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I posted an article on how to make an axe handle using only hand tools in my blog. Perhaps some of you might find it interesting.
http://woodsroamer.blogspot.com/
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Make an Axe Handle using Hand Tools
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Interesting, lovely job.
Would you rather have a 6 or 8 inch b,ock of wood and split out a handle to carve with the grain running the right way for max strength?
Although this handle will last quite a while.
Would you rather have a 6 or 8 inch b,ock of wood and split out a handle to carve with the grain running the right way for max strength?
Although this handle will last quite a while.
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OMNIVIKING: "Would you rather have a 6 or 8 inch b,ock of wood and split out a handle to carve with the grain running the right way for max strength?"....
Actually, when you've got a concentric ringed piece of wood that's as tight as Diospyros texana you've got something that's stronger than the grain structure obtained from a block of wood. Or at least that's been my experience. When making dozens of axe handles from a large tree then grain structure like you mentioned is important...although as others here have mentioned it's not as important as on a large felling axe. But with a small one-handed axe the concentric ringed branch is just fine as long as the wood isn't brittle like some of the faster growing legumes or members of the Celtis sp. family...and a few others.
Actually, when you've got a concentric ringed piece of wood that's as tight as Diospyros texana you've got something that's stronger than the grain structure obtained from a block of wood. Or at least that's been my experience. When making dozens of axe handles from a large tree then grain structure like you mentioned is important...although as others here have mentioned it's not as important as on a large felling axe. But with a small one-handed axe the concentric ringed branch is just fine as long as the wood isn't brittle like some of the faster growing legumes or members of the Celtis sp. family...and a few others.