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This guy’s videos are a treat to watch. He does almost everything by hand, from scratch. Best of all, no talking.
I've seen this second one before and he does good work, I enjoyed watching it again.the first video is great because of the traditional craftsmanship - though the shape of the handle is less than ideal.
these videos use less traditional techniques, but the final handle shapes and hangs are pretty good.
and this first one also has no talking
much longer, but pretty nice handle.
I've seen this second one before and he does good work, I enjoyed watching it again.
That first, when he started grinding on the head I was out.
Yeah probably was a flap disk.I think that's a flap disc in the first video. I don't think he's actually grinding on it. But I hear you - I'd never do that to an axe myself - not into the polished look.
We can say traditional, non-traditional, ecological, modern, mechanized .... Ok but I would include in the "traditional" that the handle blanks are riven and this is a material distinction in comparing the two cases. The run-0ut in both of the later is a striking and typical consequence of relying on sawed stock. Unfortunately, Mr Chickadee chose to cut it to close riving to 8ths rather than stopping at quarters which left him with insufficient material to orient the grain differently, or carve a standard swell, but I have no problem with the improvisation he chooses in forming the grip in light of the insufficiency, it's suitable to him and his condition which is rarely so with standardized solutions that demand our accommodation towards them.he first video is great because of the traditional craftsmanship - though the shape of the handle is less than ideal.
these videos use less traditional techniques, but the final handle shapes and hangs are pretty good.
and this first one also has no talking
My approach to riving is that it begins with material selection. Some woods are eliminated at the outset because the species is not suited to the technique. Maple, in anything other than a green, freshly cut condition rives poorly for example, and you'll get nowhere riving plum wood, where ash, oak, robinia, sweet chestnut... can be reliably riven. Riving reveals the character on a piece by piece basis, obvious for example in the old film I placed where the long tough fibers of ash are explicit and just what's wanted in an axe handle, and if there are indications of incompatibility we have the option of bailing early on. Just like they always say, and it's particularly applicable to working wood with axes, "Man has forgotten how to work with wood once they discovered the saw".I've had a similar recent experience with a riven haft that had too many grain changes to work with a drawknife.
Some woods are eliminated at the outset because the species is not suited to the technique. Maple, in anything other than a green, freshly cut condition rives poorly for example, and you'll get nowhere riving plum wood, where ash, oak, robinia, sweet chestnut... can be reliably riven.