Bronze and blood

defiently a good chopper, but for 5 pounds, i think i'll stick with my truck fire axe.
that is a pretty nasty slice, worser drop than i'v ever had
 
Imaginative fellow! He's not making something practical or durable though because it wouldn't hold up to physical work. However were he to be able to get his castings detailed and fine enough he could entice me to commission a purely decorative Black Raven head to hang on the wall or serve as a door stop or paper weight.
 
Very cool vid ! I had a chuckle at the butterflies and neosporin though.
I've had my share of mishaps , pretty sure I would have let the pros handle that with stitches.
Thanks for the post I've never seen anything cast before.
 
Did this with a double bit. 11 stitches. I'm glad I let the pros do it. He'll likely have quite a scar..
 

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I have one similar scar on my shin. Glancing/rebounding blow while felling a hard dead tree. Thankfully it hit the seam at the bottom of my double-knee Carharts which slowed it down a bit. It was shallow enough that I took care of it myself - plus I was camping 50 miles from the nearest hospital or clinic. Had to shave the hairs off my leg with a hunting knife before closing it.
 
I'm pretty sure he didn't cast this thing as an actual hatchet ( after all he does have the vintage original he molded it after ) but maybe figured that if it could cut him that deep, maybe it could actually chop wood.
I'm sure I'd be curious about that if it were me.

Now I'm not sure I would've used butterfly closure strips on a wound like that either, but then again I've never had to get stitches before and I'm not sure how excited I'd be about the whole procedure.
 
Hickory n steel said:
I'm pretty sure he didn't cast this thing as an actual hatchet ( after all he does have the vintage original he molded it after ) but maybe figured that if it could cut him that deep, maybe it could actually chop wood.
I'm sure I'd be curious about that if it were me.

Now I'm not sure I would've used butterfly closure strips on a wound like that either, but then again I've never had to get stitches before and I'm not sure how excited I'd be about the whole procedure.
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It's nothing. A couple of small pin pricks and you're frozen. No biggie. Would also be concerned about infection. It also didn't cost me anything, so I didn't have that to consider.
 
Some honey or sugar stuffed in the wound, more added daily as necessary, might've been just enough (after disinfecting of course). No need to cover it, as long as no contact with dirt. It took a vet to make a believer out of me :), it worked on some nasty stuff I thought he was nuts to recommend this for.
 
Moonw said:
Some honey or sugar stuffed in the wound, more added daily as necessary, might've been just enough (after disinfecting of course). No need to cover it, as long as no contact with dirt. It took a vet to make a believer out of me :), it worked on some nasty stuff I thought he was nuts to recommend this for.
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Ancient Egyptians used honey as a disinfectant for brain surgery thousands of years ago, and we know that patients lived by inspecting the amount of cranial healing at the edges of the trepanning marks. Gotta love the natural world.....I bet a lot of bronze weapon injuries got the honey treatment.
 
Interesting to learn that! Point is, as long as you're not Brad Pitt's leg :), you can do with more frugal approaches.
 
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