My Boarding Axe came today!

Yvsa

Yvsa

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WOWSER!!!! :eek: This thing is bigger than I expected but I am blown away by it even though it doesn't come sharp!:thumbup: :cool:
I'm not real sure a standard 'Hawk head will fit it as the eye is a tad over 1-5/16" long X about 1-1/16" wide X 1-1/4" deep and not very symmetrical so if they're all similar the handles will need to be individually fitted anyway.
The head is 9-3/8" long from end to end and the chopping edge is 3-3/4" long.
It is about 3-7/16" from the front of the eye to the center of the chopping edge.
And the best I can tell about 4-3/8" 4-7/16" or so from the back of the eye to the end of the spike!!!!
And weighing it on our postal scales yielded a weight of 1-Lb. 14-oz!!!!:eek: :D
It is indeed on the heavy side for the average sized 'Hawk but not totally out of line, some of those old 'Hawks were Humongous!!!!
It is definitely a Heavy Duty Tool!!!! <VBESEG>

It is indeed a monster compared to my little Cegga Nessmuk Double Bit 'Hawk/Axe.;)
My Cegga Nessmuk comes in with an oal of right-at 6" with right-at 3-3/16" cutting edges and if I didn't mention it before each end is ground differently. One side is thicker with a more obtuse edge and the other considerably thinner with a more acute edge, the perfect little 'Hawk/Axe.:thumbup: :D
Each side is approximately 2-3/16" from the rather small 1-5/16" X 7/16" eye that's 2" deep. Its weight comes in at 1-Lb 1-3/4-oz, probably what some folks would call a Mouse 'Hawk but it's size being what it is it's a bit too big too be called a Mouse 'Hawk.;)
And of course being hand forged and finished by Cegga its beauty has too be seen to be believed.:cool:
 
Sounds impressive! Next time you have to go to the hospital take it with you in case somebody gives you any lip. :D
 
That little cegga intriges me.

Did you get it directly from him or on the secondary market?
I saw several like that at blade show two years ago. I still kick myself for not snagging one.
 
They sold a few of them that day. :cool: Please post pix of handle ideas, Yvsa.

Inquiring pirates (moi) need to know.


Mike
 
shappa said:
That little cegga intriges me.

Did you get it directly from him or on the secondary market?
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Shappa I got it directly from the maker.:thumbup: :D

Ad Astra said:
Please post pix of handle ideas, Yvsa.

Inquiring pirates (moi) need to know.


Mike
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Mike, et al:

On the question of a handle for the Boarding Axe I got to thinking last night that maybe, just maybe, a blank handle for a *Large* Ball Pein Hammer might just be the ticket!:thumbup: :cool: :D But I'm not sure if the handle will be large enough for the big eye in the axe.
Nevertheless I'm thinking of a handle made on that order.
Such a handle has a swell below the tool itself to keep the tool from working its way down and off the handle in a very dangerous direction.:eek:
And it also has a swell at the end of the handle so as to help keep the tool from sliding or flying out of your hand when swinging it.
Cegga also posted a pic of a really beautifully designed handle made of Elm but were so expensive as to be impracticable.:(

The replacement hammer handle below the fancy handle is 18" long.

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That's a sweet handle on that cegga.
Here's a little nessmuk I saw at Blade several years ago. A different handle design with awesome wood. I don't know why I passed it up:grumpy:

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Wolf_1989 said:
Avast ye swab! Now ye can fight oklahoma pirates!
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Wolf, the pic of the Cegga with the handle isn't mine although I wish I had a handle that nice to put in my little one.:thumbup: :cool:


shappa said:
That's a sweet handle on that cegga.
Here's a little nessmuk I saw at Blade several years ago. A different handle design with awesome wood. I don't know why I passed it up:grumpy:

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Shappa, you deserve a good hard, wild, kick in the arse for letting something like that pass up and especially for letting it pass up and keeping a pic of it!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes: :p :grumpy: ;)
I'm pretty sure that is Curly Maple in that Nessmuk and a very beautiful example of Curly Maple at that!
But then if I bought a Nessmuk Axe that pretty I'd have to think at least thrice before I used it.:o Any handle that pretty belongs on an exhibition presentation piece and not something meant for general everyday use.:D
 
That's some mighty nice lookin' maple.

I have a couple long blocks of Jerra wood a friend Down Under sent me. It's very similar to teak or rosewood in appearance and feels very heavy and tough.

Next time I replace a tomahawk handle, I'll be using it.

Woodcarving and flintknapping are my specialties.

I think I'll make a flint khukri sometime if I obtain a large enough piece of material. Wonder what the guys in Nepal would think of that?
 
Dang. Thats a beautiful handle Yvsa!! I love seeing your work!!!
 
Fiddleback said:
Dang. Thats a beautiful handle Yvsa!! I love seeing your work!!!
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Andy my friend I don't know what you've been drinking or smoking <VBESEG> but I haven't yet begun to even start looking at what suitable wood I may have for a handle laying about, let alone making a handle for either of my latest axe acquisitions. ;)

I wish either handle was one that I had made and that I had access to such beautiful wood as well.:thumbup:

I'm thinking and hoping the Osage Orange chunks I have are at least 18" long and that there is a suitable piece among what I have left for a handle as I think Osage Orange would make a very beautiful as well as a very strong handle.
If not there's a native wood sawmill a few miles from us that has all kinds of well seasoned Oklahoma Hardwood and I'm sure I can find something suitable there.:thumbup:
But something just plain suitable as compared to something exceptionally suitable and exceptionally beautiful is like comparing apples and oranges.;)
Hackberry is another oft overlooked hardwood that is very suitable for all sorts of tool handles as well as, get this, Self Bows! It's been two years before Gawd since I made anything out of Hackberry and the best I can remember the wood is generally a creamy, almost white, color that takes stain very, very, well and can have exceptionally pretty grain.
I made a gun stock and forepiece for an old .22/.410 over and under that I managed to get a hold of somehow. Back then I didn't know about Tru-Oil so I put on several, several, coats of hand applied and hand rubbed Deft lacquer. The surface of the wood looked two feet deep beneath the surface of the finish.:cool:
However Hackberry being a natural material its color can vary wildly depending on its location and the growing conditions it has had to maturity.

I'm thinking the Cegga would look astounding with a pretty cream, almost white, Hackberry handle with a dark blued head.
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HERE is the best article with most accurate color pic I have ever found that happens to be in pdf format.

This is a Hackberry wand that really resembles the Ash it's supposed to be related too...

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And this is Spalted Hackberry combined with other woods too make a beautiful turned bowl.

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Oh. OK.

I thought about going downtown and getting Osage for mine, but as I was digging through my hatchet bin (I used to like ordering "project" hatchets from ebay) there was that handle just asking to be used.

Oh well. It came out good enough for now at least.

Doesn't matter, because I can't figure out how I want to carry the damn thing.

HELP. What are you planning to do for a sheath for it?
 
Fiddleback said:
Doesn't matter, because I can't figure out how I want to carry the damn thing.

HELP. What are you planning to do for a sheath for it?
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LMRRAO!!!! :D
Andy I haven't even began to consider a way to carry the Nessmuk! :rolleyes: :o But I guess it's time to start thinking of some way to do so...
Right off the top of my head methinks a heavy, 10-12 oz leather, deep cutaway, drop in pouch with a welt on each end and an extra long flap with an antler button and an oil tanned latigo leather thong, or a heavy duty snap on the flap to hold it in place would be the ticket.:thumbup: :cool:
And of course you would want the sewn in welts reinforced with rivets at the top and bottom for safety purposes.
Some type of device is necessary to carry any sharp edged tool but foremost and first off safety is the keyword in designing it! If it isn't safe you had just as well stick it under your belt or hand carry it for all the good it'd do.:rolleyes:

It's too bad someone hasn't come up with an affordable, to the masses, program where you could draw on your monitor or a scanner screen so you could share a vision of what's in your mind with your friends. I can see most of my idea in my mind's eye but there's no way in hell I could relay it without being able to draw pictures.:grumpy: :o ;) :D
 
Moff8 said:
have a look at this
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WOW!!!! Very nice tooling!!!!:thumbup: :cool: :D

And pretty much what I had in mind except being simpler, Me Likey!!!!:thumbup: :D
Methinks I have the large acorn stamps but it's been so long since I've used my saddle stamps I'm not sure.:o Acorns aren't that easy to carve from scratch.:eek:

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