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samek

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Last Sunday I buy an old, rusty, beaten axe head with deformed poll on flea market for 0,50 €. My sharp eye :eek: find out it should be quality piece of metal. An so it is! After some cleaning, sanding, grinding and honing it was more and more beautiful, and I found out that sharpening bewel is excellend tempered. I made a new handle from yew wood (never heard of yew axe handles :confused:) and leather sheath. Here it is! I like it very much.
First I want to post this on axe forum but than I reather post it here. Afterall this hatchet will became my wilderness hiking companion, I think.

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Samek
 
I second that, great job on the handle. It's good to see I'm not the only one that spends tiem hand carving handles. Beautiful piece work. Congrats!!
 
What's involved in making that handle?

I really like the story of getting an axe head and rejuvenating it, in style.
 
Now that turned out great. Like the sheath and the handle is very interesting. Nice color to it. Aren't some bows made out of yew? Are you a carver?
 
I like that a lot, I wished GB still offered some hatchets with handles with some sweep to them instead of their new straight plain jane sticks for handles.

A most handsome beater, if you break the handle you can repair it, if you ding it up, you can fix that too.

Pat
 
Great job!

And, yes, yew is used in bows, which likely means good strength, flexibility, and shape retention.
 
John Frankl said:
Great job!

And, yes, yew is used in bows, which likely means good strength, flexibility, and shape retention.
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This! I can't believe I never thought of using yew, that stuff is strong as hell. I used to have a walking stick made of yew you could damn near bend it to a right angle without cracking.
 
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