Old Mustad coming in Mail

holy cow! that looks like a new axe.

that is awesome work..............


-ben
 
great work. it's nice to take an old tool like that and turn it into a thing of beauty.
yep, i like it...
 
That looks awesome, you really transformed that into something special and unique. What finish did you put on it?
 
Thanks, Gents.

Trailmaker, it's a gun blue finish.

I haven't really chopped anything yet, but it sure feels nice in the hand. I love the length. Can't wait to swing it!

Thanks again everybody!
 
M3mphis said:
I've been trying to figure to figure out what "øks" means...I think it might be Norwegian for axe. Unfortunately, all the info about the word is in Norwegian. Which is not one of the many, many (1) languages that I speak...

EDIT: Looks like that must be true...according to a couple of translation sites.
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hello
im from Norway and øks means axe, so you are totaly right there:)
 
Just wondering how this one is working out, how is the steel at holding its edge, sharpening, what you have used it for, that kind of thing.

E.DB
 
Ernest, I have another Mustad, a little smaller: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/942766-Another-Mustad?highlight=mustad

I recently won another Mustad, though it is just a simple hatchet: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1-LB-6-8-OZ-MUSTAD-19-HATCHET-13-WOOD-CHOPPING-TOOL-/310674987014?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&nma=true&si=vqb28GXqy%252FNJVS32ds38ZNdAniE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

At any rate, the two carpenter's style Mustads are excellent. The steel is outstanding, sharpens to a shaving edge readily and holds it well. I have used them mostly just for chopping up firewood and cutting tent poles etc. I have used the smaller of the two for some carving to rough out a shape, but it is a little heavy even for that. I'd love to try them for notching and hewing, but I have not yet.
 
Ok, that older one, or the first one you had, is in better condition and I prefer the way you made the handle on it as well. The straight edge is correct for a carpentry axe, you can cut a wide plank to the right width for example.
I used to get good cut nails from Mustad but they don't deliver anymore.

E.DB.
 
Turned out really nice! Great work! Did you use a rasp and sandpaper to shape the handle or a spokeshave?
 
M3mphis said:
I used a farrier's rasp to speed things up. Works better than you might think.
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Reading a Foxfire book with a section on shoeing horses, I was surprised to see that farrier's rasps are used to file down the steel horseshoe nails (protruding above the hooves) in addition to giving pedicures to the horses. So it makes sense that they work for filing down axe head mushrooming.
 
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