Will this gorgeous hang hold up?

Twindog

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I am curious to see what you guys think about this hang. It looks like it was done by someone with serious skills. That crossed double wedge is pretty awesome, but it looks as though the haft is poorly matched to the head, requiring a lot a filler to be packed into the gap. Hard to see this hang holding up to hard work.



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Looks like an over sized eyed foreign axe. There are handles out there that will solve that issue. That one I don't think will make it for long.
 
Yeah, it's too bad, too, because that could have been an awesome hang. I've never seen a spaced double wedge down the middle before, not to mention the nice cross wedging.
 
I'm trying to imagine the why of having two parallel wedges like that. As for the hang, the irony is that it looks like it could have been saved with 2 cross wedges.
 
Looks like it should hold, however it is at least 6 wedges, 4 in the handle and 2 to fill the gap between handle and the axe. They used handle which is much smaller than the top of the eye. Maybe that's the only one they got at that time.
 
Probably started off as an undersized handle with a badly off center factory kerf cut. Whoever conducted the hang did his/her darnedest! May as well enjoy it while it lasts. Anyone as enterprising as this (4 wedges!) may well have had the foresight to bed the haft in epoxy or fiberglass while they were at it, so you won't know about durability until you get out there and use it.
 
Probably started off as an undersized handle with a badly off center factory kerf cut. Whoever conducted the hang did his/her darnedest! May as well enjoy it while it lasts. Anyone as enterprising as this (4 wedges!) may well have had the foresight to bed the haft in epoxy or fiberglass while they were at it, so you won't know about durability until you get out there and use it.


I didn't buy this, just saw it and loved the hang. However, the filler and the poor haft fit turned me off to it. I asked the seller what he used for filler between the haft and the head. He said he didn't use any: "There's no filler material, the handle is one piece of ash and the wedging has been done with Ipe wood and another ash wedge in the middle."

The wedging is still cool. He must have sawed a double kerf, leaving a narrow median, in addition to the cross kerf. I've never been able to do a complicated cross wedging that well.

It just seemed odd that someone with that much skill would have left such a gap. As Jblyttle says, a second cross wedge may have filled the gap, but to my eye it would have taken two more cross wedges.
 
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