Wobblycogs Workshop

  • Garlic is very easy to grow and is affected by fewer pests and diseases than most plants. Planting The soil should be free draining and largely spent e.g. not too nutrient rich. If the soil holds too much water the…

  • Calcium chloride is used extensively in the food industry and is considered a very safe additive by all the food safety bodies. When it comes to pickles it has two primary functions, it gives a salty taste and (more importantly)…

  • I bought this riser for myself March 2025 and I’m writing this about six months later after shooting a good few thousand arrows with it. Overall I like the riser but I can’t help comparing it to the Kinetic riser…

  • I was processing the pickling onions I grew this year and started to wonder what I could do with the onion greens (e.g. the leaves). All parts of the onion are edible, even the roots apparently, so it seems a…

  • Let me start by saying I’m not a professional archer, I’m not even a good archer, so take what I say with a large pinch of salt. Having said that I’m super impressed with the quality of this riser. I…

  • I recently took up archery and I thought it would be useful to record my progression of equipment. I’m lucky in that I have found a really good club and there’s a particularly helpful archery shop a short drive away.…

  • I make a small amount of money through Google AdSense, just about enough to pay for the server that runs this site if you were wondering. I honestly don’t know if it’s worth it for the amount of hassle it…

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  • I use a lot of different materials while I’m doing DIY and I figured it would be useful to keep a list of what I use so that I can buy them again if I like them and match what…

  • My tumble down house never seems to not need some work doing on it. At the moment that means I’m restoring the sash windows at the front of the house. They are about 200 years old and probably haven’t been…

  • This page details items backed using the Three Malt and Sunflower flour from Shipton Mill. This is a premium flour and at the time of writing is £2.45/kg (compared with £1.80/kg for plain white bread flour). The flour contains malted…

  • I recently bought myself a small collection of Abus Titalium locks. The name suggests that these are made from or at least contain titanium but as far as I can tell that isn’t the case. From the weight I assume…

  • I decided to have a shot at picking one of my Gege AP1000 cylinder locks (specifically #1 which is 55mm long and snapped.). The keyway and side profile of the lock can be seen in this earlier post. This is…

  • The locks below are part of my collection I bought them as a job lot and didn’t know what any of them were. These are my best guesses. Gege AP1000 Cylinders I have three of these, two in brass and…

  • I bought this lock as part of a job lot of snapped euro cylinders. All of them came with keys but none of them came with any information and it turns out cylinders don’t seem to have markings telling you…