Finally had time to play with my tools.. weather permitted so I cracked on with some simple stuff. Did not fancy knife handle shaping as it makes a cloud of dust! So axes it was.
Got this little beaut a while back, gona make a fine tomahawk type axe, take down head n all that. I set upon this one pretty quickly with my plan to remove the hammer poll and reshape the head. It currently has no edge or anything and is just the rough shaped blank. I'll do the rest once I've got the rust job sorted.
It's currently in a bath of vinegar, bleach and salt to get a really heavy patina/rust to form as I want it to look old. Gona tart up the handle too, maybe something like native american etc..
I had 4 other axe heads, all in rough, rusty shape. One being one a handle, but clearly just shoved on the end. All the edges were as fine as bricks and I gave them a spritz on the grinder to actually form an edge and to make them shiny. I had pictures of all of them before but my crap camera apparantly didn't save them?
Anyway, here's 3 of them (other needed loads of work and I'm lazy), the middle one seemed to be just about the right size for the handle that was shoved into the biggest and most wrecked head.
Few eyeballs at the handle, angle grinder at the ready and..
Maybe not quite that simple, usual on off job, reshape etc, also I gave it light lick with fire to bring out the grain and good dose of linseed oil while warm to seal the handle. Looks lovely imo, glad I didn't bother farting around with it.
Anyway, stay tuned!
(Message me if you're interested in anything you see, most will being going up for swaps eventually!)
