About Ben & Lois Orford
We are based in the beautiful county of Herefordshire where we make hand made carving tools, bushcraft knives and leather goods from our workshop.
Reviews
Some fantastic colourful Buffy hats. Really love getting a delivery of these, only trouble is I want to keep all of them. If your looking for a wonderful handcrafted wool hat then look no further. These are on the store now #buffyhat #wool #colourful #handcrafted #bushcraftgear #unique #oneofakind
Finished off some Nomads today, haven’t managed to get any of these made for a while. These are available in either Natural or OD green Canvas micarta. These are on the store now. A perfect EDC and Uk legal too. #bushcraft #bushcraftknife #edc #folder #frictionfolder #scandi #woodcraft #adventure #travel
We managed to forage a few wild ingredients to make a hearty and healthy lunch the other day. If you want to see what we cooked then check out our latest YouTube video. Link in Bio 🎥 #soup #wildfood #cooking #outdoors #bushcraft #survival #fire #wildcooking #cookonthewildside #outdoorliving #cabinlife #springgreens #nomad
Showing you a few safe cutting techniques in our latest video plus how to propagate a whole new Tree. Hope you enjoy seeing some of the tools at work. Link in Bio 🎥 #cuttingtechnique #nomad #cuttingpower #willow #naturalresource #nature #wilderness #bushcraft #woodcraft
In the garden on this amazing spring day. Just got the runner beans in and had to cut new poles. These were cut straight from the hedgerow with zero miles from harvesting to the garden. The old ones now made fantastic kindling for the fire 🔥 fantastic to be self sufficient and helping in our little way to be a little more green. #garden #selfsufficiency #digforvictory #beans #eco #homegrown #straightfromthehedgerow
The natural ergonomics of this little stumpy antler handle is fantastic. Always love the prize of rummaging through the antler stash when making these Field knives. #antler #fieldknife #woodcraft #adventure #travel #woodcraft #spooncarving #spoons #bushcraft #cuttingtools
Our latest YouTube video is live and shows you how to sharpen a pen knife in the field. Hope it helps you get your knives razor sharp, stay safe and stay sharp. Link in Bio 🎥 #penknife #swimsarmyknife #fieldsharpening #keepitsimple #sharpasyourknife #bushcraft #survival #carving #woodcraft
Some of our range of Sloyd carving knives. We love making these straight bladed knives for your spoon carving needs as well as the hook knives. This would be a perfect set for all aspects of the spoon from roughing out to even the finest detail cuts. #bigpick #persianprecisionsloyd #englishsloydknife #spoons #carving #woodcraft #bushcraft #carving #handtools
Well if you want a light weight sharpening set for keeping all your Bushcraft and woodcraft tools in Tip top condition then our Carving tool sharpening kit is a great option. Our latest YouTube video shows what it contains. Link in the bio 🎥 hope you find it useful. #sharpening #carvingtools #knifemaking #sharptools #lightweight #fieldsharpening #carvingtools #spooncarving
Love this time of year when everything starts to burst into life. The sap is up so time to tap those Birches. Now we can harvest our own from our homegrown trees. Our latest YouTube video is up of us showing how we do it, check out our channel. Link in Bio 🎥 Hope you enjoy it. #sap #birches #tapping #wine #spring #tonic #pure #organic #bushcraft #selfsufficient #woodlander #woodcraft #woodsmen
Latest YouTube video is up on how we make the handle scales for a knife. Lots of fun showing how we go about making knives here in the workshop. Hope you enjoy seeing a little bit behind the scenes. Link in the bio 🎥 if you follow us on here but haven’t already subscribed to our YouTube channel you are missing out on some interesting content from Greenwood skills to knife making, it would be good to see you on there too, thanks for watching. #youtube #knifemaking #greenwoodwork #wip #workinprogresswednesday #wood #burls #handlescales #howto #tutorial #craftlabknives #benorfordmedia
What’s better than one axe? Two of coarse! One of our ATOMs side by side with a Gransfors hand hatchet. Both are available through our store. I love axes and love using them, these two are both razor sharp and ready for some fresh wood to cut. #axes #cuttingtools #razorsharp #greenwood #sloyd #spooncarving #bushcraft #woodcraft #woodcrafttools
Well sharp tools certainly make turning this Rounders bat a dream. For anyone outside the UK, Rounders is our equivalent of Baseball ⚾️ but far more reserved in our English way 🇬🇧 if you would like to see how it’s made check out our latest YouTube Video. Link in Bio 🎥 Hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it. #bat #rounders #minibaseball #turning #greenwood #polelathe #turning #fun #sweetchestnut #sharptools #ballgames #traditionalwoodworking #musclepower
My ATOM is dreaming of the coast again. It was a great but short trip to the coast, we hope to do a little more of the south west coast path this year. I will certainly be taking this little guy and maybe another blade in this AEB-L steel. Super impressed with its edge holding and corrosion resistance for sure. 👍 #craftlabknives #coast #swcp #southwestcoast #sea #stainless #atom #cuttingpower #awesome
When we have had such Biblical rain over the last few weeks and the whole of Herefordshire has been underwater at some point. The sunshine and these little guys can’t help but brighten your day. This year myself and Lois are going to make more time to enjoy the changing of the seasons even more than we normally do, and we hope you all do the same, nature is such a fantastic medicine for the soul. #sunshineatlast #nature #daffodils #health #outdoors #dirttime #soil #mothernatureknowsbest #onelifeliveit
Our carving tools are now back in stock on the store !We have had them off line for a bit while Lois recovered from her bad back. Thankfully she now seems out of pain but we will be taking a little longer to put the leather items back in stock. Thanks for all your patience with the delay in orders over the last month it has been a rough time and your concerns have been very much appreciated. Thanks again cheers Ben and Lois #backinstock #carvingtools #sloyd #thanks #muchappreciated #woodcraft #carving #spoons
This little AEB-L ATOM axe has been with me on the coast the last couple of days. So far it has been a great companion. Next test will be taking it for a dip under my wet suit. So far I love this steel @barmondspecialsteels #sea #coast #cuttingtools #bushcraft #edc #seaweed #adventure #travel #wildcoast
We have a fun little give away happening on our YouTube channel at the moment. Thought you may like to check it out
https://youtu.be/BrQTPMk9gxA