Vikingish Axe

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I saw a axe in a museum in Europe with the blade riveted on and this is my interpretation. The iron is all from the same horse drawn plow set . A big turning plow. The handle wrap, hardware on the butt and all of the rivets were from the drops or scraps. The ring on the butt was from the same set.
Blade is 6" across and a 6" cutting edge
Forged in a charcoal forge, all hammer, hot cut and filing by hand. No electricity used.
Cutting edge quenched in brine.
22" Haft is White Oak with Whitetail rawhide wraps.

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Here's the hanger. The leather is from a saddle skirt. Rawhide wrapping on the edges from the same deer as the axe and the metal hanger is from a scrap of the same plow. The cross is old roof flashing. Finish is black grease with brown dye mixed in with varnish.
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$285 shipped US PayPal (I pay fees) or USPSMO Thanks ....Randy
 
Thanks Bill, Pittsteele and Mick. This one was a lot of fun to make and it feels .......powerful. The haft is large and the rawhide fits your hand.
My Son called it "tumultuous" meaning "noisy and disorderly" ....Randy
 
Pawn Stars? That's easy:

They would ask Randy "so what do you want to do with it guy, pawn it or sell it?"
Randy says "I would like to sell it."
Chumlee says far out and offers him 3 bucks for it
Randy removes the top of Chumlee's head with the axe.
the bald guy lets out a classic smokers laugh
the old man says "Get back to work!"
The pawn guys follow Big Hoss to the back room to inhale huge amounts of food.
After that, they return to the counter and tell Randy that they need the Amish looking Clark County museum guy to come down and look at it because they really do not know what kind of value to put on it.
The museum guy comes in and says it looks like an old North Carolina viking axe to him. "Well made". He would like to have it in the museum to hang between his Amelia Earhart blow up doll and the other stuff that has nothing to do with Clark County.
The bald guy offers Randy $300 for it, Randy takes the three hundred and spends most of it at yard sales on the way home: 25 old lawn mower blades, 4 Nicholson files, 2 buckets of rusty scrap metal, 7 ladies handbags made from good leather, a spool of copper wire, 2 dog collars (good buckles, and they threw in 4 rawhide chew toys), a mule harness, and a couple of old wigs (to tie fishing flies with).....returns to Redbud Forge, very excited about the next project.

The next day the pawn shop guys sell the axe to the museum guy for $1500 and everyone is happy.

Except Chumlee who never fully recovered.

great show;)
 
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Grafton, you forgot about the stuffed pig, it was in the large ladies handbag. Didn't find it till I got back to "Carolina. After a little research it turned out to be done by a little know but very eccentric taxidermist from Va. Picasso DeGrafton, both eyes were on the same side of it's head. The Clark county dude (and his doll) rode on the back of Big Hoss's Chopper to "Carolina to see the stuffed pig and declared it priceless, BUT, if I donated it to his museum he would give me the deed to the Pawn Shop, he won it on a bet with the old man , something about a Civil War battle they both attended, and the pig had nothing to do with Clark co. but he wanted it. Back to Vegas in Redbud Mobile 1 where we collected the Pawn Shop and gave to the City of Vegas to open up a home for fat, ugly, ex-pawn shop employees with flattops.

Interesting trip, should have said ...pawn it .....

And that boys and girls is "the rest of the story"
 
Bravo!

by the way, "eccentric taxidermist" is redundant.

That Clark County guy is great, he needs his own show.
 
Sorry, how about "extraordinary artistically talented taxidermist"
The Clark co. dude is great, will not tell the value of anything, just if it's real.
After all this entertainment, looks like someone would buy this axe,,,,, and we'll throw in the rights to the mini-series.....Randy
 
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