{"id":2538,"date":"2016-10-08T22:24:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T20:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:23:40","slug":"giving-life-to-and-old-axe-yes-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Giving life to and old axe, yes, another one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I re-shaped an old rusty axe head, to make it more carving style, for the son of a lady I know from the outdoor scene. No pics of video of how I did that, there are enough of those in my previous blogs.<br>\n&#8211; Axe head, cleaned up, re-shaped, and sharpened.<br>\n&#8211; Handle, ash, sanded, lightly burned, sanded, oiled.<br>\n&#8211; Sheath, pigskin leather, saturated in hot bee wax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=2539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther1.jpg\" alt=\"axe-esther1\" class=\"wp-image-2539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther1-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=2540\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther2.jpg\" alt=\"axe-esther2\" class=\"wp-image-2540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther2-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=2541\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther3.jpg\" alt=\"axe-esther3\" class=\"wp-image-2541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther3-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=2542\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther4.jpg\" alt=\"axe-esther4\" class=\"wp-image-2542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/axe-esther4-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I re-shaped an old rusty axe head, to make it more carving style, for the son of a lady I know from the outdoor scene. No pics of video of how I did that, there are enough of those in my previous blogs. &#8211; Axe head, cleaned up, re-shaped, and sharpened. &#8211; Handle, ash, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diy-projects","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}