Baltag II - hiking companion

[leon08]

Another small, long haft hiking companion.
Here are some pict before heat treatement and final assembly.

I`ll be back when I finish it!

 

[cattledog]

I dig it that's sweet!

 

[Mountain Wildman]

Very nice, Cool design on the steel.

 

[Square_peg]

I love the 'spider webbing'. How did you do that? Milling machine or just clamp it to a turn table and use an engraver?

 

[Operator1975]

Is that a combination axe/hatchet/walking stick?

 

[HandAxeProMan]

I like! How long is the haft? What is the weight of and dimensions of the head?

 

[leebrewer]

Come on man. Throw a few answers out there. Are they made from old axe heads?

 

[leon08]

Sorry for late response (I have a day job ).
In order:
Thanks for feedback.
I used an engraver (diamond coated 1 mm point milling tool) and filework.
Is a combinatin of axe/hatchet/walking stick, the haft is 33 inch long (can be cut down if is necessary).
The head is 5,5 inch with a 3 inch cutting edge and about 16 oz.
They are made from good quality axe (made of tool steel) that I forge again (I keep only the eye).
After that I grind, engrave and make a new heat treatement.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Great work! I like it!

 

[Humppa]

Great work!

Seems you guys down there in Romania have some other head-shapes than we have here in Germany. You showed off another piece, which had also a pretty unique (to me) shape. I like that very much! Thank you for sharing.

Greetz from Bavaria!

 

[leon08]

Thanks again!
Hummpa, I live in Bucovina (Bukowina in german - Land of beech trees in english) so we share almoust 100 years of common german/austrian traditions (most of it brought here by inhabitants of the Alps).
I also now your Alpenstock (common even in my area and many other areas of Romania).

 

[Humppa]

Hi Leon08,

yes, in Bucovina the KK monarchy might have brought some of the shapes to Romania. But I have never ever seen shapes like yours here in Germany/Austria, nowadays. Maybe some of the (really) old guys might remember such tools. Seems, some of the old shapes survived in Romania.

Thank you for sharing all this to us guys!

Kind regards

 

[HandAxeProMan]

Leon08, thanks for the vital statistics. I love the shape and can see how one of these could be very useful to a woods runner such as myself. Love the web etching also.

Howard

 

[M3mphis]

Have you finished that thing up, Leon?????

 

[leon08]

No, this week-end I will!

 

[leon08]

I finally finished it

I hope you like it. See you to the next one.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Now it just needs a ferrule on the end! Great work!

 

[M3mphis]

Nice work, Leon! That's cool. One hell of a walking stick!

 

[leebrewer]

Very nice!

 

[mattyak]

I second the Ferrule!

Beautiful Craftsmanship on the steel/wood and leather