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Sorry you feel this way. 🤗 thanks for sharing. I don’t enhance the sound. I simply share whatever the raw audio is that comes into my camera. I don’t think I actually have the skills to tamer with it haha Not for everyone’s taste I’m sure. Thanks for stopping by. 💚

@ Thanks for answering. Maybe is the microphone of your device. None the less, I really like your work and approach. Be good. New subscriber here.

@ thank you for the feedback. It really helps. I’ll look into the settings of my camera to see if I can make the footage less abrasive. Have a lovely holiday season. ✌️

@ You too!

I don’t think that there is an edge that’s quite like it, providing the steel quality is good!! With more brittle metals and spring steel, I probably wouldn’t hollow, or at least I’d create a decent flat-over-hollow style. I think that with precise hand sharpening chisel jigs becoming cheaper and widely available, more people are opting for them, but then they eventually get a Tormek anyways to save time… For the axe, it’s completely transformed my approach to carving. I used to teach people how to hand sharpen them, but using this method is just so precise and removes most of the human error that contributes to a rounded, convex bevel. I’m so pleased you could learn something new today. Thank you for watching along and for the compliments.

I haven’t injured my thumb in 9 years 🙏 touch wood

This is so kind. Thank you so much 😊 I am really happy your enjoying watching along

all in the description and at the end of the video ✌️

You can use tung but I find it to leave an unpleasant taste that lingers for too long

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Thank you! Good question. To be honest, a well profiled knife should get along with any stop. There are debates that favour expensive kangaroo leather but this is just something I made… a piece of old off-cut leather from a leather tannery in London. Suede side up. I haven’t been too fussy and to has served me well! I’d say that I’d I was to make another, id look to find a piece of leather that isn’t too thick, nor too squishy

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Exactly! A very happy wood carver

Thank you so much Mikey 💚🙏

Hey there Les. Great question. So I would clamp it and brush the outer bevel away using an abrasive, attached to some kind of paddle. I’d begin by highlighting the bevel with a marker pen and then clamping in a bench, edge up. Be careful to notify anyone that also uses your space as I have seen this go rather south too. Now, if it is just to sharpen a factory edge, start with a grit of 600 wet and dry paper, pulled tightly and taped at each end of a paddle. Brush the paddle away from the edge, aiming to remove all of the marker pen. Before graduating to another grit on the same bevel, wrap the paper around some dowel and lightly brush from left to right on the inner edge to tackle any burr before replacing the paper with 800, 1000, 1500, 2000. Finally, strop the outer bevel and repeat the dowel method with 2000 on the inner. Hope this helps!

@samuelalexandershapes thank you for that 😊 🙏 will give it a go. I also thought that not to far back, on the inside edge it looked a little bit on the thick side ?? About 3/4" back from the blade edge, it seems to sweep out thick quite quickly. If that makes sense. Regarding work area, just me. Yes I've had a few cuts, yes get nagged by the wife, why do you want everything so sharp ??. ( have to be careful 🧐 on blood thinners) Finally, have a great Christmas 🎄 and New Year. Cheers Les.

@@lesliecrowther7004 Yes, adzes tend to be quite aggressive in their taper toward the bevel. It depends how they’re forged and with that steel but they usually are thick, if not for strength then for weight. A light adze is so so in-accurate compared to a heavier one that asks more of important muscle groups. There should be little to no risk of cutting yourself with the adze if you use it with two hands. I put my non-dominant hand under the wrist to provide little room for sideways movement, another anchor point. Like most, I’d say that the hazardous force required to drag or push a dull knife through wood is far more dangerous than an obedient sharp one. But yes, do be careful if on the thinners please! I hope you’re having a wonderful festive holiday Les

I occasionally do! Not with tough woods, but with birch, I tend not to worry heaps. I made this before I got my Tormek and found an old splitting axe.

Thank you Mark! I’m glad you enjoy the sharpening and the maintenance also

Thank you!

Thank you!

Hello! Thank you so much. I don’t burnish anything, just knife work

Excuse the pic, my son has commandeered my RUclips account!!

Thank you so much.

Thank you for this comment. There is something really satisfyingly specific about ringing tools. I wasn’t aware about this Swedish place. I haven’t really explored Sweden much. There is a beautifully interwoven wood carving slöjd culture there that I have been lucky enough to experience just a fraction of through meeting the most wonderful and generous of carvers from Sweden. I hope to someday visit for longer and teach there. I am now going to delve into the research of this particular place! I hope to find that their towns bell is actually a hammer on some wrought iron 😂

@samuelalexandershapes hehehe 😄 that was cute about your hopes for a hammer instead of a bell. 😊 I'm so glad I've given you something to enjoy researching. Torsång is located in Dalarna and if your Swedish contact (s) haven't mentioned it yet near/around the beautiful lake Siljan there are lots of handcrafters of all sorts. Specifically, you might also enjoy knowing about an amazing place that I dreamt of attending for many years but was unable to called Sätergläntan. It's like a dream come true there for all handy people and set in such an idealistic setting. You mentioned teaching and Sätergläntan is both a place one can learn or where one can work teaching others. The very best of luck to you! 🍀🌲✨🕯️

@ thank you! Yes I have heard of the sätergläntan many times. I have known some of my old students to study there and also know some of their tutors. It would be a dream of mine to be able to teach there. 💚

That's wonderful to hear you are already familiar with Sätergläntan. Hopefully you will get an opportunity to fulfill all your dreams over time. Thanks for this chat and all your content. 😊​@@samuelalexandershapes

Yes! I reached out to a castle estate nearby who I saw managed their trees extremely well. They had a lumber yard that I was allowed to peek and rummage though! So lucky, finally!

Thank you for the compliment and for watching along

I had to sit with this comment for a little while. Thank you so so much for this analysis and for taking the time to share your watching experience. Making these videos is such a joy and I do it for exactly these reasons. Thank you for bringing a tear to my eye 💚🍎

I really appreciate it. Thank you

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!!!

Thank you so much!!

Thank you very much. I’m so happy you have enjoyed watching

Thank you so much. It was a great feeling to Carve it. Yes! Beeswax indeed. Not ‘beeswax’ 🤦‍♂️ haha

‘Beedwax’

Thank you so much.

You’re so welcome!

Ah yes, my neighbours dog!

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I am a firm believer that you don't need all of this nice stuff to be able to carve and transport yourself into craft for a while. I am lucky enough to have encountered some great tool smiths over the years through my carving journey, but I started out with a carving kit that I purchased for under £100. I used a Mora 106, a Mora 164 and an axe from a hardware store that I re-profiled into a carving axe. This hoverer, is a great suggestion and I think you may have read my mind a little... I am beginning a new playlist series called TLC - Tool Loving Care. In this series I run through my tools, one by one, and detail what I like about them and why I have them and also sharpen a new edge on them. This first is my carving axe and I will be uploading in the next few hours.

Dude, you're awesome. I look forward to learning from you!​@@samuelalexandershapes

@@MrHigesama thank you! I haven’t uploaded yet, I don’t want to cluster videos too much. Perhaps today (Sunday) or Monday. I will see :)