Making a small axe

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Tenderfoot
Dec 9, 2009
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you wont know until you give it a go
i'm sure someone with the knowledge on here will be along shortly to give you some tips/advice, or you could email the fella who made the vid (he said he didn't have enough time to go over everything because of the 10 min limit)
 

irishlostboy

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Dec 3, 2007
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCmuCP9DHUQ
Just stumbled across this video!
Would it be possible to do this in a small forge with no previous forge welding experience?

probably not. but if you have a small forge, do some welding practice on bits of mild steel first.
you can make an axe without welding using one section of spring steel. just fold over one third of the way in the length and pin to the face. although that fellas axe is lovely. will have to make one myself this summer.
 

alecf

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Jun 7, 2009
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I seem to remember dave budd posted a guide on how to make one from an old sledge hammer in the edged tools section here...
 

irishlostboy

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Dec 3, 2007
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Does anyone know how to make your own little forge?

coal or charcoal fire with extra air. there are so many variations it is mad. at its simplest you could dig a trench, pack it with sand, work a pipe into it. light your fire and hook up a hair dryer or anything that blows air up to the pipe. the simplest make-your-own forge would be a brake drum forge. not classy, but they work fine. brake drum forges get some stick by "clever people" http://www.beautifuliron.com/forge_brakedrum.htm but a break drum forge works fine for small projects, knives and the like. (personally i do not see the point of anti-anything rants like the one on that link. it kinda equates money to skill, i.e. no money for class stuff = will not have the skills to learn smithing. at least that is the vibe i got off it.)
http://techshop-ets.blogspot.com/2007/08/forge-anything-with-brake-drum.html
with some welding skill, salvage yard savy and patients you can build a pretty neat forge for 0 money if you like. so long as you have enough air, the right fuel and heat, you have a forge.
the tricky bit is an anvil...
this guy has class vids to help http://www.youtube.com/user/purgatoryironworks
 
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