Axe Work Today

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Ernest DuBois

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Getting the chance to get some axes swinging today putting in a new gate. Primarily froe work, axes - inclusive coutre - there for trimming, thicknessing, flattening and so on and so on. Highlighting first use for me of the little hand-made kirvies.
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Bravo,Ernest,lovely work-space,tools,and the project itself(naturally:)

Good for you,not many nowadays dare to work with wood in any Essentially honest,non-rectilinear manner...
(honest also in the strictly utilitarian way,not objectified).

Happy Solstice to you and everyone...days are once again getting longer...(your photo has that funny "seasonal" feel about it,you usually work much more open to ambient light and air:)
 
We have past that most significant point in the year now for those of us in the northern regions, thanks god, and thank you Jake, the picture does say it all about these dark days.
Splitting and trimming old dried out ash is a lot of work and takes its time with a much wedge work too, splitting not so fine and requiring more trimming with axes than otherwise would be the case keeping the lengths worked down in size also. All-in-all better to work green. Still it amazes me every time what can be accomplished with a froe and I think of the work of the smid who made it every time I use this one.
 
Probably you know it already Fmont , it's an easy confusion to make and yet the tools could not be further apart from one another in their use. There is, on the one hand the froe, to the right, universal and constituting a category itself, and the coutre, left, an archaic tool not widely known outside some central European regions we can categorize within the axe family, it meets our criteria.
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