I've always loved sharp metal objects since I was a kid. My parents used to have to cut up my food because I'd use my table knife to cut my food into such small bits the food would get cold by the time I was done. When I started this axe thing I did what I usually do and catapulted off the diving board, straight into the deep end. I went from zero to one hundred so fast it seems I was putting a haft on something new once (or twice) a week. (I'm sure HH doesn't object to that. 
) But now I probably find myself in a similar situation as others may be in or have been in --I've been a bit quiet because work and life have been busy and also because I have been using many of these newly hafted tools.
I was cleaning off the workbench the other day and found a couple 14" hafts and a small stack of kerf wedges. As I thought about what to do with them (stow them away vs. go back out to the flea markets, yard sales and start stalking eBay) it dawned on me that I now have a bunch of usable/working axes:
5 hatchets in varying weights/patterns
3 boy's axes (all roughly the same)
3 single bit roughly 3# axes
That 5# Collins Legitimus axe which is still not repaired/restored --and a slew of other stuff like hawks, mini hawks, mini hatchets, etc. It also dawned on me that even though I make a conscious effort to switch it up and try to use everything in the inventory... 99.9% of the time I'll either start with something and put it down in favor of my go-to axe or axes, or I don't even try and switch it up anymore; I just grab my usual go-to axe(s) and have at it.
So I guess I would ask: Do you get to a point where you stop and use what you have? Even if you like to collect (which isn't my thing), do you stop when you run out of wall space or do you literally hoard heads/axes? I really really enjoyed getting the first few axes and hafting them, etc. Its really nice to know every time I pick up an axe that I shaped the handle, drove in the kerf wedge, etc. I'm feeling like now that I have my tools and I feel reasonably confident that most of the hafts will last long enough for my unborn kids to try and destroy them, I'm feeling like I might be done for a bit. Does that just mean that I don't have the bug or an axe addiction?
) But now I probably find myself in a similar situation as others may be in or have been in --I've been a bit quiet because work and life have been busy and also because I have been using many of these newly hafted tools. I was cleaning off the workbench the other day and found a couple 14" hafts and a small stack of kerf wedges. As I thought about what to do with them (stow them away vs. go back out to the flea markets, yard sales and start stalking eBay) it dawned on me that I now have a bunch of usable/working axes:
5 hatchets in varying weights/patterns
3 boy's axes (all roughly the same)
3 single bit roughly 3# axes
That 5# Collins Legitimus axe which is still not repaired/restored --and a slew of other stuff like hawks, mini hawks, mini hatchets, etc. It also dawned on me that even though I make a conscious effort to switch it up and try to use everything in the inventory... 99.9% of the time I'll either start with something and put it down in favor of my go-to axe or axes, or I don't even try and switch it up anymore; I just grab my usual go-to axe(s) and have at it.
So I guess I would ask: Do you get to a point where you stop and use what you have? Even if you like to collect (which isn't my thing), do you stop when you run out of wall space or do you literally hoard heads/axes? I really really enjoyed getting the first few axes and hafting them, etc. Its really nice to know every time I pick up an axe that I shaped the handle, drove in the kerf wedge, etc. I'm feeling like now that I have my tools and I feel reasonably confident that most of the hafts will last long enough for my unborn kids to try and destroy them, I'm feeling like I might be done for a bit. Does that just mean that I don't have the bug or an axe addiction?
