axes pic. please?

[drat]

could you post your axe pic. please? i just want to look at there designs.i'm trying to forge a solid metal one out of a truck leaf spring.thanks

 

[pierre girard]

Here are a few:

 

[MattW]

Only pic I've got to hand which shows them together::

From the top:
Gransfors Bruks Scandinavian Forest Axe
Wetterlings Small Forest Axe
Gransfors Bruks Mini hatchet

And some other stuff too

Matt

 

[MattW]

That's a fine collection Pierre!

best
Matt

 

[Scally]

some greating looking tools there pierre how many were hand made and can you give us any details about them ?

 

[Mr_Yarrow]

Drat,

You going to do the flat piece of metal and then fold/crease it over method?

Have a look on BB in the members projects and gallery for pic, also Tacol on BB did a short pictorial on how he did his fold overs etc

Good luck

 

[Buckshot]

I would have thought the most difficult part would be the hole for the handle.
How you planning to do that ?

Good luck btw

Mark

 

[mojofilter]

I would have thought the most difficult part would be the hole for the handle.
How you planning to do that ?

Good luck btw

Mark

Something on TV the other night was showing an axe being forged, one of the Tony Robinson programmes I think. Once the smith had the head forged roughly to shape, he punched the eye through with a tool which was not unlike a cold chisel.

In fact it was definatly Tony Robinson, cos he had a go at the forging.

 

[hollowdweller]

And a couple Khukuris

 

[JonnyP]

Lol............I thought this would be a popular thread, any excuse to show the shiny's.......

 

[drat]

i won't need to punch an eye for this axe. well what i'm going to do is to hammer down the handle from the leaf spring.then shape the axe head from the pice thats on the end. the axe will be one pice.so that you don't have to use a wooden handle.the L.S. are 1/4 in. thick.and about 3 1/2 in. wide.but that takes a lot of hammer work.

 

[mojofilter]

Heres mine!

 

[Hellz]

 

[hollowdweller]

Heres mine!

I really like that picture :You_Rock_

 

[Eric_Methven]

The smallest axe in the world!

Eric

 

[MattW]

The smallest axe in the world!

Eric

That is so cool! - Did you make that Eric?

Matt

 

[Eric_Methven]

No Matt, a blacksmith was showing me how trade axes were made and he just knocked this one up in three or four minutes as an example. I now know how to make axes under primitive conditions though.

Eric

 

[mojofilter]

The smallest axe in the world!

Eric

That is absolutely adorable! :notworthy

 

[Brian]

Eric,

Thats great, does it make really small feather sticks mate

Brian

 

[fred gordon]

Brilliant axe Eric. Do you have a pic of the person it was made for using it?