Poll: If we were to commission a sub-forum custom axe design, what type should it be?

What type of axe would you prefer to have designed?

  • Full-size Single-bit

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Full-size Double-bit

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Boy's Axe

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Cruiser

    Votes: 1 100.0%

  • Hatchet

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    1
David Martin said:
I would take one if I could obtain one with a oval hole and not much else in steel of 1060. With enough stock left. I can finish it, looking at some of you gents photos and heat treat it. Then obtain information where to get a handle. I think many would like viewing the variety in a topic like this. DM
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daizee said:
Just to make the point generally, that there are people who do this (forging, not stock removal) in low volume. Some are artists, some more tool-makers:

https://www.facebook.com/wolfcreekforge/
http://www.hbforge.com/axes/
http://dragonsbreathforge.com/axes.html
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There are other blacksmiths with more industrial shops which might be able to drift out an eye and roughly draw out a bit for a do-it-yourself stock removal axe. I'll make some inquiries.
 
Square_peg said:
There are other blacksmiths with more industrial shops which might be able to drift out an eye and roughly draw out a bit for a do-it-yourself stock removal axe. I'll make some inquiries.
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I would be interested in a full size block with a drawn out bit.
 
Here again we're getting into a situation where modding an existing axe might be less work and far cheaper than having something partially made by a small shop.
 
Square_peg said:
Here again we're getting into a situation where modding an existing axe might be less work and far cheaper than having something partially made by a small shop.
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For a heavy boys ax design with a full size eye for sure. For a flat cheeked hatchet, absolutely. For anyone wanting to create something in a higher weight 3 1\2lbs or 4lbs with a good cheek for softwood or splitting the suggestion you made may be the answer to actually get something done. If for nothing more than a prototype.
 
I was not being sarcastic. That is cheap. If we went with your project we could just buy a 3 1\2 lb Dayton. It would need to be re heat treated. You still in? I am thinking your ideas and do it up like this

Wada ya say?
Really go deep to get that 1\2lb weight loss. Some poll as well.
 
From the pics online the 6 lb council gains most of its weight over the smaller models by lengthening the bit. I'd love to have a nice, new Connecticut, but the steel is in the wrong place for a simple reforge. The eyes on modern Jerseys are shorter than they used to be too. I don't know why they don't make them wider like basically all the Jerseys of years past.


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You can't put 2-1/2 pounds in the bit. It's too thin. There has to be weight in the poll and likely thicker eye walls. The bit is no longer than a 5 pound Plumb rafting axe. The weight has to be somewhere.

ctc60dr36c_6.jpg


$60 at Smoky Mountain.
 
Square_peg said:
You can't put 2-1/2 pounds in the bit. It's too thin. There has to be weight in the poll and likely thicker eye walls. The bit is no longer than a 5 pound Plumb rafting axe. The weight has to be somewhere.

ctc60dr36c_6.jpg


$60 at Smoky Mountain.
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I would love to get the complete​ blueprints of the Council line. As Bridger pointed out they are too thin in the cheek and short of bit,(geussing) to become a Connecticut in cheek or bit. It looks like some, (most) of that weight over the 3 1\2s are bit length and poll. Perhaps a little thicker in the eye, and perhaps overall.
 
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This is the first time I'm uploading from my phone so hopefully these images show. Here's a few iterations of Jerseys and handles and my work in progress Connecticut. The Jersey scales down to a 2.5# version with a 26-28" handle nicely and I think it would make one hell of an axe for general work.


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Bridger, I would be interested in a scaled down Jersey like you drew up there.

This is a 3# Jersey with a boy's axe eye sitting on a 28" handle that I reclaimed from a 36" with a split up tongue.



A scaled down Connecticut would be interesting as well.
 
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