A lady asked me if I could make an axe similar shaped like the one shown here for her wood carving / processing hobby. So I went ahead, selected an old axe head from my small collection, and started cleaning it up, re-shaping it, and putting a handle on it. […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
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For a while I wanted to make a lightweight bucksaw from aluminium that would be easily taken apart for transport. In this video I am showing how I made mine of 2 t-profile pieces for the side pieces, and 1 square piece for the middle bar. Sadly enough it failed […]
There are so many stories about what the best method is to protect your wood handle of an axe or knife. Therefore I wanted to see it for myself what works and what the consequences are. Small test on 3 pieces of an axe handle. Number 1 without any treatment. […]
Recently I bought another medieval axe head, which had a lot of rust on it. I have restored as well several other medieval axe heads using the vinegar method, but this is very time consuming since the huge layers of rust are hard to penetrate, and it takes sometimes up […]