Ship-Shape Swedish Carpentry Axe

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Ernest DuBois

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Since today it's wet out and I'm waiting to get some wood from the saw mill anyway I went ahead and finished off this carpentry axe that is sure to come in handy one of these days soon. I decided to go with an ash handle cut just down the road here last year and off-set it ever so slightly for extra clearance. It's got a nice high carbon content steel insert, making it a nice blade. A socket with a compound taper which I'm not so used to hanging and that's why it needed a wedge in the end which I was trying to avoid at the outset. The bevels on this one I have flattened out more than what I am used to in order to get less of a gouging action and more of a flat surface effect.











It takes a clean shaving off of some not so wet anymore sawn pine wood.

E.DB.
 
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Fine looking axe.
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What sort of work will you use it for?
 
Yes, very nice.
Sometimes they come up on the Swedish auction site Tradera (and some sellers will ship to the USA).
Search words: yxa, bila
 
First and foremost used for surfacing in solid wood construction also known as log construction typically after the walls are standing with the intent of improving water shedding. I have also understood that the mass of the beefed up bevels creates increased friction and pressure against the surface which is supposed to draw sap outward to help with durability. It also cuts surprisingly good on end-grain which I guess is helped by the mass there.
CedarEater, I did have to think of you when I was trying it out with the handle on it and think if I were a log builder this is one axe I would like to have, though I know in the Canada style the logs are left in the round.

E.DB.
 
Ernest DuBois said:
First and foremost used for surfacing in solid wood construction also known as log construction typically after the walls are standing with the intent of improving water shedding. I have also understood that the mass of the beefed up bevels creates increased friction and pressure against the surface which is supposed to draw sap outward to help with durability. It also cuts surprisingly good on end-grain which I guess is helped by the mass there.
CedarEater, I did have to think of you when I was trying it out with the handle on it and think if I were a log builder this is one axe I would like to have, though I know in the Canada style the logs are left in the round.

E.DB.
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Certainly in e. Canada all log buildings of the 18 and 19th century used squared timbers. The British were fussy about their wood and all timbers were squared on site, lashed together to make rafts and floated down the various rivers to Montreal where they were loaded on to ships. No doubt because squaring wood was commonplace activity in the fall/winter lumber camps the fellows did the same when they went back to their farms in the spring.
 
It could be so, all I know is this, the dog ate it up yesterday and the rooster is going in the pan next Sunday.

E.DB
 
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