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Ernest DuBois said:
It might be worth your time to look at the no longer active blog called Blue Oak and the entries on hewing. He gives some of the best information I have found on this style of axe use, you see work with these axes including staging and technique so a bit more comprehensive than just a look at handles.
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Ernest, I was looking through old posts just for fun and I finally followed your recommendation for looking at the blue oak blog. Thank you for bringing that to my attention! (I found it by googling "blue oak hewing"). Really great work and superbly written. It's just as entertaining as it is informative. There's a lot of info available there so I've bookmarked it and shall return. I highly recommend that others, who haven't already seen it, go check it out! High quality work going on there with no pretensions.
 
Yankee Josh said:
Ernest, I was looking through old posts just for fun and I finally followed your recommendation for looking at the blue oak blog. Thank you for bringing that to my attention! (I found it by googling "blue oak hewing"). Really great work and superbly written. It's just as entertaining as it is informative. There's a lot of info available there so I've bookmarked it and shall return. I highly recommend that others, who haven't already seen it, go check it out! High quality work going on there with no pretensions.
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I checked out the blog it is well written. I have a fascination for hewing. I have a lot of logs laying around my place waiting for the saw mill. I have been playing around with hewing a bit but have not gotten my set up put together yet. Reading this blog makes me wonder why I would want to go through such punishment but i find it intriguing enough to carry on with it. It is amazing to think of all the work and amount of axe swings that went into building just one cabin or barn.
 
npace, I wouldn't agree that the work is a punishment at all once you have a decent staging, good way of securing the work, sharp axes and a block of time and material dedicated to transforming your round stem to square. It helps too when your wood is nice.
 
Ernest DuBois said:
npace, I wouldn't agree that the work is a punishment at all once you have a decent staging, good way of securing the work, sharp axes and a block of time and material dedicated to transforming your round stem to square. It helps too when your wood is nice.
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Ernest, I agree the work would not be punishment. I was referring to the author talking of barking his knuckles every day and every muscle being sore and almost unable to grip a pencil. I believe it will be quite rewarding to stand back and see your work.
Thank you for suggesting that to Yankee josh it was a good read.
 
My index knuckle on my left hand has a spot that is continuously injured. And I manage to set off traps on myself enough that I've probably broken more of my phalanges than not at some point or another. A Bridger #4 will juuuust break a bone if you only get one gloved finger stuck in it, and a Belisle 330 will break more than one with ease. The Duke ones aren't as bad. I guess that's a tangent.
 
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