I've been showing this as a WIP on other forums so some of you good folks will have seen it before. Thought I should really post it on here as I know some of you guys like axes. I was gifted this tool by Nice65 on British Blades. It has served him well for over 30 years and has seen some hard use....Very hard use! The stacked leather handle had perished over the years and the hammer had been mushroomed out a bit with some seriously heavy battoning. Still some life left in the old girl yet in my opinion,so I thought I'd have ago at fixing her up and giving her another 30 years of damn hard thrashing! I've never fixed up any tool before, let alone an axe so this is a first for me!!I had to grind off the pommel plate rivets as I wanted to make a stacked handle.Started to tidy up the steel.Decided to go with key-stone shaped ( to follow the handle curve ) jade G10 blocks, black rubber spacers and stainless steel bolster,pommel plate, lanyard tube, pin and pommel bolts.This is where I'm at just now. Still a bit to go yet. Shaping and finishing etc. Almost finished the leather mask as well. I don't have a sash-cramp so I had to use a Spanish windlass to compress the handle whilst the glue set. Bit of a panic moment! 19 parts to glue, assemble and compress and only 4 minutes till the glue started to set. This pic was taken later as I just didn't have the time during the process. I had started to tidy the handle up and my daughter wanted to know about the windlass so I set it up again and took this pic.
I'll continue the thread as a WIP. Any comments, tips or general drunken weekend abuse will be taken on board or just ignored depending on how drunk I get!
Darren.
I'll continue the thread as a WIP. Any comments, tips or general drunken weekend abuse will be taken on board or just ignored depending on how drunk I get!
Darren.
Last edited: