How To Make Traditional Wooden Tent Pegs

[@stephenluna2997]

This was very entertaining. It's amazing to think of how ingenious and resourceful our ancestors needed to be in order to survive.

[@vajake1]

Very nice video Sir Harry! Thanks very much for posting the one! Bob from Virginia, USA.

[@harryrogers]

vajake1 Thanks Bob

[@transmundanium]

Another good video Harry. I think that you should put a block on your bench when using that stock knife. You would be able to work closer to the end, which gives more leverage and control. Hope to meet up with you at the Ball in May.

[@harryrogers]

Darrell LaRue Thanks...and yes someone else suggested that and it did help a lot...thanks again.

[@michaelflynn6178]

Looked like a good day out Thanks for posting

[@harryrogers]

Michael Flynn Yes it was great...spent the weekend there!

[@voodooalpaca8659]

Harry great video as always. shame you didn't have a go with the axe, that was really quick. maybe another film? when we meet next we can test some pegs out, see if the head does come off if you don't have a small head! Hedge laying Phill

[@wiffasmith1]

Top Vid Harry, better than the tele! x

[@harryrogers]

Heather Smith Thanks

[@TheMrWoodsman]

Hi Harry, thank you for this video, I have been trying to find a power arm knife, can you tell me the best place to try, can't see any on eBay. Regards

[@harryrogers]

TheMrWoodsman Hi a few options...try and get a paroir knife off ebay France....or bolt a section of billhook onto an iron bar handle....or blacksmith something up....I may show how to blacksmith one from a horse rasp soon.

[@TheMrWoodsman]

It would be great if you could show how to make one, that way it would be something I have made. Regards

[@jr7141]

Hi, what tool you are using at 2:30 ahead. It would be interesting to make one such thing

[@harryrogers]

hönö olett it's a paroir...a clog makers stock knife French style.

[@jackmack9325]

Did you make your stock knife? great video

[@harryrogers]

Jack Mack no ebay France for that one...

[@hohtari1]

Does lacquering them make sense?

[@justbreakingballs]

I doubt it

[@tombrown407]

The Laquer, or indeed any exterior treatment will come straight off after a few uses. Soil is full of grit which will scratch it off. They would need repainting very frequently, and this would hide signs of rot taking hold.

[@quadratfahrer]

Would be mandatory to see how they make it in use over time on different types of soil.

[@jeremyatkinson4976]

A paroir isn't a type of stock knife anymore than a stock knife is a type of paroir. A stock knife is one of the three pivot blade knives used in british clogmaking. It is not a term for a group of similar pivot knives, even though generalists in green woodworking circles persist in this delusion..... To make pegs with a pivot blade knife it's best to use what specialist peg makers refer to as a peg knife or pegging knife. It is dimensionally different from both a paroir [for french sabots] and a stock knife [used in the carving of british clog soles] and works far better than both. Elwell used to make peg knives. It's not really a fair comparison to use a tool not optimised for the task in hand.