Axes

[felixthelogchopper]

try northern tool double head hickory handle £16.00

 

Got a link?

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Mmmm Next you will be after a longboat, a hard hat with horns on it and a big beard

 

this forum is entitled chainsaw....its all in the name you know:001_tt2:

 

Just joking around:thumbup:

 

Spud

 

PS - do you want the axe ported or tuned up!!

 

Working on the wooden boat at present with someone I know in Arendal Noreg:thumbup: I know not a chainsaw but not sure where else to place info and would be used with a saw:001_rolleyes:

 

Need one that has a good edge and stays sharp. Thanks for all the helpful info. Throwing them looks like fun.

[twistedhicap]

Grandfors if you want it to stay sharp i fear the northen tools effot will be made of metal dfromage I E cheese steel and wont take or hold an edge !

 

i hve a grandfors forest axe and hell does it keep an edge !

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Rubbish steel is an issue as I had a cheap kindling axe and on the first chop is broke a section of the edge off and was nightmare to sharpen. The same with wedges.

[twistedhicap]

i only buy old old steel tools as they were made from the right stuff when steel was steel and boys were scared !!!!

 

any of the good swedish steel axes will hold well the german steel was always good too as well as old shefield steel too ~:~

[Chris Gagen]

I've just spent the afternoon hand sharpening two old axes one a Brades 4 1/2 lb and the other an Elwell 1 3/4lb. I found it a most satisfying experience to bring these previously chipped and neglected tools back to their former glory. I do like an edge you can shave with:sneaky2:

 

Also immensely satisfying to swipe through 2" thick branches with the Elwell effortlessly, I think these two will make a great start to the arsenal for greenwood working tools already being expanded by Cracker who is kindly making me a froe and drawknife!

[blazer]

I've just spent the afternoon hand sharpening two old axes one a Brades 4 1/2 lb and the other an Elwell 1 3/4lb. I found it a most satisfying experience to bring these previously chipped and neglected tools back to their former glory. I do like an edge you can shave with:sneaky2:

 

Also immensely satisfying to swipe through 2" thick branches with the Elwell effortlessly, I think these two will make a great start to the arsenal for greenwood working tools already being expanded by Cracker who is kindly making me a froe and drawknife!

 

I'm with you there, I have say 50 edged tools, Plus 3 elwell '7'. I don't just sharpen then I 'tune' them for different jobs. With buying old edged tools, they are best just blunt as it sharpened in recent times they may be softened up by a misused grinder.

 

I have all types of edges from solid cast steel, wrap on forgewelded edges ( can wear out, and forge welded sandwiched heads + a few swedish. It takes say 4+ hours to sharpen, from careful grinding ( with plenty of cooling water) to different oilstones.

 

I do engineering plus used to do butchering which helps, with the old saying," if you can see the edge - it's blunt".

 

One point, many of the older axes are now age hardened, I have heard of old axemen putting a new axe in a hedge for a couple of years to harden the head a bit more before using it.

 

Pity you live so far away:thumbup1:

[Graham]

olivemead forge

 

Try this guy. Makes good tools the proper way.