#axe handles

[lunatic-desert-child]

[odellstudios]

axe handle progress

[odellstudios]

OLD YANK project - the handle before and after. It is now an octagonal knob-end, a historical odd ball handle style that I wanted to recreate. 28″ stick, Connecticut pattern, 3-1/4lbs.

[odellstudios]

New project on the bottom, an oldie with a forge welded bit marked NE OLD YANK, 3-1/4 and still weighing 3lbs, 3oz. I have been wanting to make an octagonal knob-end handle and finally got a chance. It’s an interesting style, somewhat unique, but also old.

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[rosecook]

Axe Handles by Gary Snyder

  One afternoon the last week in April

Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet

One-half turn and it sticks in a stump.

He recalls the hatchet-head

Without a handle, in the shop

And go gets it, and wants it for his own.

A broken-off axe handle behind the door

Is long enough for a hatchet,

We cut it to length and take it

With the hatchet head

And working hatchet, to the wood block.

There I begin to…

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[blackbarros-blog]

One afternoon the last week in April Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet One-half turn and it sticks in a stump. He recalls the hatchet-head Without a handle, in the shop And go gets it, and wants it for his own. A broken-off axe handle behind the door Is long enough for a hatchet, We cut it to length and take it With the hatchet head And working hatchet, to the wood block. There I begin to shape the old handle With the hatchet, and the phrase First learned from Ezra Pound Rings in my ears! "When making an axe handle the pattem is not far off." And I say this to Kai "Look: We'll shape the handle By checking the handle Of the axe we cut with-" And he sees. And I hear it again: It's in Lu Ji's Wen Fu, fourth century A.D. "Essay on Literature"-in the Preface: "In making the handle Of an axe By cutting wood with an axe The model is indeed near at hand.- My teacher Shih-hsiang Chen Translated that and taught it years ago And I see: Pound was an axe, Chen was an axe, I am an axe And my son a handle, soon To be shaping again, model And tool, craft of culture, How we go on.

'Axe Handles' Gary Snyder

[hastiles-blog]

Axe Handles

What type of wood is best for Axe Handles?

Hickory has historically been the wood of choice in striking tools such as an axe, pick, sledge and hammer. This wood is extremely hard, dense, strong and the grain affords considerable shock resistant.

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