Lovely trip down memory. Just as fun and useful lo these many years later.

I make my own handles and use what’s available locally (northern NB 🇨🇦). Sugar maple is pretty good against humidity but can shatter. White birch is good all around and readily available. I think this is what they traditionally used in Sweden and Finland. Black ash is available here too, but I haven’t used it long term nor in harsh conditions. I’ve made some really nice hammer and hatchet handles with it though. It has reasonable flex and is lightweight. I’ve never tried yellow birch, but I think its squiggly grain patterns could produce interesting results.

Need to have more axes

I just bought an x15 on Amazon and was a little surprised by the weight to length ratio. Seems a little heavy for how long the handle is. It is a great campfire wood/ kindling splitter, but for hardcore chopping tasks, the handle is a little short and the cutting edge is a little short. I'm thinking about getting the trail boss for a longer handle, lighter head, and longer cutting edge.

Steel pipe only weld on the end where the wedge goes ive had one for over 30 years never came off always by the wood pile outside you need gloves when its cold or plastic dip

Videos are great and very helpful! Is there a way to shop with Sun Valley Ski Tools without selling wholesome

I bought a norlund Hudson Bay at yard sale 3-4 years ago.headed it onto a old broken dbl. bit axe ,it rides in back of my truck bed now.best $10 investment I made lol

I kept thinking about the movie Snatch. “Ze Germans”. 😂

Hello. Can you please tell me the dimensions of the Basque 2 kg axe head? The length of the head and the length of the cutting edge? Thank you...

I personally use a straight handle for my wedge bangers and curved for my wood splitters and multipurpose axes. I also lined up the bits on a double bit on Adirondack handle to swing like a bat on the back side, and it turned out to be my no 1 grabbed axe. Funny how I grab a 3½lb worn cheek flint edge over 6lb fireman axes or 4½lb Tanzanian patterns for splitting wood every time. Love your content

Absolutely nailed this concept. Thanks a lot.

“I want to kill that wood!” :) me too! Thanks for this video it was super helpful

Very educational. Thanks. As for the hip filing, if you doing it too much, your wife will f i l e divorce.😅

Amazing coaching and tips for sharpening an ax! Much better than anything I have seen previously.

Counting hatchets, tomahawk, i have six or seven if you include a splitting maul. Is that enough to be called a axe man 🪓

I would degrease the steel wool, just my 2cents

That hip method is a little close to the lads for me. Don't need to trim myself by accident.

Ooh where is the black locust?

He broke the law alright. The law of human decency. Which this creature knows nothing about. He wanted to be in the spotlight and he didn’t care how inhumane it was.

I'm such a frigging fan of this channel and content. Everything I do is in the shadow of this man. Who dug the trench for us.

I bought some african ebony, 3300 Janka scale. Will it just shatter if I use it for an axe handle?

Please demonstrate the draw filing method. It seems simpler, safer than the push method, though Ive never used the draw filing method.

Ok, so if you decide 13 mm is what you want, then THAT determines your angle, yes? But if you want 25*, then THAT determines how far in from the edge your filing will go,yes? Where IM going with this, is ; I have a son-in-law that is a fumble-bum with sharpening,understanding cutting, woods-lore. So, it seems the first method would be safer for him, and it seems it will still produce the bevel that will get the blade sunk in deep in a log. But Ive never done the sweep method; its never occurred to me that it would even work! If I ever saw a kid doing that, I would stop him and show him the right way, the way you have been demonstrating in this video. MY great son-in-law, is a leader in TRAIL LIFE, and is sincere about making lore like this a real thing that is crucial to know! But he is struggling to be proficient in the prctical use!

That's great, I just went and got a couple of files and stones from my Grandfather's tool box and you just mentioned to go look ❤️. Your awsome 😂

2:14 - that was really g4y :o

Save the trees. 🌲

Do you flip it over and do the other side

Cacchio sei bravissimo, non so come questo messaggio verrà tradotto, spero bene , comunque, hai fatto interventi che l hanno modificata parecchio a livello visivo ma volevo chiederti questo, l impugnatura in legno rispetto ad una impugnatura di fibra di vetro è migliore o può dirsi un suo equivalente? In particolare le vibrazioni che si ripercuotono sulle mani ? Se devi fare un lavoro di poche ore 2/3 come massimo , ti ringrazio ti auguro tante belle cose 👋👋

Watch "Artisans of Australia" Timbercraft NFSA Films See two men using their axes with passion and skill.

The obsessive use of "you know" spoils the good information. Language matters

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This video was extremely educational for me. I just got a cheap hatched from harbor freight to do use as a beater and to learn sharpening with before I try and maintain my expensive stuff.

I clicked off your video because it took you 45 minutes to get to the point fyi

Just came across this video are these axes still available?

THE BEST AXE SHARPENING VID EVER. I knew "no burr, no sharp". The convex edge is new. I was a total flat grind guy. Thanks!

This is old school gold.

That's a beaut! I have just a head and am about to fix mine...Great tips !

Way too much talking!

The fiskar axe is a splitting axe.Not chopping

Well.,I guess it's official. I'm a axe nerd. Really enjoyed this video.

MY GRANDPOP WROTE THAT BOOK I HAVE THE ORIGINAL !!!! IM SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS!!

Hornbeam definitely

Thanks for Sharing

I care man, can we chat sometime?

I love your content, I'd love to talk axe with you

What if you don't have a vice or table to even clamp on?

I don't know how much there is too it but I've heard of shock absorption. The saying is that Ash absorbs the shock into itselfe by being more flexible. I am a stone mason and in every hit we do the stone isn't flexible, the steel isn't either so it leaves the wood and your Hand to give in. And you want the least amount of shock possible in your Hand. Although our malets are made of white Birch. Apparently it tip toes the line between hard enough, Light enough and flexible enough.

If you want it blue, polish the hell out of it. If you want it black, leave it rough. Since I want my axes to have the hammered forge look. I leave them rough.

Do remember, felling and bucking is only one part of the equation. Splitting is another part and splitting puts a tremendous load on an exe because of overstrikes. Ash could just break off and throw a head while a stronger hickory would just split.

You can bet axe manufacturers have done that testing and they balance longevity verses cost and hickory has wine out. Everything, these days, is based on cost. Engineers do not run companies. They are run by the finance department. You can understand that - if they do not make money, they go out of existence.

They say hickory produced in Missouri makes the best axe handles. I can tell you hickory is tough. I cut down five a few years ago for a friend with my chainsaws. They were about 25” in diameter. They were a load for my MS 360 and 440.