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Here ye go Hugo, your axe, well my axe

as it was on Wednesday

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covered in paint stripper today

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after the paint striper had done it's stuff

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and then cleaned up with various grits of wet & dry paper, the helve sanded down and given a good coat of linseed oil and the head polished up a bit

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of course i had to test it out, so i knocked up a quick, very rough spoon blank

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Axe works a treat and has a lovely balance to it, which makes carving effortless.

Well chuffed with it - cheers matey
 
Looking good, When are you making the leather clothing for it, I have a Spearwell that looks just like that, this one.

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Looking good, When are you making the leather clothing for it, I have a Spearwell that looks just like that, this one.

clothes already made for it, i had a spare axe mask sitting here and it fits a treat:)
 
Nice job Mark.

I've been using Neutra-rust 661 on some of my axe heads & billhooks recently for longer term storage, it's a rust converter (usually used on my landy chassis!) that gives a sort of blue-black patina once it dries, is fairly robust and doesn't seem to dull the edge. I tried it because I was fed up with finding rust spots developing on my cutting tools.

Dave
 
Nice job Mark.

I've been using Neutra-rust 661 on some of my axe heads & billhooks recently for longer term storage, it's a rust converter (usually used on my landy chassis!) that gives a sort of blue-black patina once it dries, is fairly robust and doesn't seem to dull the edge. I tried it because I was fed up with finding rust spots developing on my cutting tools.

Dave

Thanks Dave,

I'll keep my eyes open for some of that Neutra-Rust, sounds just the ticket
 

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