hey guys im new here but have been reading these forums for a while now and got hooked on axes. im an apprentice carpenter and ive been collecting axe and hatchet heads for a while and have just been making handles out of offcuts of timber
my first one was an unmarked axe head donated from my tafe teacher that i hung on an offcut of spotted gum i had leftover from a dining table i made
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next i got a hatchet head from my grandmother and after i had cleaned all the rust off it i found that it was a snailbrand head. i hung it on an offcut of mountain ash i had from work, i used some dyes and tung oil and got a cool effect on the handle which i copied onto my other axes. its not as noticable in the pictures but you can see the timber grain through the dye which looks awesome in person.
last i made an axe as a birthday presant for a mate who is into lanscaping and camping n stuff so i used an weibelhaus and co head that i got from my friend from tafe which has an awesome shape but had been treated very badly and even had angle grinder gashes on the blade tip from a poor attempt at sharpening. after hours of cleaning and fileing i got it looking good and sharp. i used a similat coloring technique on the handle as i did the hatchet using sandpaper and dyes.
i also have two more in the making with ash handles again, with a gba granfors bruks and a hb hults bruks heads that i found both 4 1/2 pounders so i cant wait for them to be up and running. also the sheaths are handmade and all the branding was done with punches and a soldering iron.
my first one was an unmarked axe head donated from my tafe teacher that i hung on an offcut of spotted gum i had leftover from a dining table i made
next i got a hatchet head from my grandmother and after i had cleaned all the rust off it i found that it was a snailbrand head. i hung it on an offcut of mountain ash i had from work, i used some dyes and tung oil and got a cool effect on the handle which i copied onto my other axes. its not as noticable in the pictures but you can see the timber grain through the dye which looks awesome in person.
last i made an axe as a birthday presant for a mate who is into lanscaping and camping n stuff so i used an weibelhaus and co head that i got from my friend from tafe which has an awesome shape but had been treated very badly and even had angle grinder gashes on the blade tip from a poor attempt at sharpening. after hours of cleaning and fileing i got it looking good and sharp. i used a similat coloring technique on the handle as i did the hatchet using sandpaper and dyes.
i also have two more in the making with ash handles again, with a gba granfors bruks and a hb hults bruks heads that i found both 4 1/2 pounders so i cant wait for them to be up and running. also the sheaths are handmade and all the branding was done with punches and a soldering iron.
