From Tree to Beam Plus 40 Years

Dan Dustin talks about historical broadaxes used in hand hewing.

[@fredflintystoneea]

I'm very glad to have found your content. Thank you greatly for sharing.

[@dandustin824]

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@smolboyi]

Thanks for the knowledge!

[@dandustin824]

Thanks for the comment!

[@HighOutdoors]

Thanks Dan. Great seeing you passing on the knowledge you've acquired over the years. If be happy to take a broad axe or two off of you, I guarantee they will be used and well taken care of.

[@dandustin824]

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind!

[@johngibbons6155]

Always nice to listen to people talk about something close to their heart. Thanks for sharing.

[@dandustin824]

Thank you for your comment!

[@urbanlumberjack]

So happy you have a KZbin channel! Can’t wait to watch what you’ve put up

[@dandustin824]

Thanks very much!

[@wyattlawrence3327]

Great to hear your perspective, Dan. I waited with great suspense while you eased into the subject of heavy pitting... I’ve got a big ol’ brute here that I recently bought at a flea market that has obviously been underground for a few decades. I bought it anyhow because it was way too good to pass by. I’m glad to hear it’s earned some advantages while waiting for me to happen along. I live in Mascarene, New Brunswick 🇨🇦, just across the bay from Eastport, Maine. I build boats professionally and am curious to hew some timbers for a small shop. I have another broad here that’s a shipwright style quite similarly kept (underground). I’ll tune it up soon... Also another shipwright pattern by E. Broad & sons. It’s in good condition, almost like new. Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. It means a lot.

[@dandustin824]

You're welcome! Nice to hear from you.

[@tbone2002d]

Really enjoy your videos, from one Dustin to another many thanks for your concise and considerate transferance of you experience and expertise. My hewing experience this far is limited to working a foot adze, my grandfather's and recently sharpened, on a live oak slab that I split out of a neighbors tree that had to come down. The idea is to turn it into a workbench top to end all workbench tops but boy let me tell you, a foot adze is hands down the most dangerous tool I can imagine, or perhaps old growth live oak was a bad starting point for a adze rookie. I've heard from some folks that working with your feet in a bucket was the safe way and I honestly can't disagree.

[@dandustin824]

You can get handy with them, Dustin. I think I'll add adzes to my list of things to cover in upcoming videos. Thanks for your interest!

[@shanek6582]

I enjoyed this video, thanks Dan.

[@dandustin824]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dmcmanam]

Can you post a video showing how you sharpen a broad axe?

[@dandustin824]

Thanks for the suggestion, Dave. I'll add it to the list.

[@adamgreenizer]

I will take a few of the collection. I have my own collection. I grind and tune broad axes to use . Also haft a handle.

[@dandustin824]

That's great! We should talk. I'm not real comfortable putting my phone number out here on KZbin. Could you go to my website: dandustin.com and shoot me off a note with your phone number and I'll call you?? Thanks!

[@nickhartley17]

Awesome axes! 💙

[@dandustin824]

Glad you like them!

[@claymoreland7584]

I would like you to do a video on hewing with a adze

[@dandustin824]

Hi, I do all my hand hewing with a broadaxe. I use the adze for finish work, i.e. making a square beam look like a hand hewn beam.

[@srankin8022]

You are one of a few people I've heard that used a broad axe property by using the bevel side against the beam. lol

[@dandustin824]

Thank you! I sure have heard lots of comments pro and con over the years!

[@timbarry5080]

One thing I don't understand is why on Dan's beams I only see the broad axe marks? Of all the vintage beams I come across here in the south I see the marks chopped into the face of the beam(fairly perpendicular to the face of the beam compared to the path of the broad axe) of various depths.

[@dandustin824]

Tim, I'll answer you in more depth in an email.

[@timbarry5080]

@@dandustin824 thank you so much. I guess you saw my email. That's great! I appreciate your time and help

[@jackshinkle5464]

Interesting Axe Dan. I've got some interest in your Collection. Stay in touch with me

[@dandustin824]

Okay -- you, too.

[@nathanielbrigham2501]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for the video. When you say it takes 40 hours to grind an axe or as you say a whole season, are you using a hand powered grinding wheel? Why does it take so long are they badly damaged? I tried look back to the introduction video but didn't see anything on it there. Thanks.

[@dandustin824]

I use a foot pedal stone. It's slow grinding.

[@meestajack]

@@dandustin824 my father in-law gifted me an old foot pedal whetstone I’ve been wanting to try. Bet that sound is perfectly relaxing. This summer I’ll set it up in the wood shed and put a new profile on one of my old axes.

[@frankiejones4816]

It seems like you're already given yourself up for the dead. Don't give another though you still have several Morey Years to go.