What did you rehang today?

Remzy said:
an angle grinder to work on a piece of wood? that would be a first one for me.. haha.
ask if he has a rasp instead, that would work better and with less chance of burning and ruining your wood!
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A 36 grit flap disc is a seasoned Hickory (or Maple) carvers dream.;)
 
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Got home from 6 days up to camp and tripped over a package. Four hours of regrinding and rehanging later, and here it is. I may make a seperate thread for this but. To the seller, (you know who you are), thank you so much! Ive wanted a Maine connie for three years. It came out wayyy better than I expected, for the condition.
 
Remzy said:
an angle grinder to work on a piece of wood? that would be a first one for me.. haha.
ask if he has a rasp instead, that would work better and with less chance of burning and ruining your wood!
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I've used an angle grinder for shaping wood many times. I've done a few axe handles with them, too. You have to be careful or you'll mess things up in a hurry. But they move a lot of wood in a hurry. Try putting a 24 grit disc on a 7-1/2" grinder. It will blow the end grain off of the hardest woods. It's impressive!
 
And now I too can post here...:D

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This is slightly addictive... going pawn shop hunting tomorrow.
 
Crazyotter said:
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Got home from 6 days up to camp and tripped over a package. Four hours of regrinding and rehanging later, and here it is. I may make a seperate thread for this but. To the seller, (you know who you are), thank you so much! Ive wanted a Maine connie for three years. It came out wayyy better than I expected, for the condition.
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That is a great head. Wait until you sharpen it.
 
So.. i never saw that grain while working the wood
.. every visible grain was running the length of the haft.. apparently there were two grains that were diagonal and twisting... the entire 19 hour project I never saw them I'm kind of angry... so much work broken in 1 blow through a 2x4..
 
It happens to the best of us! Live and learn is the name of the game when making axe handles. If I remember right this has happened to me twice, so I don't learn to well.
 
That's a shame. I feel for you. We've all had a project go awry after much work. It always sucks. Take a shot or pound a cold one and soldier on. You still gained the experience of doing it. And let's face it - it looked terrific before it cracked.
 
Thanks.. i stained the broken one with some dark walnut... it looked amazing!! I'll try again... but I got my first Union job now... so I won't have time.. im gonna mail the broken one and the rest of my curly maple to my father who is a Wood worker. He's way more tooled up than I am.. he's got everything. He made a kayak that actually floats..
 
I'm almost ashamed to show my first effort here next to some of the very elegant hangings I've seen in this thread. My new Kelly 3.2 double bit arrived in England this morning and I spent the afternoon joining it to its helve. It is extremely difficult to find hickory in the right size handles to fit a double bit axe in Europe, so I re-purposed an old hickory pick handle. The grain isn't anything to write home about as it slopes across at about 45 degrees. But I think it will be alright.

This isn't finished, but it's pissing it down with rain I have stopped for the night so I thought I'd show the work so far.

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Handle roughly octagonalized with a hand plane. Don't know if my phone camera picks that up?

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I used a home made oak wedge.

No electric tools were used at all, and it was all done by eye. That's my excuse for such low level finishing! But, I'll neaten it all up over the next few days, and it should be a tool to be proud of.
 
Hey joshiecole, it looks like a safe hang and a functional one, prettiness is always third in priority for me ;) keep at it, you can ONLY get better!
 
Okay folks. This is my first rehanging project. Let me know how I did.

This is what I started with.






And this is what I ended up with.




 
joshiecole said:
I'm almost ashamed to show my first effort here next to some of the very elegant hangings I've seen in this thread. My new Kelly 3.2 double bit arrived in England this morning and I spent the afternoon joining it to its helve. It is extremely difficult to find hickory in the right size handles to fit a double bit axe in Europe, so I re-purposed an old hickory pick handle. The grain isn't anything to write home about as it slopes across at about 45 degrees. But I think it will be alright.

This isn't finished, but it's pissing it down with rain I have stopped for the night so I thought I'd show the work so far.

20150612_2029581_zpsbxzv9cty.jpg


Handle roughly octagonalized with a hand plane. Don't know if my phone camera picks that up?

20150612_2015511_zpsb45b258c.jpg


I used a home made oak wedge.

No electric tools were used at all, and it was all done by eye. That's my excuse for such low level finishing! But, I'll neaten it all up over the next few days, and it should be a tool to be proud of.
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It is great looking work! When I started, I was a "no electric tools" guy. Mostly still am, but there is really no substitute for an angle grinder and a wire cup. I have given in on that one.
 
Amazing how difficult it can be to take pictures of octagonal handles joshiecole, but the work looks fully functional. I like that oak wedge and it looks well done - and that's what really matters. Charlie K, that handle is nice! I also vote well done. Did you do the lanyard tube? Or is that just how the pic makes it look? That hammer is ready to go back to work.

Speaking of not being able to capture octagonal handles. This is my project from today.

NE_OLDYANK1 by city_ofthe_south, on Flickr

NE_OLDYANK_knob by city_ofthe_south, on Flickr
 
cityofthesouth said:
Amazing how difficult it can be to take pictures of octagonal handles joshiecole, but the work looks fully functional. I like that oak wedge and it looks well done - and that's what really matters. Charlie K, that handle is nice! I also vote well done. Did you do the lanyard tube? Or is that just how the pic makes it look? That hammer is ready to go back to work.

Speaking of not being able to capture octagonal handles. This is my project from today.

NE_OLDYANK1 by city_ofthe_south, on Flickr

NE_OLDYANK_knob by city_ofthe_south, on Flickr
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I'd bet it took the better part of an hour to make that haft and hang that axe.:) Nice work!
 
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