I’ve acquired a few axes so far and am thinking of different ways to display , thought if some of you could post pics of your displays that would give me ideas to consider. So far I’ve got a queens cutlery saddle axe , plumb champion , double bit raven af&h , made my own handles from fiddleback maple .
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I've made several different types so far. I just threw them together. I'm working on plans for a 150 axe closet with some storage for loose heads. I had to vacate this rack due to its proximity to my wood stove. It was drying out the hafts pretty badly. It holds 27 single bits.
I've got 2 of these next ones. One made out of red oak and this one from rock maple. They hold 9 each.
And a small one i made for hatchets
The canvas cover is to protect my cat from the sharp edges if he ever decides to jump up there. It's weighted with pine on the other end and o just flip it up over the top. Here are the candidates for the closet.
Haha. There's 48 there. Oh and the valance in the spare bedroom.
The rest are just leaning here and there in closets. Anyhow hope you got some ideas!
I've got 2 of these next ones. One made out of red oak and this one from rock maple. They hold 9 each.
And a small one i made for hatchets
The canvas cover is to protect my cat from the sharp edges if he ever decides to jump up there. It's weighted with pine on the other end and o just flip it up over the top. Here are the candidates for the closet.
Haha. There's 48 there. Oh and the valance in the spare bedroom.
The rest are just leaning here and there in closets. Anyhow hope you got some ideas!
Wow you definitely have an addiction to axes ! I like the window display, shows each each axe individually. Did you make your own axe sheaths too ? Since I only have a few that I want to display in living room it might be a rack that turns like a carousel or sawed off large fir slab and bracketed to it to hang on wall , not a lot of room in living room , walls covered with taxidermy. Thanks for letting all see how you display your large collection.
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Well thank you! You are right mine are more oriented to storage rather than display. I only have 4 mint axes and probably another 5 worth displaying anyhow. Yes I make my own sheaths. It's easy once you get the tools. I only make very simple ones but they work well and hold up over time. Good luck with your project! Make sure and post some photos for us once you do it!!
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You've made a lot of masks. That's cool. A lot of mine are still naked. But I have plenty of masks for any which might be traveling with me.
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do you buy your leather by the hide? Seems to be the best way but expensive up front.
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I buy it from leatherunlimited.com in either 5 or 10lb bags of scrap leather. 10oz. The black is better and more uniform than the brown I've found. You end up buying some waste with the brown. I can't recall how much it is off the top of my head but it's pretty inexpensive.
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Still working on my display situation, my axes are spread out between my shop and garage. I’m thinking large locking metal cabinets, but for the time being many of them stay stacked closely in a safe which makes removing them difficult without clanking them around and risking chipping a bit or something.
I have used rags to separate them but that is not a good solution and doesn’t do much to protect the bit.
My collection is growing far more rapidly than I could make sheaths for and even if I was just stitching up some simple masks, I don’t want to make dozens of them and don’t need them for looks or travel but rather just for storage. I certainly didn’t want to stitch anything and didn’t even really want to do a lot of riveting.
So I wanted to make the cheapest easiest mask that I could possibly come up with.
These literally cost me pennies and take less than 2 minutes to make.
Again not for looks. Just trying to figure out if I could make 100 masks for almost no cost or effort. I’m sure this has been done before but here is what I came up with.
First make nice with your local high-end furniture store and ask them for their discontinued remnants of leather upholstery. I had some extra Line 20 and even smaller Glove Snaps laying around. The light weight glove snaps worked particularly well with the soft thin leather but both were fine.
Cut the swatches into squares then in half so you have triangles.
Envelope fold the bottom and side and secure the two with the back of snap then put the front of the snap on the top flap. Doesn’t take but the first couple to figure out the right spacing so your corners aren’t too open or bunched up.
That’s it. No stitches, rivets or edge trimming, nothing but a button.
I can bang these out at a furious rate and could have done more than this in an hour if I hadn’t run out of smaller button snaps.
Not fancy by any means but a more elegant solution than rags.
I have used rags to separate them but that is not a good solution and doesn’t do much to protect the bit.
My collection is growing far more rapidly than I could make sheaths for and even if I was just stitching up some simple masks, I don’t want to make dozens of them and don’t need them for looks or travel but rather just for storage. I certainly didn’t want to stitch anything and didn’t even really want to do a lot of riveting.
So I wanted to make the cheapest easiest mask that I could possibly come up with.
These literally cost me pennies and take less than 2 minutes to make.
Again not for looks. Just trying to figure out if I could make 100 masks for almost no cost or effort. I’m sure this has been done before but here is what I came up with.
First make nice with your local high-end furniture store and ask them for their discontinued remnants of leather upholstery. I had some extra Line 20 and even smaller Glove Snaps laying around. The light weight glove snaps worked particularly well with the soft thin leather but both were fine.
Cut the swatches into squares then in half so you have triangles.
Envelope fold the bottom and side and secure the two with the back of snap then put the front of the snap on the top flap. Doesn’t take but the first couple to figure out the right spacing so your corners aren’t too open or bunched up.
That’s it. No stitches, rivets or edge trimming, nothing but a button.
I can bang these out at a furious rate and could have done more than this in an hour if I hadn’t run out of smaller button snaps.
Not fancy by any means but a more elegant solution than rags.
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I came across a couple clean pallets that were a good size so despite my wife telling me not to start any new projects before this weekend when she could give me a bunch of stuff to do. But I figured this couldn’t take any time, it’s not even an actual project...
So I’m buzzing them with some 60 grit, had to cut down the big one, and I have the chop saw out to cut up a bunch of spacers to mount it to the wall. Of course my wife comes home like “what are you doing?” LoL.
I said “What project?!? I’m not doing a project! You’re doing a project!” and tried unsuccessfully to leave the room.
We’ll it did get done. I have a smaller pallet (bout’ half the size) that I was going to attach to this one for smaller axes and hammers but I held off for now. The way I spaced it off the wall made a small area that can accommodate some of those items.
So I’m buzzing them with some 60 grit, had to cut down the big one, and I have the chop saw out to cut up a bunch of spacers to mount it to the wall. Of course my wife comes home like “what are you doing?” LoL.
I said “What project?!? I’m not doing a project! You’re doing a project!” and tried unsuccessfully to leave the room.
We’ll it did get done. I have a smaller pallet (bout’ half the size) that I was going to attach to this one for smaller axes and hammers but I held off for now. The way I spaced it off the wall made a small area that can accommodate some of those items.
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I missed this thread....... Some nice work.
More of my efforts here- https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/axe-hatchet-display.1654576/
More of my efforts here- https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/axe-hatchet-display.1654576/
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Double bits make me nervous in them pallet racks with kids running around i use one for single bits and face the edges towards the wall.
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I’ll put masks on ones with anything with any sort of edge.
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That’s what I’m talking about! I went the lazy rout for now but like this concept for a future rack.About the same in concept as I use, but a bit different in execution. Its actually the same type of wood. Called "Vuren" locally or "European Spruce" Interntionally ( Picea Abies ) . Had a bucketload of offcuts, so decided to put them to good use. Nothing fancy, but it does the job....
And yesAgent_H : That still is your hammer down below as well as your Kent Pattern in there. And still haven't found a new custodian for the 1944 Elwell, with the American handle and German wedges yet thats besides the display. Still haven't come round to oiling the display. Should have done that a year ago. Maybe next year
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