Making a 16 mm wooden board from a log using hand axes
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2021
- Bare hands are too soft to make a wooden chest. But metal, fire and nature can be turned into tools given time and skills. With the help of a human being the tools made in previous videos had no problem cutting a tree down but that is a gross activity. I want to experience how a tree turns into a 16 mm flat and straight wooden board and I want to know what that feels like in my body. I am no wood worker but I am curious, and I am set on making a fully functional wooden tool chest, even if I did not have a single hand tool to begin with. And a wooden chest is made out of a wooden board and this is how it came to be.
I made a beam using a different technique in my previous video about tool maintenance. The method used here was a lot quicker and I think I am starting to get a hold of the hewing technique when done with an axe like this. The two main differences between my two attempts are that in this video I do not split of the side but also that I later cut the beam in two before slitting it. One out of the four short boards cracked in this video which is better than the three from my first attempt, trying to split the long first beam (of screen) so this is only the successful attempt. In the background you can see the first attempts ending up in a lot shorter/longer and only one usable full size board.
The egg always has to precede the chicken just like a tool box being nothing but a box if it had no tools.
Still one of my favourite videos on YT
I learned so much from watching this
Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate it. I tried quite hard back then to find a video that described the proces but found surprisingly few. With this one there is one more chance for people to learn.
Nice video. I am about to do something similar.
Thank you, this sort of stuff is always interesting to follow. I have appreciated many of your videos the last few years, seems I had missed that you where still updating new ones. I have sign up to follow you now, not to miss in the future.
Always wanted to see the process in its entirety. Thank you.
Yes so did I, figured that I would have to do it myself since no one else did. Thank you.
Very well done.
very impressive. keep up the passion and hard work brother.
Nice
Price of lumber back without saws📈
He he, well I guess some things are priceless.
Impressive! Nice colors!
Thank you, I wanted to capture the feeling of forest and what it if feels like being there...
Nice video, greetings from norway! :)
Greetings 🙂
Very very impressive. All done with two axes or one axe? What kind of axes and where did you get them? I wish I could get dimensions. They’re long and not very wide, hard dimensions to find.
Well, I used to sell a similar design that I forged myself. But these verry axes were forged under rather primitive conditions in this verry forest, sharpened on a local stone and hafted by wood cut by the axe itself. I had this idea that I wanted to make a wooden chest from scratch, including the tools to build it with. I recorded the process on 360 video and published here on this channel, the video quality was not verry good but the axes proved useful.
What beautiful work with the axe. I am sure the planks had some splinters and roughness to them still, but they look functional and some amount of unevenness gives them character, in my opinion. I find axes to be such wonderfully versatile tools, especially with a hammer-poll. Properly thin and sharpened it can be used like a knife. Once, years ago, with a first axehead I forged, when I was in the woods with my friends and they set out somewhere for the day, I stayed behind, and prepared the camp. I only had a sharp axehead, but with that I cut down a branch to use as a haft, then cut down a tree with the axe, chopped it into two parts - one for sitting beside a fire - the other chopped into firewood with some wedges I also made, the fresh green wood laid around a fire from birch bark and dry sticks, and continually fed into the flames as it dried out, and I cut up vegetables and meat and made skewers to feed my friends when they returned. All with just an axehead!
Actually I was surprised how few splinters I got, even though the axe is solely sharpened on a local stone hence not verry sharp. But the technique of cutting along the fibres instead of splitting did that.
Cool, that sounds more or less precisely like what I have allways been interested in, much like this RUclips channel too.
He and the AXE 🪓 is one...like it is another limb on his body..
how long did it take in real time?
Do they make hatchets/axes with a flat side to avoid the axe digging in the the plank when flattening it?
Yes, it is common with axes that are flat on one side, it is a slightly different technique to use them, in Sweden it is called a "saxslipad yxa" I guess that traslates into seax beveled axe . Fun fact: the handle needs to be angled out as well so you don't hurt the knuckles but since the axe also needs to be flat past the eye the whole eye-area of the axe is quite different to normal axes.
How on earth do you get such a nice split with the wedges? When I do, it splits along the grain of the wood which isnt always straight.
Ah, yes, it is all about the increasingly deeper cuts with axe on the sides. Just puttning the wedge in the growing crack makes it split along the grain, but cutting ever deeper along the straight line from all four sides with a thin axe and eventually a chisel cut off the tendency to split according to the grain.
What are those big u shaped tools you used to hild the logs securely? Id like to know the name so i can either buy some, or preferably make some.
We call them log dogs. I forged the ones you see using stones and sticks for tools. All hand tools used in the forest forge has been forged in the forest forge. Check out the video: ruclips.net/video/5kFpvY_J1qc/видео.htmlsi=taJbUuqTvWIfUDx_