| Blog series by mafe | updated 12-26-2020 01:28 PM | 8 parts | 90297 reads | 112 comments total |
Part 1: Making a leather sheath for a axe or adze.
Axes, Adzes and Drawknife’smaking a leather sheath for an axe or adze. This is first part of a little series where I will go through the types of, making sheaths, and handles for axes, adzes and drawknife’s, it will not be a general teaching, just me telling of how I do what I learned, and the types I have. Making a leather sheath: First you need some good leather, I personally use a thick hard pressured front piece cowhide app. 2 mm (I believe you call it harness leather in US), thi...
Part 2: Making a leather sheath for a axe or adze.
Axes, Adzes and Drawknife’s part IImaking a leather sheath for an axe or adze. This is second part of a little series where I will go through the types of, making sheaths, and handles for axes, adzes and drawknife’s, it will not be a general teaching, just me telling of how I do what I learned, and the types I have. Making a leather sheath II sewing: For the sewing you will need needles and waxed thread or at least thread and a block of wax. So now it’s time to ride the pony...
Part 3: Drawknifes restore and MaFe's sheath types
Drawknives restore and MaFe’s sheath types. we are back in Gepetto’s tool cabinet. Some old drawknives from E-bay, it might seem to be trash, but with a little work they are back to life.Also I will show how to make a ‘sheath. This blog is dedicated to Andy (Brit) since I know he have a few on his way these days. Old stuff price a few Euros, and it is often possible to make buys like this.I know ‘trash to some’ priceless to others (me by the way). Ano...
Part 4: Drawknifes restore and MaFe's sheath types
Drawknives restore and MaFe’s sheath types. we are back in Gepetto’s tool cabinet. This is part two of the drawknives restore and MaFe’s sheath type’s blog.In this part the handles will be mounted and we will make a sheath. This blog is dedicated to Andy (Brit) since I know he have a few on his way these days. This was where we left last blog, knife blades and handles. Break up the old, be careful not to bang your chisel into the metal! This old handle was act...
Part 5: New handle for an old hand forged gutter adze.
New handle for an old hand forged gutter adze head from the Danish island Omø. I had the luck to buy some wonderful old tools from a Danish carpenter.Among these tools were this beautiful old gutter adze head, hand forged on a small Danish island called Omø, a local islander blacksmith there made this way back as you can see.In Danish we call the tool: tængsel, huljern, huløkse. As always I prefer a restore as gentle as possible, so I grinded of the bended edges, since these are dangero...
Part 6: Restore an old French axe - handle and care detailed.
Restore an old French axe handle and care detailed. Some years back I bought a few wonderful axe heads from France, this is one of them and how it came back to life. (This is a old series of pictures I just found on my computer from my old workshop. guess they never got out). ;-) Here the tools that came from France. Step one is to grind of any bend out edges, since these are potentially a danger.(Yes I was a boy scout once and did get the axe medal – smiles). This is what ...
Part 7: Carpenters adze - making a handle.
Carpenters adze making a handle I’m not an expert in adzes but after what I have read, this is a carpenters adze du to the shape of the head.It was a gift from a boat builder some years back.This is how it got a handle. In Danish it’s called a: skar økse. I made some study on the web and found it should have a curve towards the cutting edge and that the distance from the end of the handle to the cutting edge and to the handle end should be the same.The length I made just a w...
Part 8: Hand forged Bulgarian axe - sheath and handle
Hand forged Bulgarian axesheath and handle. This is another one from the drawer of blogs, to be precise from my birthday back in the summer 2017, I had just gotten a wonderful little axe head, from a Bulgarian blacksmith and needed to bring it to life. I bought it because I wanted to have a small camp axe, that would be lightweight, easy to carry, a good wood splitter and useful for woodworking when in the camp. So not a tree felling axe, as I bring a knock down saw for that. Here h...
I'm a Danish architect form 1968, who have retired because of a spinal neck operation with a bad result. This is now giving me the chance to spend some time on my old passion 'woodworking', and allows me to work with all the lovely tools from different cultures of this world.
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