Axe Projects: Repairing and re-hafting tips and more!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Axe refurbishment, demonstration of how with patience and a small budget you can create a top quality axe. I share my experience on what tasks various axes are well suited for.
Great collection
Very good! Thumbs up from Ireland !:)
I appreciate your interest an comment Drone Girl, thank you!
I have never seen so many axes lol
That's alot of nice tools Chris, nice to have projects to work on :)
All the best
Seems like you like axes. By The Way that text in the start was a nice improvement
Yes, that would be fair to say :) Haha, glad you like the text, I struggled for ages to figure that out and was ridiculously excited to see the result.
Fantastic video. I followed our friend woodsrunner to your channel. I have a few axes. I'm searching for a nice Billnas head to add to my meager collection. Yours is a beauty. They are rare on the US east coast. I have a real soft spot for Wetterlings. Their demise is a sad thing indeed.
Tim
Glad you like it Tim, thank you and welcome to my Channel :)
Billnas and Kellokoski Axes were very difficult to find when I started looking two years ago, very expensive too. There are more available now, just checked Ebay 'Finland Axes' and there are 7 listed at very reasonable starting bids, most of them look like Billnas 12.2 Kemin Model (same as the one in this vid) they work a out at about 1.6kgs (about 3.5 lbs) I have the 1133, the 1122 is a heavier version of it, these were some of the last axes made by Billnas before Fiskars bought them out (in fact 1133 and 1122 can be found with Fiskars stamp on them).
So sad to see Wetterlings go, with a little finessing they are as good as Gransfors in my opinion and cheaper. They had made some excellent models in the last few years. Thanks again, Chris
I think that Mattock is wooding verona ?
Thanks...it could be as they provided a lot of axes to the US Forestry Service, I will check the stampings on it again. It is very hard steel.
@@redcanoe14 Your welcome Sir, Yeah that stamping it is hard to read.
WOW...reckon you have more axes than any three people i know of!
Chris, great to see you amigo...thanks for sharing your collection and knowledge with us.
I shared this vid with Blades and Bushlore forum as there are a few axe aficionados over there....great stuff as always...atvb...woods
Thanks Woods...how are you partner? Still kickin' the Sagebrush? Haha, well I have a decent number of axes that have come to me over quite a number of years...a man has got to have some interests in life to keep him out of mischief. I am pleased that my videos are of some interest and thanks for sharing with others. Are you done with the snow down in Montana yet, we had a dusting at 3,000 feet today, luckily our homestead is just below 2,000 feet. All the Very Best Woods, Chris
Howdy Chris
Thanks for the reply and yes i am well and still kicking the sagebrush.
Yes, your video posted to '"Blades and Bushlore"forums has had a number of views and comments from like minded individuals, here is a link to their site:bladesandbushlore.com/index.php i posted it in "General discussions" right on top if you were interested in reading any comments.
I live at 5'000 ft and we are still getting occasional snow here but it doesn't stay long...the mountains are a different story however, it will be some time before i can get back in there with the avalanche danger and all.
Be safe amigo and taker easy...atvb...woods
Thanks Woods, this looks great, I really appreciate your consideration.
You've enough heads to keep you hafting for a while. . . Those are all pretty "exotic" here in the U.S. and command high prices on eBay, which is about the only way to obtain them.
"Soo Line" is an American railroad line.
What brand pine tar do you recommend? I've been meaning to try some.
The Pine Tar is Shelbri made in Manitoba Canada. I bought it in the local Horse Barn (they sell tack and cowboy stuff). It is not the best I have used, I intend to buy some from
Varusteleka.com in Finland sell the best stuff, it is called Tallipoika Tar in a 500Ml bottle (would last for ages), it costs $10.99 CDN. They have some neat stuff in their website and a lot of folks in the US deal with them.
A lot of my axes and axe heads come from thrift stores/goodwill tires. Many of the handles come from discount hardware stores or are hewn out of lengths of timber I have acquired.
*Goodwill stores..haha