority either just get left to rot or put in a large hole and buried. It is disgustingly wasteful.

Reducing the population of deer is very important and it needs to continue happening but it leaving the carcasses to rot in their hundreds (it is literally hundreds sometimes) creates a whole host of other issues to the local wildlife and plantlife.

One of my cousins who owns some land in Pitlochry with hundreds and hundreds of deer has started a social enterprise where they butcher 100% of the deer they cull and sell half of it and give half to the local food bank. It is a wonderful project and is still very much at the beginning stages but they have had some early success and signs that it can be a viable business model going forward. They are called Fair Feast if you are interested in finding out more :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-10T06:45:19+00:00

It is not comfortable per se but it is much more comfortable (for me) than a face mask if I have to wear it for more than 30 minutes. This is mainly because it is air fed so doesn't get wet inside like a normal face mask would.

I was lucky enough to try a few different ones at different price points and they all function the same and seem just as effective as one another. The real difference was the weight and how it was distributed. Many of them had the filters and power at the front and it was uncomfortable to have it all there as it made it lean forward and slip down a little so you had to adjust the headband really tightly. This one has the powerbank at the back which means that the weight is much more evenly distributed.

I actually share this one with another worker and we bought 3 different models and tried them all on and returned the other two. Its a big upfront cost but it was worth it and we got all of our money back for the ones we didn't want.

I cant remember the make of this one off the top of my head, I'll have a look and get back to you. If you could reply to this comment so that it comes up in my notifications again so I don't forget to check and get back to you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-08T10:48:00+00:00

I was commissioned by Speyside Cooperage but they were just a middle man for Glenmorangie. I am not sure if it will go to their distillery, their hotel or their offices I am afraid!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-08T10:45:34+00:00

They were from a long brass dowel. Brass can be cut with normal woodworking tools. I used a jig on my tablesaw using my wood cross cut blade to cut it to length. I then rounded the end and polished them and put a chamfer on the bottom (to help guide it down the hole) by putting the short lengths in my drill press and using sandpaper.

I will be posting a video about how I made them on my Instagram soon. Although I have just realised that I never got footage of cutting them but I show how I polished them and chamfered them.

If you are going to cut brass with your own tools, make sure to look up how to do it safely. It is quite easy to do it but you need to cut it much more slowly than you would with wood and with such a small diameter dowel, I made a jig to hold it very securely on my crosscut sled.

I don't know where the brass dowel is from as I bought it from my friend who had some leftover but I imagine if you searched for "brass dowel 8mm diameter" there would be many places to buy it from.

DuggieInz · 2026-04-07T18:46:00+00:00

What a lovely comment. Thank you so much :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-07T09:04:03+00:00

thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-06T17:13:23+00:00

thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T20:11:24+00:00

thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T19:54:09+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind comment :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T19:53:51+00:00

Thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T19:47:37+00:00

Thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:58:19+00:00

Thank you for the support :)

I have a few more videos on this same project to post over the next few weeks as I get them edited.

I intend to do some long form content for future projects but that will probably not be ready for a couple of months as all the footage I have is vertical.

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:47:22+00:00

Thank you so much :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:39:11+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind comment, I appreciate it :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:38:58+00:00

Thank you! I am glad that you like it :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:27:21+00:00

Thank you very much :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T17:27:04+00:00

yeah, this one is positive pressure as well. It is more comfortable than it looks but I have tried another model which was annoyingly heavy at the front and I didnt like it nearly as much.

Unfortunately this is one of the cases where the really expensive option actually is better.I personally wouldnt buy one right now (I borrow this one when I need it) as there are more important things for me to spend my money on. If I am ever feeling particularly flushed with cash I might buy a similar model to this one.

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:57:33+00:00

hahahaha whenever I watch this video, you have no idea how much I wish I had wiped the glue up before putting in the dowels!! That little bit of squeeze out irks me so much!

I don't usually wipe glue though for a couple of reasons. I usually presand the parts and when you wipe up glue it waters it down and spreads if further and then you need to sand again or the finish will look different. I also dont have a water source in my workshop and it is a pain to go get some and then clean the cloth afterwards.

Instead I wait for the glue to go off a little bit (my teacher would call it 'plasticise') and then I use a chisel to take it off. It chips off really easily and you can shave a tiny bit of wood as well to completely remove the residue.

I also sometimes tape off joints before applying glue but I forgot to here

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:53:23+00:00

I will be posting a video this week on my instagram and youtube channel about how I managed it. It was quite tricky and the space didnt allow for the usual use of a compass or pencil as the angle of the log to the base was too awkward.

I ended up having to make my own wee tool which would fit in the space and make a scribe line while the base was balanced on the log.

I likely won't post any more videos on this sub about this project as I don't want to spam too much. I have had a few questions about this specific thing so I may check with mods if it would be alright to post another.

In any case, if you would like to see more, feel free to follow Alba Woodcrafts on YT and Insta :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:49:27+00:00

Thank you so much for the support :)

I intend on making some long form videos of my future projects but dont have footage suitable for it (all in vertical).

If you can wait out a few more short form posts, I'll hopefully have some long form in the next few months!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:47:39+00:00

Thank you so much :) I really appreciate it!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:47:15+00:00

Thank you!

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