How To Handle An Axe - part 2
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Wranglerstar hey bro make a video called how to make/handle for a fiskars axe (LoL)
Wranglerstar you make handle, but is lincy oil beater becouc i use wood glou
love your videos, I'm your subscriber from the 2013
The Husqvarna axe range is made in Sweden at Holt Bruk, still I think.
Cody, could you check with mfg. on the chiseled wedge? I think folks would like to know the reasoning. Very good video!
plus.google.com/u/0/102812269665445017559 Would you recommend the Husqvarna Carpenter's Axe as a similar sized alternative to the GB Small Forest Axe?
You should know, there's viewers out here that appreciate your tool collection greatly.
I very much respect your efforts to hand this knowledge down. Fewer and fewer of us have these skill sets now and sharing that is something valuable. Thank you for your service.
Probably just one more hit.... 20 to 30 more hits later: maybe just one, two more hits...
Right, because it always works the first time every time for you.
It Lasted 12 years without needing a new handle, wow now thats quality
And you know that axe sees hard use. It is his favorite and he uses it constantly unlike my fiberglass handled Home Depot special which which hangs on the wall 99.999% of its life.
Tenspeed TheBikeHanger axes only see hard use if you treat them badly, for example, wranglestar treated that axe good, and look at how long it lasted, i dont know about the home depot axe, ive never ever been to home depot , but my sledgehammer and my splitting maul, and they are both fiberglass, and they work perfectly
Duarte Monteiro
I sense a language barrier. Hard use is not abuse, it simply means the tool sees a lot of use. It was not a criticism on how Cody treats his tools, it simply means he uses the tool. As for the rest of my post, I was just being a bit facetious, I am not criticizing fiberglass handled tools either, I was just trying to point to the amusing irony of one man that uses an axe nearly every day and another that might use it once in two years. I'm sorry you read so much into my post, it really wasn't intended to argue a point or offend anyone.
you did not offend me dont worry
and you will pay for it to!!!
It is most gratifying to watch a man who appreciates and cares properly for good quality tools. 🤠
This is without a doubt one of the most informative and enjoyable videos I’ve ever watched.
It is brilliant on every level and is worthy of an award!
To paraphrase “If I can replicate this with my log splitter - I’ll be barking like six puppies!”
If only everyone took so much interest and pride in their work.
Thank you!
These axe videos never get old!
I am always surprised how well that Pull Saw does.
A lot of guys use those types of saws for guitar work, prefect for cutting fret slots.
Sittingin front of the fireplace, watching a Wranglerstar video. My day just turned into a nice day!!
I recently re-handled a Gransfors mini belt hatchet with the same results. The hatchet was only a few years old but the handle got loose. I purchased a replacement handle and it fit perfectly with no rasping or trimming necessary. The only difference with the mini is neither the factory handle nor the replacement handle had a metal wedge. Instead of BLO, I used a product called Swel-Lok. I did use linseed oil mixed with gum turpentine on the rest of the handle. This little hatchet doesn't get a lot of use, but so far it appears to be holding up well. Thanks for your videos!
I really appreciate your level of craftsmanship and knowledge. I followed my grandpa around in his shop and learned as much as I could from him but he was a very quiet man. You’ve got a great knack for explaining the small details. Thanks!
My grandfather left me an ax and 2 American made knives. and I'm keeping it as a very valuable keepsake. I once heard him say that white ash is an optimal choice for the handle of an ax. my grandpa is gone...i always keep it and will restore it someday. thanks for your good video, your tutorial, very good inspirational video
I got my first Gransfors axe yesterday, a Scandinavian Forest. Thanks to your videos, I'm confident that I'll be able to care for it well. So sad to see the old handle on your Small Forest go, but I hope that this new one lasts just as long. Thank you, Cody!
Dang man you set that axe so magnificently not a single crack in the wood made me smile like perfect skill level achieved !!!
I used your technique to handle a small hatchet I found. It worked great! I feel like a true homesteaders. Thanks for making this video series!
Well your the very 1st to show how to draw the head onto the handle correctly. There is no other way to do this properly.
I've been doing this way for well over 45 yrs. IT WORKS.
Thanks for a great video.
You nailed it on how to handle an axe head. So many "experts" have no idea what they are talking about. IF you take the time to watch the REAL experts who make them from businesses that have been around for over 100+ years, they do what you did. Awesome demo.
I'm so glad that I stumbled onto your channel. I'm a bit addicted to restoring old tools atm & enjoy building on my skills of using hand tools over power tools where I can. Find these sorts of videos very satisfying & therapeutic. Greetings from Australia 👍
I am impressed with these axes from this manufacturer. I rescued a Gransfors axe head from a life of abuse that I found on craigs list. It was obviously abused and the original handle gone. Mine was an AS stamped head. I ordered a new handle from manufacturer and repaired the damage as best as I could. The poll was badly damaged from steel on steel impacts. I filed most of the damage out and trued it back up. It is now a wonderful tool that I am proud to own. They do make outstanding products. I will be passing on to somebody for many more years of service.
Treating the hickory handle with boiled linseed oil is essential imo.... makes all the difference on wood handles.
Thank you @Wranglerstar for the meaningful, non clickbait title! I respect either way, but just letting you know you have subscribers that find this extremely refreshing!
I appreciate a guy who can take satisfaction from a thing as relatively minor as hafting an axe properly. As always, a pleasure.
I just put a new handle on my splitting maul using your techniques in this video...worked great and I am very happy with the results! Thanks for these instructional videos. Mike
I bought a cheap HF Japanese saw and liked it. Showed it to my Dad, explained that it cut on the pull instead of the push. I let him borrow it to try it, I thought.
Actually, I gave it to him... it turned out! He loved it more, and was actually a carpenter. When he passed, I gave it to another carpenter in the family.
I dont know why I like watching you hang axes so much but I could watch these back to back to back. great entertainment.
You videos are great, very relaxing, they are like ASMR and I have to watch them twice because I listened to the story in the background and didn't watch your labor.
Not anymore 😂😂
I think ax and forestry videos might be my favorite. But I also really like Carpentry. So ax handles are just the greatest.
With just a little freshening of the steel surfaces, most would assume that you had purchased a brand new axe. They would also be flabbergasted to learn that you would be starting the second 12 year stint with the tool. Times like this teach you the wisdom of buying the highest quality you can afford when buying tools; especially when their use is providing for the family.
WranglerStar, Thank you very much for these two videos. I know you have previously done videos on putting on new handles, but I learn something new every time.
When I was much younger my father was stationed in Japan and we had a folding saw much like the smaller one you have and you are so right, those things are incredible. We had it for years and took it out when we went camping with the Boy Scouts (back when they were still Scouts and teaching useful skills). It never failed us. He may still have it.
Using the Boiled linseed oil is a great idea, as the expansion will take a bit of time to fully occur, so once you have seated the wedge it will continue to expand make the handle tighter and more secure on the axe head than any glue or epoxy every would!, great video and I always learn something new watching your videos :)
Thanks for doing these videos I just finished re-handling my Dads beloved pick, couldn't have turned out any better.
Thanks to your videos, I was able to rebuild an Old Plumb "Destroyer" axe that belonged to my father. New handle, metal guard below the head and a handmade sheath. Still hard a work today!
Sir, I wanted to thank you for the help through your channel. Watching this and some of your other videos I have been able to successfully handle my own ax, using only hand tools.
I'm not a craftsman or artisan. My father is a carpenter and I am engineer (aircraft industry) byt I love the passion you talk about the hand tools and envy you that simple "crafting" life. I miss the times I worked with my father in joinery, making stuff from wood and the smell of wood mmm. I subscribed you couple of weeks ago because it reminds me of my teenage years. I'm Polish but I don't live in my father's country - I'm in UK so greetings from UK and partially from Poland. Keep doing what you love and share your passion with us on RUclips! 🇬🇧🇵🇱👍🏻✌🏻️
"Purring like six cats." I usually recognize your "sayings", "proverbs", etc., but this is a new one for me.
Love the old adages of tried & true methods.
I hope i never stop learning.
Thank you
It is always a soothing time for me when I watch and listen to you working in your shop. Thank you for all the great info. I just rehung a Hults Bruks 2 1/4lbs head that I paid $2 for at a garage sale. I could not have done it with out your videos
I am rehandling an axe today just becuase I watched this video. It has needed it for years.
Wranglerstar is a great guy I pm him and he gave me his number and he talked me through on how to hang a axe handle a couple of years ago
Thanks for letting us know! You could have kept that a secret between you him and God but you gave us a little factoid that makes me love this guy even more. Glad he helped you out now go help someone else in return.
As Cody always says,iron sharpens iron,so too one man sharpens another.Thats pretty cool.
Just me or am i getting bob ross vibes from this guy, the calm tone but informative about whats happening
That came out beautiful!
I just want to thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of fixing things. You have really helped me out over the years. Thank you from David Hoover ,Chattanooga, TN.
The design of the wedge is actually brilliant. The "claw" is like that so that the wedge dont slide to one side when you drive it down. It will go down straight every time.
Thanks for a very good axe lesson. It make me more safe when i am going to do that next time. Wish you and your family a nice week. Best wishes from Norway
great video. and thanks for using normal video titles again!
Benjamin Hippler, this is such an enjoyable video. Why poke a sleeping dog???
I like how Wranglerstar always comments that anyone can do whatever it is he is doing. This handle hanging was pretty simple, but even in more complicated jobs he says it. Too many people these days want to make things seem too hard for the average person to tackle when the reality is that people would be surprised how quickly they can pick some of these skills up (except hand cut dovetails...I swear those joints are impossible to get tight and staight!!!)
From the Gransfor website...
The Swedish style wedge is not very common but this type can save you a lot of troubles from changing your axe handle from time to time.
They are metal wedges with a 3-prong comb-like style so when you insert them into the wood its teeth separately goes deep apart and that gives the best hold on the wood’s fiber.
Lol this is the second video of you handling an ax and in both of them the wedges are immaculate
That was the most satisfying handleling of an axe, ever.
Strangely satisfying...
I'AM working on a carpenters hatchet now and the hickory is some of the hardest I have come across in years, its taking twice the time to shape and it is trying my patience you were very lucky on yours. GOOD JOB
I rent when you had your auntine axe broke. That was very surprising from such an expensive axe. Great video. I hope I don't have to replace the handle one granfors Burk axe anytime soon. But now I know what to do. Thanks
Your videos are very relaxing and soothing
Oh Cody!
Thank you,the wood shop looks so good & every time I see the Gransfors Bruk Axes....... Man, I really am impressed! I bought the Fiskars Hatchet & regret it every day!
I'm gonna have to buy these axes. I'm in love. thanks again Cody for a great video
Oh boy I indeed love when its written in Part 1 , 2 , 3 etc.
Makes some sort of order , no mess.
from your videos, I just wanna buy a Gränsfors Bruks small forrest axe. But I simply have no use for an axe. at all!! Thats a Dilemma.
I got myself one, I think a year ago. Got that one as a present for Christmas. I can use it, but I dont use it. It's just the best looking axe I have ever seen, just to affraid to (ab)use it I wanne hang it on the wall for decoration. They are all beauty's those axe's. Maybe I have to buy a second one to use it :)
oh man, most people would say im crazy, but i know exactly what you mean. Have 2, use one and display the other. Perfectly logical to me :)
Ram Skirata Ya never know. Everyone should own simple tools. Anything could happen and that axe could be something you use every day. Buy it!!!
Buy it! It will, even if never used, never be worth less than the purchase price. Kinda like buyin Randall Knives.
Ram Skirata gransfors axes are slowly going up in value if you never use it, it might end worth a little more than you paid for it.
Nice job. I was going to ask if you sharpened your hand saws yourself, but you answered it. Thanks!!!! I sharpen my saws also. My Dad was visiting me one time, and he wanted to use one of my saws. When he got done he looked hard at it and started to say something. I beat him to it and said, "I know, You are going to have to teach me how to sharpen saws". He said, "I have been trying to for 50 years!!!!!". So I got busy and taught myself how!! Glad I did.
This was very very helpful, being that I soon will be hanging a handle on my axe head, it’s old I have no idea who made it, I wound it in a creek with a metal wedge in it and I finally decided to take a bench grinder to start cleaning it up, and finish grinding down the mushroomed back on it, I used it for a wedge a little bit last winter, handy splitting wood with my dad’s bad axe, and I am now going to finally get what will be a good handle and hang it, I thank you again for your knowledge
Recently, I made a mallet by cladding it with copper. The thick walled copper fit so tight, it took about an hour to get the copper pressed down over the apple wood, even with a kerf for a shim.
Rather than a shim far wider than the kerf, like the one in this video, I cut one close, then sanded it down to just a bit bigger than the kerf. My hope was, the shim would go further down into the kerf and hold even better.
Like you, I am a HUGE fan of hardening oils on my wood handle heads, for the reasons you stated.
To drive out the broken handle > Use a socket extension. On the package that the fiberglass handle came in. Use the bag that it came with to holds the glue, and putty in. To pour it in and mix it up. Drive the handle into the maul as far as it can go. Be sure you got plenty of putty to put around under the maul head and handle. OR IT WILL LEAK! AND BECOME A MESS! Once mix and pour, let it set for 24 hours. Then it ready to used > I love it! Can grip it better with less sock on my hands and arms. Don't even worry about it breaking
Cody,
This video came just in time for me. I am in the process of making handles to rehang all my great uncle's Stanley hatchets and Swedish axes. Always good to watch the job you do on tool handles. Thanks for sharing as always,
Brad
Such a satisfying video to watch!
Most people would've lost my attention in the first couple minutes. The way you explained everything and show your gratification along the way keeps things very interesting. Thanks for all the great content Cody!
Gransfors Bruk can be proud. awesome to see the fit between the parts with this age difference.
I bought my Grandpa a small Ponderosa Pine for Father's Day one year and when he planted it he told me the same thing about watering it as you said for the Boiled Linseed Oil on the handle. He had a small "portable sawmill" that he operated with two pairs of Morgan Horse during WWII and I find it very interesting that, in his case anyway, he would use the same pattern of caring for the trees that he used on his equipment that he used to fell them.
Wonderfully done... I almost look forward to putting a new handle on mine in hopefully a decade or so!
@wranglerstar, your video inspired me to purchase my first Gransfors Bruk hand axe. Hope to use it for many years and pass it down.
Sorry to see the old handle go... but the new one looks SOOO good... God Bless...
Awesome. The Small Forest Axe is my favorite too.
Hey Cody, I have the large Gransfors forest axe. It is the only axe I ever carry in the bush. I love axes too! I'm putting my money aside for the large Gransfors splitting maul. They go for about $200 Canadian. Nothing better... Gransfors is number 1....Keep up the great vids!! Love the show! Jay...Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Hey Cody love your videos been subscribed for 4 years. Just wanna say I find your videos almost meditating and just a real joy to watch! So thank you and keep it going
Gracias por sus conocimientos saludos cordiales desde Puerto Rico
Nice workmanship!!
Thats some beautiful craftsmanship
Thanks for all the great work. I just set an axe. Blessings on blessings.
I've never heard you mention this Cody, having watched earlier handle hanging videos where you used boiled linseed oil, but I'm taught that boiled linseed oil as opposed to raw oil actually hardens trough an exothermic reaction (that's why rags soaked in boiled linseed oil can self ignite), so I take it that the BLO not only swells the wood fibers and acts as a lubricant when driving the wedge in, but also acts as a glue when it sets.
i would say that the step wedge is shaped so differently than most others is because of commercial selling. It seems that its easier to get the step wedge aligned straight down when theirs a point on it rather than a round face that sometimes tends to want to lean to the right or left side which splits the wood. And when its your job to do that all day, it really makes a difference.
Real men gathering here 💪🏻
Logger from most northwest part of Wa state. You taught me this yrs ago and I researched how they did it when the axe was you're saw and you nailed it. To my surprise nobody knows this here where there is still oldgrowth being cut. Even my 73 yr old boss that's been falling since 15 and still does it on the side doesn't know. They all mash the handle in, cut it flush and leave it in the weather. They're wedge pounding axes break all the time. You can hear the cussing in woods lol. Thanks. PS The old way for boots is 50/50 neatsfoot oil and beeswax for the rainforest.
I love your axe videos but I especially love when you put a new handle on. Thank you much.
I imagine that they kiln-dry their handles before hanging them on the heads, then with ambient moisture and added oils the wood expands creating the impressions around the cheeks
Awesome video. Really wanted to see before/after pics though. Still great
Always good stuff, thanks
Thats the way to hammer it in. My grand father worked in the Woods here in Sweden and he taught me thats the way to do it.
Normal and educational video!
Thanks much and keep them coming please!
God Bless
The chainsaw videos are awesome, but the axe videos are the best!!
Love the small forest axe bought one last year. my brother used it also and was very happy with it.
I'm late to the video but I had to re handle a historical Reproduction Dane Axe and I used this video as reference and couldn't be happier with the finish. Great work
That's the nice thing about GB replacement handles. They are a direct fit. No messing around. The downside is they're expensive.
The factory installed ones are press fit on.
Nice tool shelve combo behind you. Clever design
Thanks, very informative.
I have since one year back the little good Gränsfors Hand Hatchet.
use it to bbq wood and crafts. Really pleased with the ax.
This is incredible how well it fits. Just awesome.
Not sure why that historic handle had to be cut? It hurt me, too.
Ken Fouts whyyyyy do allllll good things come to an end
You'll tear up the part of the handle in the axe head anyway if you try to take it out. The wooden wedge is in there tight, and you can't drive it out with out drilling it our, or gouging it out somehow. Even if you get it out, that part is trashed and you'd have to cut it off anyway if you want to try and use it in some other fashion.
Arkansas Pilgrim you can use a 1/16 drill bit and drill about 40 holes down the middle of the wedge to pull it out... I've done this several times so this video hurt my heart lol
In the first video he says that the handle was getting to be loose.
Are ya kiddin? How old do you think it was?
Excellent video and content, and a thumbs up for the descriptive and appropriate title! Good work!
You can soak the head of a lose tool in polypropylene glycol and it will tighten it up permanently
I have learned so much from your channel, thank you so much. God bless
Stevespecs Yeah, just did a new handle for an old axe today. His tips worked like a charm!!
I always hope projects are worthy of certain pieces of wood as well. Respect
Thanks for everything over the years. Hope you are all well and healthy. - Patrick M 5-21-20 mystic ct
ive watched you multiple times do this and i continue to because i enjoy it so much.
Fine job! Didn't need to touch it with the 4 in hand, that speaks to the quality of the Gransfors products. I would have been equally torn between polishing up the head and leaving the patina, and equally justified for either choice. Here's to another 12 years of service!
Cody, your videos are consistently fantastic. Thank you.
This video definitely deserves a #toolporn hastag :) Awesome job!