Hewing workshop - Timberframing basic skills

This is footage from a hewing workshop I did back in 2019. The workshop was held at the Museum for Older Techniques in Grimbergen, Belgium, and lead by instructor Robbie Goris. Hewing is het proces of using axes to turn a cilindrical tree into a square beam ready to recieve its joinery to fit into a timberframe. I try to do workshops whenever I get the opportunity to practice my axemanship. During this workshop I tested some of my recent axe acquisitions for the first time. The behemoth of a French, 5 kilograms hewing axe and my beautiful 2,3 kilograms Belgian old style hewing axe. The German broad axe a had used before and it works spledidly. The Belgian old style hewing axe performed suboptimal because of how I ground it. It had apple seed shaped bevels like you see on felling axes, but this caused the axe to glance off the furface of the wood regularly. Being a finishing axe it doesn't need the apple seed shape for strenght like a felling axe wood. I ground the bevels flat after this workshop and it was a world of difference next time I used it, which made me very happy to see the beautiful axe also perform beautifully.
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Marcel
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[@wesleyofficer1237]

If you close your eyes and listen, it is musical 🥰

[@MarcelTeugels]

Thanks Wesley!

[@AndyCPugh]

Nice axes and some seriously good axework there.

[@MarcelTeugels]

Thank you Andy! Much practice needed!

[@SylviePereiraSyPer]

Amazing job 👍

[@MarcelTeugels]

Merci Sylvie!

[@kalanyosjozsef2601]

Definitely need more practicing at this guys.....keep trying

[@wboquist]

Is the broad axe being used at 10:22 being produced currently, or an antique? If being produced, please let me know the name of the maker. Thanks!

[@MarcelTeugels]

It is an antique made by Wörder and Pandel from Germany. You can also het to find an antique, but there are also some talented blacksmith put there that make these axes today.

[@ChandChandramukhi]

How old is this wood? Was it cut in the previous winter, or was it more green?

[@MarcelTeugels]

Sadly it was indeed felled before hand. Not ideal since the wood was pretty hard already.

[@ChandChandramukhi]

@@MarcelTeugels it looks a bit hard. People used to work it immediately, after bringing it from the forest on a new moon. And what about the old beams, can they be reused, reworked? I mean 50-100 years old.

[@MarcelTeugels]

@@ChandChandramukhi yes, ideally it would be worked close to the felling. But it still possible to work the wood years later, it's gonna be tougher though.

[@MountainDreamLand]

Nice... ! Thanks for sharing. The Gransfors Bruks 1900, is that a center grind, or right hand grind ?

[@MarcelTeugels]

I believe it was a right hand grind

[@peterellis4262]

I can't like tis video because there are too many dangerous practices going uncorrected. :(

[@MarcelTeugels]

What's dangerous?

[@Hakodan]

First

[@MarcelTeugels]

Get the fuck outa here!