Some more fun with the Traveler's Celt

[FortyTwoBlades]

While most heavily used in straight-shaft mountings, the Traveler's Celt can be pressed into service as an axe, adze, or hoe. The usual method of doing this would be by using an appropriately forked branch, but in the event that only straight trees with few branches of significant size were around (which is mostly the case on my property) this is another method that can be used to securely orient the head at an angle to the haft. I'm working on some minor tweaks to the shown prototype but things are close to being all squared away. They'll be going into production soon.

 

[Agent_H]

Pretty cool there Forty Two. I'm also liking the hammer you fashioned.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

A beautiful drsign like that is a temptation to go out and find something to whack with it!

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Thanks! It's a fun piece and the more I play with it the more tricks I've discovered with it. There'll be a "Pocket Celt", too, that'll be suitable for doing the mortising work for making a handle like the one shown. You could, in many ways, consider this to be the "anti-Klax".

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Many bladed weapons of the bad old days were simply repurposed everyday tools. But in time we see these massive weapons changed much more thsn their elegant predecessors.

 

[Storm Crow]

Still think this is a cool idea. And the mallet head just reinforces that.

 

[leebrewer]

Indeed! Pocket Celt, tomahawk sized. I'm in.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Thanks for the kind words guys. Lee--the Pocket Celt needs some details finalized, design-wise, but it'll probably be more like mouse 'hawk size. Pretty small, and sort of like a socket chisel you can do a lot more with. I'd like it to be narrow enough in order to cut the large mortise of a head piece like the one in the OP.

 

[leebrewer]

Thanks for the kind words guys. Lee--the Pocket Celt needs some details finalized, design-wise, but it'll probably be more like mouse 'hawk size. Pretty small, and sort of like a socket chisel you can do a lot more with. I'd like it to be narrow enough in order to cut the large mortise of a head piece like the one in the OP.

Very nice