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Nice job! I used my father's big old bush/bow saw with my son on t'other end to prep a large log for a project - it really was a lot quicker & easier, and quite a laugh. I think your fine looking saw would have been more appropriate for the job though :) BTW I aquired 3 vintage carpenter's...

Interesting to hear that Jogge's wears blades out completely & replaces them. I've seen pictures of Wille's 106s and had assumed they were worn down by a lifetime of full-time use & grinding - seems more likely that he's worn through several of them! I wonder if they use the old blades for...

Ditto. We've just been discussing using autosol on wood as a strop here: http://www.bodgers.org.uk/bb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2734&p=23206#p23206 so wonderful to see that Robin's insight already posted here, he beat us to it! :) BTW Autosol has recently become v. expensive in Britain...

Apparently they still make Kent pattern axes...in America (what has happened to Britain :( ). Available from Matt at Woodland Craft Supplies: http://www.woodlandcraftsupplies.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_4&products_id=11 :) I've wondered about that too. It is quite a simple...

I followed Robin Wood's excellent advice and bought a Gransfors Swedish carving axe and it is lovely and I've learnt a lot about axes from it. It is one of my favorite things. It is a bit heavy though (about 2lb+). So, I also use a very cheap 700g Lidl's axe, made in China, which I have sharpen...

I like it a lot. Do you have a before picture (and perhaps after sharpening)? How much did it weigh at the start & end (the handle area looks quite large & heavy)? I have a large, (too) fast wet wheel - it would put nice bevels on that. It still took me 3 session to take a very blunt 3lb...

Nice handle. I've made several recently and have come to the conclusion that a straight handle (like the Gransfor Wildlife hatchet) is a pretty good match for smaller Kent-style axes (I have examples from less than 1lb to 4+lb). I like the crisp shoulder you've made - hadn't thought of doing...

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Are you thinking of the Ronnqvist Viking axe (featured in Wille Sunqvist's book)? Quite fully discussed here: http://www.bodgers.org.uk/bb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2328 That discussion also includes info. on similar axes by Gransfors (it's Viking axe is uncommon though - not normally shown in...

Roy Underhill on the Woodwright's Shop, an American PBS TV show available as free streaming video on-line, explains that Europe used to have hickory but "unlike the Americans" we "put our mountains in the wrong way" :D. i.e. in American the hickory was able to adapt to climate changes by moving...

Sound a bit pricey to me (considering practically every home in the country had one or two similar axes in the past and almost nobody uses them now) but whatever floats your boat - hopefully it will encourage others to offer up their old unusued/unwanted axes/axe heads. I can highly recommend...

Yes, I too strop my carving tools after each use, which means that they rarely need sharpening with anything else (when they do, it is usually just a well worn 600 grit sharpening stick). However, I've also restored sharp edges to a some very blunt old axes and garden tools - that takes a lot...

How did you get on, bushcraftsurvival - did the waterstones work out for you in end? I notice some American woodworkers going back to oil stones. I guess they have quite well defined products & approaches based on them in the USA (esp. Norton stones, Arkansas, Wa****a, etc.). Oil stones seem...

I didn't realise you could do that but I had noticed the "C-clip" in the bottom of the handle - hadn't expected a full tang. And what an odd-shaped tang it is, I wonder how/why they came up with that? Yes, I guess that makes it easier to make your own handle, or modify the existing one - good...

I like the Mora knives, I now have the 120, 106 and 105. The 106 is the workhorse, being the most useful but I find it rather long - but that length is handy for somethings. I got the 120 first, however, that was through ignorance. The 120 is a less useful/more specialised knife than the 106...

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Those of you that have used the Kolrosing Knife - what did did you think of it? Easy to use/useful/comparable to anything else - bearing in mind what it is designed for? Certainly a far more specialised tool that the classic Mora 106 sloyd knife (I use my 106 a lot).

Lime-wood can be found on wiki here as Tilia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia In the USA carvers call it basswood. I think the Germans may call it Linden (they have a long history of carving lime-wood). I just carved a ladle & spoon from lime-wood (English - it is fairly common here in...

In the video above, the inside of the bowl suddenly gets very smooth inside - and the outside more rounded - at around 3:46. There is nothing wrong with that per se but it would have been more "honest" to show the other implements/processes used (I am suspecting at least scrapers and/or...